19-letter words containing k, o, r, b
- rhodesian ridgeback — a large short-haired breed of dog characterized by a ridge of hair growing along the back in the opposite direction to the rest of the coat. It was originally a hunting dog from South Africa
- saddle-billed stork — a large stork, Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, of West Africa, having a white and black body and a long, red and black bill.
- take care of sth/sb — If you take care of someone or something, you look after them and prevent them from being harmed or damaged.
- the buck stops here — the ultimate responsibility lies here
- to be reckoned with — of considerable importance or influence
- to be up shit creek — to be in an extremely bad situation
- to break new ground — If you break new ground, you do something completely different or you do something in a completely different way.
- to go blackberrying — to go on an outing to collect blackberries
- to rack your brains — If you rack your brains, you try very hard to think of something.
- trickle bed reactor — A trickle bed reactor is a reactor in which gravity makes a gas and a liquid flow through a bed of catalyst.
- work sb/os to death — If you say that someone works another person to death, you are emphasizing that they make them work very hard indeed, especially in a way that seems cruel or unfair.
- yellow book, jargon — (publication) The print version of the Jargon File, titled "The New Hacker's Dictionary". It includes essentially all the material the File, plus a Foreword by Guy L. Steele, Jr. and a Preface by Eric S. Raymond. Most importantly, the book version is nicely typeset and includes almost all of the infamous Crunchly cartoons by the Great Quux, each attached to an appropriate entry. The first, second, and third editions correspond to versions 2.9.6, 3.0.0, and 4.0.0 of the File, respectively.