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15-letter words containing k, o, t, a

  • take a shine to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
  • take account of — an oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative: an account of the meetings; an account of the trip.
  • take down a peg — to lower the pride or conceit of; humble or dispirit
  • take for a ride — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
  • take it from me — You can say 'take it from me' to tell someone that you are absolutely sure that what you are saying is correct, and that they should believe you.
  • take lying down — to be in a horizontal, recumbent, or prostrate position, as on a bed or the ground; recline. Antonyms: stand.
  • take one's ease — to relax and be comfortable
  • take one's hour — to do something in a leisurely manner
  • take one's pick — If you are told to take your pick, you can choose any one that you like from a group of things.
  • take one's time — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
  • take one's word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • take sb to task — If you take someone to task, you criticize them or tell them off because of something bad or wrong that they have done.
  • tall-case clock — a pendulum clock tall enough to stand on the floor; a grandfather's or grandmother's clock.
  • tank foundation — A tank foundation is a base which is designed to support the weight of oil tanks and contain spillage.
  • tank locomotive — a steam locomotive carrying its own fuel and water without the use of a tender.
  • tantalus monkey — a long-tailed African monkey, Cercopithecus tantalus (or C. aethiops tantalus), of central African grasslands, having a long face framed by upswept whiskers.
  • thank you ma'am — a bump or depression in a road that jars a person riding over it.
  • thank-you-ma'am — a bump or depression in a road that jars a person riding over it.
  • thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
  • thankworthiness — the state or quality of being thankworthy or deserving thanks
  • the kos channel — a strait separating Kos from SW Turkey
  • the lower karoo — one of the two divisions of the Karoo
  • the lower ranks — people who have a low rank in a military organization
  • the upper karoo — one of the two divisions of the Karoo
  • the working man — working class people collectively
  • the wrong track — the incorrect line of investigation, inquiry, etc
  • thomas a becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
  • thomas à kempis — Thomas à, 1379?–1471, German ecclesiastic and author.
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • three of a kind — a set of three cards of the same denomination.
  • ticket of leave — (formerly) a permit allowing a convict to leave prison, under certain restrictions, and go to work before having served a full term, somewhat similar to a certificate of parole.
  • to call in sick — If you call in sick, you telephone the place where you work to tell them you will not be coming to work because you are ill.
  • to draw a blank — If you draw a blank when you are looking for someone or something, you do not succeed in finding them.
  • to make friends — If you make friends with someone, you begin a friendship with them. You can also say that two people make friends.
  • to pack a punch — If something packs a punch, it has a very powerful effect.
  • to take up arms — If one group or country takes up arms against another, they prepare to attack and fight them.
  • tokelau islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific Ocean belonging to New Zealand. 4 sq. mi. (10 sq. km).
  • tokodynamometer — a pressure gauge strapped to the mother's abdomen during labor to measure uterine contractions.
  • traveling block — (in a hoisting tackle) the block hooked to and moving with the load.
  • turkish tobacco — a strongly aromatic tobacco, grown chiefly in Turkey and Greece, used in cigarettes.
  • unsportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
  • ust-kamenogorsk — a city in E Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
  • virginian stock — a similar and related North American plant, Malcolmia maritima
  • watch the clock — If you are watching the clock, you keep looking to see what time it is, usually because you are bored by something and want it to end as soon as possible.
  • weekend cottage — a cottage where people spend weekends
  • what's cooking? — what's happening?
  • white snakeroot — a North American plant, Eupatorium urticaefolium, the roots or rhizomes of which have been used as a remedy for snakebite
  • working capital — the amount of capital needed to carry on a business.
  • working storage — the amount of memory used to temporarily store results or other data while a program is running.
  • you can keep it — I have no interest in what you are offering
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