17-letter words containing k, o, t
- content marketing — marketing that tries to attract customers by distributing informational content potentially useful to the target audience, rather than by advertising products and services in the traditional way: content marketing through blogs and email newsletters.
- contingent worker — a temporary or contract worker, especially one hired for one task or project.
- converged network — (networking) A single network that can carry voice, video and data.
- corner the market — dominate trade
- counterparty risk — the risk that a person who is a party to a contract will default on their obligations under that contract
- cover your tracks — If someone covers their tracks, they hide or destroy evidence of their identity or their actions, because they want to keep them secret.
- crossover network — an electronic network in a loudspeaker system that separates the signal into two or more frequency bands, the lower frequencies being fed to a woofer, the higher frequencies to a tweeter
- customs brokerage — the work of a customs broker
- desktop publisher — desktop publishing
- dictionary attack — an attempt to hack into a computer or network by submitting every word in a dictionary as a possible password
- dictionary-making — the work or activity of compiling dictionaries
- digital audiodisk — a compact disk containing an audio program.
- double track line — a railway line with double track
- drawn-thread work — ornamental needlework done by drawing threads out of the fabric and using the remaining threads to form lacelike patterns
- drinking fountain — a water fountain that ejects a jet of water for drinking without a cup.
- elastic stockings — something made of elastic which you wear on your legs to aid circulation
- ethylmethylketone — (organic compound) The industrial solvent butanone.
- fermentation lock — a valve placed on the top of bottles of fermenting wine to allow bubbles to escape
- figure-eight knot — a kind of knot
- fishnet stockings — leg coverings for women, made from an open mesh fabric resembling netting
- floating dry dock — a dock that floats and can be lowered in the water for the entrance of a ship, and then raised for use as a dry dock
- four-stroke cycle — A four-stroke cycle is the cycle of engine operation which requires four strokes of the piston: for induction, compression, ignition, and exhaust.
- frankenstein food — any foodstuff that has been genetically modified
- garboard (strake) — the strake adjoining the keel
- get a kick out of — enjoy, take pleasure in
- get one's back up — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
- go back to the pa — to abandon city life in favour of rural life
- go like hot cakes — to be sold very quickly or in large quantities
- goldbeater's skin — the prepared outside membrane of the large intestine of the ox, used by goldbeaters to lay between the leaves of the metal while they beat it into gold leaf.
- government broker — the government-appointed stockbroker whose job is to sell government securities on the stock exchange, as instructed by the Bank of England
- grandfather clock — a pendulum floor clock having a case as tall as or taller than a person; tall-case clock; long-case clock.
- grandmother clock — a pendulum clock similar to a grandfather's clock but shorter.
- greater forkbeard — a fish of the Phycidae family
- hard nut to crack — a dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.
- hasbrouck heights — a borough in NE New Jersey.
- hawking radiation — the emission of particles by a black hole. Pairs of virtual particles in the intense gravitational field around a black hole may live long enough for one to move outward when the other is pulled into the black hole, making it appear that the black hole is emitting radiation
- heart of darkness — a short novel (1902) by Joseph Conrad.
- histamine blocker — any of various substances that act at a specific receptor site to block certain actions of histamine.
- horatio kitchener — Horatio Herbert (1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome) 1850–1916, English field marshal and statesman.
- houndstooth check — a pattern of broken checks, used in woven material for jackets, shirts, etc.
- housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
- i'll thank you to — used ironically to intensify a command, request, etc
- icing on the cake — a sweet mixture, cooked or uncooked, for coating or filling cakes, cookies, and the like; icing.
- immigrant workers — people who work in a country they arrived to in order to settle there
- in the background — behind the focus of attention
- in the market for — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- in/out of keeping — If one thing is in keeping with another, it is suitable in relation to that thing. If one thing is out of keeping with another, it is not suitable in relation to that thing.
- indian rope-trick — the supposed Indian feat of climbing an unsupported rope
- intelligence work — spying
- intent to package — (Debian) (ITP) A notice, posted to the Debian developer mailing list, announcing a developer's intent to make a new Debian package, including a brief description of the package and its license.