22-letter words containing k, s, t, a
- (dead) in one's tracks — abruptly, as from being stunned or otherwise rendered unable to proceed
- anankastic personality — a personality syndrome characterized by obsessional or compulsive traits.
- ankylosing spondylitis — inflammation of the spine causing two or more vertebrae to become fused
- badlands national park — a national park in SW South Dakota: rock formations and animal fossils. 380 sq. mi. (985 sq. km).
- bank deposit insurance — the protection of bank deposits against the insolvency of banks in the U.S., up to a specified maximum per account that is revised periodically, under special insurance through the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
- bankrupt's certificate — a document given to a bankrupt with the consent of their creditors, stating that the bankrupt has disclosed and surrendered all his property
- bankruptcy proceedings — the legal business of a bankruptcy case
- black-scholes equation — a partial differential equation used to estimate the changing value of an option over time
- catch/take sb unawares — If something catches you unawares or takes you unawares, it happens when you are not expecting it.
- checkout test language — (language) (CTL)
- cockles of one's heart — one's deepest feelings (esp in the phrase warm the cockles of one's heart)
- communications network — a network that provides information
- convertible loan stock — a stock or bond that can be converted into a stated number of shares at a particular date
- crankshaft end bearing — The crankshaft end bearing is the bearing between the connecting rod and the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine.
- cut someone some slack — to be less demanding of someone; ease up on someone
- dog's dinner/breakfast — You describe something as a dog's breakfast or dog's dinner in order to express your disapproval of it, for example because it is very untidy, badly organized, or badly done.
- end transmission block — (character) (ETB) The mnemonic for ASCII character 23.
- extension language kit — (language) (Elk) A Scheme interpreter by Oliver Laumann <[email protected]> and Carsten Bormann <[email protected]> of the Technical University of Berlin. Elk was designed to be used as a general extension language. New types and primitive procedures can easily be added. It has first-class environments, dynamic-wind, fluid-let, macros, autoloading and a dump. It provides interfaces to Xlib, Xt and various widget sets; dynamic loading of extensions and object files; almost all artificial limitations removed; generational/incremental garbage collector; Unix system call extensions; Records (structures) and bit strings. Version: 2.2 is mostly R3RS compatible and runs on Unix, Ultrix, VAX, Sun-3, Sun-4, 68000, i386, MIPS, IBM PC RT, RS/6000, HP700, SGI, Sony, MS-DOS (gcc+DJGPP or go32).
- first cab off the rank — the first person, etc, to do or take advantage of something
- full english breakfast — morning meal of eggs, bacon, etc.
- garmisch-partenkirchen — a city in S Germany, in the Bavarian Alps.
- get off someone's back — to stop criticizing or pestering someone
- give someone the shake — to avoid or get rid of an undesirable person (or thing)
- go to meet one's maker — to die
- great salt lake desert — an arid region in NW Utah, extending W from the Great Salt Lake to the Nevada border. 110 miles (177 km) long; about 4000 sq. mi. (10,360 sq. km).
- handle with kid gloves — grant special treatment to
- in sackcloth and ashes — in a state of great mourning or penitence
- it's london to a brick — it is certain
- jack and the beanstalk — an English fairy tale about a boy who angers his mother by selling their last cow, not for money, but for magic beans. His mother throws the beans away, but the next day Jack discovers that they have sprouted into a giant beanstalk. He climbs the beanstalk three times, each time stealing some treasure from the giant who lives in a land in the clouds at the top. Jack ultimately kills the giant by chopping down the beanstalk while the giant is climbing down it
- justification by works — the belief that a person becomes just before God by the performance of good works: the doctrine against which Luther protested in inaugurating the Protestant Reformation.
- keep a stiff upper lip — either of the two fleshy parts or folds forming the margins of the mouth and functioning in speech.
- kensington and chelsea — a borough of Greater London, England.
- knowledge-based system — (artificial intelligence) (KBS) A program for extending and/or querying a knowledge base. The related term expert system is normally used to refer to a highly domain-specific type of KBS used for a specialised purpose such as medical diagnosis. The Cyc project is an example of a large KBS.
- leather-stocking tales — a series of historical novels by James Fenimore Cooper, comprising The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer.
- lesser cornstalk borer — the larva of a widely distributed pyralid moth, Elasmopalpus lignosellus, that damages corn and some other crops by boring into the part of the stalk close to the soil.
- make a beeline for sth — If you make a beeline for a place, you go to it as quickly and directly as possible.
- make a clean breast of — Anatomy, Zoology. (in bipeds) the outer, front part of the thorax, or the front part of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest.
- make a nonsense of sth — To make a nonsense of something or to make nonsense of it means to make it seem ridiculous or pointless.
- make common cause with — join forces
- make contact (with sb) — If you make contact with someone, you find out where they are and talk or write to them.
- make one's mouth water — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- make/prove one's point — If you make your point or prove your point, you prove that something is true, either by arguing about it or by your actions or behaviour.
- mother carey's chicken — any of various small petrels, especially the stormy petrel, Oceanites oceanicus.
- nassella tussock board — one of many local statutory organizations set up in different regions of New Zealand to eradicate the invasive nassella tussock weed
- non-maskable interrupt — (NMI) An IRQ 7 on the PDP-11 or 680x0 or the NMI line on an 80x86. In contrast with a priority interrupt (which might be ignored, although that is unlikely), an NMI is *never* ignored.
- oak processionary moth — a moth, (Thaumetopoea processionea), of the family Thaumetopoeidae, the larvae of which leave the communal shelter nightly for food in a V-shaped procession
- oceanic whitetip shark — whitetip shark (def 2).
- one-eyed trouser snake — a vulgar term for the male member; penis
- open-market operations — the purchase and sale on the open market of government securities by the Bank of England for the purpose of regulating the supply of money and credit to the economy
- parker morris standard — (in Britain) a set of minimum criteria for good housing construction, design, and facilities, recommended by the 1961 report of the Central Housing Advisory Committee chaired by Sir Parker Morris. Subsequent governments have urged private and local authority house-builders to achieve these standards
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