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17-letter words containing k, s, t, a

  • elastic stockings — something made of elastic which you wear on your legs to aid circulation
  • english breakfast — An English breakfast is a breakfast consisting of cooked food such as bacon, eggs, sausages, and tomatoes. It also includes toast and tea or coffee.
  • flat as a pancake — without any curves or bumps
  • flickertail state — North Dakota (used as a nickname).
  • frankenstein food — any foodstuff that has been genetically modified
  • garboard (strake) — the strake adjoining the keel
  • get one's back up — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
  • 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.
  • great awakening's — the series of religious revivals among Protestants in the American colonies, especially in New England, lasting from about 1725 to 1770.
  • great grey shrike — the bird Lanius excubitor
  • great white shark — a large shark, Carcharodon carcharias, of tropical and temperate seas, known to occasionally attack swimmers.
  • hasbrouck heights — a borough in NE New Jersey.
  • have a thick skin — to be insensitive (or acutely sensitive) to blame, criticism, insults, etc.
  • heart of darkness — a short novel (1902) by Joseph Conrad.
  • heartbreakingness — The state or quality of being heartbreaking.
  • histamine blocker — any of various substances that act at a specific receptor site to block certain actions of histamine.
  • 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.
  • immigrant workers — people who work in a country they arrived to in order to settle there
  • investment banker — an executive in an investment bank
  • japanese knotweed — Mexican bamboo.
  • jerusalem cricket — a large, nocturnal, wingless, long-horned grasshopper, Stenopelmatus fuscus, occuring chiefly in loose soil and sand along the Pacific coast of the U.S.
  • kansas city steak — strip steak.
  • kansas city style — a style of jazz developed in Kansas City, Mo., in the early 1930s, marked by a strong blues influence, the use of riffs as a characteristic formal device, and a less pronounced beat than that of the New Orleans or Chicago style of jazz.
  • karitane hospital — a hospital for young babies and their mothers
  • kastor and pollux — Castor and Pollux.
  • keep mum/stay mum — If you keep mum or stay mum about something, you do not tell anyone about it.
  • kendal sneck bent — a fishhook having a wide, squarish bend.
  • kennesaw mountain — a mountain in N Georgia, near Atlanta: battle 1864. 1809 feet (551 meters).
  • kensington palace — a royal residence in Kensington Gardens, in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea; dating from the 17th century, it was improved and extended by Sir Cristopher Wren
  • khingan mountains — a mountain system of NE China, in W Manchuria. Highest peak: 2034 m (6673 ft)
  • kick in the pants — a reprimand or scolding designed to produce greater effort, enthusiasm, etc, in the person receiving it
  • kidney transplant — surgery to replace a kidney
  • klerer-may system — Early system from Columbia University with special mathematics symbols. Its reference manual was two pages long!
  • kvatro telecom as — (company)   The company that maintains Mary. Address: Trondheim, Norway.
  • lake of the woods — Eldrick [el-drik] /ˈɛl drɪk/ (Show IPA), ("Tiger") born 1975, U.S. professional golfer.
  • linking consonant — a consonant inserted between two vowels in speech
  • make conversation — If you make conversation, you talk to someone in order to be polite and not because you really want to.
  • make inroads into — to start to use up the supply of something
  • make light of sth — If you make light of something, you treat it as though it is not serious or important, when in fact it is.
  • make noises about — to give indications of one's intentions
  • make sense of sth — When you make sense of something, you succeed in understanding it.
  • make something of — to find a use for
  • make the dust fly — earth or other matter in fine, dry particles.
  • make the worst of — to be pessimistic about
  • management skills — skills regarding the technique, practice, or science of managing a company, business, etc
  • mark of the beast — the mark put on the forehead of those who worship the beast, the symbol of opposition to God.
  • market researcher — a person who carries out market research
  • maximum seek time — (storage)   (Or full stroke seek time) The time it takes to seek over all tracks, i.e., from the innermost to the outermost or vice versa. The maximum seek time gives a worst-case measure of the speed of the drive which is useful in some real-time applications where it is important that data flows continuously (such as video editing or CD recording).
  • mistaken identity — when sb is identified as sb else
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