17-letter words containing k, s
- 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.
- greek meets greek — equals meet
- hammer and sickle — the emblem of the Soviet Union, adopted in 1923 and consisting of an insignia of a hammer with its handle across the blade of a sickle and a star above.
- 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.
- high-density disk — a computer storage disk capable of holding more than 720 kilobytes of data
- histamine blocker — any of various substances that act at a specific receptor site to block certain actions of histamine.
- hodgkin's disease — a type of cancer characterized by progressive chronic inflammation and enlargement of the lymph nodes of the neck, armpit, groin, and mesentery, by enlargement of the spleen and occasionally of the liver and the kidneys, and by lymphoid infiltration along the blood vessels.
- homework exercise — an exercise that is set as homework
- 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.
- hypovolemic shock — a type of shock caused by reduced blood volume, as from massive bleeding or dehydration.
- immigrant workers — people who work in a country they arrived to in order to settle there
- investment banker — an executive in an investment bank
- j. presper eckert — (person) One of the developers of ENIAC.
- jammu and kashmir — official name of Kashmir (def 2).
- 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.
- john wilkes booth — Ballington [bal-ing-tuh n] /ˈbæl ɪŋ tən/ (Show IPA), 1859–1940, founder of the Volunteers of America 1896 (son of William Booth).
- kaleidoscopically — of, relating to, or created by a kaleidoscope.
- 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.
- kawasaki syndrome — a syndrome, usually afflicting children, characterized by high fever, swollen lymph nodes in the neck, rashes, irritated eyes and mucous membranes, etc. with possible damage to the cardiovascular system
- keep mum/stay mum — If you keep mum or stay mum about something, you do not tell anyone about it.
- keep one's end up — the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad: the end of a street; the end of a rope.
- 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
- kerguelen islands — an archipelago in the S Indian Ocean: a possession of France. 2394 sq. mi. (6200 sq. km).
- key man insurance — Key man insurance is an insurance policy taken out by a small company on the life of a senior executive whose death would create a serious loss.
- key-man assurance — an assurance policy taken out, esp by a small company, on the life of a senior executive whose death would create a serious loss
- 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
- kinesthesiologist — Someone who practices kinesthesiology.
- king george's war — a war (1744–48) waged by England and its colonies against France, constituting the North American phase of the War of the Austrian Succession.
- king philip's war — the war (1675–76) between New England colonists and a confederation of Indians under their leader, King Philip.
- klerer-may system — Early system from Columbia University with special mathematics symbols. Its reference manual was two pages long!
- knock oneself out — to make great efforts; exhaust oneself
- know one's onions — a plant, Allium cepa, of the amaryllis family, having an edible, succulent, pungent bulb.
- know when to stop — If you say that someone does not know when to stop, you mean that they do not control their own behaviour very well and so they often annoy or upset other people.
- knowledgeableness — The state, quality, or measure of being knowledgeable; wisdom.
- kolar gold fields — a city in S India, in SE Karnataka: a major gold-mining centre since 1881. Pop: 176 000 (2005 est)
- kvatro telecom as — (company) The company that maintains Mary. Address: Trondheim, Norway.
- kyoto common lisp — (language) (KCL) An implementation of Common Lisp by T. Yuasa <[email protected]> and M. Hagiya <[email protected]>, written in C to run under Unix-like operating systems. KCL is compiled to ANSI C. It conforms to Common Lisp as described in Guy Steele's book and is available under a licence agreement. E-mail: <[email protected]> (bug reports). Mailing list: [email protected], [email protected]