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19-letter words containing k, u, r, t

  • a hard nut to crack — a person not easily persuaded or won over
  • agricultural worker — a person who is employed in agriculture, usually a manual worker
  • arkwright furniture — late medieval English furniture of simple construction.
  • ask for a signature — If you ask for a signature, you ask someone to write their name, in their own characteristic way, on a document.
  • backward somersault — a somersault performed in a backward direction with the legs leading the rest of the body
  • bankruptcy petition — an official request for protection under bankruptcy laws, which initiates bankruptcy proceedings
  • bbc networking club — (body)   A bulletin board run by the British Broadcasting Corporation Education department from April 1994 to 30 Nov 1995.
  • black forest gateau — a chocolate sponge cake containing morello cherries and whipped cream, with a topping of chocolate icing
  • bloodstock industry — the breeding and training of racehorses
  • born out of wedlock — born when one's parents are not legally married
  • bug tracking system — (programming)   (BTS) A system for receiving and filing bugs reported against a software project, and tracking those bugs until they are fixed. Most major software projects have their own BTS, the source code of which is often available for use by other projects. Well known BTSs include GNATS, Bugzilla, and Debbugs.
  • cock and bull story — an absurd, improbable story presented as the truth: Don't ask him about his ancestry unless you want to hear a cock-and-bull story.
  • cock-and-bull story — If you describe something that someone tells you as a cock-and-bull story, you mean that you do not believe it is true.
  • concurrentsmalltalk — (language)   A concurrent variant of Smalltalk.
  • construction worker — a person who works in the construction industry, esp one engaged in manual work
  • differential backup — (operating system)   A kind of backup that copies all files that have changed since the last full backup. Each differential backup will include all files in previous differential backups since the full backup so to restore a version of a file, you only need to search the full backup and the relevant differential backup. Some systems support differential backup by associating an "Archive" flag with each file and setting this flag whenever the file is modified to indicate that it should be included in the next backup. A differential backup does not change this flag, whereas an incremental backup resets it.
  • earthquake coverage — Earthquake coverage is insurance coverage for damage caused by earthquakes.
  • earthquake engineer — a civil engineer who studies the effects of seismic activity on structures and consults on earthquake-resistant design and construction.
  • flannelmouth sucker — a sucker, Catostomus latipinnis, of the Colorado River and its tributaries.
  • go to rack and ruin — If you say that a place is going to rack and ruin, you are emphasizing that it is slowly becoming less attractive or less pleasant because no-one is bothering to look after it.
  • gray-cheeked thrush — a North American thrush, Catharus minimus, having olive upper parts and grayish cheeks.
  • greenstick fracture — an incomplete fracture of a long bone, in which one side is broken and the other side is still intact.
  • index-tracking fund — an investment fund that is administered so that its value changes in line with a given share index
  • jerusalem artichoke — Also called girasol. a sunflower, Helianthus tuberosus, having edible, tuberous, underground stems or rootstocks.
  • keep an eye out for — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • keyboard instrument — any musical instrument that is played using a keyboard
  • knock-down-drag-out — marked by unrelenting violence: a knock-down-drag-out fight.
  • knock-out agreement — an agreement between bidders at an auction or sale not to bid against each other
  • left-luggage locker — a coin-operated locker in which luggage can be left
  • lumholtz's kangaroo — boongary.
  • natural killer cell — a small killer cell that destroys virus-infected cells or tumor cells without activation by an immune system cell or antibody.
  • new york university — (NYU) Established in 1831, New York University today includes thirteen schools, colleges and divisions located in New York City's borough of Manhattan, as well as research centers and programs in the surrounding suburbs and abroad.
  • northern hog sucker — black sucker.
  • olive-backed thrush — Swainson's thrush.
  • ousterhout, john k. — John Ousterhout
  • parachute spinnaker — a very large spinnaker used on a racing yacht.
  • portuguese-speaking — being a speaker of Portuguese; having Portuguese as the national language
  • puncture repair kit — set of tools for patching a bicycle tyre
  • put the skids under — a plank, bar, log, or the like, especially one of a pair, on which something heavy may be slid or rolled along.
  • quick-change artist — a person adept at changing from one thing to another, as an entertainer who changes costumes quickly during a performance.
  • rap on the knuckles — a mild reprimand or light sentence
  • redbrick university — any new or little-known university, especially one built since World War II to educate students in industrial regions, emphasizing technical subjects rather than the classics, and often partially supported by government funds.
  • rocky mountain goat — a long-haired, white, antelopelike wild goat, Oreamnos americanus, of mountainous regions of western North America, having short, black horns.
  • saint luke's summer — a period of unusually warm weather in the autumn
  • smokestack industry — A smokestack industry is a traditional industry such as heavy engineering or manufacturing, rather than a modern industry such as electronics.
  • take a running jump — a contemptuous expression of dismissal
  • take one's cue from — If you take your cue from someone or something, you do something similar in a particular situation.
  • tanizaki jun-ichiro — 1886–1965, Japanese novelist, whose works, such as Some Prefer Nettles (1929) and The Makioka Sisters (1943–48), reflect the tension between Western values and Japanese traditions
  • the buck stops here — the ultimate responsibility lies here
  • think on (or upon) — to give thought or consideration to

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