20-letter words containing k

the luck of the draw — If you say that something is the luck of the draw, you mean that it is the result of chance and you cannot do anything about it.
the sky is the limit — If you say the sky is the limit, you mean that there is nothing to prevent someone or something from being very successful.
the thinking process — thought; the activity of thinking
the three musketeers — French Les Trois Mousquetaires. a historical novel (1844) by Alexandre Dumas père.
the-lady-of-the-lake — a narrative poem (1810) by Sir Walter Scott.
there's no mistaking — You can say there is no mistaking something when you are emphasizing that you cannot fail to recognize or understand it.
there's nothing like — a general expression of praise
tie someone in knots — to completely perplex or confuse someone
to be walking on air — If you say that you are walking on air or floating on air, you mean that you feel extremely happy about something.
to get off sb's back — If you tell someone to get off your back, you are telling them angrily to stop criticizing you or putting pressure on you.
to get your own back — If you get your own back on someone, you have your revenge on them because of something bad that they have done to you.
to keep your balance — If you keep your balance, for example, when standing in a moving vehicle, you remain steady and do not fall over. If you lose your balance, you become unsteady and fall over.
to keep your hand in — If you do something to keep your hand in, you practise a skill or hobby occasionally in order to remain fairly good at it.
to leave your/a mark — If someone or something leaves their mark or leaves a mark, they have a lasting effect on another person or thing.
to line your pockets — If you say that someone is lining their own or someone else's pockets, you disapprove of them because they are making money dishonestly or unfairly.
to look high and low — If you say that you looked high and low for something, you are emphasizing that you looked for it in every place that you could think of.
to make up your mind — If you make up your mind or make your mind up, you decide which of a number of possible things you will have or do.
to overstep the mark — If someone oversteps the mark, they behave in a way that is considered unacceptable.
to shake like a leaf — If you say that someone is shaking like a leaf, you mean that their body is shaking a lot, for instance because they are very cold or frightened.
to stick in the craw — to be unacceptable or displeasing to someone
to take years off sb — if you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has taken years off someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much younger
to use shock tactics — to attempt to influence people by shocking them
to work your way swh — If you work your way somewhere, you move or progress there slowly, and with a lot of effort or work.
tom, dick, and harry — the ordinary person; people generally; everyone: They invited every Tom, Dick, and Harry to the party.
tom, dick, and jerry — a hot mixed drink containing rum, brandy, egg, nutmeg, and sometimes milk
tomb of the unknowns — See under Unknown Soldier.
toxic shock syndrome — a rapidly developing, sometimes fatal infection characterized by sudden onset of fever, gastrointestinal upsets, a sunburnlike rash, and a drop in blood pressure: caused by a Staphylococcus aureus toxin and occurring especially in menstruating women using high-absorbency tampons. Abbreviation: TSS.
track-laying vehicle — A track-laying vehicle is a vehicle whose wheels run inside a continuous chain or track.
track-train dynamics — the interaction between the track and a moving train.
travel-sickness pill — a pill which is used to relieve the symptoms of travel or motion sickness, the condition of being nauseated from riding in a moving vehicle
trustee savings bank — a British financial institution which offered savings facilities for small investors and was managed by unpaid trustees. Depositors had no voting rights and no say in financial or managerial matters. The bank is now a public limited company with the same rights and services as other banks and only retains the title in the abbreviated form TSB.
turn the other cheek — not retaliate
upper income bracket — a grouping of the highest earning tax payers
walk-in refrigerator — a refrigerated storage room, as at a butcher shop.
walking-around money — money that is carried on the person for routine expenses and minor emergencies; pocket money.
watch sb like a hawk — If you watch someone like a hawk, you observe them very carefully, usually to make sure that they do not make a mistake or do something you do not want them to do.
watch someone's back — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
woolly spider monkey — a rare related monkey, Brachyteles arachnoides, of SE Brazil
worker participation — a process by which subordinate employees, either individually or collectively, become involved in one or more aspects of organizational decision making within the enterprises in which they work
working relationship — a relationship with a colleague, boss or employee
working-capital fund — a fund established to finance operating activities in an industrial enterprise.
xerox network system — (networking) (XNS) A proprietary network architecture developed by the Xerox Office Systems Division of Xerox corporation at Xerox PARC in the late 1970s/early 1980s to run on LAN (Ethernet) and WAN networks. The XNS protocol stack provided routing and packet delivery. Implementations exist for 4.3BSD derived systems and the Xerox Star computers. Novell based much of the lower layers of their protocol suite IPX/SPX on XNS. The main components are: Internet datagram protocol (IDP), Routing information protocol (RIP), Packet Exchange protocol (PEP), and Sequences packet protocol (SPP). XNS has strong parellels to TCP/IP in that the network layer, IDP, is roughly equivalent to IP. RIP has the same functions (and obviously name) as the routing information protocol, RIP. SPP, a connectionless transport layer protocol, is similar to UDP. PEP is also in the transport layer but is connection-oriented and similar to TCP. XNS specifically is no longer in use due to the all pervasiveness of IP. XNS denotes not only the protocol stack, but also an architecture of standard programming interfaces, conventions, and service functions for authentication, directory, filing, e-mail, and remote procedure call. XNS is also the name of Xerox's implementation. Many PC networking companies, such as 3Com, Banyan, Novell, and Ungermann-Bass Networks used or use a variation of XNS as their primary transport protocol. XNS was desigined to be used across a variety of communication media, processors, and office applications. UB, (now a part of Tandem Computers) adopted XNS in developing its Net/One XNS routing protocol.
yellow-billed cuckoo — a North American cuckoo, Coccyzus americanus, that has a yellow bill and, unlike many cuckoos, constructs its own nest and rears its own young.
you know what i mean — You can use expressions such as you know what I mean and if you know what I mean to suggest that the person listening to you understands what you are trying to say, and so you do not have to explain any more.

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