17-letter words containing l, o, k, e, r, n
- back on the rails — If something is back on the rails, it is beginning to be successful again after a period when it almost failed.
- blackboard jungle — a school or school system characterized by lack of discipline and by juvenile delinquency.
- blank endorsement — an endorsement on a bill of exchange, cheque, etc, naming no payee and thus making the endorsed sum payable to the bearer
- breakdown voltage — the minimum applied voltage that would cause a given insulator or electrode to break down.
- broken white line — a regular, discontinuous white line on a roadway, indicating that overtaking is permitted
- cardinal grosbeak — any of various mostly tropical American buntings, such as the cardinal and pyrrhuloxia, the males of which have brightly coloured plumage
- carolina parakeet — an extinct New World parakeet, Conuropsis carolinensis, that ranged into the northern U.S., having yellowish-green plumage with an orange-yellow head.
- coral honeysuckle — trumpet honeysuckle.
- dark-complexioned — (of a person) having a dark complexion
- double track line — a railway line with double track
- fermentation lock — a valve placed on the top of bottles of fermenting wine to allow bubbles to escape
- general knowledge — commonly known facts
- 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.
- grandfather clock — a pendulum floor clock having a case as tall as or taller than a person; tall-case clock; long-case clock.
- grandmother clock — a pendulum clock similar to a grandfather's clock but shorter.
- helen keller mode — 1. State of a hardware or software system that is deaf, dumb, and blind, i.e. accepting no input and generating no output, usually due to an infinite loop or some other excursion into deep space. (Unfair to the real Helen Keller, whose success at learning speech was triumphant.) See also go flatline, catatonic. 2. On IBM PCs under MS-DOS, refers to a specific failure mode in which a screen saver has kicked in over an ill-behaved application which bypasses the very interrupts the screen saver watches for activity. Your choices are to try to get from the program's current state through a successful save-and-exit without being able to see what you're doing, or to re-boot the machine. This isn't (strictly speaking) a crash.
- histamine blocker — any of various substances that act at a specific receptor site to block certain actions of histamine.
- intelligence work — spying
- karitane hospital — a hospital for young babies and their mothers
- 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.
- kiloelectron volt — 1000 electron-volts. Abbreviation: keV, kev.
- lake waikaremoana — a lake in the North Island of New Zealand in a dense bush setting. Area: about 55 sq km (21 sq miles)
- mid-level network — (Or "regional network"). The kind of networks which make up the second level of the Internet hierarchy. They are the transit networks which connect the stub networks to the backbone networks.
- never looked back — If you say that someone did something and then never looked back, you mean that they were very successful from that time on.
- non-manual worker — a person whose job involves the use of their mind, rather than the use of their hands or physical strength
- nord-ostsee kanal — German name of Kiel Canal.
- north lanarkshire — a council area of central Scotland: consists mainly of the NE part of the historical county of Lanarkshire; formerly (1974–96) part of Strathclyde Region: engineering and metalworking industries. Administrative centre: Motherwell. Pop: 321 820 (2003 est). Area: 1771 sq km (684 sq miles)
- north little rock — a city in central Arkansas, on the Arkansas River.
- philosopher kings — the Platonic ideal of a ruler, philosophically trained and enlightened.
- reading knowledge — the ability to read a language, but not speak it
- rocket propulsion — propulsion of an object by thrust developed by a rocket.
- rocket technology — the technology of the design, operation, maintenance, and launching of rockets
- rom kernel manual — (publication) (RKM) A series of books or files for developers for the Amiga computer, containing information about the operating system kernel stored in ROM.
- row-level locking — (database) A technique used in database management systems, where a row is locked for writing to prevent other users from accessing data being while it is being updated. Other techniques are table locking and MVCC.
- run out the clock — to maintain control of the ball in the closing minutes of a game
- second balkan war — Balkan War (def 2).
- selkirk mountains — a mountain range in SW Canada, in SE British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Sir Sandford, 3533 m (11 590 ft)
- settlement worker — a person who works with underprivileged people in a settlement house.
- shoestring tackle — a tackle made around the ankles of the ball carrier.
- single-track road — a road that is only wide enough for one vehicle
- social networking — the development of social and professional contacts; the sharing of information and services among people with a common interest.
- south lanarkshire — a council area of S Scotland, comprising the S part of the historical county of Lanarkshire: included within Strathclyde Region from 1975 to 1996: has uplands in the S and part of the Glasgow conurbation in the N: mainly agricultural. Administrative centre: Hamilton. Pop: 303 010 (2003 est). Area: 1771 sq km (684 sq miles)
- split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
- the black country — the formerly heavily industrialized region of central England, northwest of Birmingham
- tone control knob — a round switch on a radio, record player, etc that is turned to alter the tone control
- tree of knowledge — the tree whose fruit Adam and Eve tasted in disobedience of God: Gen. 2, 3
- turkish towelling — woven cloth which is used to make towels, wash cloths, etc
- unofficial strike — a strike that is not approved by the strikers' trade union
- whiskey rebellion — a revolt of settlers in western Pennsylvania in 1794 against a federal excise tax on whiskey: suppressed by militia called out by President George Washington to establish the authority of the federal government.
- work-life balance — a situation in which one divides or balances one's time between work and activities outside of work: It's hard to achieve a reasonable work-life balance when you run your own business.
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