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20-letter words containing l, o, k, i

  • mobile phone chicken — a highly dangerous game in which a person is challenged to perform a hazardous stunt which he or she films with a camera phone
  • multistorey car park — a car park consisting of several levels
  • nickel tetracarbonyl — nickel carbonyl.
  • no lack of something — If you say there is no lack of something, you are emphasizing that there is a great deal of it.
  • optical mark reading — the reading of marks by an optical device whereby the information can be stored in machine-readable form
  • punch a (time) clock — to insert a timecard into a time clock when coming to or going from work
  • ruby-crowned kinglet — an olive-gray, American kinglet, Regulus calendula, the male of which has an erectile, ruby crest.
  • season ticket holder — a person who has a season ticket
  • snowflake generation — the generation of people who became adults in the 2010s, viewed as being less resilient and more prone to taking offence than previous generations
  • snows of kilimanjaro — a short story (1936) by Ernest Hemingway.
  • solid rocket booster — a solid-propellant strap-on rocket used to accelerate a missile or launch vehicle during liftoff. Abbreviation: SRB.
  • south orkney islands — an uninhabited group of islands in the S Atlantic, southeast of Cape Horn: formerly a dependency of the Falkland Islands; part of the British Antarctic Territory since 1962 (claims are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty). Area: 621 sq km (240 sq miles)
  • stockholders' equity — the net assets of a corporation as owned by stockholders in capital stock, capital surplus, and undistributed earnings.
  • strike off the rolls — to expel from membership
  • take up a collection — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
  • the like(s) of which — If you refer to something the like of which or the likes of which has never been seen before, you are emphasizing how important, great, or noticeable the thing is.
  • there's nothing like — a general expression of praise
  • 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 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 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.
  • 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.
  • woolly spider monkey — a rare related monkey, Brachyteles arachnoides, of SE Brazil
  • working relationship — a relationship with a colleague, boss or employee
  • working-capital fund — a fund established to finance operating activities in an industrial enterprise.
  • 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.
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