21-letter words containing n, k, o, s, i, e
- a fine kettle of fish — an awkward situation; mess
- a nasty piece of work — If you say that someone is a nasty piece of work, you mean that they are very unkind or unpleasant.
- aleksandr-nikolaevich — Alexander (Aleksandr Nikolaevich) 1899–1977, Russian pianist and composer, in the U.S.
- anointing of the sick — a sacrament in which a person who is seriously ill or dying is anointed by a priest with consecrated oil
- appendicular skeleton — the girdles and skeleton of the limbs
- background processing — the ability of a system to perform a low-priority task while, at the same time, dealing with a main application
- ball-and-socket joint — a coupling between two rods, tubes, etc, that consists of a spherical part fitting into a spherical socket, allowing free movement within a specific conical volume
- behind someone's back — without someone's knowledge or consent
- caroline of brunswick — 1768–1821, wife of George IV of the United Kingdom: tried for adultery (1820)
- chequebook journalism — Chequebook journalism is the practice of paying people large sums of money for information about crimes or famous people in order to get material for newspaper articles.
- chink in one's armour — a small but fatal weakness
- constitutional strike — a stoppage of work by the workforce of an organization, with the approval of the trade union concerned, in accordance with the dispute procedure laid down in a collective agreement between the parties
- continental breakfast — A continental breakfast is breakfast that consists of food such as bread, butter, jam, and a hot drink. There is no cooked food.
- crankcase compression — Crankcase compression is the method of starting some smaller two-stroke engines, where the mixture charge is compressed in a sealed crankcase by the descending piston before passing to the combustion chamber.
- disk operating system — DOS.
- distinguished-looking — having a dignified and attractive appearance
- divine right of kings — the doctrine that the right of rule derives directly from God, not from the consent of the people.
- get on someone's wick — to cause irritation to a person
- give someone a tinkle — to call someone on the telephone
- go down like ninepins — (of each of a group of people) to become ill very easily and quickly
- great smoky mountains — the W part of the Appalachians, in W North Carolina and E Tennessee. Highest peak: Clingman's Dome, 2024 m (6642 ft)
- hyperkinetic disorder — another name for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- insulin shock therapy — a former treatment for mental illness, especially schizophrenia, employing insulin-induced hypoglycemia as a method for producing convulsive seizures.
- it takes two to tango — If you say it takes two or it takes two to tango, you mean that a situation or argument involves two people and they are both therefore responsible for it.
- keep one's voice down — If someone tells you to keep your voice down, they are asking you to speak more quietly.
- keep someone guessing — If someone keeps you guessing, they do not tell you what you want to know.
- kekule von stradonitz — Friedrich August [free-drikh ou-goo st] /ˈfri drɪx ˈaʊ gʊst/ (Show IPA), 1829–96, German chemist.
- keto-enol tautomerism — tautomerism in which the tautomers are an enol and a keto form. The change occurs by transfer of a hydrogen atom within the molecule
- keyboard send receive — (hardware) (KSR) Part of a designation for a hard-copy terminal, manufactured by Teletype Corporation. The KSR range were lower cost versions of the ASR models.
- kleine-levin syndrome — prolonged episodes of excessive sleepiness often accompanied by overeating, hallucinations, and electroencephalogram changes, usually beginning in adolescence.
- knock someone for six — to upset or overwhelm someone completely; stun
- know someone by sight — If you know someone by sight, you can recognize them when you see them, although you have never met them and talked to them.
- lexical decision task — an experimental task in which subjects have to decide as fast as possible whether a given letter string is a word
- like a shag on a rock — abandoned and alone
- luck was on sb's side — If you say that luck was on someone's side, you mean that they succeeded in something by chance as well as by their own efforts or ability.
- make a pig of oneself — If you say that someone is making a pig of themselves, you are criticizing them for eating a very large amount at one meal.
- make one's blood boil — the fluid that circulates in the principal vascular system of human beings and other vertebrates, in humans consisting of plasma in which the red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets are suspended.
- make one's gorge rise — a narrow cleft with steep, rocky walls, especially one through which a stream runs.
- make one's peace with — the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
- meter-kilogram-second — of or relating to the system of units in which the meter, kilogram, and second are the principal units of length, mass, and time. Abbreviation: mks, MKS.
- national park service — a division of the Department of the Interior, created in 1916, that administers national parks, monuments, historic sites, and recreational areas.
- network administrator — (job) A person who manages a communications network within an organisation. Responsibilities include network security, installing new applications, distributing software upgrades, monitoring daily activity, enforcing licensing agreements, developing a storage management program and providing for routine backups.
- network filing system — (spelling) Misnomer for Network File System.
- no smoke without fire — the evidence strongly suggests something has indeed happened
- packed encoding rules — (protocol, standard) (PER) ASN.1 encoding rules for producing a compact transfer syntax for data structures described in ASN.1, defined in 1994. PER provides a much more compact encoding then BER. It tries to represents the data units using the minimum number of bits. The compactness requires that the decoder knows the complete abstract syntax of the data structure to be decoded, however. Documents: ITU-T X.691, ISO 8825-2.
- pick someone's brains — to obtain information or ideas from someone
- ploughman's spikenard — a European plant, Inula conyza, with tubular yellowish flower heads surrounded by purple bracts: family Asteraceae (composites)
- protestant work ethic — work ethic.
- rocky mountain oyster — mountain oyster.
- s-k reduction machine — An abstract machine defined by Professor David Turner to evaluate combinator expressions represented as binary graphs. Named after the two basic combinators, S and K.
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