19-letter words containing n, k, o
- to go blackberrying — to go on an outing to collect blackberries
- to keep your end up — If you have to keep your end up, or to keep up your end of something, you have to do something as well as other people, or as well as you are expected to do it.
- to let someone know — If you let someone know something, you tell them about it or make sure that they know about it.
- to lick your wounds — If you say that someone is licking their wounds, you mean that they are recovering after being defeated or made to feel ashamed or unhappy.
- to make eye contact — If you make eye contact with someone, you look at them at the same time as they look at you, so that you are both aware that you are looking at each other. If you avoid eye contact with someone, you deliberately do not look straight at them because you feel awkward or embarrassed.
- to rack your brains — If you rack your brains, you try very hard to think of something.
- to shudder to think — If you say that you shudder to think what would happen in a particular situation, you mean that you expect it to be so bad that you do not really want to think about it.
- to suck someone dry — If you say that someone is sucking something dry or milking it dry, you are criticizing them for taking all the good things from it until there is nothing left.
- to think nothing of — If you think nothing of doing something that other people might consider difficult, strange, or wrong, you consider it to be easy or normal, and you do it often or would be quite willing to do it.
- trickle-down theory — an economic theory that monetary benefits directed especially by the government to big business will in turn pass down to and profit smaller businesses and the general public.
- trumpet honeysuckle — an American honeysuckle, Lonicera sempervirens, having spikes of large, tubular flowers, deep-red outside and yellow within.
- up to one's neck in — deeply involved in
- valley of the kings — a valley on the west bank of the Nile near the site of Thebes: the necropolis of many of the kings and queens of the 18th and 19th dynasties of ancient Egypt, c1350–c1200 b.c.
- value added network — (networking) (VAN) A privately owned network that provides a specific service, such as legal research or access to a specialised database, for a fee. A Value Added Network usually offers some service or information that is not readily available on public networks. A Value Added Network's customers typically purchase leased lines that connect them to the network or they use a dial-up number, given by the network owner, to gain access to the network.
- what makes one tick — a slight, sharp, recurring click, tap, or beat, as of a clock.
- within rocket range — able to be reached by rockets
- yellow book, jargon — (publication) The print version of the Jargon File, titled "The New Hacker's Dictionary". It includes essentially all the material the File, plus a Foreword by Guy L. Steele, Jr. and a Preface by Eric S. Raymond. Most importantly, the book version is nicely typeset and includes almost all of the infamous Crunchly cartoons by the Great Quux, each attached to an appropriate entry. The first, second, and third editions correspond to versions 2.9.6, 3.0.0, and 4.0.0 of the File, respectively.
- yellowtail kingfish — a large carangid game fish, Seriola grandis, of S Australian waters
- zero and add packed — (language) (ZAP) An IBM 360/370 assembly language instruction used when performing packed arithmatic to initialise an accumulator.