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19-letter words containing n, t, e

  • junior middleweight — a boxer weighing up to 154 pounds (69.3 kg), between welterweight and middleweight.
  • junior welterweight — a boxer weighing up to 140 pounds (63 kg), between lightweight and welterweight.
  • juvenile delinquent — a minor who cannot be controlled by parental authority and commits antisocial or criminal acts, as vandalism or violence.
  • kansas-nebraska act — the act of Congress in 1854 annulling the Missouri Compromise, providing for the organization of the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and permitting these territories self-determination on the question of slavery.
  • keep an eye out for — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • keep one's distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
  • keep one's shirt on — a long- or short-sleeved garment for the upper part of the body, usually lightweight and having a collar and a front opening.
  • kellogg-briand pact — a treaty renouncing war as an instrument of national policy and urging peaceful means for the settlement of international disputes, originally signed in 1928 by 15 nations, later joined by 49 others.
  • keyboard instrument — any musical instrument that is played using a keyboard
  • kill sth stone-dead — If you kill something such as an idea or emotion stone-dead, you completely destroy it.
  • kilobits per second — (unit)   (kbps, kb/s) A unit of data rate where 1 kb/s = 1000 bits per second. This contrasts with units of storage where 1 Kb = 1024 bits (note upper case K).
  • kinematic viscosity — the coefficient of viscosity of a fluid divided by the density, usually measured in stokes.
  • knights hospitalers — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
  • knock the socks off — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
  • knock them/'em dead — To knock them dead means to impress people a great deal, especially with your appearance.
  • knock-out agreement — an agreement between bidders at an auction or sale not to bid against each other
  • know better than to — not to be so stupid as to
  • ladies-of-the-night — plural of lady-of-the-night.
  • lady of the evening — a prostitute.
  • lame duck amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1933, that abolished the December to March session of those Congressmen defeated for reelection in November.
  • land of enchantment — New Mexico (used as a nickname).
  • landscape architect — A landscape architect is the same as a landscape gardener.
  • language laboratory — a special room or rooms with sound-recording and -reproducing equipment for use by students to practice speaking foreign languages, usually with an instructor monitoring the program.
  • large munsterlander — a strongly built gun dog with a long dense black-and-white coat
  • late-night shopping — later opening hours of shops than usual, esp as a regular occurrence on a particular night of the week
  • lateral line system — a system of sensory organs in fishes and aquatic amphibians consisting of a series of cells on the head and along the sides of the body that detect pressure changes and vibrations
  • lead someone astray — If someone or something leads you astray, they make you believe something that is not true, causing you to make a wrong decision.
  • leading aircraftman — the rank above aircraftman
  • leading coefficient — the coefficient of the term of highest degree in a given polynomial. 5 is the leading coefficient in 5 x 3 + 3 x 2 − 2 x + 1.
  • learning disability — a disorder, as dyslexia, usually affecting school-age children of normal or above-normal intelligence, characterized by difficulty in understanding or using spoken or written language, and thought to be related to impairment or slowed development of perceptual motor skills.
  • least recently used — (operating systems) (LRU) A rule used in a paging system which selects a page to be paged out if it has been used (read or written) less recently than any other page. The same rule may also be used in a cache to select which cache entry to flush. This rule is based on temporal locality - the observation that, in general, the page (or cache entry) which has not been accessed for longest is least likely to be accessed in the near future.
  • leave the door open — a movable, usually solid, barrier for opening and closing an entranceway, cupboard, cabinet, or the like, commonly turning on hinges or sliding in grooves.
  • legislative council — the upper house of a bicameral legislature.
  • leisure occupations — activities which you enjoy and which you perform in your free time
  • let it all hang out — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
  • let one's hair down — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
  • let someone have it — to allow or permit: to let him escape.
  • letters of credence — credentials issued to a diplomat or other governmental representative for presentation to the country to which he or she is sent.
  • leukoencephalopathy — (medicine) Any disease that effects the white matter of the brain.
  • level of attainment — one of ten groupings, each with its own attainment criteria based on pupil age and ability, within which a pupil is assessed
  • leveling instrument — an instrument used to establish a horizontal line of sight, usually by means of a spirit level.
  • liability insurance — insurance covering the insured against losses arising from injury or damage to another person or property.
  • liberation theology — a 20th-century Christian theology, emphasizing the Biblical and doctrinal theme of liberation from oppression, whether racial, sexual, economic, or political.
  • licensing agreement — an agreement that sets out the fees and terms of use for something available only under licence
  • lie down on the job — to put forth less than one's best efforts
  • lie in one's throat — to tell a foul or outrageous lie
  • lieutenant governor — a state officer next in rank to a governor, who takes the governor's place in case of the latter's absence, disability, or death.
  • lift the curtain on — to begin
  • lift up one's voice — to speak out loudly
  • light entertainment — entertainment that requires less mental effort to enjoy, or is considered frivolous
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