16-letter words containing n, u, t, k
- magnetic pick-up — a type of record player pick-up in which the stylus moves an iron core in a coil, causing a changing magnetic field that produces the current
- make the running — If someone is making the running in a situation, they are more active than the other people involved.
- mount kosciuszko — a mountain in Australia, in SE New South Wales in the Australian Alps: the highest peak in Australia. Height: 2230 m (7316 ft)
- muskegon heights — a city in W Michigan, on Lake Michigan.
- nassella tussock — type of tussock grass
- near the knuckle — risqué
- network computer — a relatively inexpensive computer with minimal processing power, designed primarily to provide access to computer networks, as corporate intranets or the Internet. Abbreviation: NC.
- nubuck (leather) — tanned leather similar to suede, but with the nap on the grain side
- nutcracker suite — a ballet and concert suite (1892) arranged by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky from his orchestral work for a ballet, The Nutcracker.
- punctuation mark — any of a group of conventional marks or characters used in punctuation, as the period, comma, semicolon, question mark, or dash.
- put a sock in it — be quiet!
- round the wrekin — the long way round
- run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
- security blanket — a blanket or other familiar item carried especially by a young child to provide reassurance and a feeling of psychological security.
- speak in tongues — to engage in glossolalia
- speaking trumpet — a trumpet-shaped instrument used to carry the voice a great distance or held to the ear by a deaf person to aid his hearing
- stick in the mud — someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.
- stick-in-the-mud — someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.
- stocking stuffer — a small, usually inexpensive gift that is placed with others in a Christmas stocking.
- streaked gurnard — a type of fish, Chelidonichthys lastoviza or Trigloporus lastoviza
- substantive rank — a permanent rank in the armed services obtained by length of service, selection, etc
- take one's lumps — a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.
- the king country — an area in the centre of North Island, New Zealand: home of the King Movement, a nineteenth-century Māori separatist movement
- thinking through — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
- thumbnail sketch — small preliminary drawing
- trucking company — a company that transports goods by lorry
- turkish crescent — crescent (def 6).
- unknown quantity — mathematics: amount not known
- up to one's neck — If you say that someone is in some sort of trouble or criminal activity up to their neck, you mean that they are deeply involved in it.
- voluntary worker — a person who serves or acts in a specified function of their own accord and without compulsion or promise of remuneration
- week in week out — If you say that something happens week in week out, you do not like it because it happens all the time, and never seems to change.
- what do you know — People sometimes say 'What do you know!' when they are very surprised about something.
- wishful thinking — interpretation of facts, actions, words, etc., as one would like them to be rather than as they really are; imagining as actual what is not.
- wrought ironwork — decorative work in wrought iron