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17-letter words containing o, c, l, k

  • hypovolemic shock — a type of shock caused by reduced blood volume, as from massive bleeding or dehydration.
  • intelligence work — spying
  • kaleidoscopically — of, relating to, or created by a kaleidoscope.
  • keep your balance — If you keep your balance, for example when standing in a moving vehicle, you remain steady and do not fall over. If you lose your balance, you become unsteady and fall over.
  • kensington palace — a royal residence in Kensington Gardens, in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea; dating from the 17th century, it was improved and extended by Sir Cristopher Wren
  • kiloelectron volt — 1000 electron-volts. Abbreviation: keV, kev.
  • kinetic potential — the kinetic energy minus the potential energy in a system obeying the principle of conservation of energy. Symbol: L.
  • knock oneself out — to make great efforts; exhaust oneself
  • knowledge economy — an economy in which information services are dominant as an area of growth
  • kvatro telecom as — (company)   The company that maintains Mary. Address: Trondheim, Norway.
  • kyoto common lisp — (language)   (KCL) An implementation of Common Lisp by T. Yuasa <[email protected]> and M. Hagiya <[email protected]>, written in C to run under Unix-like operating systems. KCL is compiled to ANSI C. It conforms to Common Lisp as described in Guy Steele's book and is available under a licence agreement. E-mail: <[email protected]> (bug reports). Mailing list: [email protected], [email protected]
  • lame-duck session — (formerly) the December to March session of those members of the U.S. Congress who were defeated for reelection the previous November.
  • landlocked salmon — a variety of the Atlantic Ocean salmon, Salmo salar, confined to the freshwater lakes of New England and adjacent areas of Canada.
  • lay it on (thick) — to exaggerate
  • leg before wicket — a manner of dismissal on the grounds that a batsman has been struck on the leg by a bowled ball that otherwise would have hit the wicket
  • lick one's wounds — an injury, usually involving division of tissue or rupture of the integument or mucous membrane, due to external violence or some mechanical agency rather than disease.
  • lick the boots of — to be servile, obsequious, or flattering towards
  • linking consonant — a consonant inserted between two vowels in speech
  • little black book — an address book, esp. one kept by a man, with the names of women companions considered available for dating
  • locked and loaded — [Military slang for an M-16 rifle with magazine inserted and prepared for firing] Said of a removable disk volume properly prepared for use - that is, locked into the drive and with the heads loaded. Ironically, because their heads are "loaded" whenever the power is up, this description is never used of Winchester drives (which are named after a rifle).
  • meech lake accord — the agreement reached in 1987 at Meech Lake, Quebec, at a Canadian federal-provincial conference that accepted Quebec's conditions for signing the Constitution Act of 1982. The Accord lapsed when the legislatures of two provinces, Newfoundland and Quebec, failed to ratify it by the deadline of June 23, 1990
  • michigan bankroll — a large roll of paper money in small denominations.
  • mikhail gorbachev — Mikhail S(ergeyevich) [mi-kahyl sur-gey-uh-vich,, mi-keyl;; Russian myi-khuh-yeel syir-gye-yi-vyich] /mɪˈkaɪl sɜrˈgeɪ ə vɪtʃ,, mɪˈkeɪl;; Russian myɪ xʌˈyil syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), born 1931, Soviet political leader: general secretary of the Communist Party 1985–91; president of the Soviet Union 1988–91; Nobel Peace Prize 1990.
  • milton work count — a system of hand valuation in which aces count 4, kings 3, queens 2, and jacks 1
  • monkeygland sauce — a piquant sauce, made from tomatoes, ketchup, fruit chutney, garlic, spices, etc
  • never looked back — If you say that someone did something and then never looked back, you mean that they were very successful from that time on.
  • nicholas bourbaki — the pseudonym of a group of mainly French mathematicians that, since 1939, has been producing a monumental work on advanced mathematics, Eléments de Mathématique
  • nikolaus von cusa — Nicholas (def 1).
  • north little rock — a city in central Arkansas, on the Arkansas River.
  • peacock butterfly — a European nymphalid butterfly, Inachis io, having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot
  • planck's constant — the fundamental constant of quantum mechanics, expressing the ratio of the energy of one quantum of radiation to the frequency of the radiation and approximately equal to 6.624 × 10− 27 erg-seconds. Symbol: h.
  • pocket battleship — a small heavily armed and armored warship serving as a battleship because of limitations imposed by treaty.
  • pocket calculator — an electronic calculator small enough to be carried on one's person.
  • purple chokeberry — See under chokeberry (def 1).
  • radio alarm clock — an alarm clock which consists of a radio that can be set to play at a particular time
  • republic of korea — a former country in E Asia, on a peninsula SE of Manchuria and between the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea: a kingdom prior to 1910; under Japanese rule 1910–45; now divided at 38° N into North Korea and South Korea. Compare Korean War.
  • rock of gibraltar — a British crown colony comprising a fortress and seaport located on a narrow promontory near the S tip of Spain. 1.875 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
  • rocket propulsion — propulsion of an object by thrust developed by a rocket.
  • rocket technology — the technology of the design, operation, maintenance, and launching of rockets
  • row-level locking — (database)   A technique used in database management systems, where a row is locked for writing to prevent other users from accessing data being while it is being updated. Other techniques are table locking and MVCC.
  • run out the clock — to maintain control of the ball in the closing minutes of a game
  • second balkan war — Balkan War (def 2).
  • self-acknowledged — widely recognized; generally accepted: an acknowledged authority on Chinese art.
  • shoestring tackle — a tackle made around the ankles of the ball carrier.
  • single-track road — a road that is only wide enough for one vehicle
  • six o'clock swill — a period of heavy drinking, esp during the years when hotels had to close their bars at 6.00 p.m.
  • smokeless tobacco — snuff1 (def 9).
  • social networking — the development of social and professional contacts; the sharing of information and services among people with a common interest.
  • social notworking — the practice of spending time unproductively on social networking websites, esp when one should be working
  • soft-rock geology — geology dealing with sedimentary rocks.
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