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18-letter words containing o, r, k

  • a shot in the dark — If you describe something someone says or does as a shot in the dark or a stab in the dark, you mean they are guessing that what they say is correct or that what they do will be successful.
  • aarp probe packets — (networking)   AARP packets sent out on a nonextended AppleTalk network to discover whether a randomly selected node ID is being used by any node. If not, the sending node uses the node ID. If so, it chooses a different ID and sends more AARP probe packets.
  • ailanthus silkworm — a green silkworm, Samia walkeri, introduced into the U.S. from China, that feeds on the leaves of the ailanthus.
  • alarm clock briton — a British worker with a moderate income, whose daily routine involves preparing children for school and going out to work
  • alkali metaprotein — a metaprotein derived by means of a hydrolytic alkali.
  • american brooklime — any of various speedwells found along brooks, in marshes, etc., as Veronica americana (American brooklime) a creeping plant having leafy stems and loose clusters of small blue flowers.
  • american cockroach — a large, reddish-brown cockroach, Periplaneta americana, found originally in the southern U.S. but now widely distributed.
  • aorangi-mount cook — the official name for Mount Cook
  • arkansas toothpick — a bowie knife or similar sharp knifelike implement.
  • assumption of risk — Assumption of risk is the practice of paying for minor losses yourself, but protecting against catastrophic losses by buying insurance cover.
  • astronomical clock — a complex clock showing astronomical phenomena, such as the phases of the moon
  • at a rate of knots — very fast
  • at the risk of sth — If you do something at the risk of something unpleasant happening, you do it even though you know that the unpleasant thing might happen as a result.
  • automatic tracking — a radar tracking system in which an automatic device uses the echo signal from the tracked object to keep the radar constantly beamed on target and to compute the range of the object.
  • back end generator — (tool)   (BEG) A code generator developed by H. Emmelmann et al at GMD, University Karlsruhe, Germany. Its input language is Back End Generator Language (BEGL).
  • back to square one — If you are back to square one, you have to start dealing with something from the beginning again because the way you were dealing with it has failed.
  • back/down to earth — If you come down to earth or back to earth, you have to face the reality of everyday life after a period of great excitement.
  • background reading — reading of related works in order to get contextual information on a topic that you are intending to study or write about
  • backus normal form — Backus-Naur Form
  • beefsteak mushroom — an edible bracket fungus, Fistulina hepatica, that grows on trees and can rot the heartwood of living oaks and chestnuts.
  • before you know it — rapidly, soon
  • benchmark position — a public service job used for comparison with a similar position, such as a position in commerce, for wage settlements
  • bend over backward — to try to an unusual degree (to please, pacify, etc.)
  • berkeley softworks — (company)   The company that wrote Graffiti and a similar scheme for the Commodore 64 (made it very Macintosh-like) and the Commodore 128 (which could multitask).
  • berwick-upon-tweed — a town in N England, in N Northumberland at the mouth of the Tweed: much involved in border disputes between England and Scotland between the 12th and 16th centuries; neutral territory 1551–1885. Pop: 12 870 (2001)
  • black-necked stork — a large Australian stork, Xenorhyncus asiaticus, having a white plumage, dark green back and tail, and red legs
  • blackback flounder — any of various popular food flatfishes, as Parophrys vetulus of the Pacific (English sole) and Pseudopleuronectes americanus of the Atlantic (winter flounder or blackback flounder)
  • blocking capacitor — a capacitor that blocks the passage of direct current but allows alternating current to pass
  • blue-collar worker — a manual industrial worker
  • branch to fishkill — (IBM: from the location of one of the corporation's facilities) Any unexpected jump in a program that produces catastrophic or just plain weird results. See jump off into never-never land, hyperspace.
  • break your silence — If someone breaks their silence about something, they talk about something that they have not talked about before or for a long time.
  • bring someone luck — If you say that something brings bad luck or brings someone good luck, you believe that it has an influence on whether good or bad things happen to them.
  • bring to its knees — If a country or organization is brought to its knees, it is almost completely destroyed by someone or something.
  • broken twill weave — a twill weave in which the direction of the diagonal produced by the weft threads is reversed after no more than two passages of the weft.
  • brothers karamazov — a novel (1880) by Dostoevsky.
  • brute force attack — (cryptography)   A method of breaking a cipher (that is, to decrypt a specific encrypted text) by trying every possible key. The quicker the brute force attack, the weaker the cipher. Feasibility of brute force attack depends on the key length of the cipher, and on the amount of computational power available to the attacker. Brute force attack is impossible against the ciphers with variable-size key, such as a one-time pad cipher.
  • burkitt's lymphoma — a cancer characterized by tumors containing lymphoid cells, occurring esp. in children, in the jaw, eyes, and internal organs: it is associated with the Epstein-Barr virus
  • carisbrooke castle — a castle near Newport on the Isle of Wight: Charles I was held prisoner here from 1647 until his execution in 1649
  • carolina chickadee — a chickadee, Parus carolinensis, of the southeastern U.S., resembling but smaller than the black-capped chickadee.
  • cathode dark space — Crookes dark space.
  • cerenkov radiation — radiation emitted when a charged particle travels through a medium at a speed greater than the speed of light through that medium
  • certification mark — a mark that certifies the origin, material, quality, mode of manufacture, accuracy, or other characteristic of a product or service: “UL” is a certification mark for appliances meeting the safety standards of Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.
  • check verification — Check verification is a system that checks national databases of information about individuals to make sure that checks will be honored and fraud is not being committed.
  • checkpoint charlie — a crossing between East and West Berlin during the Cold War
  • christmas stocking — A Christmas stocking is a long sock which children hang up on Christmas Eve. During the night, parents fill the stocking with small presents.
  • come back to earth — to return to reality from a fantasy or daydream
  • compression stroke — The compression stroke is the stroke in an engine in which the air or air/fuel mixture is compressed before ignition.
  • convenience market — the area of business which involves selling convenience foods
  • coronation chicken — a dish of cold cooked chicken in a mild creamy curry sauce
  • correspondent bank — A correspondent bank is a bank that provides services such as accepting deposits for another bank.

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