19-letter words containing p, k, u
- agner krarup erlang — (person) (1878-1929) A Danish mathematician. Erlang the language and unit were named after him. Interested in the theory of probability, in 1908 Erlang joined the Copenhagen Telephone Company where he studied the problem of waiting times for telephone calls. He worked out how to calculate the fraction of callers who must wait due to all the lines of an exchange being in use. His formula for loss and waiting time was published in 1917. It is now known as the "Erlang formula" and is still in use today.
- bankruptcy petition — an official request for protection under bankruptcy laws, which initiates bankruptcy proceedings
- be up to one's neck — the part of the body of an animal or human being that connects the head and the trunk.
- buy a pig in a poke — to buy, get, or agree to something without sight or knowledge of it in advance
- cape york peninsula — large peninsula in NE Australia, part of Queensland, between the Gulf of Carpentaria & the Coral Sea
- differential backup — (operating system) A kind of backup that copies all files that have changed since the last full backup. Each differential backup will include all files in previous differential backups since the full backup so to restore a version of a file, you only need to search the full backup and the relevant differential backup. Some systems support differential backup by associating an "Archive" flag with each file and setting this flag whenever the file is modified to indicate that it should be included in the next backup. A differential backup does not change this flag, whereas an incremental backup resets it.
- dry-bulk cargo ship — a ship that carries an unpackaged dry cargo such as coal or grain; bulk carrier
- eye make-up remover — a product used to remove cosmetics such as mascara and eyeliner
- go jump in the lake — a body of fresh or salt water of considerable size, surrounded by land.
- hop, skip, and jump — a short distance
- 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 sb in suspense — If you keep or leave someone in suspense, you deliberately delay telling them something that they are very eager to know about.
- keep up appearances — If you keep up appearances, you try to behave and dress in a way that people expect of you, even if you can no longer afford it.
- kick up one's heels — the back part of the human foot, below and behind the ankle.
- leukoencephalopathy — (medicine) Any disease that effects the white matter of the brain.
- look sb up and down — If someone looks you up and down, they direct their eyes from your head to your feet, in a rude and superior way and often as though they disapprove of you.
- parachute spinnaker — a very large spinnaker used on a racing yacht.
- phakoemulsification — the removal of a cataract by first liquefying the affected lens with ultrasonic vibrations and then extracting it by suction.
- portuguese-speaking — being a speaker of Portuguese; having Portuguese as the national language
- prick up one's ears — a puncture made by a needle, thorn, or the like.
- pull one's socks up — to make a determined effort, esp in order to regain control of a situation
- puncture repair kit — set of tools for patching a bicycle tyre
- put one's back into — to devote all one's strength to (a task)
- put one's skates on — ice skate (def 1).
- put the skids under — a plank, bar, log, or the like, especially one of a pair, on which something heavy may be slid or rolled along.
- quick on the uptake — You say that someone is quick on the uptake when they understand things quickly. You say that someone is slow on the uptake when they have difficulty understanding simple or obvious things.
- rap on the knuckles — a mild reprimand or light sentence
- saddharma-pundarika — a Mahayana sutra, forming with its references to Amida and the Bodhisattvas the basis for the doctrine that there is something of Buddha in everyone, so that salvation is universally available: a central text of Mahayana Buddhism.
- speaking in tongues — a form of glossolalia in which a person experiencing religious ecstasy utters incomprehensible sounds that the speaker believes are a language spoken through him or her by a deity.
- take a running jump — a contemptuous expression of dismissal
- take up the cudgels — If you take up the cudgels for someone or something, you speak or fight in support of them.
- the buck stops here — the ultimate responsibility lies here
- think on (or upon) — to give thought or consideration to
- to be up shit creek — to be in an extremely bad situation
- to keep to yourself — If you keep to yourself, you stay on your own most of the time and do not mix socially with other people.
- 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.
- trumpet honeysuckle — an American honeysuckle, Lonicera sempervirens, having spikes of large, tubular flowers, deep-red outside and yellow within.
- tussock caterpillar — the larva of a tussock moth.
- up to one's neck in — deeply involved in
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