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17-letter words containing r, e, k, n, o

  • internet backbone — (communications, networking)   High-speed networks that carry Internet traffic. These communications networks are provided by companies such as AT&T, GTE, IBM, MCI, Netcom, Sprint, UUNET and consist of high-speed links in the T1, T3, OC1 and OC3 ranges. The backbones carry Internet traffic around the world and meet at Network Access Points (NAPs). The topology of the "backbone" and its interconnections may once have resembled a spine with ribs connected along its length but is now almost certainly more like a fishing net wrapped around the world with many circular paths.
  • karitane hospital — a hospital for young babies and their mothers
  • kawasaki syndrome — a syndrome, usually afflicting children, characterized by high fever, swollen lymph nodes in the neck, rashes, irritated eyes and mucous membranes, etc. with possible damage to the cardiovascular system
  • 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.
  • keyboard commando — (messaging)   A bulletin board user who posts authoritatively on military or combat topics, but who has never served in uniform or heard a shot fired in anger. A poseur.
  • kiloelectron volt — 1000 electron-volts. Abbreviation: keV, kev.
  • king george's war — a war (1744–48) waged by England and its colonies against France, constituting the North American phase of the War of the Austrian Succession.
  • lake waikaremoana — a lake in the North Island of New Zealand in a dense bush setting. Area: about 55 sq km (21 sq miles)
  • make conversation — If you make conversation, you talk to someone in order to be polite and not because you really want to.
  • make inroads into — to start to use up the supply of something
  • make reference to — mention, allude to
  • microsoft network — The Microsoft Network
  • mid-level network — (Or "regional network"). The kind of networks which make up the second level of the Internet hierarchy. They are the transit networks which connect the stub networks to the backbone networks.
  • money-market fund — a mutual fund that invests in the money market.
  • monkey bread tree — a bombacaceous tree, Adansonia digitata, native to Africa, that has a very thick trunk, large white flowers, and a gourdlike fruit with an edible pulp called monkey bread
  • nervous breakdown — (not in technical use) any disabling mental disorder requiring treatment.
  • network marketing — a marketing strategy in which sales representatives of a company recruit other salespeople and earn commissions on their own sales and on the sales made by their team: Use your personal relationships to be successful in network marketing.
  • 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.
  • niger-kordofanian — a language family comprising Niger-Congo and Kordofanian.
  • non-manual worker — a person whose job involves the use of their mind, rather than the use of their hands or physical strength
  • nord-ostsee kanal — German name of Kiel Canal.
  • north lanarkshire — a council area of central Scotland: consists mainly of the NE part of the historical county of Lanarkshire; formerly (1974–96) part of Strathclyde Region: engineering and metalworking industries. Administrative centre: Motherwell. Pop: 321 820 (2003 est). Area: 1771 sq km (684 sq miles)
  • north little rock — a city in central Arkansas, on the Arkansas River.
  • northern kingfish — a croaker, Menticirrhus saxatilis, inhabiting Atlantic coastal waters of the U.S.
  • notebook computer — laptop, portable
  • on speaking terms — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
  • on the wrong tack — a short, sharp-pointed nail, usually with a flat, broad head.
  • on-street parking — parking (of a car, vehicle, etc) that is or is allowed to be done on a street
  • one for the books — a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.
  • parts of kesteven — an area in E England constituting a former administrative division of Lincolnshire
  • perth and kinross — a council area of N central Scotland, corresponding mainly to the historical counties of Perthshire and Kinross-shire: part of Tayside Region from 1975 until 1996: chiefly mountainous, with agriculture, tourism, and forestry. Administrative centre: Perth. Pop: 135 990 (2003 est). Area: 5321 sq km (2019 sq miles)
  • philosopher kings — the Platonic ideal of a ruler, philosophically trained and enlightened.
  • pocket dictionary — a small portable dictionary
  • priority check-in — Priority check-in at a hotel is an arrangement which allows a guest to check in without waiting in a line.
  • protection racket — a criminal activity in which money gangsters extort money from victims in exchange for freedom from molestation
  • put on the market — offer for sale
  • quick on the draw — having fast reflexes
  • rack one's brains — to strain in mental effort, esp to remember something or to find the solution to a problem
  • reading knowledge — the ability to read a language, but not speak it
  • retention of risk — Retention of risk is the net amount of any risk which an insurance company does not reinsure but keeps for its own account.
  • 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
  • rom kernel manual — (publication)   (RKM) A series of books or files for developers for the Amiga computer, containing information about the operating system kernel stored in ROM.
  • round-trip ticket — a ticket entitling a passenger to travel to his or her destination and back again
  • 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
  • rybinsk reservoir — a vast water reservoir in W central Russia on the River Volga and its tributaries Sheksna and Mologa, formed by Rybinsk Hydroelectric Station dam
  • sanitation worker — a person employed to collect, haul away, and dispose of garbage.
  • second balkan war — Balkan War (def 2).
  • selkirk mountains — a mountain range in SW Canada, in SE British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Sir Sandford, 3533 m (11 590 ft)
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