22-letter words containing s, i, n, k, a
- rocky mountain oysters — mountain oyster.
- search the fucking web — (web, jargon) (Always abbreviated STFW) A response implying that an inquirer could have easily found an answer to his question using Google or some other web search engine. It is now often quicker and more productive to search the World-Wide Web than to RTFM.
- shaken but not stirred — If you say that someone has been shaken but not stirred by an experience, you mean that they have been slightly disturbed or emotionally affected by it, but not deeply enough to change their behaviour or way of thinking.
- sir william blackstone — Sir William, 1723–80, English jurist and writer on law.
- slender-tailed meerkat — the animal Suricata suricata
- social networking site — a website that allows subscribers to interact, typically by requesting that others add them to their visible list of contacts, by forming or joining sub-groups based around shared interests, or publishing content so that a specified group of subscribers can access it
- take cognizance of sth — If you take cognizance of something, you take notice of it or acknowledge it.
- take in (one's) stride — to cope with easily and without undue effort or hesitation
- take something as read — to take something for granted as a fact; understand or presume
- take/tickle sb's fancy — If something takes your fancy or tickles your fancy, you like it a lot when you see it or think of it.
- ten-spined stickleback — a small teleost fish, Gasterosteus pungitius, of the family Gasterosteidae, of rivers and coastal regions, having ten spines along the back and occurring in cold and temperate northern regions
- threespine stickleback — a widely distributed stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus, occurring in marine, brackish, or fresh waters throughout the northern hemisphere.
- to awaken to something — to become aware of something
- to be knocked sideways — If you are knocked sideways by something, it makes you feel very surprised, confused, or upset.
- to cast your mind back — If you cast your mind back to a time in the past, you think about what happened then.
- user network interface — (communications, networking) (UNI) An interface point between ATM end users and a private ATM switch, or between a private ATM switch and the public carrier ATM network. The physical and protocol specifications for UNIs are defined by the ATM Forum's UNI documents, which allow for various types of physical interfaces. See also: NNI
- valencia simple tasker — (operating system) (VSTa) A small microkernel based Unix-like operating system, taking ideas from QNX and Plan 9, available under GPL.
- workmen's compensation — compensation for death, injury, or accident suffered by a workman in the course of his employment and paid to him or his dependents
- yosemite national park — a national park in E California. 1182 sq. mi. (3060 sq. km).