17-letter words containing s, k, e, i, g
- against the clock — If you are doing something against the clock, you are doing it in a great hurry, because there is very little time.
- as high as a kite — If you say that someone is as high as a kite, you mean that they are very excited or that they are greatly affected by alcohol or drugs.
- attention-seeking — intended to make people take notice
- average seek time — (storage) The mean time it takes to move the head of a disk drive from one track to another, averaged over the source and destination cylinders. Usually measured in milliseconds (ms). The average seek time gives a good measure of the speed of the drive in a multi-user environment where successive read/write request are largely uncorrelated. Ten ms is common for a hard disk and 200 ms for an eight-speed CD-ROM.
- beefsteak begonia — an ornamental plant, Begonia erythrophylla, having light-pink flowers and nearly round, thick, fleshy leaves that are red on the underside.
- belted kingfisher — a grayish-blue, North American kingfisher, Ceryle alcyon, having a white breast marked with a grayish-blue band.
- black-box testing — functional testing
- blue-sky thinking — Blue-sky thinking is the activity of trying to find completely new ideas.
- cardinal grosbeak — any of various mostly tropical American buntings, such as the cardinal and pyrrhuloxia, the males of which have brightly coloured plumage
- cardiogenic shock — a type of shock caused by decreased cardiac output despite adequate blood volume, owing to a disease of the heart itself, as myocardial infarction, or any other factor that interferes with the filling or emptying of the heart.
- cracking severity — Cracking severity is the temperature used in a cracking process to yield a product, higher temperatures being used to produce ethane and benzene, and lower temperatures to produce propene and liquid products.
- egyptian brackets — (programming, humour) A humourous term for K&R indent style, referring to the "one hand up in front, one down behind" pose which popular culture inexplicably associates with Egypt.
- elastic stockings — something made of elastic which you wear on your legs to aid circulation
- english breakfast — An English breakfast is a breakfast consisting of cooked food such as bacon, eggs, sausages, and tomatoes. It also includes toast and tea or coffee.
- fishnet stockings — leg coverings for women, made from an open mesh fabric resembling netting
- go like hot cakes — to be sold very quickly or in large quantities
- goldbeater's skin — the prepared outside membrane of the large intestine of the ox, used by goldbeaters to lay between the leaves of the metal while they beat it into gold leaf.
- great awakening's — the series of religious revivals among Protestants in the American colonies, especially in New England, lasting from about 1725 to 1770.
- great grey shrike — the bird Lanius excubitor
- great white shark — a large shark, Carcharodon carcharias, of tropical and temperate seas, known to occasionally attack swimmers.
- hasbrouck heights — a borough in NE New Jersey.
- heartbreakingness — The state or quality of being heartbreaking.
- high-density disk — a computer storage disk capable of holding more than 720 kilobytes of data
- hodgkin's disease — a type of cancer characterized by progressive chronic inflammation and enlargement of the lymph nodes of the neck, armpit, groin, and mesentery, by enlargement of the spleen and occasionally of the liver and the kidneys, and by lymphoid infiltration along the blood vessels.
- housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
- immigrant workers — people who work in a country they arrived to in order to settle there
- 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
- kerguelen islands — an archipelago in the S Indian Ocean: a possession of France. 2394 sq. mi. (6200 sq. km).
- kinesthesiologist — Someone who practices kinesthesiology.
- 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.
- kolar gold fields — a city in S India, in SE Karnataka: a major gold-mining centre since 1881. Pop: 176 000 (2005 est)
- lake winnipegosis — a lake in S Canada, in W Manitoba. Area: 5400 sq km (2086 sq miles)
- lighthouse keeper — a person who mans a lighthouse and makes sure that the light is working properly
- loggerhead shrike — a common, North American shrike, Lanius ludovicianus, gray above and white below with black wings, tail, and facial mask.
- make light of sth — If you make light of something, you treat it as though it is not serious or important, when in fact it is.
- make no apologies — If you say that you make no apologies for what you have done, you are emphasizing that you feel that you have done nothing wrong.
- make something of — to find a use for
- management skills — skills regarding the technique, practice, or science of managing a company, business, etc
- modest mussorgski — Modest Petrovich [moh-dest pi-troh-vich;; Russian muh-dyest pyi-traw-vyich] /moʊˈdɛst pɪˈtroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian mʌˈdyɛst pyɪˈtrɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Moussorgsky, Modest Petrovich.
- naked singularity — an infinitely dense point mass without a surrounding black hole
- northern kingfish — a croaker, Menticirrhus saxatilis, inhabiting Atlantic coastal waters of the U.S.
- on speaking terms — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
- on the pig's back — successful; established
- on-street parking — parking (of a car, vehicle, etc) that is or is allowed to be done on a street
- philosopher kings — the Platonic ideal of a ruler, philosophically trained and enlightened.
- pink-footed goose — a Eurasian goose, Anser brachyrhynchus, having a reddish-brown head, pink legs, and a pink band on its black beak
- positive thinking — an optimistic attitude
- publicity-seeking — eager to attract publicity
- registered stocks — stocks officially registered to the name of the owner
- shoestring tackle — a tackle made around the ankles of the ball carrier.
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