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21-letter words containing s, k, i, n, t

  • a fine kettle of fish — an awkward situation; mess
  • a nasty piece of work — If you say that someone is a nasty piece of work, you mean that they are very unkind or unpleasant.
  • anointing of the sick — a sacrament in which a person who is seriously ill or dying is anointed by a priest with consecrated oil
  • appendicular skeleton — the girdles and skeleton of the limbs
  • ball-and-socket joint — a coupling between two rods, tubes, etc, that consists of a spherical part fitting into a spherical socket, allowing free movement within a specific conical volume
  • banach-tarski paradox — (mathematics)   It is possible to cut a solid ball into finitely many pieces (actually about half a dozen), and then put the pieces together again to get two solid balls, each the same size as the original. This paradox is a consequence of the Axiom of Choice.
  • constitutional strike — a stoppage of work by the workforce of an organization, with the approval of the trade union concerned, in accordance with the dispute procedure laid down in a collective agreement between the parties
  • continental breakfast — A continental breakfast is breakfast that consists of food such as bread, butter, jam, and a hot drink. There is no cooked food.
  • devil's walking-stick — Hercules'-club (sense 1)
  • devil's-walking-stick — Hercules-club (def 2).
  • disk operating system — DOS.
  • distinguished-looking — having a dignified and attractive appearance
  • divine right of kings — the doctrine that the right of rule derives directly from God, not from the consent of the people.
  • get on someone's wick — to cause irritation to a person
  • give someone a tinkle — to call someone on the telephone
  • great smoky mountains — the W part of the Appalachians, in W North Carolina and E Tennessee. Highest peak: Clingman's Dome, 2024 m (6642 ft)
  • have the inside track — If you say that someone has the inside track, you mean that they have an advantage, for example special knowledge about something.
  • hyperkinetic disorder — another name for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
  • in stock/out of stock — If goods are in stock, a shop has them available to sell. If they are out of stock, it does not.
  • insulin shock therapy — a former treatment for mental illness, especially schizophrenia, employing insulin-induced hypoglycemia as a method for producing convulsive seizures.
  • it takes two to tango — If you say it takes two or it takes two to tango, you mean that a situation or argument involves two people and they are both therefore responsible for it.
  • just a bunch of disks — (jargon, storage)   (JBOD, or "Just a Bunch of Drives") A storage subsystems using multiple independent disk drives, as opposed to one form of RAID or another. For example, Unisys open storage provides JBOD in both SCSI and fibre channel interfaces.
  • kekule von stradonitz — Friedrich August [free-drikh ou-goo st] /ˈfri drɪx ˈaʊ gʊst/ (Show IPA), 1829–96, German chemist.
  • keto-enol tautomerism — tautomerism in which the tautomers are an enol and a keto form. The change occurs by transfer of a hydrogen atom within the molecule
  • knights of st columba — an international, semi-secret fraternal and charitable order for Catholic laymen, which originated in New Haven, Connecticut in 1882 (the Knights of Columbus)
  • know someone by sight — If you know someone by sight, you can recognize them when you see them, although you have never met them and talked to them.
  • lexical decision task — an experimental task in which subjects have to decide as fast as possible whether a given letter string is a word
  • make one's peace with — the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
  • meter-kilogram-second — of or relating to the system of units in which the meter, kilogram, and second are the principal units of length, mass, and time. Abbreviation: mks, MKS.
  • national park service — a division of the Department of the Interior, created in 1916, that administers national parks, monuments, historic sites, and recreational areas.
  • national savings bank — (in Britain) a government savings bank, run through the post office, esp for small savers
  • network administrator — (job)   A person who manages a communications network within an organisation. Responsibilities include network security, installing new applications, distributing software upgrades, monitoring daily activity, enforcing licensing agreements, developing a storage management program and providing for routine backups.
  • network filing system — (spelling)   Misnomer for Network File System.
  • no smoke without fire — the evidence strongly suggests something has indeed happened
  • protestant work ethic — work ethic.
  • rocky mountain locust — a migratory locust, Melanoplus spretus, that occurs in North America, especially the Great Plains, where swarms cause great damage to crops and other vegetation.
  • rocky mountain oyster — mountain oyster.
  • s-k reduction machine — An abstract machine defined by Professor David Turner to evaluate combinator expressions represented as binary graphs. Named after the two basic combinators, S and K.
  • safe in the knowledge — If you do something safe in the knowledge that something else is the case, you do the first thing confidently because you are sure of the second thing.
  • sequoia national park — a national park in central California: giant sequoia trees. 604 sq. mi. (1565 sq. km).
  • sick to one's stomach — afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing.
  • sink one's teeth into — to displace part of the volume of a supporting substance or object and become totally or partially submerged or enveloped; fall or descend into or below the surface or to the bottom (often followed by in or into): The battleship sank within two hours. His foot sank in the mud. Her head sinks into the pillows.
  • skop, skiet en donder — violent action and melodramatic adventure in a film
  • spark ignition engine — A spark ignition engine is an engine running on the Otto cycle.
  • stick in one's throat — to be difficult, or against one's conscience, for one to accept, utter, or believe
  • stock list department — (in an American stock exchange) the department dealing with monitoring compliance with its listing requirements and rules
  • strike the right note — to behave appropriately
  • take one's (own) life — to commit suicide
  • take one's finger out — stop delaying or procrastinating
  • take someone prisoner — to capture and hold someone as a prisoner, esp as a prisoner of war

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