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17-letter words containing s, k, o, p

  • april fool's joke — (humour, event)   (AFJ) Elaborate April Fool's hoaxes are a long-established tradition on Usenet and Internet; see kremvax for an example. In fact, April Fool's Day is the *only* seasonal holiday marked by customary observances on the hacker networks.
  • checkable deposit — a checking account
  • counterparty risk — the risk that a person who is a party to a contract will default on their obligations under that contract
  • desktop publisher — desktop publishing
  • floppy disk drive — disk drive
  • get one's back up — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
  • 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.
  • hypovolemic shock — a type of shock caused by reduced blood volume, as from massive bleeding or dehydration.
  • japanese knotweed — Mexican bamboo.
  • kaleidoscopically — of, relating to, or created by a kaleidoscope.
  • karitane hospital — a hospital for young babies and their mothers
  • kastor and pollux — Castor and Pollux.
  • keep one's end up — the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad: the end of a street; the end of a rope.
  • 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
  • know when to stop — If you say that someone does not know when to stop, you mean that they do not control their own behaviour very well and so they often annoy or upset other people.
  • kyoto common lisp — (language)   (KCL) An implementation of Common Lisp by T. Yuasa <[email protected]> and M. Hagiya <[email protected]>, written in C to run under Unix-like operating systems. KCL is compiled to ANSI C. It conforms to Common Lisp as described in Guy Steele's book and is available under a licence agreement. E-mail: <[email protected]> (bug reports). Mailing list: [email protected], [email protected]
  • 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
  • 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.
  • mount robson park — a national park in the Rocky Mountains of E British Columbia, Canada.
  • 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
  • overstep the mark — If someone oversteps the mark, they behave in a way that is considered unacceptable.
  • parker house roll — a soft dinner roll made by folding a flat disk of dough in half.
  • 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.
  • pick the eyes out — to select the best parts or pieces (of)
  • pink-footed goose — a Eurasian goose, Anser brachyrhynchus, having a reddish-brown head, pink legs, and a pink band on its black beak
  • planck's constant — the fundamental constant of quantum mechanics, expressing the ratio of the energy of one quantum of radiation to the frequency of the radiation and approximately equal to 6.624 × 10− 27 erg-seconds. Symbol: h.
  • pocket battleship — a small heavily armed and armored warship serving as a battleship because of limitations imposed by treaty.
  • porterhouse steak — large cut of beef loin
  • positive feedback — Electronics. the process of returning part of the output of a circuit, system, or device to the input, either to oppose the input (negative feedback) or to aid the input (positive feedback) acoustic feedback.
  • positive thinking — an optimistic attitude
  • put the kibosh on — nonsense.
  • rocket propulsion — propulsion of an object by thrust developed by a rocket.
  • sacrifice paddock — a grassed area allowed to be grazed completely, to be cultivated and resown later
  • spark photography — photography of fast-moving objects, as bullets, by the light of an electric spark.
  • speak one's piece — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
  • split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
  • spring cankerworm — the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)
  • take no prisoners — to be uncompromising and resolute in one's actions
  • take second place — If one thing takes second place to another, it is considered to be less important and is given less attention than the other thing.
  • take upon oneself — to take the responsibility for; accept as a charge
  • take-no-prisoners — wholeheartedly aggressive; zealous; gung-ho: a businessman with a take-no-prisoners attitude toward dealmaking.
  • the plot thickens — People sometimes say 'the plot thickens' when a situation or series of events is getting more and more complicated and mysterious.
  • to keep the books — to keep written records of the finances of a business or other enterprise
  • to know the ropes — If you know the ropes, you know how a particular job or task should be done.
  • to lick your lips — If you lick your lips, you move your tongue across your lips as you think about or taste something pleasant.

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