17-letter words containing s, k, y, p
- bankruptcy estate — all of the interests that a debtor has at the start of a bankruptcy case
- basketball player — someone who plays basketball
- chadless keypunch — (hardware) A card punch which cut little U-shapes in punched cards, rather than punching out a circle or rectangle. The U's made a hole when folded back. One of the Jargon File's correspondents believed that the term "chad" derived from the Chadless keypunch. Obviously, if the Chadless keypunch didn't make them, then the stuff that other keypunches made had to be "chad". The assertion that the keypunch was named after its inventor is not supported by any record in US or UK patents or surname references.
- counterparty risk — the risk that a person who is a party to a contract will default on their obligations under that contract
- 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.
- floppy disk drive — disk drive
- hypovolemic shock — a type of shock caused by reduced blood volume, as from massive bleeding or dehydration.
- kaleidoscopically — of, relating to, or created by a kaleidoscope.
- keep mum/stay mum — If you keep mum or stay mum about something, you do not tell anyone about it.
- kidney transplant — surgery to replace a kidney
- 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]
- pick the eyes out — to select the best parts or pieces (of)
- pinckney's treaty — an agreement in 1795 between Spain and the U.S. by which Spain recognized the 31st parallel as the southern boundary of the U.S. and permitted free navigation of the Mississippi to American ships.
- publicity-seeking — eager to attract publicity
- spark photography — photography of fast-moving objects, as bullets, by the light of an electric spark.
- split keyboarding — the act or practice of editing data from one terminal on another terminal
- to lick your lips — If you lick your lips, you move your tongue across your lips as you think about or taste something pleasant.
- to push your luck — If you say that someone is pushing their luck, you think they are taking a bigger risk than is sensible, and may get into trouble.
- video disk player — a device that reads the information on a video disc
- yorkshire pudding — a pudding made of an unsweetened batter of flour, salt, eggs, and milk, baked under meat as it roasts to catch the drippings or baked separately with a small amount of meat drippings.
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