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18-letter words containing t, o, n, k

  • not take kindly to — not welcome
  • not that i know of — You say 'Not that I know of' when someone has asked you whether or not something is true and you think the answer is 'no' but you cannot be sure because you do not know all the facts.
  • now you're talking — at last you're saying something agreeable
  • off-street parking — spaces for cars located on private property rather than on a public street
  • on a sticky wicket — in an awkward situation
  • on the back burner — low priority
  • optical soundtrack — the final soundtrack on a motion picture, which appears as a band of black and white serrations along a strip of film to the left of the composite print. Light is shined through the serrations and is converted to audible sound.
  • oriental cockroach — a dark-brown cockroach, Blatta orientalis, thought to have originated in Asia but now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution.
  • out of one's skull — foolish; silly
  • overtime work(ing) — work at a regular job done in addition to regular working hours
  • packet switch node — (PSN) A dedicated computer whose purpose is to accept, route and forward packets in a packet-switched network.
  • people trafficking — the practice of bringing immigrants into a country illegally
  • prison rustic work — rustication having a deeply pitted surface.
  • put the mockers on — stop, thwart
  • radiation sickness — sickness caused by irradiation with x-rays or other nuclear radiation as a result of therapeutic treatment, accidental exposure, or a nuclear bomb explosion and characterized by nausea, vomiting, headache, cramps, diarrhea, loss of hair and teeth, destruction of white blood cells, and prolonged hemorrhage.
  • random walk theory — the theory that the future movement of share prices does not reflect past movements and therefore will not follow a discernible pattern
  • relative minor key — a minor key that has the same key signature as a major key, but a different tonic
  • runge-kutta method — a numerical method, involving successive approximations, used to solve differential equations.
  • say/kiss goodnight — If you say goodnight to someone or kiss them goodnight, you say something such as 'Goodnight' to them or kiss them before one of you goes home or goes to sleep.
  • scruff of the neck — If someone takes you by the scruff of the neck, they take hold of the back of your neck or collar suddenly and roughly.
  • sedimentation tank — a tank into which sewage is passed to allow suspended solid matter to separate out
  • shorthand notebook — a notebook used by a shorthand writer
  • ski-mountaineering — a combination of the sports of skiing and mountaineering, for example by climbing up a mountain then skiing down it
  • skin friction drag — aerodynamic resistance or drag due to the contact of moving air with the surface of an airplane, a glider, etc.
  • slow on the uptake — slow to understand or learn
  • societal marketing — marketing that takes into account society's long-term welfare
  • software backplane — (programming, tool)   A CASE framework from Atherton.
  • south saskatchewan — a river in W Canada, flowing E from S Alberta and joining the North Saskatchewan River to form the Saskatchewan River. 865 miles (1392 km) long.
  • stick one's bib in — to interfere
  • stick-to-itiveness — persistence, tenacity
  • stinking chamomile — mayweed.
  • stinking goosefoot — a European goosefoot with foul-smelling leaves
  • stockholm syndrome — an emotional attachment to a captor formed by a hostage as a result of continuous stress, dependence, and a need to cooperate for survival.
  • take a shine to sb — If you say that someone has taken a shine to another person, you mean that he or she liked them very much at their first meeting.
  • take cognizance of — note, acknowledge
  • take it on the lam — a hasty escape; flight.
  • take one's chances — to accept the uncertain outcome as of a course of action
  • take out insurance — take out insurance against something
  • take to one's legs — to run away
  • task control block — (architecture)   An MVS control block used to communicate information about tasks within an address space that are connected to an MVS subsystem such as MQSeries for MVS/ESA or CICS.
  • technical knockout — the termination of a bout by the referee when it is the judgment of the attending physician, a boxer's seconds, or the referee that a boxer cannot continue fighting without sustaining severe or disabling injury. Abbreviation: TKO, T.K.O.
  • telford and wrekin — a unitary authority in W Central England, in Shropshire. Pop: 160 300 (2003 est). Area: 289 sq km (112 sq miles)
  • the back of beyond — a very remote place
  • the black mountain — a mountain range in S Wales, in E Carmarthenshire and W Powys. Highest peak: Carmarthen Van, 802 m (2632 ft)
  • the dark continent — a term for Africa when it was relatively unexplored
  • the kinetic theory — a theory of gases postulating that they consist of particles of negligible size moving at random and undergoing elastic collisions
  • the northern karoo — a high arid plateau in South Africa, north of the Central Karoo
  • the-dark-continent — Africa: so called, especially during the 19th century, because little was known about it.
  • think the world of — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
  • thorfinn karlsefni — 980–after 1007, Icelandic navigator, explorer, and leader of early colonizing expedition to Vinland, in North America.
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