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14-letter words containing k

  • back o' bourke — in a remote or backward place
  • back of beyond — a very remote place
  • back of bourke — a remote area or place.
  • back scratcher — a long-handled device for scratching one's own back.
  • back to basics — If you talk about getting back to basics, you are suggesting that people have become too concerned with complicated details or new theories, and that they should concentrate on simple, important ideas or activities.
  • back to nature — If you want to get back to nature, you want to return to a simpler way of living.
  • back-and-forth — backward and forward; side to side; to and fro: a back-and-forth shuttling of buses to the stadium; the back-and-forth movement of a clock's pendulum.
  • back-clearance — Machinery. the gradual termination of a groove on the body of an object not ending there, as the upper termination of a flute in a twist drill. Also called back clearance. a space in a depressed area of an object into which a machine tool or grinding wheel may safely enter at the end of a pass or operation.
  • back-formation — the analogical creation of one word from another word that appears to be a derived or inflected form of the first by dropping the apparent affix or by modification.
  • back-pedalling — a retreat from or a retraction of a previously held view
  • back-to-basics — stressing simplicity and adherence to fundamental principles: The movement suggests a back-to-basics approach to living for those whose lives have become complicated.
  • backbone cabal — (networking)   A group of large-site administrators who pushed through the Great Renaming and reined in the chaos of Usenet during most of the 1980s. The cabal mailing list disbanded in late 1988 after a bitter internal cat-fight.
  • backbreakingly — In a backbreaking manner.
  • backflap hinge — Building Trades. flap (def 20a).
  • backflow valve — a valve for preventing flowing liquid, as sewage, from reversing its direction.
  • backhandedness — The quality of being backhanded; the use of indirect tactics.
  • backing singer — a singer providing a vocal accompaniment for a pop singer or pop number
  • backing vocals — a vocal accompaniment for a pop singer
  • backscattering — the scattering of rays or particles at angles to the original direction of motion of greater than 90°
  • backscratching — a long-handled device for scratching one's own back.
  • backside cache — (hardware, processor)   An implementation of secondary cache memory that allows it to be directly accessed by the CPU. Backside cache is used by Apple Computers, Inc. in their PowerPC G3 processor. Previous PowerPC processors used the system bus to access both secondary cache and main memory. In the PowerPC G3 a dedicated bus handles only CPU/cache transactions. This bus can operate faster than the system bus thus improving the overall performance of the processor. The term apparently derives from the relocation of the secondary cache from the motherboard to the processor card itself, i.e. on the backside of the processor card.
  • backside-front — backend-to.
  • backstage pass — a document or badge that entitles the bearer to go backstage at an event, esp a pop concert
  • backstrap loom — a simple horizontal loom, used especially in Central and South America, on which one of two beams holding the warp yarn is attached to a strap that passes across the weaver's back.
  • backup pumpkin — pumpkin
  • ballast pocket — a depression that is formed beneath the ballast layer by penetration of ballast particles into the subgrade and that tends to collect moisture.
  • bamboo network — a network of close-knit Chinese entrepreneurs with large corporate empires in southeast Asia
  • bank annuities — British government bonds; consols
  • bank statement — A bank statement is a printed document showing all the money paid into and taken out of a bank account. Bank statements are usually sent by a bank to a customer at regular intervals.
  • banker's check — cashier's check.
  • banker's draft — A banker's draft is the same as a bank draft.
  • banker's order — pay order, banker's cheque
  • barbara liskov — (person)   Professor Barbara Liskov was the first US woman to be awarded a PhD in computing, and her innovations can be found in every modern programming language. She currently (2009) heads the Programming Methodology Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Liskov's design innovations have, over the decades, made software more reliable and easier to maintain. She has invented two computer progamming languages: CLU, an object-orientated language, and Argus, a distributed programming language. Liskov's research forms the basis of modern programming languages such as Java, C# and C++. One of the biggest impacts of her work came from her contributions to the use of data abstraction, a method for organising complex programs. See Liskov substitution principle. In June 2009 she will receive the A. M. Turing Award.
  • barbour jacket — a hard-wearing waterproof waxed jacket
  • bark chippings — small pieces of tree bark used chiefly for pathways in gardens or woodland
  • barrack square — an open area near a military barracks where drills are performed
  • basket-of-gold — a yellow-flowered perennial plant (Alyssum saxatile, now more properly Aurinia saxatilis) of the crucifer family, often used in rock gardens
  • bathing trunks — Bathing trunks are shorts that a man wears when he goes swimming.
  • battery backup — A battery backup is a system in some power supplies that switches between a main power source and a battery.
  • bay psalm book — a translation of the Psalms by John Eliot and others: the first book published (1640) in America.
  • bayonet socket — a socket for a bayonet fitting
  • be in the pink — If you are in the pink, you are fit, healthy, and happy.
  • be out of luck — If you say that someone is out of luck, you mean that they cannot have something which they can normally have.
  • be struck with — to be attracted to or impressed by
  • beard-stroking — deep thought
  • beggar's-ticks — tick trefoil
  • belaya tserkov — city in WC Ukraine: pop. 204,000
  • belleek (ware) — a fine, glossy, often iridescent pottery resembling porcelain
  • berkner island — an island in Antarctica, in the S Weddell Sea, between the Ronne Ice Shelf and the Filchner Ice Shelf.
  • betake oneself — to go; move
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