16-letter words that end in k
- have sb to thank — If you say that you have someone to thank for something, you mean that you are grateful to them because they caused it to happen.
- high-muck-a-muck — an important, influential, or high-ranking person, especially one who is pompous or conceited.
- homogenized milk — milk in which the fat globules are evenly distributed
- hopfield network — (artificial intelligence) (Or "Hopfield model") A kind of neural network investigated by John Hopfield in the early 1980s. The Hopfield network has no special input or output neurons (see McCulloch-Pitts), but all are both input and output, and all are connected to all others in both directions (with equal weights in the two directions). Input is applied simultaneously to all neurons which then output to each other and the process continues until a stable state is reached, which represents the network output.
- in a cleft stick — If you say that a person or organization is in a cleft stick, you mean that they are in a difficult situation which will bring them problems and harm whatever they decide to do.
- information desk — helpdesk, information point
- information pack — a set of leaflets giving information about something
- labtech notebook — (tool, product) Commercial data aquisition software.
- large-print book — a book where the text is printed in larger text than normal, so as to make it easier to read, esp for the visually impaired
- laurentides park — a national park in SE Canada, in Quebec province between the St. Lawrence and Lake St. John.
- leap in the dark — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
- lighthouse clock — an American mantel clock of the early 19th century, having the dial and works exposed beneath a glass dome on a tapered, cylindrical body.
- linguistic stock — a parent language and all its derived dialects and languages.
- little smalltalk — A line-oriented near-subset of Smalltalk-80 written in C by Tim Budd <[email protected]>. Version 3 runs on Unix, IBM PC, Atari and VMS.
- maid of all work — a maid who does all types of housework
- man on horseback — a military leader who presents himself as the savior of the country during a period of crisis and either assumes or threatens to assume dictatorial powers.
- man-eating shark — any shark known to attack humans, especially the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias.
- measured daywork — a system of wage payment, usually determined by work-study techniques, whereby the wage of an employee is fixed on the understanding that a specific level of work performance will be maintained
- morris plan bank — a private banking organization, formerly common in the U.S., designed primarily to grant small loans to industrial workers.
- nassella tussock — type of tussock grass
- norodom sihanouk — Prince Norodom [nawr-uh-dom,, -duh m] /ˈnɔr əˌdɒm,, -dəm/ (Show IPA), 1922–2004, Cambodian statesman: premier 1952–60; chief of state 1960–70 and 1975–76.
- not miss a trick — to be very alert
- observation deck — an area on a high building that is surrounded with railings or fencing and which provides panoramic views
- oil storage tank — a very large industrial container where petroleum is stored
- old-girl network — an association among women that is comparable to or modeled on an old-boy network.
- one for the book — a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.
- pain in the neck — source of annoyance
- preference stock — preferred stock.
- punctuation mark — any of a group of conventional marks or characters used in punctuation, as the period, comma, semicolon, question mark, or dash.
- rape of the lock — a mock-epic poem (1712) by Alexander Pope.
- razor-billed auk — a black and white auk, Alca torda, of the American and European coasts of the northern North Atlantic, having a compressed black bill encircled by a white band.
- redbank whiteoak — a city in S Tennessee.
- regional network — mid-level network
- reservation desk — a desk in a hotel, office, etc, where an employee takes bookings for rooms, tickets, etc
- restricted stock — unregistered stock, as that issued privately as compensation to corporate executives subject to special conditions.
- ring-necked duck — a North American scauplike duck, Aythya collaris, having a chestnut ring around the neck.
- rolled paperwork — a form of decoration on small objects, such as boxes, in which a design is made up of tiny rolls of paper cut crossways and laid together: popular in the 18th and 19th centuries
- san antonio peak — a mountain in S California: highest peak in the San Gabriel Mountains, near San Bernardino. 10,080 feet (3072 meters).
- scribbling block — scratch pad.
- sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
- sharpe's grysbok — either of two small, usually solitary antelopes of southern Africa, Raphicerus melanotis, or R. sharpei (Sharpe's grysbok) having a light to dark reddish-brown coat speckled with white.
- shepherd's check — a pattern of even checks, used in a variety of fabrics.
- shepherd's crook — hooked or curved stick
- shot in the dark — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- slap on the back — to congratulate
- sling one's hook — to leave
- solid state disk — (SSD)
Any kind of solid-state storage device that appears to the system as a disk drive. SSDs are more expensive that the same capacity of magnetic disk but have much shorter access time. - spotted redshank — a sandpiper, Tringa erythropus, which is a large wader with red legs
- stab in the back — to pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon: She stabbed a piece of chicken with her fork.
- substantive rank — a permanent rank in the armed services obtained by length of service, selection, etc