18-letter words containing ak
- 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 heed/pay heed — If you take heed of what someone says or if you pay heed to them, you pay attention to them and consider carefully what they say.
- 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 sth in stride — If you take a problem or difficulty in stride, you deal with it calmly and easily.
- take sth literally — If you take something literally, you think that a word or expression is being used with its most simple or basic meaning.
- take the wraps off — to reveal
- take to one's legs — to run away
- talk a blue streak — speak rapidly and incessantly
- the masurian lakes — a group of lakes in Masuria in NE Poland: scene of Russian defeats by the Germans (1914, 1915) during World War I
- timber rattlesnake — a rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus horridus, of the eastern U.S., usually having the body marked with dark crossbands.
- to speak your mind — If you speak your mind, you say firmly and honestly what you think about a situation, even if this may offend or upset people.
- to take a dim view — If you take a dim view or a poor view of someone or something, you disapprove of them or have a low opinion of them.
- to take the mickey — If you take the mickey out of someone or something, you make fun of them, usually in an unkind way.
- to take the plunge — If you take the plunge, you decide to do something that you consider difficult or risky.
- transmission brake — A transmission brake is a brake that operates on the transmission system of a vehicle rather than directly on the wheels.
- upper klamath lake — See under Klamath Lakes.
- vicar of wakefield — a novel (1766) by Goldsmith.
- virginia snakeroot — any of various plants whose roots have been regarded as a remedy for snakebites, as the herb Aristolochia serpentaria (Virginia snakeroot) having a medicinal rhizome and rootlets, and the white-flowered Polygala senega (Seneca snakeroot) having a medicinal root.
- weak nuclear force — weak interaction
- westinghouse brake — a railroad air brake operated by compressed air.
- whittaker chambers — Robert, 1802–71, Scottish publisher and editor.