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12-letter words containing a, h, e, c, k

  • grass hockey — field hockey.
  • hacker ethic — (philosophy)   1. The belief that information-sharing is a powerful positive good, and that it is an ethical duty of hackers to share their expertise by writing free software and facilitating access to information and to computing resources wherever possible. 2. The belief that system-cracking for fun and exploration is ethically OK as long as the cracker commits no theft, vandalism, or breach of confidentiality. Both of these normative ethical principles are widely, but by no means universally, accepted among hackers. Most hackers subscribe to the hacker ethic in sense 1, and many act on it by writing and giving away free software. A few go further and assert that *all* information should be free and *any* proprietary control of it is bad; this is the philosophy behind the GNU project. Sense 2 is more controversial: some people consider the act of cracking itself to be unethical, like breaking and entering. But the belief that "ethical" cracking excludes destruction at least moderates the behaviour of people who see themselves as "benign" crackers (see also samurai). On this view, it may be one of the highest forms of hackerly courtesy to (a) break into a system, and then (b) explain to the sysop, preferably by e-mail from a superuser account, exactly how it was done and how the hole can be plugged - acting as an unpaid (and unsolicited) tiger team. The most reliable manifestation of either version of the hacker ethic is that almost all hackers are actively willing to share technical tricks, software, and (where possible) computing resources with other hackers. Huge cooperative networks such as Usenet, FidoNet and Internet (see Internet address) can function without central control because of this trait; they both rely on and reinforce a sense of community that may be hackerdom's most valuable intangible asset.
  • handkerchief — a small piece of linen, silk, or other fabric, usually square, and used especially for wiping one's nose, eyes, face, etc., or for decorative purposes.
  • harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
  • hash cookies — biscuits containing cannabis
  • headkerchief — A kerchief worn on the head.
  • health check — a medical checkup
  • hearken back — to go back in thought or speech; revert; hark back
  • heart attack — damage to an area of heart muscle that is deprived of oxygen, usually due to blockage of a diseased coronary artery, typically accompanied by chest pain radiating down one or both arms, the severity of the attack varying with the extent and location of the damage; myocardial infarction.
  • helical rack — a rack having teeth set at an oblique angle to the edges. Compare rack1 (def 5).
  • hello packet — (networking, communications)   An OSPF packet sent periodically on each network interface, real or virtual, to discover and test connections to neighbours. Hello packets are multicast on physical networks capable of multicasting or broadcasting to enable dynamic router discovery. They include the parameters that routers connected to a common network must agree on. Hello packets increase network resilience by, e.g., allowing a router to establish a secondary connection when a primary connection fails.
  • hit the sack — a large bag of strong, coarsely woven material, as for grain, potatoes, or coal.
  • hockey skate — a tubular ice skate having a shorter blade than a racing skate and often having a reinforced shoe for protection.
  • hydraulicked — (of an extracted mineral) excavated using water
  • hydrocracker — a high-pressure processing unit used for hydrocracking.
  • hyperkalemic — Having a high percentage of potassium in one's blood.
  • in the black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
  • jack-the-lad — a young man who is regarded as a brash, loud show-off
  • jackson hole — a valley in NW Wyoming, near the Teton Range: wildlife preserve.
  • kaffeeklatch — Alternative spelling of coffee klatch.
  • kanchenjunga — a mountain in S Asia, between NE India and Nepal, in the E Himalayas: third highest in the world. 28,169 feet (8586 meters).
  • kinaesthetic — Alternative form of kinesthetic.
  • kinesipathic — of or relating to kinesipathy
  • kirschwasser — a fragrant, colorless, unaged brandy distilled from a fermented mash of cherries, produced especially in Germany, Switzerland, and Alsace, France.
  • kitchen salt — coarse salt that is used in cooking but not at the table
  • kitchen soap — heavy-duty soap intended for use in the kitchen
  • kitchenwares — Plural form of kitchenware.
  • knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
  • lake charles — a city in SW Louisiana.
  • latchkey kid — variant form of latchkey child
  • leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
  • leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
  • like a charm — perfectly; successfully
  • mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
  • mail-cheeked — (of certain fishes) having the cheeks crossed with a bony plate.
  • make much of — great in quantity, measure, or degree: too much cake.
  • make the cut — to better or equal the required score after two rounds in a strokeplay tournament, thus avoiding elimination from the final two rounds
  • niche market — specific or limited consumer interest
  • off the rack — (of clothing) not made to specific or individual requirements; ready-made: off-the-rack men's suits.
  • off-the-rack — (of clothing) not made to specific or individual requirements; ready-made: off-the-rack men's suits.
  • packed lunch — A packed lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
  • packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
  • parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
  • parity check — a method for detecting errors in data communications or within a computer system by counting the number of ones or zeros per byte or per word, including a special check bit (parity bit) to see if the value is even or odd.
  • patch pocket — a pocket formed by sewing a piece of shaped material to the outside of a garment.
  • pelican hook — a hooklike device for holding the link of a chain or the like, consisting of a long shackle with a hinged rod held closed with a sliding ring.
  • petach tikva — a city in W Israel, NE of Tel Aviv.
  • play chicken — to engage in a test of courage in which, typically, two vehicles are driven directly toward one another in order to see which driver will swerve away first
  • prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
  • quackishness — The state or condition of being quackish.
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