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

  • get cracking — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
  • get the sack — be dismissed from job
  • 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.
  • harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
  • health check — a medical checkup
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • in the black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
  • inside track — the inner, or shorter, track of a racecourse.
  • jack-the-lad — a young man who is regarded as a brash, loud show-off
  • jacket crown — a type of artificial, tooth-colored dental crown made of acrylic or porcelain
  • kaffeeklatch — Alternative spelling of coffee klatch.
  • karyokinetic — Of or pertaining to karyokinesis.
  • keratinocyte — An epidermal cell that produces keratin.
  • ketoacidosis — (pathology) A severe form of ketosis, most commonly seen in diabetics, in which so much ketone is produced that acidosis occurs.
  • ketoaciduria — (pathology) The presence of (excess) ketoacids in the urine.
  • ketoconazole — a synthetic substance, C 26 H 28 Cl 2 N 4 O 4 , used to treat a variety of fungal infections.
  • kick starter — a starter, as of a motorcycle, that operates by a downward kick on a pedal.
  • kinaesthetic — Alternative form of kinesthetic.
  • kinesiatrics — the treatment of disease by the use of gymnastics or muscle exercises
  • kinesipathic — of or relating to kinesipathy
  • 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.
  • kleptocratic — a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.
  • kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
  • ladder track — a railroad track linking a series of parallel tracks.
  • ladder truck — hook and ladder.
  • lamp bracket — a bracket for holding a lamp
  • lancet clock — a mantel clock having a case formed like an acutely pointed arch.
  • latchkey kid — variant form of latchkey child
  • leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
  • leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
  • left bracket — (character)   "[". ASCII character 91. Common: left square bracket; ITU-T: opening bracket; bracket. Rare: square; INTERCAL: U turn. Paired with right bracket ("]").
  • locker plant — an establishment for storing food under refrigeration, containing lockers for renting to individual users.
  • lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
  • mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
  • magnetic ink — ink containing particles of a magnetic material used for printing characters for magnetic character recognition
  • make certain — ensure
  • 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
  • market cross — a place in a town or village where a cross was set up and a regular market was held
  • market price — the price at which a commodity, security, or service is selling in the open market.
  • marketplaces — Plural form of marketplace.
  • mary of teck — Mary (def 4).
  • meat packing — the business or industry of slaughtering cattle and other meat animals and processing the carcasses for sale, sometimes including the packaging of processed meat products.
  • mental block — inability to recall
  • mockumentary — a movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.
  • multitracked — (music) Recorded on multiple tracks.
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