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

  • facebook.com — (web)   One of the most popular social networking websites.
  • fairnitickle — a freckle resembling a fern seed
  • fast-tracker — of or relating to the fast track.
  • featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
  • field jacket — a close-fitting jacket for wear by soldiers in the field.
  • firecrackers — Plural form of firecracker.
  • flannel cake — griddlecake; pancake.
  • flea-flicker — a deceptive offensive play in which the ball is passed or transferred laterally before or after a forward pass.
  • forked chain — branched chain.
  • fourses cake — a traditional English bread made with lard, dried fruit, and spices
  • frankincense — an aromatic gum resin from various Asian and African trees of the genus Boswellia, especially B. carteri, used chiefly for burning as incense in religious or ceremonial practices, in perfumery, and in pharmaceutical and fumigating preparations.
  • french chalk — a talc for marking lines on fabrics.
  • gallsickness — a disease of cattle and sheep, caused by infection with rickettsiae of the genus Anaplasma, resulting in anaemia and jaundice
  • garment rack — A garment rack is a rail used in stores to hang items of clothing on display, such as shirts and coats.
  • 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
  • glacier milk — water flowing in a stream from the snout of a glacier and containing particles of rock
  • glacier peak — a volcanic mountain in NW central Washington, in the Cascade range. 10,541 feet (3213 meters).
  • grape picker — someone who picks grapes
  • grass hockey — field hockey.
  • greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
  • griddlecakes — Plural form of griddlecake.
  • groom's cake — a fruit cake in layers of graduated size, served at a wedding.
  • 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.
  • inside track — the inner, or shorter, track of a racecourse.
  • jack russell — a small short-legged terrier having a white coat with tan, black, or lemon markings: there are rough- and smooth-haired varieties
  • jack-the-lad — a young man who is regarded as a brash, loud show-off
  • jackarooesse — (Australia, obsolete, rare) A female jackaroo.
  • jacket crown — a type of artificial, tooth-colored dental crown made of acrylic or porcelain
  • jackson hole — a valley in NW Wyoming, near the Teton Range: wildlife preserve.
  • jacksonville — a seaport in NE Florida, on the St. John's River.
  • james dickey — James, 1923–97, U.S. poet and novelist.
  • joe six-pack — Slang. the average or typical blue-collar man.
  • kaffeeklatch — Alternative spelling of coffee klatch.
  • kaleidoscope — an optical instrument in which bits of glass, held loosely at the end of a rotating tube, are shown in continually changing symmetrical forms by reflection in two or more mirrors set at angles to each other.
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