13-letter words containing c, a, k, e
- desk calendar — a loose-leaf calendar containing one or two pages for each day, with spaces for notes.
- deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
- dick size war — penis war
- dinner jacket — tuxedo (def 1).
- dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
- donkey jacket — A donkey jacket is a thick, warm jacket, usually dark blue with a strip across the shoulders at the back.
- double tackle — a pulley system using blocks having two grooved wheels.
- dressing sack — a woman's dressing gown.
- east rockaway — a town in SE New York.
- feature shock — (jargon) (From Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock") A user's confusion when confronted with a package that has too many features and poor introductory material.
- feedback form — A feedback form is a paper with questions on it and spaces marked where you should write the answers. It asks a hotel guest if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
- feedback loop — the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input.
- finback whale — rorqual
- flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
- flying tackle — a tackle made by hurling one's body through the air at the player carrying the ball.
- for chrissake — for Christ's sake
- freckle-faced — having a face conspicuously covered with freckles.
- futtock plate — a metal plate placed perpendicular to the top of a ship's lower mast to hold the futtock shrouds.
- garbage truck — lorry that collects refuse
- gastrokinetic — (pharmacology, of a drug) Serving to increase motility of the gastrointestinal tract.
- googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
- grade cricket — competitive cricket, in which cricket club teams are arranged in grades
- ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
- hack together — (jargon) To throw something together so it will work. Unlike "kluge together" or "cruft together", this does not necessarily have negative connotations.
- hacker humour — A distinctive style of shared intellectual humour found among hackers, having the following marked characteristics: 1. Fascination with form-vs.-content jokes, paradoxes, and humour having to do with confusion of metalevels (see meta). One way to make a hacker laugh: hold a red index card in front of him/her with "GREEN" written on it, or vice-versa (note, however, that this is funny only the first time). 2. Elaborate deadpan parodies of large intellectual constructs, such as specifications (see write-only memory), standards documents, language descriptions (see INTERCAL), and even entire scientific theories (see quantum bogodynamics, computron). 3. Jokes that involve screwily precise reasoning from bizarre, ludicrous, or just grossly counter-intuitive premises. 4. Fascination with puns and wordplay. 5. A fondness for apparently mindless humour with subversive currents of intelligence in it - for example, old Warner Brothers and Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons, the Marx brothers, the early B-52s, and Monty Python's Flying Circus. Humour that combines this trait with elements of high camp and slapstick is especially favoured. 6. References to the symbol-object antinomies and associated ideas in Zen Buddhism and (less often) Taoism. See has the X nature, Discordianism, zen, ha ha only serious, AI koan. See also filk and retrocomputing. If you have an itchy feeling that all 6 of these traits are really aspects of one thing that is incredibly difficult to talk about exactly, you are (a) correct and (b) responding like a hacker. These traits are also recognizable (though in a less marked form) throughout science-fiction fandom.
- hackney coach — hackney (def 1).
- handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
- haskell curry — (person) Haskell Brooks Curry (1900-09-12 - 1982-09-01). The logician who re-invented and developed combinatory logic. The functional programming language Haskell was named after him.
- heartsickness — The condition of being heartsick.
- heartstricken — Shocked; dismayed.
- hockey player — sportsperson: plays hockey
- holy mackerel — astonishment
- hunt and peck — a slow and inefficient method of typing by looking for each key separately before striking it: used by untrained typists.
- hunt-and-peck — a method of typing while looking at the keyboard, usually using only the forefingers to press the keys
- jack crevalle — any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
- jack mackerel — a mackerellike food fish, Trachurus symmetricus, of Pacific coastal waters of the U.S.
- jack-the-rags — a rag-and-bone man
- jacket potato — potato: baked in its skin
- kachang puteh — (in Malaysia) roasted or fried nuts or beans
- kaffeeklatsch — coffee klatsch.
- kaleidoscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of kaleidoscope.
- kaleidoscopes — Plural form of kaleidoscope.
- kaleidoscopic — of, relating to, or created by a kaleidoscope.
- kangaroo care — a method of caring for a premature baby in which the baby is periodically held against a parent's bare chest.
- kangaroo code — spaghetti code
- kangchenjunga — a mountain on the border between Nepal and Sikkim, in the Himalayas: the third highest mountain in the world. Height: 8598 m (28 208 ft)
- keep track of — monitor, maintain record of
- kentucky lake — reservoir in SW Ky. & W Tenn., on the Tennessee River: 247 sq mi (640 sq km); 184 mi (296 km) long
- kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
- keratinocytes — Plural form of keratinocyte.