12-letter words containing c, h, e, k, o
- honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
- honeysuckles — Plural form of honeysuckle.
- horse's neck — a drink of whiskey and ginger ale, served with ice and garnished with a spiral of lemon peel on the rim of the glass.
- housewrecker — wrecker (def 4).
- hydrocracker — a high-pressure processing unit used for hydrocracking.
- hydrokinetic — pertaining to the motion of liquids.
- jackson hole — a valley in NW Wyoming, near the Teton Range: wildlife preserve.
- kitchen foil — aluminium foil used in cooking or storing food
- kitchen soap — heavy-duty soap intended for use in the kitchen
- mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
- make much of — great in quantity, measure, or degree: too much cake.
- monkeywrench — Alternative form of monkey wrench.
- motherfucker — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- occurs check — (programming) A feature of some implementations of unification which causes unification of a logic variable V and a structure S to fail if S contains V. Binding a variable to a structure containing that variable results in a cyclic structure which may subsequently cause unification to loop forever. Some implementations use extra pointer comparisons to avoid this. Most implementations of Prolog do not perform the occurs check for reasons of efficiency. Without occurs check the complexity of unification is O(min(size(term1), size(term2))) with occurs check it's O(max(size(term1), size(term2))) In theorem proving unification without the occurs check can lead to unsound inference. For example, in Prolog it is quite valid to write X = f(X). which will succeed, binding X to a cyclic structure. Clearly however, if f is taken to stand for a function rather than a constructor, then the above equality is only valid if f is the identity function. Weijland calls unification without occur check, "complete unification". The reference below describes a complete unification algorithm in terms of Colmerauer's consistency algorithm.
- 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.
- ohio buckeye — See under buckeye (def 1).
- on the block — for sale at auction
- on the rocks — a large mass of stone forming a hill, cliff, promontory, or the like.
- on the stick — alert, efficient, etc.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- 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.
- pork butcher — a butcher who specializes in pork
- pork-chopper — a labor official put on the union payroll as a reward for past loyalty or services.
- rock chopper — a Roman Catholic
- rock-shelter — a shallow cave or cavelike area, as one formed by an overhanging cliff or standing rocks, occupied by Stone Age peoples, possibly for extended periods.
- septic shock — condition caused by blood poisoning
- shamrock-pea — a trailing plant, Parochetus communis, of the legume family, native to Asia and east Africa, having shamrocklike leaves with a brown crescent at the base and pea-shaped, pink and blue flowers.
- shellshocked — suffering from shellshock
- sketch-books — Also, sketchpad. a book or pad of drawing paper for sketches.
- skeuomorphic — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
- slash pocket — a pocket set into a garment, especially below the waistline, to which easy access is provided by an exterior, vertical or diagonal slit.
- soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
- stockholders — Also called stockowner. a holder or owner of stock in a corporation.
- technojunkie — a person addicted to or obsessed by new technology
- the bollocks — something excellent
- ticket booth — kiosk: sells tickets
- tooth socket — a bony hollow into which a tooth fits
- touch-tackle — touch football.
- tough cookie — If you say that someone is a tough cookie, you mean that they have a strong and determined character.
- watch pocket — a small pocket in a garment, as in a vest or trousers, for holding a pocket watch, change, etc. Compare fob1 (def 1).
- weathercocks — Plural form of weathercock.