13-letter words containing c, h, e, k
- chokecherries — Plural form of chokecherry.
- choker-setter — (in logging) a worker whose job is to fasten a choker to logs.
- chopped steak — ground, cooked beef, usually served as a main course.
- christianlike — like or befitting a Christian.
- chronokinesis — (science fiction) The ability to manipulate time relevant to oneself.
- chub mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomber japonicus, of Atlantic and Pacific seas and parts of the Indian Ocean.
- chuckleheaded — a stupid person; blockhead.
- clock puncher — a worker with a routine job in a factory or office, as one who punches a time clock at the beginning and end of a work shift.
- clock watcher — an employee who demonstrates lack of interest in a job by watching the time closely to be sure to stop work as soon as the workday or shift is over.
- clock-watcher — an employee who checks the time in anticipation of a break or of the end of the working day
- clothesbasket — a basket for holding and carrying laundry.
- coffee klatch — A coffee klatch is a social event at which coffee is served.
- cooper's hawk — a small North American hawk, Accipiter cooperii, having a bluish-grey back and wings and a reddish-brown breast
- counter check — a check available at a bank for the use of depositors in making withdrawals, orig. kept in supply on a counter
- counterchecks — Plural form of countercheck.
- cracked wheat — whole wheat cracked between rollers so that it will cook more quickly
- crackle china — porcelain or pottery with intentional crazing
- crosschecking — Present participle of crosscheck.
- crotch rocket — a high-speed, high-performance motorcycle characterized by an aerodynamic body shape which requires or encourages the driver to lean forward
- cuckoo shrike — any Old World tropical songbird of the family Campephagidae, typically having a strong notched bill, long rounded tail, and pointed wings
- cuckoo-shrike — any of numerous Old World passerine birds of the family Campephagidae, certain species of which superficially resemble cuckoos and have hooked bills like shrikes.
- culture shock — Culture shock is a feeling of anxiety, loneliness, and confusion that people sometimes experience when they first arrive in another country.
- deutsche mark — the former basic monetary unit of Germany, superseded in 2002 by the euro
- digby chicken — a smoked herring.
- eight o'clock — 8 a.m.
- 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.
- feinschmecker — gourmet.
- field kitchen — the place at which the food for a unit of soldiers in the field is prepared
- finback whale — rorqual
- for chrissake — for Christ's sake
- fork luncheon — déjeuner à la fourchette.
- gelsenkirchen — a city in W Germany, in the Ruhr valley.
- gemutlichkeit — warm cordiality; comfortable friendliness; congeniality.
- generic thunk — (programming) A software mechanism that allows a 16-bit Windows application to load and call a Win32 DLL under Windows NT and Windows 95. See also flat thunk, universal thunk.
- googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
- 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.
- herringchoker — a native or resident of any of the Maritime Provinces but especially of New Brunswick.
- hockey player — sportsperson: plays hockey
- holy mackerel — astonishment
- homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
- house cricket — a dark brown cricket, Acheta domesticus, having a light-colored head with dark crossbands, commonly occurring throughout North America and Europe, where it may be an indoor pest.
- huckleberries — Plural form of huckleberry.
- 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