12-letter words containing c, h, i, k, e, n
- on the stick — alert, efficient, etc.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- 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.
- play chicken — to engage in a test of courage in which, typically, two vehicles are driven directly toward one another in order to see which driver will swerve away first
- quackishness — The state or condition of being quackish.
- sanity check — (programming) 1. Checking code (or anything else, e.g. a Usenet posting) for completely stupid mistakes. Implies that the check is to make sure the author was sane when it was written; e.g. if a piece of scientific software relied on a particular formula and was giving unexpected results, one might first look at the nesting of parentheses or the coding of the formula, as a "sanity check", before looking at the more complex I/O or data structure manipulation routines, much less the algorithm itself. Compare reality check. 2. A run-time test, either validating input or ensuring that the program hasn't screwed up internally (producing an inconsistent value or state).
- scrimshanker — a shirker
- sign a check — When you sign a check , you write your name on it in a special space in order to validate it.
- soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- straightneck — a variety of summer squash related to the crookneck but not having a recurved neck.
- technojunkie — a person addicted to or obsessed by new technology
- thick client — a computer having its own hard drive, as opposed to one on a network where most functions are carried out on a central server
- thunderstick — bull-roarer.
- trench knife — a short knife for stabbing, sometimes equipped with brass knuckles as a guard, used in modern warfare in hand-to-hand combat.
- trickishness — the quality of being crafty