12-letter words containing c, h, i, k
- kurchatovium — (chemistry) A rejected name for rutherfordium.
- latchkey kid — variant form of latchkey child
- light-struck — (of a film or the like) damaged by accidental exposure to light.
- like a charm — perfectly; successfully
- lithium lick — NeXT employees who have had too much attention from their esteemed founder, Steve Jobs, are said to have "lithium lick" when they begin to show signs of Jobsian fervour and repeat the most recent catch phrases in normal conversation, e.g. "It just works, right out of the box!"
- locksmithing — The science and art of making and defeating locks.
- machtpolitik — power politics
- mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
- mail-cheeked — (of certain fishes) having the cheeks crossed with a bony plate.
- markov chain — a Markov process restricted to discrete random events or to discontinuous time sequences.
- neckerchiefs — Plural form of neckerchief.
- niche market — specific or limited consumer interest
- ohio buckeye — See under buckeye (def 1).
- on the stick — alert, efficient, etc.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
- parity check — a method for detecting errors in data communications or within a computer system by counting the number of ones or zeros per byte or per word, including a special check bit (parity bit) to see if the value is even or odd.
- 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.
- petach tikva — a city in W Israel, NE of Tel Aviv.
- 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
- plinth block — a plinth interrupting a door or window architrave at the floor or ground level.
- prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
- quackishness — The state or condition of being quackish.
- rhythm stick — a small wooden stick used, especially by a child, as a simple percussive instrument in learning the rudiments of musical rhythm.
- richard korf — (person) A Professor of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Richard Korf received his B.S. from MIT in 1977, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1980 and 1983. From 1983 to 1985 he served as Herbert M. Singer Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. Dr. Korf studies problem-solving, heuristic search and planning in artificial intelligence. He wrote "Learning to Solve Problems by Searching for Macro-Operators" (Pitman, 1985). He serves on the editorial boards of Artificial Intelligence, and the Journal of Applied Intelligence. Dr. Korf is the recipient of several awards and is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
- rock cornish — a small hybrid chicken produced by mating Cornish and White Rock chickens and marketed especially as a roaster.
- rockhounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks
- 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).
- schappe silk — a yarn or fabric of or similar to spun silk.
- scratch disk — 1. (storage) See scratch. 2. (operating system) Unallocated space on Windows 95's primary hard disk partition, used for virtual memory. Shortage of space on this partition can result in the error "scratch disk full".
- scrimshanker — a shirker
- septic shock — condition caused by blood poisoning
- shirt jacket — a shirtlike jacket.
- shock tactic — Shock tactics are a way of trying to influence people's attitudes to a particular matter by shocking them.
- shostakovich — Dimitri Dimitrievich [dih-mee-tree di-mee-tree-uh-vich;; Russian dmyee-tryee dmyee-tryi-yi-vyich] /dɪˈmi tri dɪˈmi tri ə vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈdmyi tryi ˈdmyi tryɪ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1906–75, Russian composer.
- sign a check — When you sign a check , you write your name on it in a special space in order to validate it.
- 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.
- skirt chaser — a womanizer.
- skirt-chaser — a womanizer.
- soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
- stick-tights — any of several composite plants of the genus Bidens, having barbed achenes that adhere to clothing or fur.
- stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
- stockpunisht — punished by being put in stocks
- 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
- the flickers — the cinema
- 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
- thick-lipped — having thick lips
- thick-witted — lacking intelligence; thickheaded; dull; stupid.
- thinking cap — a state of mind marked by reflection or concentration: If we put on our thinking caps, we may come up with the answer.