14-letter words containing c, h, i, k
- galley kitchen — a household kitchen designed with kitchen units on both sides and no kitchen table
- gemuetlichkeit — warm cordiality; comfortable friendliness; congeniality.
- googlewhacking — The action of searching for googlewhacks.
- greek catholic — a member of the Greek Orthodox Church.
- hacking jacket — a riding jacket having a tight waist, flared skirt, slanted pockets with flaps, and slits or vents at the sides or back.
- hairline crack — a very fine crack
- handkerchieves — Plural form of handkerchief.
- harlequin duck — a small diving duck, Histrionicus histrionicus, of North America and Iceland, the male of which has bluish-gray plumage marked with black, white, and chestnut.
- heart-stricken — deeply grieved or greatly dismayed
- hell's kitchen — (in New York City) a section of midtown Manhattan, west of Times Square, formerly notorious for its slums and high crime rate.
- herald's trick — a conventional method of indicating a tincture, as by printing or carving without color.
- herring choker — a native or resident of any of the Maritime Provinces but especially of New Brunswick.
- heterokaryotic — condition in which a binucleate or multinucleate cell contains genetically dissimilar nuclei.
- hinoki cypress — an evergreen tree, Chamaecyparis obtusa, of Japan, having scalelike leaves and orange-brown cones, grown for timber and as an ornamental.
- hit the bricks — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
- holoplanktonic — plankton that spend their entire life cycle as free-swimming organisms (opposed to hemiplankton).
- horrorstricken — Alternative spelling of horror-stricken.
- huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
- hurricane deck — a deck at the top of a passenger steamer, having a roof supported by light scantlings.
- hyperkeratotic — Pathology. proliferation of the cells of the cornea. a thickening of the horny layer of the skin.
- into the black — into a profitable condition financially
- jackknife-fish — a black and white, American drum, Equetus lanceolatus, found in tropical areas of the Atlantic Ocean, having an elongated dorsal fin that is held erect.
- john steinbeck — John (Ernst) [urnst] /ɜrnst/ (Show IPA), 1902–68, U.S. novelist: Nobel prize 1962.
- keep pace with — to proceed at the same speed as
- kelyphitic rim — a mineral shell enclosing another mineral in an igneous rock, formed by reaction of the interned mineral with the surrounding rock
- keratinophilic — (of a plant such as a fungus) growing on keratinous substances such as hair, hooves, nails, etc
- khaki election — a general election held during or immediately after a war, esp one in which the war has an effect on how people vote
- khmer republic — a former official name of Cambodia.
- kick the habit — quit smoking
- kidney machine — artificial kidney.
- kill the clock — an instrument for measuring and recording time, especially by mechanical means, usually with hands or changing numbers to indicate the hour and minute: not designed to be worn or carried about.
- kinetic theory — the theory that the minute particles of all matter are in constant motion and that the temperature of a substance is dependent on the velocity of this motion, increased motion being accompanied by increased temperature: according to the kinetic theory of gases, the elasticity, diffusion, pressure, and other physical properties of a gas are due to the rapid motion in straight lines of its molecules, to their impacts against each other and the walls of the container, to weak cohesive forces between molecules, etc.
- kitchen garden — a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.
- kitchen midden — a mound consisting of shells of edible mollusks and other refuse, marking the site of a prehistoric human habitation.
- kitchen police — soldiers detailed by roster or as punishment to assist in kitchen duties.
- kitchen scales — a set of scales used in cooking
- kochel listing — the chronological number of a composition of Mozart as assigned in the catalog of the composer's works compiled in the 19th century by the Austrian musicologist Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877) and since revised several times. Abbreviation: K.
- kwangsi chuang — Guangxi Zhuang.
- kyphoscoliosis — a condition in which the spinal column is convex both backward and sideways.
- lake champlain — a lake in the northeastern US, between the Green Mountains and the Adirondack Mountains: linked by the Champlain Canal to the Hudson River and by the Richelieu River to the St Lawrence; a major communications route in colonial times
- latchkey child — a child who must spend at least part of the day alone and unsupervised, as when the parents are away at work.
- laughing stock — object of others' amusement
- laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
- marginal hacks — (humour) Margaret Jacks Hall, a building into which the Stanford AI Lab was moved near the beginning of the 1980s (from the D.C. Power Lab).
- marking scheme — a plan or guidelines used in the marking of school children's or students' written work by teaching staff
- mashie niblick — a club with an iron head whose face has more slope than a mashie but less slope than a pitcher.
- mesh stockings — stockings with a netted pattern or made out of a netted material such as lace or netted nylon
- milk chocolate — chocolate that has been mixed with milk.
- mischief-maker — a person who causes mischief, especially one who stirs up discord, as by talebearing.
- model checking — (theory, algorithm, testing) To algorithmically check whether a program (the model) satisfies a specification. The model is usually expressed as a directed graph consisting of nodes (or vertices) and edges. A set of atomic propositions is associated with each node. The nodes represents states of a program, the edges represent possible executions which alters the state, while the atomic propositions represent the basic properties that hold at a point of execution. A specification language, usually some kind of temporal logic, is used to express properties. The problem can be expressed mathematically as: given a temporal logic formula p and a model M with initial state s, decide if M,s \models p.