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12-letter words containing c, h, i, k

  • diet kitchen — a kitchen, as in a hospital, where special food is prepared for those requiring it.
  • display hack — (graphics)   A program with the same approximate purpose as a kaleidoscope: to make pretty pictures. Famous display hacks include munching squares, smoking clover, the BSD Unix "rain(6)" program, "worms(6)" on miscellaneous Unixes, and the X "kaleid(1)" program. Display hacks can also be implemented without programming by creating text files containing numerous escape sequences for interpretation by a video terminal; one notable example displayed, on any VT100, a Christmas tree with twinkling lights and a toy train circling its base. The hack value of a display hack is proportional to the aesthetic value of the images times the cleverness of the algorithm divided by the size of the code. Synonym psychedelicware.
  • do the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
  • dolphin kick — (in the butterfly stroke) a kick in which the legs move up and down together, with the knees bent on the upswing.
  • duck-shoving — the evasion of responsibility by someone
  • epoch-making — An epoch-making change or declaration is considered to be extremely important because it is likely to have a significant effect on a particular period of time.
  • field hockey — a game played on a rectangular field having a netted goal at each end, in which two teams of 11 players each compete in driving a small leather-covered ball into the other's goal, each player being equipped with a stick having a curved end or blade that is flat on one side and rounded on the other.
  • forked chain — branched chain.
  • french stick — a long straight notched stick loaf
  • hack to bits — to damage severely
  • hacker ethic — (philosophy)   1. The belief that information-sharing is a powerful positive good, and that it is an ethical duty of hackers to share their expertise by writing free software and facilitating access to information and to computing resources wherever possible. 2. The belief that system-cracking for fun and exploration is ethically OK as long as the cracker commits no theft, vandalism, or breach of confidentiality. Both of these normative ethical principles are widely, but by no means universally, accepted among hackers. Most hackers subscribe to the hacker ethic in sense 1, and many act on it by writing and giving away free software. A few go further and assert that *all* information should be free and *any* proprietary control of it is bad; this is the philosophy behind the GNU project. Sense 2 is more controversial: some people consider the act of cracking itself to be unethical, like breaking and entering. But the belief that "ethical" cracking excludes destruction at least moderates the behaviour of people who see themselves as "benign" crackers (see also samurai). On this view, it may be one of the highest forms of hackerly courtesy to (a) break into a system, and then (b) explain to the sysop, preferably by e-mail from a superuser account, exactly how it was done and how the hole can be plugged - acting as an unpaid (and unsolicited) tiger team. The most reliable manifestation of either version of the hacker ethic is that almost all hackers are actively willing to share technical tricks, software, and (where possible) computing resources with other hackers. Huge cooperative networks such as Usenet, FidoNet and Internet (see Internet address) can function without central control because of this trait; they both rely on and reinforce a sense of community that may be hackerdom's most valuable intangible asset.
  • hand-picking — to pick by hand.
  • handkerchief — a small piece of linen, silk, or other fabric, usually square, and used especially for wiping one's nose, eyes, face, etc., or for decorative purposes.
  • harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
  • hash cookies — biscuits containing cannabis
  • headkerchief — A kerchief worn on the head.
  • helical rack — a rack having teeth set at an oblique angle to the edges. Compare rack1 (def 5).
  • hickory pine — bristlecone pine.
  • hit the deck — Nautical. a floorlike surface wholly or partially occupying one level of a hull, superstructure, or deckhouse, generally cambered, and often serving as a member for strengthening the structure of a vessel. the space between such a surface and the next such surface above: Our stateroom was on B deck.
  • hit the sack — a large bag of strong, coarsely woven material, as for grain, potatoes, or coal.
  • hockey stick — the stick used in field hockey or ice hockey.
  • home cooking — home-made food
  • homesickness — sad or depressed from a longing for home or family while away from them for a long time.
  • hucksterings — Plural form of huckstering.
  • hydraulicked — (of an extracted mineral) excavated using water
  • hydrokinetic — pertaining to the motion of liquids.
  • hyperkalemic — Having a high percentage of potassium in one's blood.
  • hyperkinetic — Pathology. an abnormal amount of uncontrolled muscular action; spasm.
  • in the black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
  • kachina doll — a Hopi Indian doll carved from cottonwood root in representation of a kachina and given as a gift to a child or used as a household decoration.
  • ketch-rigged — rigged in the manner of a ketch.
  • khachaturian — Aram Ilich [ar-uh m il-yich;; Russian uh-rahm ee-lyeech] /ˈær əm ˈɪl yɪtʃ;; Russian ʌˈrɑm iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–78, Armenian composer.
  • kidney punch — an illegal punch in the lower back.
  • kidney vetch — an Old World plant, Anthyllis vulneraria, of the legume family, formerly used as a remedy for kidney diseases.
  • kinaesthetic — Alternative form of kinesthetic.
  • kinchinjunga — Kanchenjunga.
  • kinesipathic — of or relating to kinesipathy
  • kinesthetics — The ability to feel movements of the limbs and body. Referred by some people as the sixth sense.
  • king's bench — a court, originally the principal court for criminal cases, gradually acquiring a civil jurisdiction concurrent with that of the Court of Common Pleas, and also possessing appellate jurisdiction over the Court of Common Pleas: now a division of the High Court of Justice.
  • kirschwasser — a fragrant, colorless, unaged brandy distilled from a fermented mash of cherries, produced especially in Germany, Switzerland, and Alsace, France.
  • kitchen foil — aluminium foil used in cooking or storing food
  • kitchen salt — coarse salt that is used in cooking but not at the table
  • kitchen sink — basin in kitchen
  • kitchen soap — heavy-duty soap intended for use in the kitchen
  • kitchen unit — a piece of a fitted kitchen, such as a cupboard or sink unit
  • kitchen-sink — marked by an indiscriminate and omnivorous use of elements: a kitchen-sink approach to moviemaking.
  • kitchenettes — Plural form of kitchenette.
  • kitchenwares — Plural form of kitchenware.
  • kittikachorn — Thanom [thah-nom] /θɑˈnɒm/ (Show IPA), 1911–2004, Thai army officer and statesman: premier 1963–73.
  • knife switch — a form of air switch in which a moving element, usually a hinged blade, is placed between two contact clips.
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