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13-letter words containing e, a, k

  • flatbed truck — a truck with a flat platform for its body
  • flying tackle — a tackle made by hurling one's body through the air at the player carrying the ball.
  • for chrissake — for Christ's sake
  • for sb's sake — When you do something for someone's sake, you do it in order to help them or make them happy.
  • frank whittleSir Frank, 1907–96, English engineer and inventor.
  • frankenthalerHelen, 1928–2011, U.S. painter.
  • franklin tree — a deciduous tree, Franklinia alatamaha, having large, white, fragrant flowers, one of the rarest trees in the world, once native only to Georgia and now known only in cultivation.
  • freckle-faced — having a face conspicuously covered with freckles.
  • freshman week — a week at the beginning of the school year with a program planned to orient entering students, especially at a college.
  • futtock plate — a metal plate placed perpendicular to the top of a ship's lower mast to hold the futtock shrouds.
  • game of skill — a game in which the outcome is determined by skill rather than by chance, as chess.
  • garbage truck — lorry that collects refuse
  • gastrokinetic — (pharmacology, of a drug) Serving to increase motility of the gastrointestinal tract.
  • gentlemanlike — a man of good family, breeding, or social position.
  • germinal disk — blastodisk.
  • give and take — the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.
  • give-and-take — the practice of dealing by compromise or mutual concession; cooperation.
  • go fly a kite — to move through the air using wings.
  • googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
  • grade cricket — competitive cricket, in which cricket club teams are arranged in grades
  • grease monkey — a mechanic, especially one who works on automobiles or airplanes.
  • great khingan — a mountain range in NE China: highest peak, 5000 feet (1525 meters).
  • greek revival — a style of architecture, furnishings, and decoration prevalent in the U.S. and in parts of Europe in the first half of the 19th century, characterized by a more or less close imitation of ancient Greek designs and ornamented motifs.
  • greek tragedy — (in ancient Greek theatre) a play in which the protagonist, usually a man of importance and outstanding personal qualities, falls to disaster through the combination of a personal failing and circumstances with which he cannot deal
  • ground tackle — equipment, as anchors, chains, or windlasses, for mooring a vessel away from a pier or other fixed moorings.
  • groundbreaker — a person who is an originator, innovator, or pioneer in a particular activity.
  • growth market — a rapidly expanding market
  • 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.
  • handsome lake — 1735-1815; Seneca prophet, social reformer, & founder of a North American Indian religion named after him
  • 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.
  • hawk-s--beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
  • hawkeye state — Iowa (used as a nickname).
  • head shrinker — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
  • head-shrinker — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
  • headshrinkers — Plural form of headshrinker.
  • heartbreakers — Plural form of heartbreaker.
  • heartbreaking — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
  • heartbrokenly — In a heartbroken manner.
  • heartsickness — The condition of being heartsick.
  • heartstricken — Shocked; dismayed.
  • hide and seek — one of a variety of children's games in which, according to specified rules, one player gives the others a chance to hide and then attempts to find them.
  • hide-and-seek — one of a variety of children's games in which, according to specified rules, one player gives the others a chance to hide and then attempts to find them.
  • hockey player — sportsperson: plays hockey
  • hognose snake — any harmless North American snake of the genus Heterodon, the several species having an upturned snout and noted for flattening the head or playing dead when disturbed.
  • holiday-maker — vacationer.
  • holidaymakers — Plural form of holidaymaker.
  • holy mackerel — astonishment
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