12-letter words containing h, a, c, k, r
- 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.
- kirschwasser — a fragrant, colorless, unaged brandy distilled from a fermented mash of cherries, produced especially in Germany, Switzerland, and Alsace, France.
- kitchenwares — Plural form of kitchenware.
- kittikachorn — Thanom [thah-nom] /θɑˈnɒm/ (Show IPA), 1911–2004, Thai army officer and statesman: premier 1963–73.
- kurchatovium — (chemistry) A rejected name for rutherfordium.
- lake charles — a city in SW Louisiana.
- leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
- leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
- like a charm — perfectly; successfully
- markov chain — a Markov process restricted to discrete random events or to discontinuous time sequences.
- niche market — specific or limited consumer interest
- off the rack — (of clothing) not made to specific or individual requirements; ready-made: off-the-rack men's suits.
- off-the-rack — (of clothing) not made to specific or individual requirements; ready-made: off-the-rack men's suits.
- 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.
- prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
- rappahannock — a river flowing SE from N Virginia into the Chesapeake Bay: Civil War battle 1863. 185 miles (300 km) long.
- ratchet jack — a screw jack rotated by a ratchet mechanism.
- 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.
- school shark — an Australian shark resembling the tope, Notogaleus australis
- 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".
- scratch mark — the mark left by a scratch
- scrimshanker — a shirker
- shamrock-pea — a trailing plant, Parochetus communis, of the legume family, native to Asia and east Africa, having shamrocklike leaves with a brown crescent at the base and pea-shaped, pink and blue flowers.
- shellcracker — redear sunfish.
- shirt jacket — a shirtlike jacket.
- skirt chaser — a womanizer.
- skirt-chaser — a womanizer.
- speech maker — a person who makes a formal speech
- 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.
- stretch mark — a silvery streak occurring typically on the abdomen or thighs and caused by stretching of the skin over a short period of time, as during pregnancy or rapid weight gain.
- stretchmarks — marks that remain visible on the abdomen after its distension, esp in pregnancy
- swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
- warwickshire — a county in central England. 765 sq. mi. (1980 sq. km).
- weather deck — (on a ship) the uppermost continuous deck exposed to the weather.
- weathercocks — Plural form of weathercock.
- whip-cracker — a person who cracks a whip.
- witch's mark — devil's mark.