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16-letter words containing h, a, c, k

  • j. random hacker — (jargon)   /J rand'm hak'r/ MIT jargon for a mythical figure; the archetypal hacker nerd. This may originally have been inspired by "J. Fred Muggs", a show-biz chimpanzee whose name was a household word back in the early days of TMRC, and was probably influenced by J. Presper Eckert (one of the co-inventors of the electronic computer). See random, Suzie COBOL.
  • keep pace (with) — to go at the same speed (as)
  • keratoacanthomas — Plural form of keratoacanthoma.
  • khakass republic — a constituent republic of S central Russia, formerly in Krasnoyarsk Territory: formed in 1930. Capital: Abakan. Pop: 546 100 (2002). Area: 61 900 sq km (23 855 sq miles)
  • kirchhoff's laws — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
  • knitting machine — machine that knits yarn into fabric
  • knuckle sandwich — a punch in the mouth with a clenched fist.
  • kurdaitcha shoes — (in certain Central Australian Aboriginal tribes) the emu-feather shoes worn by the kurdaitcha on his mission so that his footsteps may not be traced
  • labtech notebook — (tool, product)   Commercial data aquisition software.
  • lake havasu city — a city in W central Arizona.
  • laughing jackass — kookaburra.
  • luck of the draw — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
  • lumberjack shirt — a thick checked shirt, as worn by lumberjacks
  • magical thinking — a conviction that thinking is equivalent to doing, occurring in dreams, the thought patterns of children, and some types of mental disorders, especially obsessive-compulsive disorder.
  • make a photocopy — If you make a photocopy of a document, you make a copy of it using a photocopier.
  • make a pitch for — to give verbal support to
  • man on horseback — a military leader who presents himself as the savior of the country during a period of crisis and either assumes or threatens to assume dictatorial powers.
  • near the knuckle — risqué
  • nubuck (leather) — tanned leather similar to suede, but with the nap on the grain side
  • on the back foot — at a disadvantage; outmanoeuvred or outclassed by an opponent
  • packet switching — a method of efficient data transmission whereby the initial message is broken into relatively small units, or packets, that are routed independently and subsequently reassembled.
  • packet-switching — a method of efficient data transmission whereby the initial message is broken into relatively small units, or packets, that are routed independently and subsequently reassembled.
  • pain in the neck — source of annoyance
  • pharmacokinetics — the branch of pharmacology that studies the fate of pharmacological substances in the body, as their absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination.
  • pork scratchings — small pieces of crisply cooked pork crackling, eaten cold as an appetizer with drinks
  • quick as a flash — If you say that someone reacts to something quick as a flash, you mean that they react to it extremely quickly.
  • rape of the lock — a mock-epic poem (1712) by Alexander Pope.
  • round lake beach — a town in NE Illinois.
  • run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
  • scotch blackface — one of a Scottish breed of mountain sheep having a black face and growing long, coarse wool.
  • secondhand smoke — smoke from a cigarette, cigar, or pipe that is involuntarily inhaled, especially by nonsmokers.
  • shakedown cruise — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
  • sheepskin jacket — a short jacket made of the skin of a sheep with the wool still attached to it
  • silky flycatcher — any of several passerine birds of the family Ptilogonatidae, of the southwestern U.S. to Panama, related to the waxwings.
  • slap on the back — to congratulate
  • smack in the eye — a snub or setback
  • spanish mackerel — an American game fish, Scomberomorus maculatus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean.
  • stab in the back — to pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon: She stabbed a piece of chicken with her fork.
  • stick at nothing — to be prepared to do anything; be unscrupulous or ruthless
  • stocking machine — a type of knitting machine
  • take a raincheck — to accept the postponement of an offer
  • take the biscuit — Take the biscuit means the same as take the cake.
  • the black forest — a hilly wooded region of SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg: a popular resort area
  • the long paddock — a stockroute or roadside area offering feed to sheep and cattle in dry times
  • the wheel blacks — the international wheelchair rugby football team of New Zealand
  • thermal cracking — Thermal cracking is an extraction process in which hydrocarbons such as crude oil are heated to a high temperature to break the molecular bonds.
  • thick as thieves — very close friends
  • thick-tailed ray — Ichthyology. any ray of the order Rajiformes, having a relatively thick, fleshy tail, including the guitarfishes and the skates.
  • three-card trick — a game in which players bet on which of three inverted playing cards is the queen
  • thumbnail sketch — small preliminary drawing
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