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12-letter words containing h, a, k, e

  • lambeth walk — a spirited ballroom dance popular, especially in England, in the late 1930s.
  • latchkey kid — variant form of latchkey child
  • leatherbacks — Plural form of leatherback.
  • leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
  • like a charm — perfectly; successfully
  • mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
  • mail-cheeked — (of certain fishes) having the cheeks crossed with a bony plate.
  • make headway — forward movement; progress in a forward direction: The ship's headway was slowed by the storm.
  • make history — do sth of great significance
  • make much of — great in quantity, measure, or degree: too much cake.
  • make the bed — rearrange the bedsheets
  • make the cut — to better or equal the required score after two rounds in a strokeplay tournament, thus avoiding elimination from the final two rounds
  • make whoopee — make whoopee, to engage in uproarious merrymaking.
  • malt whiskey — Malt whiskey or malt is whiskey that is made from malt.
  • manuka honey — honey from the nectar of the manuka tree, often used for medicinal purposes; known as active manuka honey if it has a UMF rating of over 10.
  • market share — the specific percentage of total industry sales of a particular product achieved by a single company in a given period of time.
  • metathinking — Thought about the process of thinking.
  • mother-naked — stark naked; as naked as when born.
  • niche market — specific or limited consumer interest
  • north korean — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km). Capital: Pyongyang. Compare Korea.
  • 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.
  • packed lunch — A packed lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
  • packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
  • pakeha māori — (in the 19th century) a European who adopted the Māori way of life
  • 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.
  • passage hawk — a young hawk during its first migration.
  • patch pocket — a pocket formed by sewing a piece of shaped material to the outside of a garment.
  • pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
  • pelican hook — a hooklike device for holding the link of a chain or the like, consisting of a long shackle with a hinged rod held closed with a sliding ring.
  • peppershaker — a container with a perforated top for sprinkling ground pepper.
  • petach tikva — a city in W Israel, NE of Tel Aviv.
  • phone phreak — a person who uses computers or other electronic devices to place long-distance telephone calls without paying toll charges.
  • phrase-maker — a person who is skilled in coining well-turned phrases; phraseologist.
  • phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
  • play chicken — to engage in a test of courage in which, typically, two vehicles are driven directly toward one another in order to see which driver will swerve away first
  • prankishness — the quality or condition of being prankish
  • prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
  • pumpkin head — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
  • quackishness — The state or condition of being quackish.
  • ratchet jack — a screw jack rotated by a ratchet mechanism.
  • reaping hook — a curved cutting tool with a sharp edge, used in the cutting or harvesting of crops
  • rohnert park — a city in W California.
  • salad shaker — a portable plastic container which is used for storing salad and which has a separate compartment for salad dressing. The dressing is put on the salad just before it is eaten and the container can then be shaken to spread the salad dressing evenly.
  • sanity check — (programming)   1. Checking code (or anything else, e.g. a Usenet posting) for completely stupid mistakes. Implies that the check is to make sure the author was sane when it was written; e.g. if a piece of scientific software relied on a particular formula and was giving unexpected results, one might first look at the nesting of parentheses or the coding of the formula, as a "sanity check", before looking at the more complex I/O or data structure manipulation routines, much less the algorithm itself. Compare reality check. 2. A run-time test, either validating input or ensuring that the program hasn't screwed up internally (producing an inconsistent value or state).
  • saskatchewan — a province in W Canada. 251,700 sq. mi. (651,900 sq. km). Capital: Regina.
  • schappe silk — a yarn or fabric of or similar to spun silk.
  • schmalkalden — a town in central Germany: a league to defend Protestantism formed here 1531.
  • scrimshanker — a shirker
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