10-letter words containing h, a, k
- freakishly — queer; odd; unusual; grotesque: a freakish appearance.
- gottschalk — Louis Moreau [maw-roh,, moh-] /mɔˈroʊ,, moʊ-/ (Show IPA), 1829–69, U.S. pianist and composer.
- greenshank — an Old World shore bird, Tringa nebularia, having green legs.
- haakon vii — (Prince Carl of Denmark) 1872–1957, king of Norway 1905–57: in exile 1940–45.
- hack board — Falconry. a board or platform at which hawks being flown at hack are fed.
- hack house — Falconry. a shed where young hawks are kept and fed while at hack.
- hack value — Often adduced as the reason or motivation for expending effort toward a seemingly useless goal, the point being that the accomplished goal is a hack. For example, MacLISP had features for reading and printing Roman numerals, which were installed purely for hack value. See display hack for one method of computing hack value, but this cannot really be explained, only experienced. As Louis Armstrong once said when asked to explain jazz: "Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know." (Feminists please note Fats Waller's explanation of rhythm: "Lady, if you got to ask you ain't got it.")
- hackamores — Plural form of hackamore.
- hacked off — (jargon) (Analogous to "pissed off") Said of system administrators who have become annoyed, upset, or touchy owing to suspicions that their sites have been or are going to be victimised by crackers, or used for inappropriate, technically illegal, or even overtly criminal activities. For example, having unreadable files in your home directory called "worm", "lockpick", or "goroot" would probably be an effective (as well as impressively obvious and stupid) way to get your sysadmin hacked off at you.
- hackensack — a city in NE New Jersey, near New York City.
- hackerazzo — a person who hacks into the computer or phone of a celebrity in order to gain information about him or her
- hackeysack — A non-competition sport in which a small sack, or
- hackintosh — 1. (jargon, computer) An Apple Lisa that has been hacked into emulating a Macintosh (also called a "Mac XL"). 2. (jargon, computer) A Macintosh assembled from parts theoretically belonging to different models in the line.
- hackle fly — an artificial fly made with hackles, usually without wings.
- hackleback — shovelnose sturgeon.
- hackmatack — tamarack (def 1).
- hackneying — Present participle of hackney.
- hackneyman — a man who rents out carriages and horses
- hacktivism — the practice of gaining unauthorized access to a computer system and carrying out various disruptive actions as a means of achieving political or social goals: In this form of hacktivism, the hacker tries to alter or deface a government website.
- hacktivist — the practice of gaining unauthorized access to a computer system and carrying out various disruptive actions as a means of achieving political or social goals: In this form of hacktivism, the hacker tries to alter or deface a government website.
- hacky sack — (lowercase) a game in which a footbag is juggled with the feet.
- hairstreak — any small, dark butterfly of the family Lycaenidae, having hairlike tails on the hind wings.
- hakenkreuz — a swastika, especially that used as the emblem of the Nazi party and the Third Reich.
- half-awake — waking; not sleeping.
- half-baked — insufficiently cooked.
- half-drunk — being in a temporary state in which one's physical and mental faculties are impaired by an excess of alcoholic drink; intoxicated: The wine made him drunk.
- half-naked — being without clothing or covering; nude: naked children swimming in the lake.
- half-track — a caterpillar tread that runs over and under the rear or driving wheels of a vehicle but is not connected with the forward wheels: used especially on military vehicles.
- halfcocked — Simple past tense and past participle of halfcock.
- hallmarked — Simple past tense and past participle of hallmark.
- halterneck — A single strap or material which runs from the front of the garment around the back of the wearer's neck, leaving most of the back uncovered, often used in swimsuits and women's dresses.
- hamesucken — the offence of attacking a person in his or her own dwelling
- hammerkops — Plural form of hammerkop.
- hammerlock — a hold in which one arm of an opponent is twisted and forced upward behind his back.
- hamshackle — to hobble (a cow, horse, etc) by tying a rope around the head and one of the legs
- hand brake — a brake operated by a hand lever. Compare caliper (def 6).
- hand truck — truck1 (def 3).
- hand-spike — a bar used as a lever.
- handbasket — a small basket with a handle for carrying by hand.
- handbrakes — Plural form of handbrake.
- handpicked — Picked by hand; picked or selected with care.
- handshaker — a person who is or is required to be overtly or ostentatiously friendly: Politicians are often incurable handshakers.
- handshakes — Plural form of handshake.
- handspikes — Plural form of handspike.
- handstroke — the downward movement of the bell rope as the bell swings around allowing the ringer to grasp and pull it
- handy-pack — a pack of a product that is useful or convenient in some way, because, for example, it is easy to transport, or because it contains a variety of flavours, colours, etc
- hanky-pank — unethical behavior; deceit: When the bank teller bought an expensive car and house, they suspected there might be some hanky-panky going on.
- happy talk — a style of news presentation characterized by cheerful commentary and informal conversation among anchors during newscasts
- hard-knock — beset with hardship.
- hardbacked — (of a book) Having a solid binding; hardback.