9-letter words containing h, a, k
- hammocked — Ensconced in a hammock.
- hamtramck — a city in SE Michigan, completely surrounded by the city of Detroit.
- hand back — return, give back
- hand hack — (jargon) 1. (Or "hand cruft") To Translate a hot spot of a program in a HLL into assembly language by hand, as opposed to trying to coerce the compiler into generating better code. Both the term and the practice are becoming uncommon. See tune, bum. 2. More generally, manual construction or patching of data sets that would normally be generated by a translation utility and interpreted by another program, and aren't really designed to be read or modified by humans.
- hand-knit — to knit by hand.
- hand-pick — to pick by hand.
- hand-walk — to carry (a memorandum, check, or other document) from one person or office to another so as to assure prompt delivery.
- handbooks — Plural form of handbook.
- handbrake — a brake operated by a hand lever. Compare caliper (def 6).
- handiwork — work done by hand.
- handshake — handshaking
- handspike — a bar used as a lever.
- handywork — Dated form of handiwork.
- hang back — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hankerers — Plural form of hankerer.
- hankering — a longing; craving.
- hanukkiah — (Judaism) A nine-branched menorah used during Hanukkah.
- hara-kiri — Also called seppuku. ceremonial suicide by ripping open the abdomen with a dagger or knife: formerly practiced in Japan by members of the warrior class when disgraced or sentenced to death.
- hard disk — magnetic disk (def 1).
- hard link — (file system) One of several directory entries which refer to the same Unix file. A hard link is created with the "ln" (link) command: ln
where and are pathnames within the same file system. Hard links to the same file are indistinguishable from each other except that they have different pathnames. They all refer to the same inode and the inode contains all the information about a file. The standard ln command does not usually allow you to create a hard link to a directory, chiefly because the standard rm and rmdir commands do not allow you to delete such a link. Some systems provide link and unlink commands which give direct access to the system calls of the same name, for which no such restrictions apply. Normally all hard links to a file must be in the same file system because a directory entry just relates a pathname to an inode within the same file system. The only exception is a mount point. The restrictions on hard links to directories and between file systems are very common but are not mandated by POSIX. Symbolic links are often used instead of hard links because they do not suffer from these restrictions. The space associated with a file is not freed until all the hard links to the file are deleted. This explains why the system call to delete a file is called "unlink". - hard luck — If you say that someone had some hard luck, or that a situation was hard luck on them, you mean that something bad happened to them and you are implying that it was not their fault.
- hard neck — audacity; nerve
- hard rock — heavy form of popular music
- hard tack — a hard, saltless biscuit, formerly much used aboard ships and for army rations.
- hard tick — any tick of the family Ixodidae, characterized by a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head.
- hard-rock — (loosely) of or relating to igneous or metamorphic rocks, as in mining (hard-rock mining) and geology (hard-rock geology)
- hardbacks — Plural form of hardback.
- hardhacks — Plural form of hardhack.
- hari-kari — hara-kiri.
- hark back — to listen attentively; hearken.
- harkening — Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
- harpylike — resembling a harpy
- hash mark — Informal. a service stripe. the symbol #.
- haskell b — (language) An early version of Haskell by Lennart Augustsson <[email protected]> from Chalmers. Haskell B evolved into a full-featured implementation of Haskell 1.2, with quite a few extensions. Ports exist for many platforms including Sun, DEC, Sequent, IBM PC, Symmetry and unsupported versions for NS32000, IBM RT/PC, Cray, Sun-3, Vax, ARM, and RS/6000. Version 0.999.5 included a compiler, interpreter, library, documentation, and examples. Mailing list: <[email protected]>. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- hat trick — Cricket. the knocking off by one bowler of three wickets with three successive pitches: so called because formerly such a bowler was rewarded with a hat.
- hat-trick — Cricket. the knocking off by one bowler of three wickets with three successive pitches: so called because formerly such a bowler was rewarded with a hat.
- hatchback — a style of automobile in which the rear deck lid and window lift open as a unit.
- haversack — a single-strapped bag worn over one shoulder and used for carrying supplies.
- hawk moth — any of numerous moths of the family Sphingidae, noted for their very swift flight and ability to hover while sipping nectar from flowers.
- hawk-eyed — having very keen sight: a hawk-eyed guard.
- hawkbills — Plural form of hawkbill.
- hawke bay — a bay of the Pacific Ocean, on the E coast of North Island, New Zealand.
- hawkishly — resembling a hawk, as in appearance or behavior.
- hawksbill — A small tropical sea turtle with hooked jaws and overlapping horny plates on the shell, extensively hunted as the traditional source of tortoiseshell.
- hawksmoor — Nicholas, 1661–1736, English architect.
- hawkweeds — Plural form of hawkweed.
- hay shock — a haycock.
- haymakers — Plural form of haymaker.
- haymaking — The cutting of grass and subsequently curing it to make hay as fodder for animals.
- haymarket — a famous London market 1644–1830.