9-letter words containing h, a, l, k
- halfbacks — Plural form of halfback.
- halfbeaks — Plural form of halfbeak.
- halftrack — an army truck, armored vehicle, etc. with tractor treads in the rear, but with a pair of wheels in front
- hallmarks — Plural form of hallmark.
- hand-walk — to carry (a memorandum, check, or other document) from one person or office to another so as to assure prompt delivery.
- 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.
- harpylike — resembling a harpy
- 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]>.
- hawkbills — Plural form of hawkbill.
- 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.
- headlocks — Plural form of headlock.
- heathlike — Resembling a heath or some aspect of one.
- heraklion — Iraklion
- hip flask — small container for carrying alcohol
- hissarlik — the modern name of the site of ancient Troy.
- hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
- holdbacks — Plural form of holdback.
- holly oak — holm oak.
- humanlike — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- hyenalike — Resembling a hyena or some aspect of one.
- hypertalk — A verbose semicompiled language by Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler, with loose syntax and high readability. HyperTalk uses HyperCard as an object management system, development environment and interface builder. Programs are organised into "stacks" of "cards", each of which may have "buttons" and "fields". All data storage is in zero-terminated strings in fields, local, or global variables; all data references are through "chunk expressions" of the form: 'last item of background field "Name List" of card ID 34217'. Flow of control is event-driven and uses message-passing among scripts that are attached to stack, background, card, field and button objects.
- jacklight — a portable cresset, oil-burning lantern, or electric light used as a lure in hunting or fishing at night.
- kahoolawe — an island in central Hawaii, S of Maui: uninhabited. 45 sq. mi. (117 sq. km).
- kalanchoe — any of several chiefly African and Asian succulent plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Kalanchoe, of the stonecrop family, having mostly opposite leaves and branching clusters of flowers.
- kallithea — a city in E Greece, a suburb of Athens.
- kamchadal — Itelmen.
- karlsruhe — a city in SW Germany: capital of the former state of Baden.
- kathakali — a form of dance drama of S India using mime and based on Hindu literature
- keelhauls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of keelhaul.
- khalifate — the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.
- khanbalik — an ancient city in Mongol China, the capital of Kublai Khan: present-day site of Beijing.
- kiswahili — Swahili (def 2).
- knaidlach — a dumpling, especially a small ball of matzo meal, eggs, and salt, often mixed with another foodstuff, as ground almonds or grated potato, usually served in soup.
- knavishly — In a knavish manner.
- lake chad — a lake in N central Africa: fed chiefly by the Shari River, it has no apparent outlet. Area: at fullest extent 10 000 to 26 000 sq km (4000 to 10 000 sq miles), varying seasonally; it has shrunk considerably in recent years
- lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
- lakeshore — lakefront.
- landshark — a person who makes inordinate profits by buying and selling land
- latchkeys — Plural form of latchkey.
- leukothea — a sea goddess, the deified Ino, who gave Odysseus a veil as a float after a storm had destroyed his raft.
- lifehacks — Plural form of lifehack.
- like that — in that way
- loanshark — Alternative spelling of loan shark.
- lok sabha — the lower house of parliament in India.
- lookahead — (computing) The analysis in advance of subsequent decisions that would be made if a particular branch of an algorithm was followed.
- lunkheads — Plural form of lunkhead.
- mahlstick — a stick with a padded tip used to support an artist's working hand.
- marchlike — (music) Resembling a march.