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

  • metathinking — Thought about the process of thinking.
  • niche market — specific or limited consumer interest
  • packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
  • 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.
  • 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
  • pumpkin head — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
  • quackishness — The state or condition of being quackish.
  • reaping hook — a curved cutting tool with a sharp edge, used in the cutting or harvesting of crops
  • 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).
  • scrimshanker — a shirker
  • sheath knife — a knife carried in a sheath.
  • shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
  • sign a check — When you sign a check , you write your name on it in a special space in order to validate it.
  • snake-hipped — having thin, sinuous hips.
  • sneakishness — the quality or characteristic of being a sneak or sneaky
  • stakhanovite — a worker in the Soviet Union who regularly surpassed production quotas and was specially honored and rewarded.
  • stickhandler — a hockey or lacrosse player, esp. one who is talented at stickhandling.
  • straightneck — a variety of summer squash related to the crookneck but not having a recurved neck.
  • strike hands — to show agreement by clasping hands
  • take in hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • talking head — Television Slang. a closeup picture of a person who is talking, especially as a participant in a talk show.
  • tank fighter — a boxer known for false shows of being knocked down or out in bouts the results of which have been prearranged.
  • thessalonike — official name of Salonika.
  • thessaloníki — official name of Salonika.
  • unshrinkable — not able to contract or become smaller in size
  • vanga shrike — any of several birds of the family Vangidae, endemic to Madagascar, some of which resemble shrikes, with great diversity in size, color, and bill shape.
  • vishnevskaya — Galina (Pavlovna) [guh-lee-nuh pahv-lohv-nuh,, pav-;; Russian guh-lyee-nuh pah-vluh v-nuh] /gəˈli nə pɑvˈloʊv nə,, pæv-;; Russian gʌˈlyi nə ˈpɑ vləv nə/ (Show IPA), 1926–2012, Soviet operatic soprano, in the U.S. (wife of Mstislav Rostropovich).
  • walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
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