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16-letter words containing h, a, r, k

  • hostile takeover — a takeover that is not approved by the management of the corporation being acquired or that is accomplished through the secret purchase of stock.
  • intake of breath — When someone takes an intake of breath, they breathe in quickly and noisily, usually because they are shocked at something.
  • j. random hacker — (jargon)   /J rand'm hak'r/ MIT jargon for a mythical figure; the archetypal hacker nerd. This may originally have been inspired by "J. Fred Muggs", a show-biz chimpanzee whose name was a household word back in the early days of TMRC, and was probably influenced by J. Presper Eckert (one of the co-inventors of the electronic computer). See random, Suzie COBOL.
  • kamerlingh onnes — Heike [hahy-kuh] /ˈhaɪ kə/ (Show IPA), 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: Nobel Prize 1913.
  • kamerlingh-onnes — Heike (ˈhaɪkə). 1853–1926, Dutch physicist: a pioneer of the physics of low-temperature materials and discoverer (1911) of superconductivity. Nobel prize for physics 1913
  • karelian isthmus — a narrow strip of land between Lake Ladoga and the Gulf of Finland, in the NW Russian Federation.
  • keratoacanthomas — Plural form of keratoacanthoma.
  • khakass republic — a constituent republic of S central Russia, formerly in Krasnoyarsk Territory: formed in 1930. Capital: Abakan. Pop: 546 100 (2002). Area: 61 900 sq km (23 855 sq miles)
  • kingfisher daisy — a bushy southern African plant, Felicia bergerana, having grasslike leaves and solitary, bright-blue flowers.
  • kirchhoff's laws — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
  • knights of labor — a secret workingmen's organization formed in 1869 to defend the interests of labor.
  • kurdaitcha shoes — (in certain Central Australian Aboriginal tribes) the emu-feather shoes worn by the kurdaitcha on his mission so that his footsteps may not be traced
  • lateral thinking — unconventional or creative problem-solving
  • leap in the dark — to spring through the air from one point or position to another; jump: to leap over a ditch.
  • luck of the draw — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
  • lumberjack shirt — a thick checked shirt, as worn by lumberjacks
  • mahalla el kubra — a city in Egypt, on the Nile delta.
  • make a pitch for — to give verbal support to
  • make the fur fly — the fine, soft, thick, hairy coat of the skin of a mammal.
  • make the running — If someone is making the running in a situation, they are more active than the other people involved.
  • man on horseback — a military leader who presents himself as the savior of the country during a period of crisis and either assumes or threatens to assume dictatorial powers.
  • man-eating shark — any shark known to attack humans, especially the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias.
  • mover and shaker — a person who has power and influence, esp., a member of a group having power and influence
  • murasaki shikibu — Lady, 978?–1031? Japanese poet and novelist.
  • nagorno-karabakh — a region in SW Azerbaijan: residents mostly Armenian. 1700 sq. mi. (4400 sq. km).
  • near the knuckle — risqué
  • norodom sihanouk — Prince Norodom [nawr-uh-dom,, -duh m] /ˈnɔr əˌdɒm,, -dəm/ (Show IPA), 1922–2004, Cambodian statesman: premier 1952–60; chief of state 1960–70 and 1975–76.
  • nubuck (leather) — tanned leather similar to suede, but with the nap on the grain side
  • parallel haskell — (language, parallel)   (pH) A parallel variant of Haskell incorporating ideas from Id and Sisal. pH is under development. Mailing list: [email protected]
  • parkerhouse roll — a yeast roll shaped by folding over a flat, round piece of buttered dough
  • pharmacokinetics — the branch of pharmacology that studies the fate of pharmacological substances in the body, as their absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination.
  • pork scratchings — small pieces of crisply cooked pork crackling, eaten cold as an appetizer with drinks
  • raise the stakes — to increase the amount of money or valuables hazarded in a gambling game
  • ranikhet disease — Newcastle disease.
  • rape of the lock — a mock-epic poem (1712) by Alexander Pope.
  • redbank whiteoak — a city in S Tennessee.
  • round lake beach — a town in NE Illinois.
  • run the blockade — to go past or through a blockade
  • shakedown cruise — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
  • shaker and mover — mover and shaker
  • shark repellents — any tactic used by a corporation to prevent a takeover by a corporate raider.
  • sharpe's grysbok — either of two small, usually solitary antelopes of southern Africa, Raphicerus melanotis, or R. sharpei (Sharpe's grysbok) having a light to dark reddish-brown coat speckled with white.
  • shoemaker's shop — a shop where shoes are repaired, or made
  • shoemaker-levy 9 — a comet that was captured into an orbit around Jupiter and later broke up, the fragments colliding with Jupiter in July 1995
  • shot in the dark — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
  • silky flycatcher — any of several passerine birds of the family Ptilogonatidae, of the southwestern U.S. to Panama, related to the waxwings.
  • spanish mackerel — an American game fish, Scomberomorus maculatus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean.
  • spotted redshank — a sandpiper, Tringa erythropus, which is a large wader with red legs
  • straight whiskey — pure, unblended whiskey of 80 to 110 proof.
  • streak lightning — lightning in which there is a sudden flash from what appears to be a single main line
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