12-letter words containing i, c, e, k, h
- hydrokinetic — pertaining to the motion of liquids.
- hyperkalemic — Having a high percentage of potassium in one's blood.
- hyperkinetic — Pathology. an abnormal amount of uncontrolled muscular action; spasm.
- in the black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- ketch-rigged — rigged in the manner of a ketch.
- kidney punch — an illegal punch in the lower back.
- kidney vetch — an Old World plant, Anthyllis vulneraria, of the legume family, formerly used as a remedy for kidney diseases.
- kinaesthetic — Alternative form of kinesthetic.
- kinesipathic — of or relating to kinesipathy
- kinesthetics — The ability to feel movements of the limbs and body. Referred by some people as the sixth sense.
- king's bench — a court, originally the principal court for criminal cases, gradually acquiring a civil jurisdiction concurrent with that of the Court of Common Pleas, and also possessing appellate jurisdiction over the Court of Common Pleas: now a division of the High Court of Justice.
- kirschwasser — a fragrant, colorless, unaged brandy distilled from a fermented mash of cherries, produced especially in Germany, Switzerland, and Alsace, France.
- kitchen foil — aluminium foil used in cooking or storing food
- kitchen salt — coarse salt that is used in cooking but not at the table
- kitchen sink — basin in kitchen
- kitchen soap — heavy-duty soap intended for use in the kitchen
- kitchen unit — a piece of a fitted kitchen, such as a cupboard or sink unit
- kitchen-sink — marked by an indiscriminate and omnivorous use of elements: a kitchen-sink approach to moviemaking.
- kitchenettes — Plural form of kitchenette.
- kitchenwares — Plural form of kitchenware.
- knife switch — a form of air switch in which a moving element, usually a hinged blade, is placed between two contact clips.
- latchkey kid — variant form of latchkey child
- like a charm — perfectly; successfully
- mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
- mail-cheeked — (of certain fishes) having the cheeks crossed with a bony plate.
- neckerchiefs — Plural form of neckerchief.
- niche market — specific or limited consumer interest
- ohio buckeye — See under buckeye (def 1).
- on the stick — alert, efficient, etc.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
- parity check — a method for detecting errors in data communications or within a computer system by counting the number of ones or zeros per byte or per word, including a special check bit (parity bit) to see if the value is even or odd.
- 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.
- petach tikva — a city in W Israel, NE of Tel Aviv.
- 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
- prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
- quackishness — The state or condition of being quackish.
- 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).
- schappe silk — a yarn or fabric of or similar to spun silk.
- scrimshanker — a shirker
- septic shock — condition caused by blood poisoning
- shirt jacket — a shirtlike jacket.
- sign a check — When you sign a check , you write your name on it in a special space in order to validate it.
- skeuomorphic — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
- skirt chaser — a womanizer.
- skirt-chaser — a womanizer.
- soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
- 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.
- technojunkie — a person addicted to or obsessed by new technology