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12-letter words containing i, c, e, k

  • drizzle cake — a sponge cake that has syrup drizzled over it immediately after baking
  • engine block — the metal casting containing the piston chambers of an internal combustion engine
  • epoch-making — An epoch-making change or declaration is considered to be extremely important because it is likely to have a significant effect on a particular period of time.
  • fairnitickle — a freckle resembling a fern seed
  • fiddlesticks — anything; a bit: I don't care a fiddlestick for what they say.
  • field hockey — a game played on a rectangular field having a netted goal at each end, in which two teams of 11 players each compete in driving a small leather-covered ball into the other's goal, each player being equipped with a stick having a curved end or blade that is flat on one side and rounded on the other.
  • field jacket — a close-fitting jacket for wear by soldiers in the field.
  • filing clerk — an employee who maintains office files
  • firecrackers — Plural form of firecracker.
  • flea-flicker — a deceptive offensive play in which the ball is passed or transferred laterally before or after a forward pass.
  • flickeringly — In a flickering manner.
  • flickermouse — Alternative form of flittermouse.
  • flutter kick — a swimming kick in which the legs make rapid alternate up-and-down movements while the knees remain rigid, as in the crawl.
  • folk society — an often small, homogeneous, and isolated community or society functioning chiefly through primary contacts and strongly attached to its traditional ways of living.
  • forked chain — branched chain.
  • fort detrick — a military reservation in N Maryland, NW of Frederick.
  • fort pickens — Andrew, 1739–1817, American Revolutionary general.
  • frankincense — an aromatic gum resin from various Asian and African trees of the genus Boswellia, especially B. carteri, used chiefly for burning as incense in religious or ceremonial practices, in perfumery, and in pharmaceutical and fumigating preparations.
  • frederick ii — Frederick I (def 2).
  • frederick iv — Frederick III (def 1).
  • frederick ix — (Frederick Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg) 1899–1972, king of Denmark 1947–72.
  • french stick — a long straight notched stick loaf
  • frog sticker — Slang. a knife, especially one carried as a weapon.
  • frog-sticker — Slang. a knife, especially one carried as a weapon.
  • fruit-picker — a person or a tool that picks fruit from trees
  • function key — a key on a computer keyboard or terminal that, when pressed, alone or in combination with other keys, causes a specific computational or mechanical operation to be carried out.
  • gallsickness — a disease of cattle and sheep, caused by infection with rickettsiae of the genus Anaplasma, resulting in anaemia and jaundice
  • get cracking — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
  • get stuck in — If you get stuck in, you do something with enthusiasm and determination.
  • give suck to — to give (a baby or young animal) milk from the breast or udder
  • glacier milk — water flowing in a stream from the snout of a glacier and containing particles of rock
  • glacier peak — a volcanic mountain in NW central Washington, in the Cascade range. 10,541 feet (3213 meters).
  • glockenspiel — a musical instrument composed of a set of graduated steel bars mounted in a frame and struck with hammers, used especially in bands.
  • grape picker — someone who picks grapes
  • greenbackism — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
  • griddlecakes — Plural form of griddlecake.
  • hacker ethic — (philosophy)   1. The belief that information-sharing is a powerful positive good, and that it is an ethical duty of hackers to share their expertise by writing free software and facilitating access to information and to computing resources wherever possible. 2. The belief that system-cracking for fun and exploration is ethically OK as long as the cracker commits no theft, vandalism, or breach of confidentiality. Both of these normative ethical principles are widely, but by no means universally, accepted among hackers. Most hackers subscribe to the hacker ethic in sense 1, and many act on it by writing and giving away free software. A few go further and assert that *all* information should be free and *any* proprietary control of it is bad; this is the philosophy behind the GNU project. Sense 2 is more controversial: some people consider the act of cracking itself to be unethical, like breaking and entering. But the belief that "ethical" cracking excludes destruction at least moderates the behaviour of people who see themselves as "benign" crackers (see also samurai). On this view, it may be one of the highest forms of hackerly courtesy to (a) break into a system, and then (b) explain to the sysop, preferably by e-mail from a superuser account, exactly how it was done and how the hole can be plugged - acting as an unpaid (and unsolicited) tiger team. The most reliable manifestation of either version of the hacker ethic is that almost all hackers are actively willing to share technical tricks, software, and (where possible) computing resources with other hackers. Huge cooperative networks such as Usenet, FidoNet and Internet (see Internet address) can function without central control because of this trait; they both rely on and reinforce a sense of community that may be hackerdom's most valuable intangible asset.
  • handkerchief — a small piece of linen, silk, or other fabric, usually square, and used especially for wiping one's nose, eyes, face, etc., or for decorative purposes.
  • harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
  • hash cookies — biscuits containing cannabis
  • headkerchief — A kerchief worn on the head.
  • helical rack — a rack having teeth set at an oblique angle to the edges. Compare rack1 (def 5).
  • hickory pine — bristlecone pine.
  • hit the deck — Nautical. a floorlike surface wholly or partially occupying one level of a hull, superstructure, or deckhouse, generally cambered, and often serving as a member for strengthening the structure of a vessel. the space between such a surface and the next such surface above: Our stateroom was on B deck.
  • hit the sack — a large bag of strong, coarsely woven material, as for grain, potatoes, or coal.
  • hockey stick — the stick used in field hockey or ice hockey.
  • home cooking — home-made food
  • homesickness — sad or depressed from a longing for home or family while away from them for a long time.
  • hucksterings — Plural form of huckstering.
  • hydraulicked — (of an extracted mineral) excavated using water
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