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12-letter words containing k, a, r

  • formula milk — An artificial substitute for breast milk intended for feeding infants. It can come in powdered form to be mixed with water or in instant liquid form.
  • forsakenness — past participle of forsake.
  • fort jackson — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in N central South Carolina, NE of Columbia.
  • fort kearney — a former fort in S Nebraska, near Kearney: an important post on the Oregon Trail.
  • fort pulaski — Count Casimir [kaz-uh-meer] /ˈkæz əˌmɪər/ (Show IPA), 1748–79, Polish patriot; general in the American Revolutionary army.
  • fourses cake — a traditional English bread made with lard, dried fruit, and spices
  • frank murphy — Frank, 1890–1949, U.S. statesman and jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1940–49.
  • frank stella — Frank (Phillip) born 1936, U.S. painter.
  • frankalmoign — a form of tenure by which religious bodies held lands, esp on condition of praying for the soul of the donor
  • franked mail — official mail sent by members of Congress, the vice president, and other authorized officials. Compare frank1 (defs 6–9).
  • frankenstein — a person who creates a monster or a destructive agency that cannot be controlled or that brings about the creator's ruin.
  • frankfurters — Plural form of frankfurter.
  • 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.
  • freakishness — The characteristic or quality of being freakish.
  • free skating — a freestyle competition with no required elements, in which skaters perform an original program of jumps, spins, sequences, etc., to music of their choice.
  • french chalk — a talc for marking lines on fabrics.
  • fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
  • frying steak — a steak that is cooked by frying
  • garment rack — A garment rack is a rail used in stores to hang items of clothing on display, such as shirts and coats.
  • garter snake — any of numerous harmless snakes of the genus Thamnophis, common in North and Central America, ranging in size from 14 to 30 inches (36 to 76 cm) and typically having three longitudinal stripes on the back.
  • georges bank — a bank extending generally NE from Nantucket: fishing grounds. 150 miles (240 km) long.
  • get cracking — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
  • giant killer — sb who defeats a larger opponent
  • giant-killer — A giant-killer is a sportsman, sportswoman, or team that unexpectedly beats a much stronger opponent.
  • give or take — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
  • 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).
  • glatt kosher — prepared for eating according to the dietary laws followed by Hasidic Jews, which differ somewhat from those followed by other observers of kashruth: glatt kosher meat.
  • gopher snake — a bullsnake, Pituophis melanoleucus, of western North America, that invades burrows to prey on rodents.
  • gordian knot — pertaining to Gordius, ancient king of Phrygia, who tied a knot (the Gordian knot) that, according to prophecy, was to be undone only by the person who was to rule Asia, and that was cut, rather than untied, by Alexander the Great.
  • grand kabuki — kabuki (def 2).
  • granite peak — the highest elevation in Montana, in the S part. 12,799 feet (3901 meters).
  • grape picker — someone who picks grapes
  • grass hockey — field hockey.
  • grass skiing — turfskiing.
  • graustarkian — of, like, or characteristic of colorful, implausible, highly melodramatic and romantic situations or circumstances
  • graving dock — an excavated shore dry dock for the repair and maintenance of ships.
  • grayson kirk — Grayson (Louis) 1903–1997, U.S. educator: president of Columbia University 1953–68.
  • greater kudu — a spiral-horned antelope, Tragelaphus strepsiceros, which inhabits the bush of Africa
  • 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.
  • greenmarkets — Plural form of greenmarket.
  • griddlecakes — Plural form of griddlecake.
  • groom's cake — a fruit cake in layers of graduated size, served at a wedding.
  • ground shark — any of various requiem sharks, especially of the genus Carcharhinus.
  • ground track — the path on the earth's surface below an aircraft, missile, rocket, or spacecraft.
  • 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.
  • hammarskjold — Dag Hjalmar [dahg yahl-mahr] /dɑg ˈyɑl mɑr/ (Show IPA), 1905–61, Swedish statesman: Secretary General of the United Nations 1953–61; Nobel Peace Prize 1961.
  • 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.
  • hanover park — a city in NE Illinois.
  • hard linking — hard link
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