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12-letter words containing k, h, e, r

  • neckerchiefs — Plural form of neckerchief.
  • network, the — 1.   (jargon, networking)   (Or "the net") The union of all the major noncommercial, academic and hacker-oriented networks, such as Internet, the old ARPANET, NSFnet, BITNET, and the virtual UUCP and Usenet "networks", plus the corporate in-house networks and commercial time-sharing services (such as CompuServe) that gateway to them. A site was generally considered "on the network" if it could be reached by electronic mail through some combination of Internet-style (@-sign) and UUCP (bang-path) addresses. Since the explosion of the Internet in the mid 1990s, the term is now synonymous with the Internet. See network address. 2.   (body)   A fictional conspiracy of libertarian hacker-subversives and anti-authoritarian monkeywrenchers described in Robert Anton Wilson's novel "Schrödinger's Cat", to which many hackers have subsequently decided they belong (this is an example of ha ha only serious).
  • niche market — specific or limited consumer interest
  • north korean — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km). Capital: Pyongyang. Compare Korea.
  • occurs check — (programming)   A feature of some implementations of unification which causes unification of a logic variable V and a structure S to fail if S contains V. Binding a variable to a structure containing that variable results in a cyclic structure which may subsequently cause unification to loop forever. Some implementations use extra pointer comparisons to avoid this. Most implementations of Prolog do not perform the occurs check for reasons of efficiency. Without occurs check the complexity of unification is O(min(size(term1), size(term2))) with occurs check it's O(max(size(term1), size(term2))) In theorem proving unification without the occurs check can lead to unsound inference. For example, in Prolog it is quite valid to write X = f(X). which will succeed, binding X to a cyclic structure. Clearly however, if f is taken to stand for a function rather than a constructor, then the above equality is only valid if f is the identity function. Weijland calls unification without occur check, "complete unification". The reference below describes a complete unification algorithm in terms of Colmerauer's consistency algorithm.
  • off the rack — (of clothing) not made to specific or individual requirements; ready-made: off-the-rack men's suits.
  • off-the-rack — (of clothing) not made to specific or individual requirements; ready-made: off-the-rack men's suits.
  • on the rocks — a large mass of stone forming a hill, cliff, promontory, or the like.
  • pakeha māori — (in the 19th century) a European who adopted the Māori way of life
  • 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.
  • pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
  • peppershaker — a container with a perforated top for sprinkling ground pepper.
  • peppershrike — either of two large vireos of the genus Cyclarhis, ranging from Mexico to Chile, and having heavy shrikelike bills.
  • phone phreak — a person who uses computers or other electronic devices to place long-distance telephone calls without paying toll charges.
  • phrase-maker — a person who is skilled in coining well-turned phrases; phraseologist.
  • phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
  • poikilotherm — an organism with poikilothermic qualities
  • pork butcher — a butcher who specializes in pork
  • pork-chopper — a labor official put on the union payroll as a reward for past loyalty or services.
  • prankishness — the quality or condition of being prankish
  • prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
  • ratchet jack — a screw jack rotated by a ratchet mechanism.
  • reaping hook — a curved cutting tool with a sharp edge, used in the cutting or harvesting of crops
  • robert hooke — Robert, 1635–1703, English philosopher, microscopist, and physicist.
  • rock chopper — a Roman Catholic
  • rock-shelter — a shallow cave or cavelike area, as one formed by an overhanging cliff or standing rocks, occupied by Stone Age peoples, possibly for extended periods.
  • rohnert park — a city in W California.
  • rough-spoken — coarse or vulgar in speech.
  • rubber check — a check drawn on an account lacking the funds to pay it; a check that bounces.
  • salad shaker — a portable plastic container which is used for storing salad and which has a separate compartment for salad dressing. The dressing is put on the salad just before it is eaten and the container can then be shaken to spread the salad dressing evenly.
  • scrimshanker — a shirker
  • selkirkshire — Alexander (originally Alexander Selcraig) 1676–1721, Scottish sailor marooned on a Pacific island: supposed prototype of Robinson Crusoe.
  • shale shaker — A shale shaker is a moving screen which removes cuttings from the mud so they can be disposed of.
  • shamrock-pea — a trailing plant, Parochetus communis, of the legume family, native to Asia and east Africa, having shamrocklike leaves with a brown crescent at the base and pea-shaped, pink and blue flowers.
  • shanks' mare — one's own legs, especially as a means of moving from one place to another: The only way we can get there is by shanks' mare.
  • share market — a highly organized market facilitating the purchase and sale of securities and operated by professional stockbrokers and market makers according to fixed rules
  • share-milker — (in New Zealand) a person who lives on a dairy farm milking the owner's herd for an agreed share of the profits and, usually, building his own herd simultaneously
  • shelf talker — a cardboard, paper, or plastic advertisement of a product designed to be attached to a shelf on which the product is exhibited for sale.
  • shellcracker — redear sunfish.
  • shelter deck — a weather deck covering a space not considered fully watertight.
  • shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
  • shirt jacket — a shirtlike jacket.
  • shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
  • short-spoken — speaking in a short, brief, or curt manner.
  • skeeter hawk — mosquito hawk.
  • 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 length — the length of someone's skirt
  • skirt-chaser — a womanizer.
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