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12-letter words containing k, h, u

  • katharevousa — The purist form of modern Greek used in traditional literary writing, as opposed to the form that is spoken and used in everyday writing (called demotic).
  • keep up with — go as fast
  • keraunograph — an instrument for recording thunderstorms by detecting the radio waves generated
  • khachaturian — Aram Ilich [ar-uh m il-yich;; Russian uh-rahm ee-lyeech] /ˈær əm ˈɪl yɪtʃ;; Russian ʌˈrɑm iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1903–78, Armenian composer.
  • kidney punch — an illegal punch in the lower back.
  • kinchinjunga — Kanchenjunga.
  • kitchen unit — a piece of a fitted kitchen, such as a cupboard or sink unit
  • kletterschuh — a lightweight climbing boot with a canvas or suede upper and Vibram (originally felt or cord) sole
  • knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
  • kourotrophos — (archaeology) a class of Mycenaean terracotta figurines depicting women carrying children.
  • kurchatovium — (chemistry) A rejected name for rutherfordium.
  • light-struck — (of a film or the like) damaged by accidental exposure to light.
  • lithium lick — NeXT employees who have had too much attention from their esteemed founder, Steve Jobs, are said to have "lithium lick" when they begin to show signs of Jobsian fervour and repeat the most recent catch phrases in normal conversation, e.g. "It just works, right out of the box!"
  • look through — the opacity and texture of paper when inspected by transmitted light.
  • look-through — the opacity and texture of paper when inspected by transmitted light.
  • lunch-bucket — a small container, usually of metal or plastic and with a handle, for carrying one's lunch from home to school or work.
  • make much of — great in quantity, measure, or degree: too much cake.
  • make the cut — to better or equal the required score after two rounds in a strokeplay tournament, thus avoiding elimination from the final two rounds
  • manuka honey — honey from the nectar of the manuka tree, often used for medicinal purposes; known as active manuka honey if it has a UMF rating of over 10.
  • monkey flush — three cards of the same suit, usually not in sequence.
  • monkey house — a cage or enclosure in a zoo where monkeys are kept
  • moo shu pork — a Chinese dish made of shredded pork and vegetables and beaten eggs, sautéed and usually served in a crêpe with hoisin sauce
  • motherfucker — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
  • mushroomlike — Having the form or characteristics of a mushroom.
  • musk thistle — a composite plant, Carduus nutans, having heads of nodding, rose-purple flowers, introduced into the U.S. from Eurasia.
  • no such luck — You can say 'No such luck' when you want to express your disappointment over something.
  • 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.
  • ohio buckeye — See under buckeye (def 1).
  • out of whack — to strike with a smart, resounding blow or blows.
  • pack a punch — be powerful
  • packed lunch — A packed lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
  • packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
  • pork butcher — a butcher who specializes in pork
  • poughkeepsie — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
  • pruning hook — an implement with a hooked blade, used for pruning vines, branches, etc.
  • pumpkin head — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
  • quackishness — The state or condition of being quackish.
  • rockhounding — the activity of searching for and collecting rocks
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
  • south dakota — a state in the N central United States: a part of the Midwest. 77,047 sq. mi. (199,550 sq. km). Capital: Pierre. Abbreviation: SD (for use with zip code), S. Dak.
  • south korean — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 36,600 sq. mi. (94,795 sq. km). Capital: Seoul. Compare Korea.
  • south kvaløy — an island in the Arctic Ocean, off the N coast of Norway. Area: 735 sq km (284 sq miles)
  • square shake — square deal.
  • stockpunisht — punished by being put in stocks
  • sucker punch — to strike (someone) with an unexpected blow.
  • sucker-punch — to strike (someone) with an unexpected blow.
  • sugar shaker — a container with holes in the top, used for sprinkling sugar onto food
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