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6-letter words containing k, h

  • chyack — to jeer at; tease; deride.
  • dakhla — an oasis in S Egypt: source of ocher.
  • dakhma — tower of silence.
  • dehusk — (transitive) To remove the husk from.
  • dharuk — an Australian aboriginal language, now extinct, spoken in the area of the first European settlement at Port Jackson.
  • dhokla — A food, visually similar to cake and compositionally similar to khaman, made from a batter of gram flour (from chickpeas), cooked by steaming and typically eaten in India.
  • dholak — A dhol, especially a relatively small one.
  • dukkah — An Egyptian dry mixture of chopped nuts, seeds and Middle Eastern spices, usually eaten by dipping bread into olive oil and then into the mixture.
  • dukkha — the first of the Four Noble Truths, that all human experience is transient and that suffering results from excessive desire and attachment.
  • ethick — Obsolete form of ethic.
  • fikish — fidgety, fussy, restless
  • fohawk — Alternative spelling of fauxhawk.
  • gurkha — a member of a Rajput people, Hindu in religion, who achieved dominion over Nepal in the 18th century.
  • h-back — a wingback or slotback
  • hacked — to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
  • hackee — (US, dialect) The chickaree or red squirrel.
  • hacker — a person, as an artist or writer, who exploits, for money, his or her creative ability or training in the production of dull, unimaginative, and trite work; one who produces banal and mediocre work in the hope of gaining commercial success in the arts: As a painter, he was little more than a hack.
  • hackie — hack2 (def 7b).
  • hackle — one of the long, slender feathers on the neck or saddle of certain birds, as the domestic rooster, much used in making artificial flies for anglers.
  • hackly — rough or jagged, as if hacked: Some minerals break with a hackly fracture.
  • haiduk — one of a class of mercenary soldiers in 16th-century Hungary.
  • haikai — an informal type of linked verse originated by Bashō, a 17th-century Japanese poet.
  • haikou — a city on N Hainan island, in SE China.
  • haikus — Plural form of haiku.
  • hakari — a feast which follows a ceremonial funeral or other important occasion
  • hakeas — Plural form of hakea.
  • hakeem — a male given name.
  • hakham — a wise and learned person; sage.
  • hakims — Plural form of hakim.
  • hakmem — (publication)   /hak'mem/ MIT AI Memo 239 (February 1972). A legendary collection of neat mathematical and programming hacks contributed by many people at MIT and elsewhere. (The title of the memo really is "HAKMEM", which is a 6-letterism for "hacks memo".) Some of them are very useful techniques, powerful theorems, or interesting unsolved problems, but most fall into the category of mathematical and computer trivia. Here is a sampling of the entries (with authors), slightly paraphrased: Item 41 (Gene Salamin): There are exactly 23,000 prime numbers less than 2^18. Item 46 (Rich Schroeppel): The most *probable* suit distribution in bridge hands is 4-4-3-2, as compared to 4-3-3-3, which is the most *evenly* distributed. This is because the world likes to have unequal numbers: a thermodynamic effect saying things will not be in the state of lowest energy, but in the state of lowest disordered energy. Item 81 (Rich Schroeppel): Count the magic squares of order 5 (that is, all the 5-by-5 arrangements of the numbers from 1 to 25 such that all rows, columns, and diagonals add up to the same number). There are about 320 million, not counting those that differ only by rotation and reflection. Item 154 (Bill Gosper): The myth that any given programming language is machine independent is easily exploded by computing the sum of powers of 2. If the result loops with period = 1 with sign +, you are on a sign-magnitude machine. If the result loops with period = 1 at -1, you are on a twos-complement machine. If the result loops with period greater than 1, including the beginning, you are on a ones-complement machine. If the result loops with period greater than 1, not including the beginning, your machine isn't binary - the pattern should tell you the base. If you run out of memory, you are on a string or bignum system. If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence. But the very ability to trap overflow is machine dependent. By this strategy, consider the universe, or, more precisely, algebra: Let X = the sum of many powers of 2 = ...111111 (base 2). Now add X to itself: X + X = ...111110. Thus, 2X = X - 1, so X = -1. Therefore algebra is run on a machine (the universe) that is two's-complement. Item 174 (Bill Gosper and Stuart Nelson): 21963283741 is the only number such that if you represent it on the PDP-10 as both an integer and a floating-point number, the bit patterns of the two representations are identical. Item 176 (Gosper): The "banana phenomenon" was encountered when processing a character string by taking the last 3 letters typed out, searching for a random occurrence of that sequence in the text, taking the letter following that occurrence, typing it out, and iterating. This ensures that every 4-letter string output occurs in the original. The program typed BANANANANANANANA.... We note an ambiguity in the phrase, "the Nth occurrence of." In one sense, there are five 00's in 0000000000; in another, there are nine. The editing program TECO finds five. Thus it finds only the first ANA in BANANA, and is thus obligated to type N next. By Murphy's Law, there is but one NAN, thus forcing A, and thus a loop. An option to find overlapped instances would be useful, although it would require backing up N - 1 characters before seeking the next N-character string. Note: This last item refers to a Dissociated Press implementation. See also banana problem. HAKMEM also contains some rather more complicated mathematical and technical items, but these examples show some of its fun flavour. HAKMEM is available from MIT Publications as a TIFF file.
  • hanked — a skein, as of thread or yarn.
  • hanker — to have a restless or incessant longing (often followed by after, for, or an infinitive).
  • hankie — a handkerchief.
  • hankou — a former city in E Hubei province, in E China: now part of Wuhan.
  • hankow — a former city in E Hubei province, in E China: now part of Wuhan.
  • harked — to listen attentively; hearken.
  • harken — Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
  • hawick — a town in SE Scotland, in S central Scottish Borders: knitwear industry. Pop: 14 573 (2001)
  • hawked — a noisy effort to clear the throat.
  • hawker — a person who offers goods for sale by shouting his or her wares in the street or going from door to door; peddler.
  • hawkes — John, 1925–1998, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
  • hawkey — Obsolete form of hockey.
  • hawkie — a cow, esp a favourite one
  • hawkit — (of animals) having a white streak or spots on the face
  • heckle — to harass (a public speaker, performer, etc.) with impertinent questions, gibes, or the like; badger.
  • hekate — a goddess of the earth and Hades, associated with sorcery, hounds, and crossroads.
  • hekto- — hecto-
  • hicker — an unsophisticated, boorish, and provincial person; rube.
  • hickey — Slang. a pimple. a reddish mark left on the skin by a passionate kiss.
  • hickie — Slang. a pimple. a reddish mark left on the skin by a passionate kiss.
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