12-letter words containing k, i, c, e, r
- countersinks — Plural form of countersink.
- courtierlike — resembling a courtier in manner
- crackbrained — insane, idiotic, or crazy
- credit check — a check performed by a company selling goods on credit to establish if a potential customer is creditworthy
- cricket ball — the ball used to play cricket
- cricket frog — either of two tree frogs, Acris gryllus or A. crepitans, of eastern and central U.S., having a clicking call.
- crinkle leaf — a disease of plants, characterized by puckering, mottling, and distortion of the leaves, caused by any of several viruses.
- cross-linker — a substance or agent, such as radiation, that induces the formation of cross-links.
- deck officer — a ship's officer who is part of the deck crew
- do the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- dream ticket — If journalists talk about a dream ticket, they are referring to two candidates for political positions, for example President and Vice-President, or Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, who they think will be extremely successful.
- drizzle cake — a sponge cake that has syrup drizzled over it immediately after baking
- fairnitickle — a freckle resembling a fern seed
- 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.
- 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
- get cracking — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
- 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).
- 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).
- 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.
- hucksterings — Plural form of huckstering.
- hydraulicked — (of an extracted mineral) excavated using water
- hydrokinetic — pertaining to the motion of liquids.
- hyperkalemic — Having a high percentage of potassium in one's blood.
- hyperkinetic — Pathology. an abnormal amount of uncontrolled muscular action; spasm.
- inside track — the inner, or shorter, track of a racecourse.
- interlocking — to fit into each other, as parts of machinery, so that all action is synchronized.
- junior clerk — a clerk of low rank