13-letter words containing k, o, c, h
- fork luncheon — déjeuner à la fourchette.
- googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
- gulf of kutch — an inlet of the Arabian Sea in India. Length: about 159 kilometres (99 miles)
- hack together — (jargon) To throw something together so it will work. Unlike "kluge together" or "cruft together", this does not necessarily have negative connotations.
- hacker humour — A distinctive style of shared intellectual humour found among hackers, having the following marked characteristics: 1. Fascination with form-vs.-content jokes, paradoxes, and humour having to do with confusion of metalevels (see meta). One way to make a hacker laugh: hold a red index card in front of him/her with "GREEN" written on it, or vice-versa (note, however, that this is funny only the first time). 2. Elaborate deadpan parodies of large intellectual constructs, such as specifications (see write-only memory), standards documents, language descriptions (see INTERCAL), and even entire scientific theories (see quantum bogodynamics, computron). 3. Jokes that involve screwily precise reasoning from bizarre, ludicrous, or just grossly counter-intuitive premises. 4. Fascination with puns and wordplay. 5. A fondness for apparently mindless humour with subversive currents of intelligence in it - for example, old Warner Brothers and Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons, the Marx brothers, the early B-52s, and Monty Python's Flying Circus. Humour that combines this trait with elements of high camp and slapstick is especially favoured. 6. References to the symbol-object antinomies and associated ideas in Zen Buddhism and (less often) Taoism. See has the X nature, Discordianism, zen, ha ha only serious, AI koan. See also filk and retrocomputing. If you have an itchy feeling that all 6 of these traits are really aspects of one thing that is incredibly difficult to talk about exactly, you are (a) correct and (b) responding like a hacker. These traits are also recognizable (though in a less marked form) throughout science-fiction fandom.
- hacking cough — a harsh, dry and spasmodic cough
- hackney coach — hackney (def 1).
- herringchoker — a native or resident of any of the Maritime Provinces but especially of New Brunswick.
- hickory hills — a town in NE Illinois.
- high-low-jack — all fours (def 2).
- hockey player — sportsperson: plays hockey
- holy mackerel — astonishment
- homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
- horror-struck — stricken with horror; horrified; aghast.
- house cricket — a dark brown cricket, Acheta domesticus, having a light-colored head with dark crossbands, commonly occurring throughout North America and Europe, where it may be an indoor pest.
- housing stock — the total number of houses, flats, etc, in an area
- how's tricks? — how are you?
- hydrocracking — the cracking of petroleum or the like in the presence of hydrogen.
- hydrofracking — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- hydrokinetics — the branch of hydrodynamics that deals with the laws governing liquids or gases in motion.
- in the pocket — (of a fly half) in an attacking position slightly further back from play than normal, making himself available for a drop goal attempt
- insulin shock — a state of collapse caused by a decrease in blood sugar resulting from the administration of excessive insulin.
- jockey shorts — Jockey shorts are a type of men's underpants.
- john suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
- johnny canuck — a personification of Canada
- keep in touch — stay in contact
- korf, richard — Richard Korf
- kosher pickle — a garlic-flavored pickle, sold especially in Jewish delicatessens.
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.
- lockwood home — a house built of timber planks that lock together without the use of nails
- lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
- mikhailovitch — Draja [drah-zhah] /ˈdrɑ ʒɑ/ (Show IPA), 1893–1946, Yugoslav military leader.
- mock whipbird — an Australian bird, Pachycephala rufiventris, which is not of the whipbird family
- monkey orchid — a European orchid, Orchis simia, rare in Britain, having a short dense flower spike that opens from the top downwards. The flowers are white streaked with pink or violet and have five spurs thought to resemble a monkey's arms, legs, and tail
- monkey wrench — spanner
- monkey-wrench — to ruin (plans, a schedule, etc.) unavoidably or, sometimes, deliberately: The storm monkey-wrenched our plans for a picnic.
- motherfucking — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- north merrick — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- novocherkassk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, NE of Rostov.
- off the track — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
- offshore dock — a floating dock moored to pilings, dolphins, etc., used for cleaning and repairing medium-sized vessels.
- oklahoma city — a city in and the capital of Oklahoma, in the central part.
- on the stocks — in preparation or under construction
- outreach work — work (done by welfare workers, volunteers, etc) designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- peacock chair — a wicker armchair with a high, circular back.
- phantom stock — an employee bonus expressed as the cash value of a specified amount of company stock to be received at a future date, meant to create employee interest in raising stock prices without giving any stock away.
- phone hacking — an act or instance of gaining access to a phone's voicemail, email, text messages, etc., without authorization from the phone's owner.
- pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- plymouth rock — a rock at Plymouth, Massachusetts, on which the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower are said to have stepped ashore when they landed in America in 1620.