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12-letter words containing k, r, t

  • future shock — physical and psychological disturbance caused by a person's inability to cope with very rapid social and technological change.
  • garment rack — A garment rack is a rail used in stores to hang items of clothing on display, such as shirts and coats.
  • garter snake — any of numerous harmless snakes of the genus Thamnophis, common in North and Central America, ranging in size from 14 to 30 inches (36 to 76 cm) and typically having three longitudinal stripes on the back.
  • get cracking — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
  • giant killer — sb who defeats a larger opponent
  • giant-killer — A giant-killer is a sportsman, sportswoman, or team that unexpectedly beats a much stronger opponent.
  • give or take — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
  • glatt kosher — prepared for eating according to the dietary laws followed by Hasidic Jews, which differ somewhat from those followed by other observers of kashruth: glatt kosher meat.
  • gordian knot — pertaining to Gordius, ancient king of Phrygia, who tied a knot (the Gordian knot) that, according to prophecy, was to be undone only by the person who was to rule Asia, and that was cut, rather than untied, by Alexander the Great.
  • granite peak — the highest elevation in Montana, in the S part. 12,799 feet (3901 meters).
  • graustarkian — of, like, or characteristic of colorful, implausible, highly melodramatic and romantic situations or circumstances
  • greater kudu — a spiral-horned antelope, Tragelaphus strepsiceros, which inhabits the bush of Africa
  • greek yogurt — a thick, creamy, protein-rich yogurt made by removing most of the liquid whey, as by centrifuge or straining.
  • greek-letter — designating or of a student fraternity or sorority whose name is designated by a combination of Greek letters
  • greeked text — words which appear on screen as grey lines when the type size is too small for actual letters to be shown
  • greenmarkets — Plural form of greenmarket.
  • ground track — the path on the earth's surface below an aircraft, missile, rocket, or spacecraft.
  • groundstroke — A stroke played after the ball has bounced, as opposed to a volley.
  • guest worker — a foreign worker permitted to work in a country, especially in Western Europe, on a temporary basis.
  • 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.
  • hark back to — recall: earlier era
  • harold stark — Harold Raynsford [reynz-ferd] /ˈreɪnz fərd/ (Show IPA), 1880–1972, U.S. admiral.
  • harvest tick — chigger (def 1).
  • health drink — a drink that claims to be beneficial to health
  • heart attack — damage to an area of heart muscle that is deprived of oxygen, usually due to blockage of a diseased coronary artery, typically accompanied by chest pain radiating down one or both arms, the severity of the attack varying with the extent and location of the damage; myocardial infarction.
  • heart of oak — a brave person
  • heartbreaker — a person, event, or thing causing heartbreak.
  • heterokaryon — a cell containing two or more nuclei of differing genetic constitutions.
  • heterokontan — of or relating to a heterokont
  • hiking trail — a specially designated route for hikers to use
  • hit the mark — to achieve one's aim; be successful in one's attempt
  • hobble skirt — a woman's skirt that is very narrow at the bottom, causing the wearer to walk with short, mincing steps.
  • holkar state — a former state of central India, ruled by the Holkar dynasty of Maratha rulers of Indore (18th century until 1947)
  • hotel worker — a person who works in the hotel industry
  • hotelkeepers — Plural form of hotelkeeper.
  • hucksterings — Plural form of huckstering.
  • hydrokinetic — pertaining to the motion of liquids.
  • hyperkinetic — Pathology. an abnormal amount of uncontrolled muscular action; spasm.
  • hypermarkets — Plural form of hypermarket.
  • in the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
  • inkhorn term — an obscure, affectedly or ostentatiously erudite borrowing from another language, especially Latin or Greek.
  • inside track — the inner, or shorter, track of a racecourse.
  • interkinesis — interphase.
  • interlinking — Linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing.
  • interlocking — to fit into each other, as parts of machinery, so that all action is synchronized.
  • internetwork — two or more computer networks connected by routers, bridges, etc.: The Internet is the largest internetwork.
  • interworking — to work or weave together; interweave.
  • jacket crown — a type of artificial, tooth-colored dental crown made of acrylic or porcelain
  • joking apart — seriously: said to recall a discussion to seriousness after there has been joking
  • k/t boundary — Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: the time zone comprising the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Tertiary periods
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