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12-letter words containing k, r

  • grape picker — someone who picks grapes
  • grass hockey — field hockey.
  • grass skiing — turfskiing.
  • graustarkian — of, like, or characteristic of colorful, implausible, highly melodramatic and romantic situations or circumstances
  • graving dock — an excavated shore dry dock for the repair and maintenance of ships.
  • grayson kirk — Grayson (Louis) 1903–1997, U.S. educator: president of Columbia University 1953–68.
  • greater kudu — a spiral-horned antelope, Tragelaphus strepsiceros, which inhabits the bush of Africa
  • greek church — Greek Orthodox Church (def 1).
  • 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
  • green keeper — greenskeeper.
  • green monkey — a W African variety of a common guenon monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops, having greenish-brown fur and a dark face
  • 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.
  • greenmarkets — Plural form of greenmarket.
  • greenskeeper — a person charged with the care and maintenance of a golf course.
  • griddlecakes — Plural form of griddlecake.
  • groom's cake — a fruit cake in layers of graduated size, served at a wedding.
  • ground shark — any of various requiem sharks, especially of the genus Carcharhinus.
  • ground track — the path on the earth's surface below an aircraft, missile, rocket, or spacecraft.
  • groundkeeper — groundskeeper.
  • groundstroke — A stroke played after the ball has bounced, as opposed to a volley.
  • groundworker — One who works on the ground, as opposed to an aviator, etc.
  • 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.
  • hammarskjold — Dag Hjalmar [dahg yahl-mahr] /dɑg ˈyɑl mɑr/ (Show IPA), 1905–61, Swedish statesman: Secretary General of the United Nations 1953–61; Nobel Peace Prize 1961.
  • 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.
  • hanover park — a city in NE Illinois.
  • hard linking — hard link
  • hard-working — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
  • hare krishna — a religious sect based on Vedic scriptures, whose followers engage in joyful congregational chanting of Krishna's name: founded in the U.S. in 1966.
  • 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).
  • hauraki gulf — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, on the N coast of North Island, New Zealand.
  • hawk's beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
  • hawk's-beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
  • headkerchief — A kerchief worn on the head.
  • headshrinker — shrink (def 9).
  • health drink — a drink that claims to be beneficial to health
  • hearken back — to go back in thought or speech; revert; hark back
  • 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.
  • heimskringla — a book of the 13th century narrating the history of the kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson.
  • helical rack — a rack having teeth set at an oblique angle to the edges. Compare rack1 (def 5).
  • heterokaryon — a cell containing two or more nuclei of differing genetic constitutions.
  • heterokontan — of or relating to a heterokont
  • hickory pine — bristlecone pine.
  • high-ranking — A high-ranking person has an important position in a particular organization.
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