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12-letter words containing k, t, h

  • cock feather — the odd-coloured feather set on the shaft of an arrow at right angles to the nock
  • cockfighting — The sport (illegal in certain countries) of setting two cocks to fight each other. Fighting cocks often have had their legs fitted with metal spurs.
  • cockthrowing — the sport of knocking down, or killing, a cock that is tied to a post
  • cookie sheet — A cookie sheet is a flat piece of metal on which you bake foods such as cookies in an oven.
  • countercheck — a check or restraint, esp one that acts in opposition to another
  • credit check — a check performed by a company selling goods on credit to establish if a potential customer is creditworthy
  • crochet hook — a hooked needle used for crocheting
  • curtain hook — a hook used to attach a curtain to a curtain rail
  • daughterlike — Resembling a daughter.
  • diet kitchen — a kitchen, as in a hospital, where special food is prepared for those requiring it.
  • do the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
  • donald knuth — (person)   Donald E. Knuth, the author of the TeX document formatting system, Metafont its font-design program and the 3 volume computer science "Bible" of algorithms, "The Art of Computer Programming". Knuth suggested the name "Backus-Naur Form" and was also involved in the SOL simulation language, and developed the WEB literate programming system. See also MIX, Turingol.
  • double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
  • doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
  • drinker moth — a large yellowish-brown bombycid eggar moth, Philudoria potatoria, having a stout hairy body, the larvae of which drink dew and feed on grasses
  • earthshaking — imperiling, challenging, or affecting basic beliefs, attitudes, relationships, etc.
  • electroshock — Of or relating to medical treatment by means of electric shocks.
  • featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
  • free-thinker — a person who forms opinions on the basis of reason, independent of authority or tradition, especially a person whose religious opinions differ from established belief.
  • freethinkers — Plural form of freethinker.
  • freethinking — a person who forms opinions on the basis of reason, independent of authority or tradition, especially a person whose religious opinions differ from established belief.
  • french stick — a long straight notched stick loaf
  • future shock — physical and psychological disturbance caused by a person's inability to cope with very rapid social and technological change.
  • get the hook — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
  • get the sack — be dismissed from job
  • 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.
  • hack to bits — to damage severely
  • 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.
  • haikwan tael — the customs unit in China, which is the basis for other local taels, equal to 1.20666 troy ounces of fine silver.
  • haliplankton — plankton living in sea water
  • 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).
  • have kittens — to react with disapproval, anxiety, etc
  • health check — a medical checkup
  • 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.
  • heat-seeking — A heat-seeking missile or device is one that is able to detect a source of heat.
  • heeling tank — either of two lateral ballast tanks permitting an icebreaker to heel and crush ice to either side.
  • hello packet — (networking, communications)   An OSPF packet sent periodically on each network interface, real or virtual, to discover and test connections to neighbours. Hello packets are multicast on physical networks capable of multicasting or broadcasting to enable dynamic router discovery. They include the parameters that routers connected to a common network must agree on. Hello packets increase network resilience by, e.g., allowing a router to establish a secondary connection when a primary connection fails.
  • hemiplankton — plankton that spend part of their life cycle in a vegetative state on the sea bottom, riverbed, etc. (opposed to holoplankton).
  • heterokaryon — a cell containing two or more nuclei of differing genetic constitutions.
  • heterokontan — of or relating to a heterokont
  • hiking boots — stout, sturdy boots, suitable for hiking in
  • hiking trail — a specially designated route for hikers to use
  • hit the deck — Nautical. a floorlike surface wholly or partially occupying one level of a hull, superstructure, or deckhouse, generally cambered, and often serving as a member for strengthening the structure of a vessel. the space between such a surface and the next such surface above: Our stateroom was on B deck.
  • hit the mark — to achieve one's aim; be successful in one's attempt
  • hit the sack — a large bag of strong, coarsely woven material, as for grain, potatoes, or coal.
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