12-letter words containing s, h, o, k

horsebreaker — One who trains, or breaks in, horses.
hotelkeepers — Plural form of hotelkeeper.
house-broken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
housebreaker — a person who breaks into and enters a house with a felonious intent.
housekeepers — Plural form of housekeeper.
housekeeping — the maintenance of a house or domestic establishment.
housewrecker — wrecker (def 4).
hydrokinesis — (science fiction): The psychic ability to manipulate or control water.
in the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
jackson hole — a valley in NW Wyoming, near the Teton Range: wildlife preserve.
kashmir goat — one of a long-haired breed of goat raised in Tibet and the higher elevations of China, the Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan, and Turkey for its meat, milk, and cashmere wool.
katamorphism — metamorphism at or near the earth's surface: breaks down complex minerals into simpler ones.
katharevousa — The purist form of modern Greek used in traditional literary writing, as opposed to the form that is spoken and used in everyday writing (called demotic).
ken thompson — (person) The principal inventor of the Unix operating system and author of the B language, the predecessor of C. In the early days Ken used to hand-cut Unix distribution tapes, often with a note that read "Love, ken". Old-timers still use his first name (sometimes uncapitalised, because it's a login name and mail address) in third-person reference; it is widely understood (on Usenet in particular) that without a last name "Ken" refers only to Ken Thompson. Similarly, Dennis without last name means Dennis Ritchie (and he is often known as dmr). Ken was first hired to work on the Multics project, which was a huge production with many people working on it. Multics was supposed to support hundreds of on-line logins but could barely handle three. In 1969, when Bell Labs withdrew from the project, Ken got fed up with Multics and went off to write his own operating system. People said "well, if zillions of people wrote Multics, then an OS written by one guy must be Unix!". There was some joking about eunichs as well. Ken's wife Bonnie and son Corey (then 18 months old) went to visit family in San Diego. Ken spent one week each on the kernel, file system, etc., and finished UNIX in one month along with developing SPACEWAR (or was it "Space Travel"?). See also back door, brute force, demigod, wumpus.
khornerstone — A multipurpose benchmark from Workstation Labs used in various periodicals. The source is not free. Results are published in "UNIX Review".
kinesophobia — Fear of movement.
kitchen soap — heavy-duty soap intended for use in the kitchen
kosher-style — (of a cuisine, restaurant, etc.) featuring traditional Jewish dishes, but not adhering to the dietary laws: kosher-style cooking.
kourotrophos — (archaeology) a class of Mycenaean terracotta figurines depicting women carrying children.
loansharking — the practice of lending money at excessive rates of interest.
locksmithing — The science and art of making and defeating locks.
mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
make history — do sth of great significance
monk's cloth — a heavy cotton fabric in a basket weave, used for curtains, bedspreads, etc.
monkey flush — three cards of the same suit, usually not in sequence.
monkey house — a cage or enclosure in a zoo where monkeys are kept
monkeyshines — Usually, monkeyshines. a frivolous or mischievous prank; monkey business.
moo shu pork — a Chinese dish made of shredded pork and vegetables and beaten eggs, sautéed and usually served in a crêpe with hoisin sauce
mushroomlike — Having the form or characteristics of a mushroom.
nakhon sawan — a city in W central Thailand, on the Chao Phraya River.
no such luck — You can say 'No such luck' when you want to express your disappointment over something.
no thanks to — to express gratitude, appreciation, or acknowledgment to: She thanked them for their hospitality.
noam chomsky — (Avram) Noam [nohm,, noh-uh m] /noʊm,, ˈnoʊ əm/ (Show IPA), born 1928, U.S. linguist, educator, and political activist.
occurs check — (programming) A feature of some implementations of unification which causes unification of a logic variable V and a structure S to fail if S contains V. Binding a variable to a structure containing that variable results in a cyclic structure which may subsequently cause unification to loop forever. Some implementations use extra pointer comparisons to avoid this. Most implementations of Prolog do not perform the occurs check for reasons of efficiency. Without occurs check the complexity of unification is O(min(size(term1), size(term2))) with occurs check it's O(max(size(term1), size(term2))) In theorem proving unification without the occurs check can lead to unsound inference. For example, in Prolog it is quite valid to write X = f(X). which will succeed, binding X to a cyclic structure. Clearly however, if f is taken to stand for a function rather than a constructor, then the above equality is only valid if f is the identity function. Weijland calls unification without occur check, "complete unification". The reference below describes a complete unification algorithm in terms of Colmerauer's consistency algorithm.
on the books — registered
on the rocks — a large mass of stone forming a hill, cliff, promontory, or the like.
on the skids — a plank, bar, log, or the like, especially one of a pair, on which something heavy may be slid or rolled along.
on the skite — on a drinking spree
on the stick — alert, efficient, etc.
packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
photokinesis — movement occurring upon exposure to light.
postworkshop — occurring after a workshop
poughkeepsie — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
rock cornish — a small hybrid chicken produced by mating Cornish and White Rock chickens and marketed especially as a roaster.
rock-shelter — a shallow cave or cavelike area, as one formed by an overhanging cliff or standing rocks, occupied by Stone Age peoples, possibly for extended periods.
rough-spoken — coarse or vulgar in speech.
school shark — an Australian shark resembling the tope, Notogaleus australis
septic shock — condition caused by blood poisoning
shamrock-pea — a trailing plant, Parochetus communis, of the legume family, native to Asia and east Africa, having shamrocklike leaves with a brown crescent at the base and pea-shaped, pink and blue flowers.
shank's pony — one's own legs, especially as a means of moving from one place to another: The only way we can get there is by shanks' mare.

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