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12-letter words containing t, h, e, k

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • hit the silk — the soft, lustrous fiber obtained as a filament from the cocoon of the silkworm.
  • hobble skirt — a woman's skirt that is very narrow at the bottom, causing the wearer to walk with short, mincing steps.
  • hockey skate — a tubular ice skate having a shorter blade than a racing skate and often having a reinforced shoe for protection.
  • hockey stick — the stick used in field hockey or ice hockey.
  • holkar state — a former state of central India, ruled by the Holkar dynasty of Maratha rulers of Indore (18th century until 1947)
  • honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
  • 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 black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
  • 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.
  • jack-the-lad — a young man who is regarded as a brash, loud show-off
  • kaffeeklatch — Alternative spelling of coffee klatch.
  • 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).
  • katharometer — (science) A device used for analyzing gas mixtures by measuring their thermal conductivity.
  • keep in with — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
  • keep up with — go as fast
  • 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.
  • kenny method — a method of treating poliomyelitis, in which hot, moist packs are applied to affected muscles to relieve spasms and pain, and a regimen of exercises is prescribed to prevent deformities and to strengthen the muscles.
  • kentish fire — prolonged clapping by an audience, especially in unison, indicating impatience or disapproval.
  • keratohyalin — (biology) A protein structure found in granules in the stratum granulosum of the epidermis, which may be involved in keratinization, and in Hassall corpuscles in the thymus.
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