6-letter words containing k
- hakims — Plural form of hakim.
- hakmem — (publication) /hak'mem/ MIT AI Memo 239 (February 1972). A legendary collection of neat mathematical and programming hacks contributed by many people at MIT and elsewhere. (The title of the memo really is "HAKMEM", which is a 6-letterism for "hacks memo".) Some of them are very useful techniques, powerful theorems, or interesting unsolved problems, but most fall into the category of mathematical and computer trivia. Here is a sampling of the entries (with authors), slightly paraphrased: Item 41 (Gene Salamin): There are exactly 23,000 prime numbers less than 2^18. Item 46 (Rich Schroeppel): The most *probable* suit distribution in bridge hands is 4-4-3-2, as compared to 4-3-3-3, which is the most *evenly* distributed. This is because the world likes to have unequal numbers: a thermodynamic effect saying things will not be in the state of lowest energy, but in the state of lowest disordered energy. Item 81 (Rich Schroeppel): Count the magic squares of order 5 (that is, all the 5-by-5 arrangements of the numbers from 1 to 25 such that all rows, columns, and diagonals add up to the same number). There are about 320 million, not counting those that differ only by rotation and reflection. Item 154 (Bill Gosper): The myth that any given programming language is machine independent is easily exploded by computing the sum of powers of 2. If the result loops with period = 1 with sign +, you are on a sign-magnitude machine. If the result loops with period = 1 at -1, you are on a twos-complement machine. If the result loops with period greater than 1, including the beginning, you are on a ones-complement machine. If the result loops with period greater than 1, not including the beginning, your machine isn't binary - the pattern should tell you the base. If you run out of memory, you are on a string or bignum system. If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence. But the very ability to trap overflow is machine dependent. By this strategy, consider the universe, or, more precisely, algebra: Let X = the sum of many powers of 2 = ...111111 (base 2). Now add X to itself: X + X = ...111110. Thus, 2X = X - 1, so X = -1. Therefore algebra is run on a machine (the universe) that is two's-complement. Item 174 (Bill Gosper and Stuart Nelson): 21963283741 is the only number such that if you represent it on the PDP-10 as both an integer and a floating-point number, the bit patterns of the two representations are identical. Item 176 (Gosper): The "banana phenomenon" was encountered when processing a character string by taking the last 3 letters typed out, searching for a random occurrence of that sequence in the text, taking the letter following that occurrence, typing it out, and iterating. This ensures that every 4-letter string output occurs in the original. The program typed BANANANANANANANA.... We note an ambiguity in the phrase, "the Nth occurrence of." In one sense, there are five 00's in 0000000000; in another, there are nine. The editing program TECO finds five. Thus it finds only the first ANA in BANANA, and is thus obligated to type N next. By Murphy's Law, there is but one NAN, thus forcing A, and thus a loop. An option to find overlapped instances would be useful, although it would require backing up N - 1 characters before seeking the next N-character string. Note: This last item refers to a Dissociated Press implementation. See also banana problem. HAKMEM also contains some rather more complicated mathematical and technical items, but these examples show some of its fun flavour. HAKMEM is available from MIT Publications as a TIFF file.
- hanked — a skein, as of thread or yarn.
- hanker — to have a restless or incessant longing (often followed by after, for, or an infinitive).
- hankie — a handkerchief.
- hankou — a former city in E Hubei province, in E China: now part of Wuhan.
- hankow — a former city in E Hubei province, in E China: now part of Wuhan.
- harked — to listen attentively; hearken.
- harken — Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
- hawick — a town in SE Scotland, in S central Scottish Borders: knitwear industry. Pop: 14 573 (2001)
- hawked — a noisy effort to clear the throat.
- hawker — a person who offers goods for sale by shouting his or her wares in the street or going from door to door; peddler.
- hawkes — John, 1925–1998, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- hawkey — Obsolete form of hockey.
- hawkie — a cow, esp a favourite one
- hawkit — (of animals) having a white streak or spots on the face
- heckle — to harass (a public speaker, performer, etc.) with impertinent questions, gibes, or the like; badger.
- hekate — a goddess of the earth and Hades, associated with sorcery, hounds, and crossroads.
- hekto- — hecto-
- hicker — an unsophisticated, boorish, and provincial person; rube.
- hickey — Slang. a pimple. a reddish mark left on the skin by a passionate kiss.
- hickie — Slang. a pimple. a reddish mark left on the skin by a passionate kiss.
- hickok — James Butler ("Wild Bill") 1837–76, U.S. frontiersman.
- hickox — Richard (Sidney). 1948–2008, British conductor; musical director of the City of London Sinfonia and Singers (1971–2008)
- hickup — Alternative spelling of hiccup.
- hijack — to steal (cargo) from a truck or other vehicle after forcing it to stop: to hijack a load of whiskey.
- hijiki — a dark brown seaweed that grows in treelike fronds, used dried and shredded in Japanese cookery.
- hikers — Plural form of hiker.
- hiking — to walk or march a great distance, especially through rural areas, for pleasure, exercise, military training, or the like.
- hinkey — acting in a nervous or very cautious way.
- hinkty — acting in a nervous or very cautious way.
- hocked — the state of being deposited or held as security; pawn: She was forced to put her good jewelry in hock.
- hocker — pawn1 .
- hocket — a technique in medieval musical composition in which two or three voice parts are given notes or short phrases in rapid alternation, producing an erratic, hiccuping effect.
- hockey — ice hockey.
- hockle — (of a rope) to have the yarns spread and kinked through twisting in use.
- hoicks — a cry used to encourage hounds to hunt
- hokier — Comparative form of hokey.
- hokily — In a hokey way.
- hoking — to alter or manipulate so as to give a deceptively or superficially improved quality or value (usually followed by up): a political speech hoked up with phony statistics.
- honked — the cry of a goose.
- honker — honky.
- honkey — honky.
- honkie — a contemptuous term used to refer to a white person.
- hookah — a tobacco pipe of Near Eastern origin with a long, flexible tube by which the smoke is drawn through a jar of water and thus cooled.
- hooked — bent like a hook; hook-shaped.
- hooker — Joseph, 1814–79, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
- hookey — unjustifiable absence from school, work, etc. (usually used in the phrase play hooky): On the first warm spring day the boys played hooky to go fishing.
- hookup — an act or instance of hooking up.
- hotkey — an assigned key or sequence of keys programmed to execute a command or perform a specific task in a software application: On Windows computers, the hotkey Ctrl+S can be used to quickly save a file.