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12-letter words containing a, k, i, h

  • a fair shake — If you do not get a fair shake, you are not given a reasonable opportunity to succeed or to achieve something.
  • a thick skin — If you say that someone has a thick skin, you mean that they are able to listen to criticism about themselves without becoming offended.
  • aga khan iii — 1877–1957, leader of the Ismaʿili sect of Muslims in India 1885–1957.
  • al-khwarizmi — Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
  • alkyl halide — a compound with the type formula RX, where R is an alkyl group and X is a halogen.
  • and the like — If you mention particular things or people and then add and the like, you are indicating that there are other similar things or people that can be included in what you are saying.
  • antibacklash — relating to the prevention of a violent backward reaction or movement
  • apparatchiks — a member of an apparat, especially in a Communist country.
  • autorickshaw — (in India) a light three-wheeled vehicle driven by a motorcycle engine
  • back-kitchen — a room off a main kitchen, usually further towards the back of the house where washing-up or preparatory cooking work might be done; a scullery
  • backlighting — Movies, Television. a light source placed behind an actor, object, or scene to create a highlight that separates the subject from the background.
  • backslashing — Present participle of backslash.
  • backstitches — Plural form of backstitch.
  • backup light — Backup lights are the white lights on the back of a vehicle that shine when the vehicle moves backward.
  • baking sheet — A baking sheet is a flat piece of metal on which you bake foods such as biscuits or pies in an oven.
  • bank holiday — A bank holiday is a public holiday.
  • bashi-bazouk — a member of the notoriously brutal 19th-cent. Turkish irregulars
  • bashibazouks — Plural form of bashibazouk.
  • bashkirtseff — Marie, original name Marya Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva. 1858–84, Russian painter and diarist who wrote in French, noted esp for her Journal (1887)
  • basket chair — a chair made of wickerwork; a wicker chair
  • benchmarking — In business, benchmarking is a process in which a company compares its products and methods with those of the most successful companies in its field, in order to try to improve its own performance.
  • bhakti-marga — any of the three ways to salvation, which are those of devotion to certain gods (bhakti-marga) of study (jnana-marga) and of actions (karma-marga)
  • black heroin — a very potent and addictive form of heroin that is dark-colored.
  • black knight — a person or firm that makes an unwelcome takeover bid for a company
  • blatherskite — a talkative silly person
  • breathtaking — If you say that something is breathtaking, you are emphasizing that it is extremely beautiful or amazing.
  • bright spark — If you say that some bright spark had a particular idea or did something, you mean that their idea or action was clever, or that it seemed clever but was silly in some way.
  • brinkmanship — Brinkmanship is a method of behaviour, especially in politics, in which you deliberately get into dangerous situations which could result in disaster but which could also bring success.
  • burj khalifa — a slender tapering skyscraper in Dubai; completed in 2009; the world's tallest man-made structure, standing at 828m (2716 ft)
  • bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
  • by-a-whiskerwhiskers, a beard.
  • chain locker — a compartment where the chain or cable of an anchor is stowed when the anchor is raised.
  • chain smoker — person: smokes heavily
  • chain-smoker — A chain-smoker is a person who chain-smokes.
  • chakravartin — (in Indian philosophy, politics, etc.) an ideal, universal, enlightened ruler, under whom the world exists in justice and peace.
  • chalk stripe — (on a fabric) a pattern of thin white lines on a dark ground.
  • chalk-stripe — a stripe, as in the fabric of some suits, that is wider and usually more muted than a pinstripe
  • changchiakou — Zhangjiakou
  • charity work — unpaid work, usually fundraising, done in aid of a charity
  • cheddar pink — a low, mat-forming European plant, Dianthus gratianopolitanus, of the pink family, having solitary, fragrant, rose-colored flowers with fringed petals.
  • chickahominy — a member of a North American Indian tribe of the Powhatan confederacy that inhabited eastern Virginia.
  • chickasawhay — a river in SE Mississippi, flowing S to the Pascagoula River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
  • chicken hawk — any of various hawks, esp. an accipiter, that prey, or are reputed to prey, on barnyard fowl
  • chicken head — (graphics, abuse)   The Commodore Business Machines logo, which strongly resembles a poultry part. Rendered in ASCII as "C=". With the arguable exception of the Amiga, Commodore's computers are notoriously crocky little bitty boxes (see also PETSCII). Thus, this usage may owe something to Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (the basis for the movie "Blade Runner"; the novel is now sold under that title), in which a "chickenhead" is a mutant with below-average intelligence.
  • chickenheads — Plural form of chickenhead.
  • curtain hook — a hook used to attach a curtain to a curtain rail
  • daughterlike — Resembling a daughter.
  • display hack — (graphics)   A program with the same approximate purpose as a kaleidoscope: to make pretty pictures. Famous display hacks include munching squares, smoking clover, the BSD Unix "rain(6)" program, "worms(6)" on miscellaneous Unixes, and the X "kaleid(1)" program. Display hacks can also be implemented without programming by creating text files containing numerous escape sequences for interpretation by a video terminal; one notable example displayed, on any VT100, a Christmas tree with twinkling lights and a toy train circling its base. The hack value of a display hack is proportional to the aesthetic value of the images times the cleverness of the algorithm divided by the size of the code. Synonym psychedelicware.
  • earthshaking — imperiling, challenging, or affecting basic beliefs, attitudes, relationships, etc.
  • epoch-making — An epoch-making change or declaration is considered to be extremely important because it is likely to have a significant effect on a particular period of time.

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