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12-letter words containing a, k, t

  • earthshaking — imperiling, challenging, or affecting basic beliefs, attitudes, relationships, etc.
  • east suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk county, in E England.
  • endoskeletal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to an internal skeleton, usually of bone (an endoskeleton).
  • enterokinase — (enzyme) An enzyme, secreted by the upper intestinal mucosa, that catalyzes the activation of trypsinogen by converting it to trypsin.
  • eskimo-aleut — (designating or of) a family of languages including Aleut and the Eskimo languages
  • factory work — work in a factory
  • fairnitickle — a freckle resembling a fern seed
  • farm to fork — noting or relating to fresh, locally sourced food sold to local consumers or restaurants: farm-to-table meats and seasonal vegetables.
  • farm-to-fork — noting or relating to fresh, locally sourced food sold to local consumers or restaurants: farm-to-table meats and seasonal vegetables.
  • fast-tracker — of or relating to the fast track.
  • featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
  • field jacket — a close-fitting jacket for wear by soldiers in the field.
  • figure skate — a shoe skate used in figure skating, especially one having a blade shorter than that of a racing skate, usually not extending beyond the toe or heel, and with notches or sawteeth on the curved forward edge.
  • figure-skate — to take part in figure skating
  • fillet steak — boneless cut of beef
  • fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
  • flaky pastry — variety of puff pastry
  • forex market — short for
  • fort jackson — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in N central South Carolina, NE of Columbia.
  • fort kearney — a former fort in S Nebraska, near Kearney: an important post on the Oregon Trail.
  • fort pulaski — Count Casimir [kaz-uh-meer] /ˈkæz əˌmɪər/ (Show IPA), 1748–79, Polish patriot; general in the American Revolutionary army.
  • frank stella — Frank (Phillip) born 1936, U.S. painter.
  • frankenstein — a person who creates a monster or a destructive agency that cannot be controlled or that brings about the creator's ruin.
  • frankfurters — Plural form of frankfurter.
  • free skating — a freestyle competition with no required elements, in which skaters perform an original program of jumps, spins, sequences, etc., to music of their choice.
  • fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
  • frying steak — a steak that is cooked by frying
  • futtock band — a metal band around a lower mast somewhat below the top, for holding the lower ends of a futtock shroud.
  • gammon steak — a thick cut of meat made from smoked or cured bacon or ham and often served with pineapple or fried egg
  • garment rack — A garment rack is a rail used in stores to hang items of clothing on display, such as shirts and coats.
  • garter snake — any of numerous harmless snakes of the genus Thamnophis, common in North and Central America, ranging in size from 14 to 30 inches (36 to 76 cm) and typically having three longitudinal stripes on the back.
  • get cracking — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
  • get the sack — be dismissed from job
  • giant killer — sb who defeats a larger opponent
  • giant-killer — A giant-killer is a sportsman, sportswoman, or team that unexpectedly beats a much stronger opponent.
  • give or take — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
  • 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.
  • go walkabout — to wander through the bush
  • gordian knot — pertaining to Gordius, ancient king of Phrygia, who tied a knot (the Gordian knot) that, according to prophecy, was to be undone only by the person who was to rule Asia, and that was cut, rather than untied, by Alexander the Great.
  • granite peak — the highest elevation in Montana, in the S part. 12,799 feet (3901 meters).
  • graustarkian — of, like, or characteristic of colorful, implausible, highly melodramatic and romantic situations or circumstances
  • greater kudu — a spiral-horned antelope, Tragelaphus strepsiceros, which inhabits the bush of Africa
  • greenmarkets — Plural form of greenmarket.
  • ground track — the path on the earth's surface below an aircraft, missile, rocket, or spacecraft.
  • 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.
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