12-letter words containing b, a, k, l, w
- baldwin park — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 76,000
- bank swallow — a swallow, Riparia riparia, of the Northern Hemisphere, that nests in tunnels dug in sand or clay banks.
- beaked whale — any of a worldwide family (Ziphiidae) of medium-sized toothed whales characterized by a long, narrow snout
- black pewter — pewter composed of 60 percent tin and 40 percent lead.
- black powder — gunpowder as used in sports involving modern muzzleloading firearms
- black walnut — a North American walnut tree, Juglans nigra, with hard dark wood and edible oily nuts
- black wattle — a small Australian acacia tree, A. mearnsii, with yellow flowers
- bladderwrack — any of several seaweeds of the genera Fucus and Ascophyllum, esp F. vesiculosus, that grow in the intertidal regions of rocky shores and have branched brown fronds with air bladders
- blue-sky law — a state law regulating the trading of securities: intended to protect investors from fraud
- brooks's law — (programming) "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later" - a result of the fact that the expected advantage from splitting work among N programmers is O(N) (that is, proportional to N), but the complexity and communications cost associated with coordinating and then merging their work is O(N^2) (that is, proportional to the square of N). The quote is from Fred Brooks, a manager of IBM's OS/360 project and author of "The Mythical Man-Month". The myth in question has been most tersely expressed as "Programmer time is fungible" and Brooks established conclusively that it is not. Hackers have never forgotten his advice; too often, management still does. See also creationism, second-system effect, optimism.
- brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
- dak bungalow — (in India, formerly) a house where travellers on a dak route could be accommodated
- draw a blank — (of paper or other writing surface) having no marks; not written or printed on: a blank sheet of paper.
- go walkabout — to wander through the bush
- kerb-crawler — a man who drives slowly looking to entice a prostitute into his car for sexual purposes
- knowableness — the quality of being knowable
- knowledgable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- lambeth walk — a spirited ballroom dance popular, especially in England, in the late 1930s.
- law-breaking — Law-breaking is any kind of illegal activity.
- lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
- rock wallaby — any wallaby of the genus Petrogale, having a banded or striped coat, slender body, and long legs and feet, inhabiting caves and rocky areas in Australia.
- swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
- walking bass — (in jazz piano) a left-hand accompaniment consisting of a continuous rhythm of four beats to the measure, usually with a repetitive melodic pattern.
- walking beam — an overhead oscillating lever, pivoted at the middle, for transmitting force from a vertical connecting rod below one end to a vertical connecting rod, pump rod, etc., below the other end.
- walking boot — a lightweight rigid knee-length boot with a reinforced sole and straps that fasten around the leg, used for support after a sprain or fracture
- wildcat bank — a bank that issued notes without adequate security in the period before the establishment of the national banking system in 1864.
- wilkes-barre — a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
- workableness — The quality or state of being workable, or the extent to which a thing is workable.
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