12-letter words containing w, k, r
- acknowledger — to admit to be real or true; recognize the existence, truth, or fact of: to acknowledge one's mistakes.
- al-khwarizmi — Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
- anklewarmers — Plural form of anklewarmer.
- ass-backward — the wrong way round; back to front; in the opposite order to what is considered normal
- assbackwards — in an order or way reverse from the usual: You've sewn the sleeve on assbackwards.
- autorickshaw — (in India) a light three-wheeled vehicle driven by a motorcycle engine
- awe-stricken — filled with awe.
- backswimmers — Plural form of backswimmer.
- backswordman — a person who uses a backsword.
- backwardness — toward the back or rear.
- baldwin park — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 76,000
- basketweaver — a person who advocates simple, natural, and unsophisticated living
- berwickshire — (until 1975) a county of SE Scotland: part of the Borders region from 1975 to 1996, now part of Scottish Borders council area
- black pewter — pewter composed of 60 percent tin and 40 percent lead.
- black powder — gunpowder as used in sports involving modern muzzleloading firearms
- 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
- bourke-white — Margaret. 1906–71, US photographer, a pioneer of modern photojournalism: noted esp for her coverage of World War II
- breakweather — any makeshift shelter.
- broken arrow — a town in NE Oklahoma.
- broken water — a patch of water whose surface is rippled or choppy, usually surrounded by relatively calm water.
- 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 canker — a fungous disease of roses, characterized by leaf and flower lesions, stem cankers surrounded by a reddish-purple border, and dieback.
- brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
- browser skin — a changeable decorative background for a browser
- by-a-whisker — whiskers, a beard.
- charity work — unpaid work, usually fundraising, done in aid of a charity
- checkweigher — a person or machine that measures the weight of commodities on a production line or in a colliery
- chicken wire — Chicken wire is a type of thin wire netting.
- clos network — (networking) A type of network topology that can connect N inputs to N outputs with less that N^2 crosspoint switches.
- cock sparrow — a male sparrow
- cockthrowing — the sport of knocking down, or killing, a cock that is tied to a post
- cold working — Cold working is a process in which metal is shaped at a fairly low temperature. This increases the metal's yield strength but makes it less ductile.
- corn whiskey — a whisky made from maize
- crack willow — a species of commonly grown willow, Salix fragilis, with branches that snap easily
- csk software — (company) An international software company formed by the merger of Quay Financial Software and Micrognosis, and fully owned by CSK Corporation, Japan. CSK Software is based in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) with offices in London (UK), Zurich (Switzerland), Madrid (Spain), and Singapore. Products segments are RDD: Real-time data delivery, main product is Slingshot for delivering real-time data over the Internet (real push technology). ETS: Electronic Trading Systems, price calculation and automatic trading (with connections to XONTRO and XETRA). EAI: Enterprise Application Integration, main product is XGen, a universal message converter with GUI and connections also to SWIFT. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: CSK Software AG, Opernplatz 2, D-60313 Frankfurt, Germany. Tel: +49 (69) 509 520. Fax: +49 (69) 5095 2333.
- cuckooflower — a bitter cress (Cardamine pratensis) bearing white or rose flowers; lady's-smock
- cutwork lace — point coupé (def 2).
- cutwork-lace — Also called cutwork. a process for producing lace in which predetermined threads in the ground material are cut and removed in order to provide open areas for the insertion of ornamental patterns.
- dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
- dockwalloper — longshoreman
- draw a blank — (of paper or other writing surface) having no marks; not written or printed on: a blank sheet of paper.
- factory work — work in a factory
- fire walking — a religious rite in which people walk barefoot over white-hot ashes, stones, etc
- floorwalkers — Plural form of floorwalker.
- flowerpecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
- groundworker — One who works on the ground, as opposed to an aviator, etc.
- guest worker — a foreign worker permitted to work in a country, especially in Western Europe, on a temporary basis.
- hard-working — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
- hawk's beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- hawk's-beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
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