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12-letter words containing a, l, s, o

  • blastomycete — any of a genus (Blastomyces) of yeastlike imperfect fungi that cause diseases in people and animals
  • blastosphere — blastula
  • blastulation — the process of blastula formation
  • block island — an island off the coast of and a part of Rhode Island, at the E entrance to Long Island Sound.
  • block signal — a fixed railroad signal governing the movements of trains entering and using a given section of track.
  • blood plasma — the pale yellow fluid portion of the blood; blood from which red and white blood cells and platelets have been removed
  • blood sample — an amount of a person's blood taken from their body for use in medical tests
  • blood spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
  • bloodstained — Someone or something that is bloodstained is covered with blood.
  • board school — (formerly) a school managed by a board elected by local ratepayers
  • boardsailing — windsurfing
  • bog asphodel — either of two liliaceous plants, Narthecium ossifragum of Europe or N. americanum of North America, that grow in boggy places and have small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves
  • bombay hills — a row of hills marking the southern boundary of greater Auckland on the North Island, New Zealand
  • bonnet glass — monteith (def 2).
  • bonnet-glass — a large punch bowl, usually of silver, having a notched rim for suspending punch cups.
  • borosilicate — a salt of boric and silicic acids
  • bottle glass — glass used for making bottles, consisting of a silicate of sodium, calcium, and aluminium
  • bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
  • bounce flash — a flash lamp designed to produce a bounced flash.
  • box lacrosse — a form of lacrosse played indoors, usually on a hockey rink with a wooden floor, between two teams of six players.
  • boyoma falls — a series of seven cataracts in the NE Democratic Republic of Congo, on the upper River Congo: forms an unnavigable stretch of 90 km (56 miles), which falls 60 m (200 ft)
  • brass-collar — unwaveringly faithful to a political party; voting the straight ticket: a brass-collar Democrat.
  • breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
  • 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.
  • buffalo fish — any of a genus (Ictiobus) of large, humpbacked, freshwater sucker fishes found in North America
  • burro's tail — a succulent Mexican plant, Sedum morganianum, of the stonecrop family, bearing small, rose-colored flowers and long, hanging, nearly cylindrical stems with closely packed whitish-green leaves.
  • by wholesale — at wholesale
  • byelorussian — Byelorussian means belonging or relating to Byelorussia or to its people or culture.
  • cactoblastis — a moth, Cactoblastis cactorum of South America, that was introduced into Australia to act as a biological control on the prickly pear
  • cadaverously — In a cadaverous manner.
  • cadet school — a training establishment for cadets in the army
  • caesalpinoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caesalpinoideae, a mainly tropical subfamily of leguminous plants that have irregular flowers: includes carob, senna, brazil, cassia, and poinciana
  • calamitously — In a calamitous manner.
  • calcareously — in a calcareous manner
  • calculations — Plural form of calculation.
  • calibrations — Plural form of calibration.
  • caliginosity — darkness
  • call to arms — a command to report for active military duty.
  • calorescence — the absorption of radiation by a body, subsequently re-emitted at a higher frequency (lower wavelength)
  • calorimeters — Plural form of calorimeter.
  • calumniators — Plural form of calumniator.
  • calumniously — in a calumnious manner
  • calycoideous — calycoid
  • camelopardus — a faint extensive constellation in the N hemisphere close to Ursa Major and Cassiopeia
  • caméra stylo — the use of the camera as a means of personal expression, esp as practised by some directors of the New Wave
  • canalisation — The conversion of a river or other waterway to a canal.
  • canoe slalom — a competitive event in which a canoeist maneuvers through a slalom course, usually in white water.
  • canonicalise — (transitive, computing, UK) Alternative form of canonicalize.
  • capillaceous — having numerous filaments resembling hairs or threads
  • capital cost — a cost incurred on the purchase of land, buildings, construction and equipment to be used in the production of goods or the rendering of services
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