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12-letter words containing a, r, o, w

  • contrariwise — from a contrasting point of view; on the other hand
  • coomaraswamy — Ananda (Kentish). 1877–1947, Ceylonese art historian and interpreter of Indian culture to the West
  • core drawing — drawing of fine tubing using wire as a mandrel.
  • core gateway — Historically, one of a set of gateways (routers) operated by the Internet Network Operations Center at Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN). The core gateway system formed a central part of Internet routing in that all groups must advertise paths to their networks from a core gateway.
  • corn earworm — the larva of the noctuid moth Heliothis armigera, which feeds on maize and many other crop plants
  • cornishwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall
  • counterwoman — A woman who serves at a counter.
  • countrywoman — A countrywoman is a woman who lives in the country rather than in a city or a town.
  • court of law — When you refer to a court of law, you are referring to a legal court, especially when talking about the evidence that might be given in a trial.
  • cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
  • crack willow — a species of commonly grown willow, Salix fragilis, with branches that snap easily
  • croquet lawn — a lawn where croquet is played
  • crosscut saw — a saw for cutting timber across the grain
  • crown antler — the topmost prong of a stag's antler.
  • crown canopy — canopy (def 4).
  • crown estate — the property owned by the British Crown; state-owned property
  • crown octavo — a size of book, about 5 × 7½ inches (13 × 19 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: crown 8vo.
  • crown quarto — a size of book, about 7½ × 10 inches (19 × 25 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: crown 4to.
  • crowned head — a monarch
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • darning wool — wool used for darning
  • dawn redwood — a deciduous conifer, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, native to China but planted in other regions as an ornamental tree: family Taxodiaceae. Until the 1940s it was known only as a fossil
  • dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
  • dockwalloper — longshoreman
  • donationware — (Internet) A variant of freeware that offers an option to its user to donate money to the program's author.
  • down-hearted — dejected; depressed; discouraged.
  • downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.
  • drawing room — a formal reception room, especially in an apartment or private house.
  • dwarf cornel — the bunchberry.
  • dwarf mallow — cheese1 (def 5).
  • editorial we — we (def 6).
  • elbow grease — physical effort
  • factory work — work in a factory
  • fall forward — (communications)   A feature of a modem protocol where two modems which fall back to a lower speed because of data corruption can later return to the higher speed if the connection improves.
  • fall webworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm) or Loxostege similalis (garden webworm) which spins a web over the foliage on which it feeds.
  • fast forward — advance rapidly through
  • fast-forward — a function of an audio or video recorder or player, as a cassette deck or DVR, that allows the content to be advanced rapidly.
  • fast-growing — growing very quickly
  • feed-forward — A multi-layer perceptron network in which the outputs from all neurons (see McCulloch-Pitts) go to following but not preceding layers, so there are no feedback loops.
  • flamethrower — a weapon, either mounted or portable, that sprays ignited incendiary fuel for some distance.
  • flash powder — powder that could be ignited to provide a bright light to take a photograph
  • flashforward — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which a future event or scene is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
  • flight arrow — an arrow having a conical or pyramidal head without barbs.
  • flooring saw — a saw having a curved edge.
  • floorwalkers — Plural form of floorwalker.
  • flow breccia — a volcanic breccia that has solidified from a lava flow.
  • flow pattern — The flow pattern is the way in which fluids move through a reactor.
  • flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
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