12-letter words containing a, w, s, o
- acknowledges — to admit to be real or true; recognize the existence, truth, or fact of: to acknowledge one's mistakes.
- allhallowmas — All Saints' Day.
- alloy wheels — wheels made from an steel alloy, usually of aluminium or magnesium, for improved properties such as reduced weight, better heat conductance and a shiny appearance
- alton towers — a 19th-century Gothic Revival mansion with extensive gardens in NW central England, in Staffordshire: site of a large amusement park
- at the worst — bad or ill in the highest, greatest, or most extreme degree: the worst person.
- at wholesale — in large quantities
- auger shower — a shower of electrons, photons, etc. resulting from the collision of primary cosmic rays with atomic nuclei in the atmosphere
- autorickshaw — (in India) a light three-wheeled vehicle driven by a motorcycle engine
- avowableness — the quality or condition of being avowable
- back to taws — back to the beginning
- backswordman — a person who uses a backsword.
- backwoodsman — Backwoodsmen are people, especially politicians, who like the old ways of doing things, or who are involved in an organization at a local level.
- backwoodsmen — Plural form of backwoodsman.
- bank swallow — a swallow, Riparia riparia, of the Northern Hemisphere, that nests in tunnels dug in sand or clay banks.
- barn swallow — the US and Canadian name for the common swallow, Hirundo rustica
- bastardsword — Alternative spelling of bastard sword.
- battlewagons — Plural form of battlewagon.
- below stairs — People sometimes use below stairs to refer to the servants in a rich household and the things that are connected with them.
- bond washing — a series of deals in bonds made with the intention of avoiding taxation
- bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
- 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.
- by wholesale — at wholesale
- can of worms — a complicated problem
- cape sparrow — a sparrow, Passer melanurus, very common in southern Africa: family Ploceidae
- cassel brown — Vandyke brown.
- cauliflowers — Plural form of cauliflower.
- chowderheads — Plural form of chowderhead.
- cock sparrow — a male sparrow
- contrariwise — from a contrasting point of view; on the other hand
- conway's law — (project, humour) The rule (presumably formulated by Melvin Conway) that the organisation of software and the organisation of the software team will be congruent; originally stated as "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler".
- coomaraswamy — Ananda (Kentish). 1877–1947, Ceylonese art historian and interpreter of Indian culture to the West
- cornishwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall
- cotton waste — refuse cotton yarn, esp when used as a cleaning material
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- crosscut saw — a saw for cutting timber across the grain
- crown estate — the property owned by the British Crown; state-owned property
- 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.
- dalton's law — the principle that the pressure exerted by a mixture of gases in a fixed volume is equal to the sum of the pressures that each gas would exert if it occupied the whole volume
- dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
- disallowable — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- disallowance — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- dovetail saw — a backsaw for fine woodworking, as dovetailing.
- downcastness — The quality of being downcast.
- easting down — the passage eastward from the Cape of Good Hope, as made by a sailing ship bound for Australia or the East Indies.
- elbow grease — physical effort
- englishwoman — adult female from England
- fashion show — a show in which models display clothes to prospective buyers
- fast forward — advance rapidly through
- fast-flowing — water: rapid
- 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.
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