12-letter words containing b, a, w, l, s
- avowableness — the quality or condition of being avowable
- ballanwrasse — a slow-growing fish (Labrus bergylta) found in rocky waters
- 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
- 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.
- blue-sky law — a state law regulating the trading of securities: intended to protect investors from fraud
- bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
- breast wheel — a waterwheel onto which the propelling water is fed at the height of a horizontal axle.
- 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
- cassel brown — Vandyke brown.
- disallowable — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- elbow grease — physical effort
- gallows bird — a person who deserves to be hanged.
- glassblowing — the art or process of forming or shaping a mass of molten or heat-softened glass into ware by blowing air into it through a tube.
- hubble's law — the law that the velocity of recession of distant galaxies from our own is proportional to their distance from us.
- knowableness — the quality of being knowable
- lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
- sewing table — a worktable for holding sewing materials, often supplied with a bag or pouch for needlework.
- slumber wear — nightclothes
- swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
- swim bladder — air bladder (def 2).
- unanswerable — not capable of being answered; not having a known or discoverable answer: an unanswerable question.
- unshadowable — not able to be shadowed
- urban sprawl — the uncontrolled spread of urban development into neighboring regions.
- 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.
- welsh rabbit — a dish of melted cheese, usually mixed with ale or beer, milk, and spices, served over toast.
- west babylon — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- wheelbarrows — Plural form of wheelbarrow.
- wilkes-barre — a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
- williamsburg — a city in SE Virginia: colonial capital of Virginia; now restored to its original pre-Revolutionary style.
- womb-leasing — bearing a child on behalf of a couple unable to have a child; surrogacy
- workableness — The quality or state of being workable, or the extent to which a thing is workable.
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