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12-letter words containing b, o, k, c, l

  • dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
  • double block — a block having two sheaves or pulleys.
  • double bucky — Using both the CTRL and META keys. "The command to burn all LEDs is double bucky F." This term originated on the Stanford extended-ASCII keyboard, and was later taken up by users of the space-cadet keyboard at MIT. A typical MIT comment was that the Stanford bucky bits (control and meta shifting keys) were nice, but there weren't enough of them; you could type only 512 different characters on a Stanford keyboard. An obvious way to address this was simply to add more shifting keys, and this was eventually done; but a keyboard with that many shifting keys is hard on touch-typists, who don't like to move their hands away from the home position on the keyboard. It was half-seriously suggested that the extra shifting keys be implemented as pedals; typing on such a keyboard would be very much like playing a full pipe organ. This idea is mentioned in a parody of a very fine song by Jeffrey Moss called "Rubber Duckie", which was published in "The Sesame Street Songbook" (Simon and Schuster 1971, ISBN 0-671-21036-X). These lyrics were written on May 27, 1978, in celebration of the Stanford keyboard: Double Bucky Double bucky, you're the one! You make my keyboard lots of fun. Double bucky, an additional bit or two: (Vo-vo-de-o!) Control and meta, side by side, Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide! Double bucky! Half a thousand glyphs, plus a few! Oh, I sure wish that I Had a couple of Bits more! Perhaps a Set of pedals to Make the number of Bits four: Double double bucky! Double bucky, left and right OR'd together, outta sight! Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of Double bucky, I'm happy I heard of Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of you! - The Great Quux (With apologies to Jeffrey Moss. This, by the way, is an excellent example of computer filk --- ESR). See also meta bit, cokebottle, and quadruple bucky.
  • double track — two railways side by side, typically for traffic in two directions
  • double truck — Typesetting. a chase for holding the type for a center spread, especially for a newspaper.
  • double-check — a simultaneous check by two pieces in which the moving of one piece to give check also results in discovering a check by another piece.
  • double-click — to click a mouse button twice in rapid succession, as to open a program or select a file: Double-click on the desktop icon.
  • double-quick — very quick or rapid.
  • doubledecker — Alternative spelling of double-decker.
  • engine block — the metal casting containing the piston chambers of an internal combustion engine
  • fall back on — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
  • goldbricking — Present participle of goldbrick.
  • gondola back — a chair or couch back curving forward and downward to form arms.
  • impost block — dosseret.
  • knucklebones — (in humans) any of the bones forming a knuckle of a finger.
  • leader block — Nautical. lead block.
  • mental block — inability to recall
  • monkey block — Nautical. a single block that swivels.
  • monkey climb — a wrestling throw in which a contestant seizes his or her opponent's arms or neck, places his feet on the opponent's stomach, and falls backwards, straightening the legs and throwing the opponent over his or her head
  • office block — a large office building.
  • on the block — for sale at auction
  • peacock blue — a lustrous greenish blue, as of certain peacock feathers.
  • pillow block — a cast-iron or steel block for supporting a journal or bearing.
  • plinth block — a plinth interrupting a door or window architrave at the floor or ground level.
  • public works — government-funded construction
  • rock climber — sb who scales mountains
  • rock lobster — spiny lobster.
  • rock wallaby — any wallaby of the genus Petrogale, having a banded or striped coat, slender body, and long legs and feet, inhabiting caves and rocky areas in Australia.
  • saddle block — a type of spinal anaesthesia producing sensory loss in the buttocks, inner sides of the thighs, and perineum
  • salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
  • snatch block — a fairlead having the form of a block that can be opened to receive the bight of a rope at any point along its length.
  • spinal block — spinal anesthesia.
  • sticky blood — a condition of the blood, particularly associated with Hughes syndrome, in which antibodies tend to adhere to platelets and glue them together, leading to an increased likelihood of clotting
  • stock symbol — A stock symbol is a standard abbreviation for a publicly traded stock.
  • the bollocks — something excellent
  • unreckonable — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
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