12-letter words containing c, l, o, k, e
- cryptolocker — (security) The best known example of the kind of malware known as ransomware. CryptoLocker encrypts files on your computer and then demands that you send the malware operator money in order to have the files decrypted. According to FBI estimates, CryptoLocker had more than 500,000 victims between September 2013 and May 2014. Around 1.3 percent paid to free their files, earning the malware makers around $3 million. The criminal network was smashed by authorities and security researchers in May 2014 and a tool put online to decryt victim's files for free.
- cuckooflower — a bitter cress (Cardamine pratensis) bearing white or rose flowers; lady's-smock
- 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.
- cycloalkanes — Cycloalkanes are molecules which contain only carbon-hydrogen bonds, with the carbon atoms joined in a ring.
- cytoskeletal — of or relating to a cytoskeleton
- cytoskeleton — a network of fibrous proteins that governs the shape and movement of a biological cell
- czechoslovak — Czechoslovak means belonging or relating to the former state of Czechoslovakia.
- dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
- docking keel — one of two keellike projections for bracing a hull of a ship against bilge blocks when the ship is in dry dock.
- dockwalloper — longshoreman
- 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.
- electro-funk — a type of electronic music, originating in the 1980s, characterized by the use of synthesizers with a heavy rhythm and punctuated bass, often influenced by the genres of funk and hip-hop
- electroshock — Of or relating to medical treatment by means of electric shocks.
- engine block — the metal casting containing the piston chambers of an internal combustion engine
- field hockey — a game played on a rectangular field having a netted goal at each end, in which two teams of 11 players each compete in driving a small leather-covered ball into the other's goal, each player being equipped with a stick having a curved end or blade that is flat on one side and rounded on the other.
- flickermouse — Alternative form of flittermouse.
- floor pocket — one of several metal boxes placed backstage in the floor (floor pocket) or wall of a theater and containing jacks for electric cables used in lighting units.
- flowerpecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
- folk society — an often small, homogeneous, and isolated community or society functioning chiefly through primary contacts and strongly attached to its traditional ways of living.
- glockenspiel — a musical instrument composed of a set of graduated steel bars mounted in a frame and struck with hammers, used especially in bands.
- heckelphones — Plural form of heckelphone.
- hello packet — (networking, communications) An OSPF packet sent periodically on each network interface, real or virtual, to discover and test connections to neighbours. Hello packets are multicast on physical networks capable of multicasting or broadcasting to enable dynamic router discovery. They include the parameters that routers connected to a common network must agree on. Hello packets increase network resilience by, e.g., allowing a router to establish a secondary connection when a primary connection fails.
- honeysuckles — Plural form of honeysuckle.
- interlocking — to fit into each other, as parts of machinery, so that all action is synchronized.
- jackson hole — a valley in NW Wyoming, near the Teton Range: wildlife preserve.
- jacksonville — a seaport in NE Florida, on the St. John's River.
- junior clerk — a clerk of low rank
- kaleidoscope — an optical instrument in which bits of glass, held loosely at the end of a rotating tube, are shown in continually changing symmetrical forms by reflection in two or more mirrors set at angles to each other.
- ketoconazole — a synthetic substance, C 26 H 28 Cl 2 N 4 O 4 , used to treat a variety of fungal infections.
- kick oneself — regret sth
- killer micro — [Popularised by Eugene Brooks] A microprocessor-based machine that infringes on mini, mainframe, or supercomputer performance turf. Often heard in "No one will survive the attack of the killer micros!", the battle cry of the downsizers. Used especially of RISC architectures. The popularity of the phrase "attack of the killer micros" is doubtless reinforced by the movie title "Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes" (one of the canonical examples of so-bad-it's-wonderful among hackers). This has even more flavour now that killer micros have gone on the offensive not just individually (in workstations) but in hordes (within massively parallel computers).
- kilocalories — Plural form of kilocalorie.
- kitchen foil — aluminium foil used in cooking or storing food
- kleptocratic — a government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves.
- kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
- knuckle down — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
- knucklebones — (in humans) any of the bones forming a knuckle of a finger.
- kona cyclone — a slow-moving cyclone occuring during the winter over the subtropical Pacific Ocean.
- lake jackson — a town in S Texas.
- lancet clock — a mantel clock having a case formed like an acutely pointed arch.
- leader block — Nautical. lead block.
- letter stock — unregistered stock sold privately by a company so as not to have a negative effect on the price of its publicly traded stock.