12-letter words containing c, o, k, u
- dockominiums — Plural form of dockominium.
- 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.
- duck-shoving — the evasion of responsibility by someone
- 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
- flickermouse — Alternative form of flittermouse.
- four-o'clock — a common garden plant, Mirabilis jalapa, of the four-o'clock family, having tubular red, white, yellow, or variegated flowers that open late in the afternoon.
- fourses cake — a traditional English bread made with lard, dried fruit, and spices
- function key — a key on a computer keyboard or terminal that, when pressed, alone or in combination with other keys, causes a specific computational or mechanical operation to be carried out.
- futtock band — a metal band around a lower mast somewhat below the top, for holding the lower ends of a futtock shroud.
- future shock — physical and psychological disturbance caused by a person's inability to cope with very rapid social and technological change.
- give suck to — to give (a baby or young animal) milk from the breast or udder
- ground track — the path on the earth's surface below an aircraft, missile, rocket, or spacecraft.
- honey bucket — a container for excrement, as in an outdoor toilet.
- honeysuckles — Plural form of honeysuckle.
- housewrecker — wrecker (def 4).
- junior clerk — a clerk of low rank
- ketoaciduria — (pathology) The presence of (excess) ketoacids in the urine.
- king's scout — (in Great Britain) a boy scout who has achieved the highest level of scouting: similar to the U.S. eagle scout.
- knock around — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- 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.
- kurchatovium — (chemistry) A rejected name for rutherfordium.
- leukocytosis — an increase in the number of white blood cells in the blood.
- make much of — great in quantity, measure, or degree: too much cake.
- mickey mouse — trite and commercially slick in character; corny: mickey mouse music.
- milk product — Milk products are foods made from milk, for example butter, cheese, and yoghurt.
- mock-serious — pretending to be serious as a joke, etc
- mockumentary — a movie or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary.
- mossycup oak — bur oak
- motherfucker — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- mouse jockey — a person whose job mainly involves working with computers, esp for web and graphic design
- muscovy duck — a large, crested, wild duck, Cairina moschata, of tropical America, that has been widely domesticated.
- music locker — Digital Technology. an online service that supports cloud-based storage of digital music files so as to allow users to stream or download their personal music collections for playback on any compatible device: I uploaded all my CDs to a music locker, and now I can access the music from my laptop, tablet, or smartphone.
- new york cut — a porterhouse steak with the fillet removed.
- no such luck — You can say 'No such luck' when you want to express your disappointment over something.
- occurs check — (programming) A feature of some implementations of unification which causes unification of a logic variable V and a structure S to fail if S contains V. Binding a variable to a structure containing that variable results in a cyclic structure which may subsequently cause unification to loop forever. Some implementations use extra pointer comparisons to avoid this. Most implementations of Prolog do not perform the occurs check for reasons of efficiency. Without occurs check the complexity of unification is O(min(size(term1), size(term2))) with occurs check it's O(max(size(term1), size(term2))) In theorem proving unification without the occurs check can lead to unsound inference. For example, in Prolog it is quite valid to write X = f(X). which will succeed, binding X to a cyclic structure. Clearly however, if f is taken to stand for a function rather than a constructor, then the above equality is only valid if f is the identity function. Weijland calls unification without occur check, "complete unification". The reference below describes a complete unification algorithm in terms of Colmerauer's consistency algorithm.
- ohio buckeye — See under buckeye (def 1).
- out of stock — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- out of whack — to strike with a smart, resounding blow or blows.
- package tour — a planned tour in which one fee is charged for all expenses: offering package tours of the chateau country.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- peacock blue — a lustrous greenish blue, as of certain peacock feathers.
- picture book — a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.