12-letter words containing k, e, l
- velvet shank — a bright yellow edible basidiomycetous fungus, Flammulina velutipes, common on trunks, stumps, or branches of broad-leaved trees in winter
- vernoleninsk — former name of Nikolayev.
- wake-up call — an act or instance of waking up.
- walk of life — The walk of life that you come from is the position that you have in society and the kind of job you have.
- walk on eggs — the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.
- walk-up rate — The walk-up rate at a hotel is the price charged to a customer who arrives without a reservation.
- walker hound — an American foxhound having a black, tan, and white, or, sometimes, a tan and white coat.
- walking beam — an overhead oscillating lever, pivoted at the middle, for transmitting force from a vertical connecting rod below one end to a vertical connecting rod, pump rod, etc., below the other end.
- walking fern — a fern, Camptosorus rhizophyllus, having simple, triangular fronds tapering into a prolongation that bends at the top and often takes root at the apex.
- walking leaf — leaf insect.
- walking line — a line on the plan of a curving staircase on which all treads are of a uniform width and that is considered to be the ordinary path taken by persons on the stair.
- walking pace — the speed at which someone walks
- walking race — a race in which competitors must walk
- walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
- walnut creek — a town in W California.
- wanne-eickel — a city in the Ruhr region in W Germany.
- water-locked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
- watered silk — silk with a wavy lustrous finish
- watkins glen — a village in W New York, on Seneca Lake: gorge and cascades.
- welfare work — the efforts or programs of an agency, community, business organization, etc., to improve living conditions, increase job opportunities, secure hospitalization, and the like, for needy persons within its jurisdiction.
- well-skilled — having skill; trained or experienced in work that requires skill.
- well-stacked — (of a woman) having a voluptuous figure.
- well-stocked — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- wesley clark — (person) One of the designers of the Laboratory Instrument Computer at MIT who subsequently had a quiet hand in many seminal computing events, such as the development of the Internet, the first really good description of the metastability problem in computer logic.
- west suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk, in E England.
- whaler shark — a large voracious shark, Galeolamna macrurus, of E. Australian waters
- white alkali — Agriculture. a whitish layer of mineral salts, especially sodium sulfate, sodium chloride, and magnesium sulfate, often occurring on top of soils where rainfall is low.
- wilkes-barre — a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
- winterkilled — Simple past tense and past participle of winterkill.
- work to rule — If workers work to rule, they protest by working according to the rules of their job without doing any extra work or taking any new decisions.
- work-release — of or relating to a program under which prisoners may work outside of prison while serving their sentences.
- workableness — The quality or state of being workable, or the extent to which a thing is workable.
- worklessness — (British) Unemployment; the state of being without paid work.
- world-shaker — something of sufficient importance to affect the entire world: The book is no world-shaker, but it's pleasant reading.
- yale haskell — (language) A fully integrated Haskell programming environment. It provides tightly coupled interactive editing, incremental compilation and dynamic execution of Haskell programs. Two major modes of compilation, correspond to Lisp's traditional "interpreted" and "compiled" modes. Compiled and interpreted modules may be freely mixed in any combination. Yale Haskell is run using either a command-line interface or as an inferior process running under the Emacs editor. Using the Emacs interface, simple two-keystroke commands evaluate expressions, run dialogues, compile modules, turn specific compiler diagnostics on and off and enable and disable various optimisers. Commands may be queued up arbitrarily, thus allowing, for example, a compilation to be running in the background as the editing of a source file continues in Emacs in the foreground. A "scratch pad" may be automatically created for any module. Such a pad is a logical extension of the module, in which additional function and value definitions may be added, but whose evaluation does not result in recompilation of the module. A tutorial on Haskell is also provided in the Emacs environment. A Macintosh version of Yale Haskell includes its own integrated programming environment, complete with an Emacs-like editor and pull-down menus. Yale Haskell is a complete implementation of the Haskell language, but also contains a number of extensions, including: (1) Instead of stream based I/O, a monadic I/O system is used. Although similar to what will be part of the new Haskell 1.3 report, the I/O system will change yet again when 1.3 becomes official. (2) Haskell programs can call both Lisp and C functions using a flexible foreign function interface. (3) Yale Haskell includes a dynamic typing system. Dynamic typing has been used to implement derived instances in a user extensible manner. (4) A number of small Haskell 1.3 changes have been added, including polymorphic recursion and the use of @[email protected] in an expression to denote bottom. Although the 1.3 report is not yet complete, these changes will almost certainly be part of the new report. (5) A complete Haskell level X Window System interface, based on CLX. (6) A number of annotations are available for controlling the optimiser, including those for specifying both function and data constructor strictness properties, "inlining" functions, and specialising over-loaded functions. Many standard prelude functions have been specialised for better performance using these annotations. (7) Separate compilation (including mutually recursive modules) is supported using a notion of a UNIT file, which is a kind of localised makefile that tells the compiler about compiler options and logical dependencies amongst program files. (8) Yale Haskell supports both standard and "literate" Haskell syntax. Performance of Yale Haskell's compiled code has been improved considerably over previous releases. Although still not as good as the Glasgow (GHC) and Chalmers (HBC) compilers, the flexibility afforded by the features described earlier makes Yale Haskell a good choice for large systems development. For some idea of performance, Hartel's latest "Nuc" benchmark runs at about the same speed under both Yale Haskell and hbc. (Our experiments suggest, however, that Yale Haskell's compiled code is on average about 3 times slower than hbc.) Binaries are provided for Sun/SPARC and Macintosh, but it is possible to build the system on virtually any system that runs one of a number of Common Lisp implementations: CMU Common Lisp, Lucid Common Lisp, Allegro Common Lisp or Harlequin LispWorks. akcl, gcl and CLisp do not have adaquate performance for our compiler. The current version is 2.1.
- yellowjacket — (chiefly, US) A predatory wasp with alternating black and yellow stripes around the abdomen, usually of the genera Vespula or Dolichovespula.
- yellowshanks — A bird, the yellowlegs.
- zebulon pike — James Albert, 1913–69, U.S. Protestant Episcopal clergyman, lawyer, and author.