11-letter words containing k, o, l, w
- plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
- police work — the everyday duties of police officers, esp the investigation of criminal activities
- policy wonk — a person who studies or makes political policies, esp one who has a strong enthusiasm for technical details
- rainbowlike — resembling a rainbow
- random walk — Statistics. the path taken by a point or quantity that moves in steps, where the direction of each step is determined randomly.
- relief work — the work carried out by charities providing aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
- rock flower — any shrub of the genus Crossosoma, native to the arid regions of the southwestern U.S., having thick, narrow leaves and solitary flowers.
- slow cooker — an electric cooking pot with a tight-fitting lid for cooking meats, casseroles, etc., for several hours at relatively low temperatures, usually around 200° F (93.3° C).
- social work — organized work directed toward the betterment of social conditions in the community, as by seeking to improve the condition of the poor, to promote the welfare of children, etc.
- steelworker — a person employed in the process of manufacturing steel and steel products.
- stokes' law — the law that the force that retards a sphere moving through a viscous fluid is directly proportional to the velocity of the sphere, the radius of the sphere, and the viscosity of the fluid.
- swage block — an iron block containing holes and grooves of various sizes, used for heading bolts and shaping objects not easily worked on an anvil.
- swivelblock — a block that supports a swivel
- teleworking — Teleworking is working from home using equipment such as telephones, fax machines, and modems to contact people.
- tower block — a high-rise building.
- trelliswork — latticework.
- trestlework — a structural system composed of trestles.
- trickledown — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
- two o'clock — 2 P.M., 1400 hours, 2 in the afternoon
- unknowingly — ignorant or unaware: unknowing aid to the enemy.
- visualworks — (language) A modern commercial implementation of the Smalltalk programming language. VisualWorks descends directly from the original Smalltalk-80 by Xerox PARC and was originally developed (for some time under the name Objectworks\Smalltalk) by ParcPlace Systems. VisualWorks relies on dynamic translation as its virtual machine technology.
- wackadoodle — (slang, pejorative) Crazy, irrational, or eccentric.
- walk on air — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- walk out on — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- walkthrough — an act or instance of walking or going on foot.
- wall rocket — any of several yellow-flowered European plants of the genus Diplotaxis, such as D. muralis, that grow on old walls and in waste places: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- wall socket — socket (def 2b).
- warriorlike — Like a warrior.
- water clock — a device, as a clepsydra, for measuring time by the flow of water.
- waterlocked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
- well-cooked — having been cooked with skill so as to be pleasant to eat
- well-spoken — speaking well, fittingly, or pleasingly: The new chairwoman was very well-spoken.
- well-worked — that has undergone working.
- weltpolitik — the policy of participation in world affairs
- westpolitik — a policy of a Communist country of adopting trade and diplomatic relations with non-Communist nations.
- willowbrook — a city in SW California.
- willowwacks — a wooded, uninhabited area.
- wolf packs' — a group of submarines operating together in hunting down and attacking enemy convoys.
- wookey hole — a village in SW England, in Somerset, near Wells: noted for the nearby limestone cave in which prehistoric remains have been found
- workability — practicable or feasible: He needs a workable schedule.
- workaholics — Plural form of workaholic.
- workaholism — a person who works compulsively at the expense of other pursuits.
- workmanlike — like or befitting a workman.
- worse luck! — unhappily; unfortunately
- wrigglework — decorative engraving of a metal surface with repeated zigzags.
- yellow book — 1. (publication) Yellow Book, Jargon. 2. Yellow Book CD-ROM.
- yellow cake — a processed oxide of uranium, U 3 O 8 , extracted and concentrated from uranium ore: used as the raw material for commercial nuclear materials, especially fuel elements in nuclear reactors.
- yellow jack — Informal. quarantine flag.
- yellowknife — a territory of Canada lying N of 60 degrees N and extending E from the Yukon Territory to Nunavut. 519,732 sq. mi. (1,346,106 sq. km) Capital: Yellowknife.