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12-letter words containing k, o, l

  • courtierlike — resembling a courtier in manner
  • crack willow — a species of commonly grown willow, Salix fragilis, with branches that snap easily
  • crookes lens — a type of lens, used in sunglasses, that is made from glass containing cerium. It reduces the transmission of ultraviolet radiation
  • cross-linker — a substance or agent, such as radiation, that induces the formation of cross-links.
  • cryoplankton — minute organisms, esp algae, living in ice, snow, or icy water
  • 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.
  • cuckoo clock — A cuckoo clock is a clock with a door from which a toy cuckoo comes out and makes noises like a cuckoo every hour or half hour.
  • 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.
  • dak bungalow — (in India, formerly) a house where travellers on a dak route could be accommodated
  • 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
  • dolphin kick — (in the butterfly stroke) a kick in which the legs move up and down together, with the knees bent on the upswing.
  • donald knuth — (person)   Donald E. Knuth, the author of the TeX document formatting system, Metafont its font-design program and the 3 volume computer science "Bible" of algorithms, "The Art of Computer Programming". Knuth suggested the name "Backus-Naur Form" and was also involved in the SOL simulation language, and developed the WEB literate programming system. See also MIX, Turingol.
  • 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.
  • double-think — illogical or deliberately perverse thinking in terms that distort or reverse the truth to make it more acceptable
  • doubledecker — Alternative spelling of double-decker.
  • doughnutlike — Resembling a doughnut.
  • duke of alba — Duke of, Alva, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo.
  • east suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk county, in E England.
  • 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.
  • elkhorn fern — a tropical fern with a large leaf like an elk's horn
  • endoskeletal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to an internal skeleton, usually of bone (an endoskeleton).
  • endoskeleton — An internal skeleton, such as the bony or cartilaginous skeleton of vertebrates.
  • engine block — the metal casting containing the piston chambers of an internal combustion engine
  • eskimo-aleut — (designating or of) a family of languages including Aleut and the Eskimo languages
  • exoskeletons — Plural form of exoskeleton.
  • fall back on — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
  • 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 broker — a member of a stock or commodity exchange who executes orders on the floor of the exchange for other brokers.
  • 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.
  • floorwalkers — Plural form of floorwalker.
  • florida keys — chain of small islands extending southwest from the S tip of Fla.
  • flour shaker — a container, often with a perforated top, from which flour is shaken
  • flowerpecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
  • folk singing — the singing of folk songs, especially by a group of people.
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