12-letter words containing k, r, u
- loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
- luggage rack — shelf for baggage on a train
- lukewarmness — The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
- lumberjacket — a short, straight, wool plaid jacket or coat, for informal wear, usually belted and having patch pockets.
- make-up girl — a woman or girl who applies cosmetics to a person, such as to a model or actor
- makeup water — Makeup water is water which is added to compensate for losses, especially losses caused by evaporation.
- marcus baker — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska, near Anchorage: highest peak in the Chugach Mountains. 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
- mark out for — to select for or note as selected for
- market abuse — (in Britain) a statutory offence which covers insider trading and stock market manipulation
- market value — the value of a business, property, etc., in terms of what it can be sold for on the open market; current value (distinguished from book value).
- meker burner — a gas burner similar to the Bunsen burner but producing a hotter flame by virtue of having at its mouth a metal screen to allow a more intimate mixture of air and gas.
- mesokurtosis — (statistics) The property of having zero normalised kurtosis.
- 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.
- moo shu pork — a Chinese dish made of shredded pork and vegetables and beaten eggs, sautéed and usually served in a crêpe with hoisin sauce
- motherfucker — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
- mule skinner — a muleteer.
- muleskinners — Plural form of muleskinner.
- multitaskers — Plural form of multitasker.
- multitracked — (music) Recorded on multiple tracks.
- mushroomlike — Having the form or characteristics of a mushroom.
- 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.
- nomenklatura — a select list or class of people from which appointees for top-level government positions are drawn, especially from a Communist Party.
- 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.
- on your bike — away you go
- on your mark — a command given to runners in a race to prepare themselves at the starting line
- outside work — work done off the premises of a business
- package tour — a planned tour in which one fee is charged for all expenses: offering package tours of the chateau country.
- pallet truck — a powered truck with a mast, sometimes telescopic, on which slides a carriage which can be raised and lowered hydraulically. The carriage has extended forks which can be passed under a palletized load for stacking or moving to a new position
- picker-upper — something that restores one's depleted energy or depressed spirits; pick-me-up.
- picture book — a book consisting mainly or entirely of pictures, especially one for children who have not yet learned to read.
- picture desk — the department at a magazine or newspaper publisher, that deals with photographs for the paper or magazine
- plain turkey — a bustard
- pork butcher — a butcher who specializes in pork
- pork sausage — a sausage made with pork
- pressed duck — a cooked duck sprinkled with red wine and then pressed in a device (duck press) so that the juices can be collected and served as a sauce over the breast meat and legs.
- product mark — a trademark used on only one product.
- pruning hook — an implement with a hooked blade, used for pruning vines, branches, etc.
- public works — government-funded construction
- puck control — an offensive strategy to maintain control of the puck to prevent the other team from having scoring opportunities.
- puck-carrier — the player who has the puck and moves it along.
- pumpernickel — a coarse, dark, slightly sour bread made of unbolted rye.
- quack doctor — an unqualified person who claims medical knowledge or other skills
- quacksalvers — Plural form of quacksalver.
- quarterbacks — Plural form of quarterback.
- quarterdecks — Plural form of quarterdeck.
- quartz clock — an extremely accurate electronic movement utilizing the natural frequency of vibrations of a quartz crystal to regulate the operation of the timepiece (quartz clock or quartz watch)