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11-letter words containing m, o, l, k

  • memory leak — (programming)   A leak in a program's dynamic store allocation logic that causes it to fail to reclaim memory in the heap after it has finished using it, eventually causing the program to fail due to lack of memory. These problems were severe on older machines with small, fixed-size address spaces, and special "leak detection" tools were written to diagnose them. The introduction of virtual memory made memory leaks a less serious problem, although if you run out of virtual memory, it means you've got a *real* leak! See aliasing bug.
  • metalworker — A person who shapes metal.
  • microkernel — (operating system)   An approach to operating system design emphasising small modules that implement the basic features of the system kernel and can be flexibly configured.
  • milk bottle — a glass bottle in which milk is sold, esp when it is distributed by a milkman
  • milk powder — dry milk.
  • mill worker — a person who works in a mill, esp a cotton mill
  • mitre block — a block of wood with slots for cutting mitre joints with a saw
  • mobuto lake — Lake Albert.
  • model stock — Model stock is the maintenance of adequate levels of stock of an item so that an adequate supply is always available for selling.
  • modock wool — territory wool.
  • mollydooker — (UK, Australia, slang) A left-handed person.
  • money talks — If you say that money talks, you mean that if someone has a lot of money, they also have a lot of power.
  • monkey tail — any of various light or short ropes or lines.
  • montelukast — a type of oral drug containing a leukotriene inhibitor, used in the treatment of asthma and seasonal allergies.
  • musk flower — a sticky-hairy plant, Mimulus moschata, of the figwort family, native to northern and western North America, having pale-yellow flowers and a musky odor.
  • musk mallow — Also called musk rose. a European mallow, Malva moschata, introduced into North America, having musk-scented white or lavender flowers.
  • muskallonge — muskellunge.
  • old kingdom — the period in the history of ancient Egypt, 2780–2280 b.c., comprising the 3rd to 6th dynasties, characterized by the predominance of Memphis.
  • phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
  • pigeon milk — crop milk.
  • pink salmon — a small Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, distinguished by its small scales and long anal fin and by the bright red spawning coloration of males, occurring from California to Alaska and in waters of Japan: fished commercially and for sport.
  • policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
  • quark model — a scheme that explains the quantum numbers of all the baryons and mesons by assuming that baryons are composed of three quarks and mesons of a quark and an antiquark, with different combinations of quark and antiquark flavors giving different sets of quantum numbers.
  • random walk — Statistics. the path taken by a point or quantity that moves in steps, where the direction of each step is determined randomly.
  • rock salmon — (formerly) any of several coarse fishes when used as food, esp the dogfish or wolffish: now called rockfish or catfish
  • rollicksome — rollicking; frolicsome.
  • salmon pink — salmon (defs 4, 5).
  • sample book — a number of pieces of fabric, wallpaper, etc fastened together at one edge, for people to examine when trying to choose which example to buy
  • school milk — (formerly, in Britain) a third of a pint of milk, originally provided free by the local education authority to all young pupils, then later given only to children who passed a needs or means test
  • skatemobile — a scooterlike vehicle built of boxes, boards, or the like, and mounted on skate wheels.
  • smoke alarm — A smoke alarm or a smoke detector is a device fixed to the ceiling of a room which makes a loud noise if there is smoke in the air, to warn people.
  • smoke shelf — a ledge at the bottom of a smoke chamber, so made as to deflect or break downdrafts from the chimney.
  • smokelessly — in a smokeless manner, without smoke
  • smokerlyzer — a device for estimating the amount of carbon monoxide in the breath: used in testing whether or not people, esp schoolchildren, have been smoking
  • smooth-talk — to persuade by flattery, cajolery, coaxing, or the like: We smooth-talked the company into a huge donation.
  • sock cymbal — high-hat
  • soured milk — milk that has been deliberately soured by fermentation or by adding acids such as lemon juice or vinegar, to be used in cooking
  • spokesmodel — an attractive or otherwise appealing person who is hired to speak on behalf of a company or product, as in a commercial.
  • tailor-make — to make or adjust to meet the needs of the particular situation, individual, object, etc.: to tailor-make a tour.
  • tumour-like — (of a growth, swelling, nodule, etc) resembling a tumour or tumours
  • violinmaker — a person who designs and constructs violins, especially professionally.
  • workaholism — a person who works compulsively at the expense of other pursuits.
  • workmanlike — like or befitting a workman.
  • y2k problem — the predicted malfunction of some computer systems prior to or at the beginning of the year 2000 because of their inability to distinguish between dates in the 1900s and dates in the 2000s: this inability results from the coding of year dates in some software and chips with only the final two, rather than all four, digits
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