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12-letter words containing o, a, k, r

  • broken water — a patch of water whose surface is rippled or choppy, usually surrounded by relatively calm water.
  • brooks range — a mountain range in N Alaska. Highest peak: Mount Isto, 2761 m (9058 ft)
  • brooks's law — (programming)   "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later" - a result of the fact that the expected advantage from splitting work among N programmers is O(N) (that is, proportional to N), but the complexity and communications cost associated with coordinating and then merging their work is O(N^2) (that is, proportional to the square of N). The quote is from Fred Brooks, a manager of IBM's OS/360 project and author of "The Mythical Man-Month". The myth in question has been most tersely expressed as "Programmer time is fungible" and Brooks established conclusively that it is not. Hackers have never forgotten his advice; too often, management still does. See also creationism, second-system effect, optimism.
  • brown canker — a fungous disease of roses, characterized by leaf and flower lesions, stem cankers surrounded by a reddish-purple border, and dieback.
  • brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
  • bullock cart — a cart pulled by one or two bullocks
  • burkina faso — an inland republic in W Africa: dominated by Mossi kingdoms (10th–19th centuries); French protectorate established in 1896; became an independent republic in 1960; consists mainly of a flat savanna plateau. Official language: French; Mossi and other African languages also widely spoken. Religion: mostly animist, with a large Muslim minority. Currency: franc. Capital: Ouagadougou. Pop: 17 812 961 (2013 est). Area: 273 200 sq km (105 900 sq miles)
  • cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
  • cape nordkyn — a cape in N Norway: the northernmost point of the European mainland
  • carbon black — a black finely divided form of amorphous carbon produced by incomplete combustion of natural gas or petroleum: used to reinforce rubber and in the manufacture of pigments and ink
  • cargo pocket — a large patch pocket, usually pleated at the sides and often having a flap.
  • carving fork — a large, two-tined fork with a metal guard to protect the hand, used to hold meat in place as it is being carved
  • chain locker — a compartment where the chain or cable of an anchor is stowed when the anchor is raised.
  • chain smoker — person: smokes heavily
  • chain-smoker — A chain-smoker is a person who chain-smokes.
  • chapter book — a children's book, typically a work of fiction, of moderate length and complexity, divided into chapters and intended for readers approximately seven to ten years old
  • charity work — unpaid work, usually fundraising, done in aid of a charity
  • checkerboard — A checkerboard is a square board with 64 black and white squares that is used for playing checkers or chess.
  • choke collar — a training collar for a dog, that tightens when the dog strains at the leash
  • chook chaser — a small motorcycle, esp for off-road use
  • chook raffle — a raffle for which the main prize is a roast chicken
  • chukot range — mountain range in NE Siberia: highest peak, c. 7,500 ft (2,286 m)
  • clothes rack — a framework for holding or displaying clothes in a shop
  • cock feather — the odd-coloured feather set on the shaft of an arrow at right angles to the nock
  • cock sparrow — a male sparrow
  • cocktail bar — a bar which serves cocktails
  • coffee break — A coffee break is a short period of time, usually in the morning or afternoon, when you stop working and have a cup of coffee.
  • coffee maker — Also, coffeemaker. an apparatus for brewing coffee; coffeepot.
  • coffee-maker — a domestic appliance that makes coffee
  • coffeemakers — Plural form of coffeemaker.
  • college park — a city in N Georgia.
  • conduct mark — (in school) a mark for behaviour
  • cook-general — (formerly, esp in the 1920s and '30s) a domestic servant who did cooking and housework
  • cooling rack — a wire frame used for cooling food on
  • cork cambium — a layer of meristematic cells in the cortex of the stems and roots of woody plants, the outside of which gives rise to cork cells and the inside to secondary cortical cells (phelloderm)
  • corn-cracker — a contemptuous term used to refer to a member of a class of poor white people in the southern U.S.
  • country park — an area of countryside, usually not less than 10 hectares, set aside for public recreation: often funded by a Countryside Commission grant
  • crack a book — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
  • crack a joke — make a funny remark
  • crack willow — a species of commonly grown willow, Salix fragilis, with branches that snap easily
  • crook rafter — a rafter for maintaining the angle between a principal rafter and a tie or collar beam.
  • cryoplankton — minute organisms, esp algae, living in ice, snow, or icy water
  • csk software — (company)   An international software company formed by the merger of Quay Financial Software and Micrognosis, and fully owned by CSK Corporation, Japan. CSK Software is based in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) with offices in London (UK), Zurich (Switzerland), Madrid (Spain), and Singapore. Products segments are RDD: Real-time data delivery, main product is Slingshot for delivering real-time data over the Internet (real push technology). ETS: Electronic Trading Systems, price calculation and automatic trading (with connections to XONTRO and XETRA). EAI: Enterprise Application Integration, main product is XGen, a universal message converter with GUI and connections also to SWIFT. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: CSK Software AG, Opernplatz 2, D-60313 Frankfurt, Germany. Tel: +49 (69) 509 520. Fax: +49 (69) 5095 2333.
  • curtain hook — a hook used to attach a curtain to a curtain rail
  • 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.
  • dark tourism — tourism to sites associated with tragedies, disasters, and death
  • dasher block — a block at the end of a yard or gaff for supporting a signal or ensign halyard.
  • dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
  • disk storage — space for storing information on a disk
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