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12-letter words containing o, k

  • 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
  • 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)
  • deck officer — a ship's officer who is part of the deck crew
  • deep pockets — If you say that a person or organization has deep pockets, you mean that they have a lot of money with which to pay for something.
  • dessert fork — a fork used for eating certain desserts, usually somewhat smaller than a dinner fork.
  • diamondbacks — Plural form of diamondback.
  • disk storage — space for storing information on a disk
  • do the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
  • docking keel — one of two keellike projections for bracing a hull of a ship against bilge blocks when the ship is in dry dock.
  • dockominiums — Plural form of dockominium.
  • 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.
  • don't ask me — You reply 'don't ask me' when you do not know the answer to a question, usually when you are annoyed or surprised that you have been asked.
  • 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.
  • donkey derby — a race in which contestants ride donkeys, esp at a rural fête
  • door-knocker — a hinged fitting on a door that can be used to knock on it
  • doorknockers — Plural form of doorknocker.
  • 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.
  • drinker moth — a large yellowish-brown bombycid eggar moth, Philudoria potatoria, having a stout hairy body, the larvae of which drink dew and feed on grasses
  • drop a brick — a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 2.25 × 3.75 × 8 inches (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or yellow in color.
  • duck-shoving — the evasion of responsibility by someone
  • duke of alba — Duke of, Alva, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo.
  • dusky grouse — blue grouse.
  • east suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk county, in E England.
  • economy pack — a large pack of goods that is cheaper than a normal-sized pack
  • 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
  • enterokinase — (enzyme) An enzyme, secreted by the upper intestinal mucosa, that catalyzes the activation of trypsinogen by converting it to trypsin.
  • epoch-making — An epoch-making change or declaration is considered to be extremely important because it is likely to have a significant effect on a particular period of time.
  • eriskay pony — a breed of medium-sized pony, typically grey, with a dense waterproof coat. The Eriskay is the only surviving variety of the native ponies of the Western Isles of Scotland
  • eskimo-aleut — (designating or of) a family of languages including Aleut and the Eskimo languages
  • exoskeletons — Plural form of exoskeleton.
  • facebook.com — (web)   One of the most popular social networking websites.
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