12-letter words containing o, w, s
- acknowledges — to admit to be real or true; recognize the existence, truth, or fact of: to acknowledge one's mistakes.
- allhallowmas — All Saints' Day.
- alloy wheels — wheels made from an steel alloy, usually of aluminium or magnesium, for improved properties such as reduced weight, better heat conductance and a shiny appearance
- alton towers — a 19th-century Gothic Revival mansion with extensive gardens in NW central England, in Staffordshire: site of a large amusement park
- at the worst — bad or ill in the highest, greatest, or most extreme degree: the worst person.
- at wholesale — in large quantities
- auger shower — a shower of electrons, photons, etc. resulting from the collision of primary cosmic rays with atomic nuclei in the atmosphere
- autorickshaw — (in India) a light three-wheeled vehicle driven by a motorcycle engine
- avowableness — the quality or condition of being avowable
- back to taws — back to the beginning
- backswordman — a person who uses a backsword.
- backwoodsman — Backwoodsmen are people, especially politicians, who like the old ways of doing things, or who are involved in an organization at a local level.
- backwoodsmen — Plural form of backwoodsman.
- bank swallow — a swallow, Riparia riparia, of the Northern Hemisphere, that nests in tunnels dug in sand or clay banks.
- barn swallow — the US and Canadian name for the common swallow, Hirundo rustica
- bastardsword — Alternative spelling of bastard sword.
- battlewagons — Plural form of battlewagon.
- bellows fish — snipefish.
- below stairs — People sometimes use below stairs to refer to the servants in a rich household and the things that are connected with them.
- best in show — an award to the dog, cat, or other animal judged best of all breeds in a competition.
- betws-y-coed — a village in N Wales, in Conwy county borough, on the River Conwy: noted for its scenery. Pop: 534 (2001)
- boiled sweet — Boiled sweets are hard sweets that are made from boiled sugar.
- bond washing — a series of deals in bonds made with the intention of avoiding taxation
- bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
- bow thruster — a propeller located in a ship's bow to provide added maneuverability, as when docking.
- 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-nosing — If you accuse someone of brown-nosing, you are saying in a rather offensive way that they are agreeing with someone important in order to get their support.
- browser skin — a changeable decorative background for a browser
- brush flower — a flower or inflorescence with numerous long stamens, usually pollinated by birds or bats
- by wholesale — at wholesale
- can of worms — a complicated problem
- cape sparrow — a sparrow, Passer melanurus, very common in southern Africa: family Ploceidae
- cassel brown — Vandyke brown.
- cauliflowers — Plural form of cauliflower.
- chowderheads — Plural form of chowderhead.
- clos network — (networking) A type of network topology that can connect N inputs to N outputs with less that N^2 crosspoint switches.
- clownishness — The state of being clownish.
- co-ownership — the fact or state of being one of the joint owners of something
- cock sparrow — a male sparrow
- collingswood — a city in SW New Jersey.
- collywobbles — an upset stomach
- common shrew — a small mouse-like long-snouted mammal, Sorex araneus, of the family Soricidae: order Insectivora (insectivores)
- common swift — Apus apus, a bird with long narrow wings which spends most of the time on the wing
- contrariwise — from a contrasting point of view; on the other hand
- conway's law — (project, humour) The rule (presumably formulated by Melvin Conway) that the organisation of software and the organisation of the software team will be congruent; originally stated as "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler".
- coomaraswamy — Ananda (Kentish). 1877–1947, Ceylonese art historian and interpreter of Indian culture to the West
- cop it sweet — to accept a penalty without complaint
- corn whiskey — a whisky made from maize
- cornishwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall
- cotton waste — refuse cotton yarn, esp when used as a cleaning material
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