12-letter words containing r, o, c, k, s
- kakistocracy — government by the worst persons; a form of government in which the worst persons are in power.
- kilocalories — Plural form of kilocalorie.
- king's color — a white ceremonial ensign with a royal cipher, flown on special occasions by the British Royal Navy.
- king's crown — a tropical American shrub, Justicia carnea, of the acanthus family, bearing clusters of tubular reddish flowers.
- letter stock — unregistered stock sold privately by a company so as not to have a negative effect on the price of its publicly traded stock.
- market cross — a place in a town or village where a cross was set up and a regular market was held
- memory stick — computing: flashcard, dongle
- mercy stroke — coup de grâce.
- misreckoning — Present participle of misreckon.
- mock-serious — pretending to be serious as a joke, etc
- mockingbirds — Plural form of mockingbird.
- moonstricken — Moonstruck.
- mortise lock — a lock housed within a mortise in a door or the like, so that the lock mechanism is covered on both sides.
- 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.
- nordic skier — a person who practises cross-country racing and ski-jumping
- 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 the rocks — a large mass of stone forming a hill, cliff, promontory, or the like.
- orange stick — a slender, rounded stick, originally of orangewood, having tapered ends and used in manicuring, especially to push back the cuticles or clean the fingernails.
- overstocking — to stock to excess: We are overstocked on this item.
- policymakers — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- port jackson — an inlet of the Pacific in SE Australia: the harbor of Sydney.
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- public works — government-funded construction
- rock cornish — a small hybrid chicken produced by mating Cornish and White Rock chickens and marketed especially as a roaster.
- rock crystal — transparent quartz, especially when colorless.
- rock jasmine — any of several alpine plants belonging to the genus Androsace, of the primrose family, having tufted leaves often in basal rosettes, and umbels of pink, red, purple, or white flowers.
- rock lobster — spiny lobster.
- rock springs — a city in SW Wyoming.
- rock-shelter — a shallow cave or cavelike area, as one formed by an overhanging cliff or standing rocks, occupied by Stone Age peoples, possibly for extended periods.
- rocket salad — rocket2 (def 2).
- rocket-salad — any of various plants belonging to the genus Hesperis, of the mustard family, and related genera. Compare dame's rocket.
- salmon brick — a soft, imperfectly fired brick having a reddish-orange color.
- school shark — an Australian shark resembling the tope, Notogaleus australis
- scissor-kick — a type of swimming kick used esp in the sidestroke, in which one leg is moved forward and the other bent back and they are then brought together again in a scissor-like action
- scorekeeping — an official of a sports contest who keeps record of the score.
- scrapbooking — hobby: collaging
- section mark — section (def 16).
- self-mockery — gentle humour at one's own expense
- senior clerk — a clerk who is in a senior position and performs office tasks under minimal supervision
- service book — a book containing the forms of worship used in divine services.
- shamrock-pea — a trailing plant, Parochetus communis, of the legume family, native to Asia and east Africa, having shamrocklike leaves with a brown crescent at the base and pea-shaped, pink and blue flowers.
- shock horror — A shock horror story is presented in a way that is intended to cause great shock or anger.
- shock troops — soldiers trained to attack
- silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
- silky cornel — a cornel, Cornus amomum, of the eastern U.S., having leaves covered with short, silky hairs on the underside and bearing blue berries.
- skeleton car — a freight car essentially consisting of a central longitudinal girder fastened to the trucks, sometimes supplemented by one or more pairs of cross cantilevers: used for carrying logs or containers.
- skeuomorphic — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
- slipper sock — a sock with a soft leather or vinyl sole sewn onto it, used as indoor footwear.
- smart cookie — intelligent or sharp-witted person
- smoke screen — a mass of dense smoke produced to conceal an area, vessel, or plane from the enemy.