12-letter words containing s, k, u, r
- kikuyu grass — a type of fast-growing tropical grass, Pennisetum clandestinum, native to E Africa
- kindred soul — like-minded person
- kletterschuh — a lightweight climbing boot with a canvas or suede upper and Vibram (originally felt or cord) sole
- kourotrophos — (archaeology) a class of Mycenaean terracotta figurines depicting women carrying children.
- leukotrienes — Plural form of leukotriene.
- light-struck — (of a film or the like) damaged by accidental exposure to light.
- loudspeakers — Plural form of loudspeaker, especially a pair for a left and right channel.
- lukewarmness — The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
- marcus baker — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska, near Anchorage: highest peak in the Chugach Mountains. 13,176 feet (4016 meters).
- market abuse — (in Britain) a statutory offence which covers insider trading and stock market manipulation
- mesokurtosis — (statistics) The property of having zero normalised kurtosis.
- mock-serious — pretending to be serious as a joke, etc
- moo shu pork — a Chinese dish made of shredded pork and vegetables and beaten eggs, sautéed and usually served in a crêpe with hoisin sauce
- muckspreader — a machine for spreading manure over farmland
- mule skinner — a muleteer.
- muleskinners — Plural form of muleskinner.
- multitaskers — Plural form of multitasker.
- mushroomlike — Having the form or characteristics of a mushroom.
- 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.
- 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.
- outside work — work done off the premises of a business
- picture desk — the department at a magazine or newspaper publisher, that deals with photographs for the paper or magazine
- pork sausage — a sausage made with pork
- pressed duck — a cooked duck sprinkled with red wine and then pressed in a device (duck press) so that the juices can be collected and served as a sauce over the breast meat and legs.
- public works — government-funded construction
- quacksalvers — Plural form of quacksalver.
- quarterbacks — Plural form of quarterback.
- quarterdecks — Plural form of quarterdeck.
- quicksilvery — resembling quicksilver
- red larkspur — a plant, Delphinium nudicaule, of the buttercup family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having orange-red or sometimes yellow flowers.
- rooter skunk — hog-nosed skunk (def 1).
- rough-spoken — coarse or vulgar in speech.
- rubik's cube — a puzzle consisting of a cube with colored faces made of 26 smaller colored blocks attached to a spindle in the center, the object being to rotate the blocks until each face of the cube is a single color.
- sitka spruce — a spruce, Picea sitchensis, of western North America, having long, silvery-white needles, grown as an ornamental.
- skating turn — a turn made by someone on roller or ice skates
- 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.
- ski trousers — warm padded trousers used for skiing
- skullduggery — skulduggery.
- skutterudite — a mineral, chiefly cobalt and nickel arsenide, (Co,Ni)As 3 , with some iron, occurring in the form of gray cubic crystals, usually in masses: a source of cobalt and nickel.
- smoke jumper — an employee of the forest service parachuted to strategic spots in fighting forest fires
- smoky quartz — a smoky-yellow to dark brown or black variety of quartz, used as a gem.
- south korean — a country in E Asia: formed 1948 after the division of the former country of Korea at 38° N. 36,600 sq. mi. (94,795 sq. km). Capital: Seoul. Compare Korea.
- splatterpunk — a form of fiction featuring extremely graphic violence.
- square shake — square deal.
- stage-struck — obsessed with the desire to become an actor or actress.
- stick around — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stick figure — a diagrammatic drawing representing a human or animal, usually made with one line each for the torso and appendages, and often a circle for the head.
- stick up for — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- strike fault — a fault that trends parallel to the strike of the strata that it offsets.
- strike lucky — If you strike lucky or strike it lucky, you have some good luck.