12-letter words containing s, l, o, w
- 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 wholesale — in large quantities
- avowableness — the quality or condition of being avowable
- 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
- 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.
- boiled sweet — Boiled sweets are hard sweets that are made from boiled sugar.
- bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
- 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.
- brush flower — a flower or inflorescence with numerous long stamens, usually pollinated by birds or bats
- by wholesale — at wholesale
- cassel brown — Vandyke brown.
- cauliflowers — Plural form of cauliflower.
- 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.
- collingswood — a city in SW New Jersey.
- collywobbles — an upset stomach
- 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".
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- crown jewels — the jewellery, including the regalia, used by a sovereign on a state occasion
- dalton's law — the principle that the pressure exerted by a mixture of gases in a fixed volume is equal to the sum of the pressures that each gas would exert if it occupied the whole volume
- dessert bowl — A dessert bowl is a bowl in which a dessert is served.
- disallowable — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- disallowance — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- disemboweled — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
- dovetail saw — a backsaw for fine woodworking, as dovetailing.
- downwellings — Plural form of downwelling.
- elbow grease — physical effort
- englishwoman — adult female from England
- fast-flowing — water: rapid
- fellowshiped — Simple past tense and past participle of fellowship.
- flash powder — powder that could be ignited to provide a bright light to take a photograph
- flashforward — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which a future event or scene is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
- float switch — an electric switch controlled by a conductor floating in a liquid.
- flooring saw — a saw having a curved edge.
- floorwalkers — Plural form of floorwalker.
- followership — the ability or willingness to follow a leader.
- forward sale — the sale of something that is to be delivered and paid for at a later date
- frost hollow — a depression in a hilly area in which cold air collects, becoming very cold at night
- galanty show — pantomime shadow play
- gallows bird — a person who deserves to be hanged.
- gallows tree — a gallows.
- galusha grow — Galusha Aaron [guh-loo-shuh] /gəˈlu ʃə/ (Show IPA), 1822–1907, U.S. political leader: Speaker of the House 1861–63.
- gillyflowers — Plural form of gillyflower.
- glassblowing — the art or process of forming or shaping a mass of molten or heat-softened glass into ware by blowing air into it through a tube.
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