12-letter words containing w, a, l, k
- acknowledged — recognized as being true or existing
- acknowledger — to admit to be real or true; recognize the existence, truth, or fact of: to acknowledge one's mistakes.
- acknowledges — to admit to be real or true; recognize the existence, truth, or fact of: to acknowledge one's mistakes.
- al-khwarizmi — Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
- anklewarmers — Plural form of anklewarmer.
- baldwin park — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 76,000
- bank swallow — a swallow, Riparia riparia, of the Northern Hemisphere, that nests in tunnels dug in sand or clay banks.
- beaked whale — any of a worldwide family (Ziphiidae) of medium-sized toothed whales characterized by a long, narrow snout
- black pewter — pewter composed of 60 percent tin and 40 percent lead.
- black powder — gunpowder as used in sports involving modern muzzleloading firearms
- black walnut — a North American walnut tree, Juglans nigra, with hard dark wood and edible oily nuts
- black wattle — a small Australian acacia tree, A. mearnsii, with yellow flowers
- bladderwrack — any of several seaweeds of the genera Fucus and Ascophyllum, esp F. vesiculosus, that grow in the intertidal regions of rocky shores and have branched brown fronds with air bladders
- blue-sky law — a state law regulating the trading of securities: intended to protect investors from fraud
- 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 hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
- crack willow — a species of commonly grown willow, Salix fragilis, with branches that snap easily
- cutwork lace — point coupé (def 2).
- cutwork-lace — Also called cutwork. a process for producing lace in which predetermined threads in the ground material are cut and removed in order to provide open areas for the insertion of ornamental patterns.
- dak bungalow — (in India, formerly) a house where travellers on a dak route could be accommodated
- dockwalloper — longshoreman
- draw a blank — (of paper or other writing surface) having no marks; not written or printed on: a blank sheet of paper.
- fell-walking — the sport of hiking over fells
- fire walking — a religious rite in which people walk barefoot over white-hot ashes, stones, etc
- floorwalkers — Plural form of floorwalker.
- go walkabout — to wander through the bush
- haikwan tael — the customs unit in China, which is the basis for other local taels, equal to 1.20666 troy ounces of fine silver.
- hill walking — the activity of walking through hilly country for pleasure
- kepler's law — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
- kerb-crawler — a man who drives slowly looking to entice a prostitute into his car for sexual purposes
- killer whale — any of several predatory dolphins, especially the black-and-white Orcinus orca, found in all seas.
- klamath weed — the St.-John's-wort, Hypericum perforatum.
- knowableness — the quality of being knowable
- knowledgable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- lake dweller — an inhabitant of a lake dwelling.
- lambeth walk — a spirited ballroom dance popular, especially in England, in the late 1930s.
- lark sparrow — a North American sparrow, Chondestes grammacus, having a distinctive brown-and-white facial pattern.
- law-breaking — Law-breaking is any kind of illegal activity.
- lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
- lee kuan yew — 1923–2015, Singaporean statesman; prime minister of Singapore 1959–90, during which period his party's authoritarian rule was criticized but the country's economy progressed rapidly
- lock forward — either of two players who make up the second line of the scrum and apply weight to the forwards in the front line
- lukewarmness — The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
- mall walking — recreational or aerobic walking done in the confines of a shopping mall.
- malt whiskey — Malt whiskey or malt is whiskey that is made from malt.
- metalworkers — Plural form of metalworker.
- metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
- planck's law — the law that energy associated with electromagnetic radiation, as light, is composed of discrete quanta of energy, each quantum equal to Planck's constant times the corresponding frequency of the radiation: the fundamental law of quantum mechanics.
- powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
- powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- rack railway — cog railway.
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