12-letter words containing w, k, r, o
- acknowledger — to admit to be real or true; recognize the existence, truth, or fact of: to acknowledge one's mistakes.
- autorickshaw — (in India) a light three-wheeled vehicle driven by a motorcycle engine
- backswordman — a person who uses a backsword.
- black powder — gunpowder as used in sports involving modern muzzleloading firearms
- bourke-white — Margaret. 1906–71, US photographer, a pioneer of modern photojournalism: noted esp for her coverage of World War II
- broken arrow — a town in NE Oklahoma.
- broken water — a patch of water whose surface is rippled or choppy, usually surrounded by relatively calm water.
- 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 canker — a fungous disease of roses, characterized by leaf and flower lesions, stem cankers surrounded by a reddish-purple border, and dieback.
- brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
- browser skin — a changeable decorative background for a browser
- charity work — unpaid work, usually fundraising, done in aid of a charity
- clos network — (networking) A type of network topology that can connect N inputs to N outputs with less that N^2 crosspoint switches.
- cock sparrow — a male sparrow
- cockthrowing — the sport of knocking down, or killing, a cock that is tied to a post
- cold working — Cold working is a process in which metal is shaped at a fairly low temperature. This increases the metal's yield strength but makes it less ductile.
- corn whiskey — a whisky made from maize
- crack willow — a species of commonly grown willow, Salix fragilis, with branches that snap easily
- csk software — (company) An international software company formed by the merger of Quay Financial Software and Micrognosis, and fully owned by CSK Corporation, Japan. CSK Software is based in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) with offices in London (UK), Zurich (Switzerland), Madrid (Spain), and Singapore. Products segments are RDD: Real-time data delivery, main product is Slingshot for delivering real-time data over the Internet (real push technology). ETS: Electronic Trading Systems, price calculation and automatic trading (with connections to XONTRO and XETRA). EAI: Enterprise Application Integration, main product is XGen, a universal message converter with GUI and connections also to SWIFT. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: CSK Software AG, Opernplatz 2, D-60313 Frankfurt, Germany. Tel: +49 (69) 509 520. Fax: +49 (69) 5095 2333.
- cuckooflower — a bitter cress (Cardamine pratensis) bearing white or rose flowers; lady's-smock
- 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.
- dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
- dockwalloper — longshoreman
- factory work — work in a factory
- floorwalkers — Plural form of floorwalker.
- flowerpecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
- groundworker — One who works on the ground, as opposed to an aviator, etc.
- guest worker — a foreign worker permitted to work in a country, especially in Western Europe, on a temporary basis.
- hard-working — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
- hotel worker — a person who works in the hotel industry
- housewrecker — wrecker (def 4).
- in the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- internetwork — two or more computer networks connected by routers, bridges, etc.: The Internet is the largest internetwork.
- interworking — to work or weave together; interweave.
- jacket crown — a type of artificial, tooth-colored dental crown made of acrylic or porcelain
- kangaroo paw — any plant of the Australian genus Anigozanthos, resembling a kangaroo's paw, esp the red-and-green flowered A. manglesii, which is the floral emblem of Western Australia: family Haemodoraceae
- king's crown — a tropical American shrub, Justicia carnea, of the acanthus family, bearing clusters of tubular reddish flowers.
- lark sparrow — a North American sparrow, Chondestes grammacus, having a distinctive brown-and-white facial pattern.
- lesser-known — less widely known; less famous
- linking word — A linking word is a word which shows a connection between clauses or sentences. 'However' and 'so' are linking words.
- 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
- metalworkers — Plural form of metalworker.
- metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
- monkeywrench — Alternative form of monkey wrench.
- needleworker — One who carries out needlework.
- network card — network interface controller
- network node — (networking) (node) An addressable device attached to a computer network. If the node is a computer it is more often called a "host".
- network, the — 1. (jargon, networking) (Or "the net") The union of all the major noncommercial, academic and hacker-oriented networks, such as Internet, the old ARPANET, NSFnet, BITNET, and the virtual UUCP and Usenet "networks", plus the corporate in-house networks and commercial time-sharing services (such as CompuServe) that gateway to them. A site was generally considered "on the network" if it could be reached by electronic mail through some combination of Internet-style (@-sign) and UUCP (bang-path) addresses. Since the explosion of the Internet in the mid 1990s, the term is now synonymous with the Internet. See network address. 2. (body) A fictional conspiracy of libertarian hacker-subversives and anti-authoritarian monkeywrenchers described in Robert Anton Wilson's novel "Schrödinger's Cat", to which many hackers have subsequently decided they belong (this is an example of ha ha only serious).
- new york bay — a bay of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Hudson, W of Long Island and E of Staten Island and New Jersey.
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