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12-letter words containing oa

  • float around — A rumour or idea that is floating around is often heard or talked about.
  • float bridge — a bridge, as from a pier to a boat, floating at one end and hinged at the other to permit loading and unloading at any level of water.
  • float collar — A float collar is a part near the bottom of the casing string which catches the bottom plug and top plug, and which prevents mud from entering the casing.
  • float switch — an electric switch controlled by a conductor floating in a liquid.
  • floatability — capable of floating; that can be floated.
  • floating rib — one member of the two lowest pairs of ribs, which are attached neither to the sternum nor to the cartilages of other ribs.
  • flutterboard — a kickboard.
  • foam plastic — a kind of light cellular plastic made by creating bubbles of gas in the liquid material and solidifying it: often used as an insulator
  • foamed metal — a uniform foamlike metal structure produced when hydrogen bubbles are evolved from metal hydrides uniformly dispersed throughout a host metal or metal alloy: used as a structural material because of its shock-absorbing properties and light weight.
  • french broad — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing N and NW to join the Holston River at Knoxville to form the Tennessee River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
  • french toast — bread dipped in a batter of egg and milk and sautéed until brown, usually served with syrup or sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon.
  • front loader — a washing machine with a door at the front which opens one side of the drum into which washing is placed
  • front-loaded — Also, front-loaded. front-loading (def 1).
  • front-loader — a machine or appliance, as a washing machine, loaded and unloaded through an opening in the front (as distinguished from a top loader).
  • genetic load — the extent to which a population deviates from the theoretically fittest genetic constitution.
  • genoa salami — a hard, garlic-flavored salami of pork and veal or, especially in the U.S., pork and beef.
  • go overboard — over the side of a ship or boat, especially into or in the water: to fall overboard.
  • goal average — the number of goals scored by a team divided by the number of goals it has conceded
  • gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
  • haji-ioannou — Sir Stelios. born 1967, British businessman, born in Greece; founder (1995) and chairman (until 2002) of the low-cost airline company Easyjet
  • heart of oak — a brave person
  • herring boat — a fishing boat that specializes in catching herring
  • hit the road — a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway.
  • hoary marmot — a large marmot, Marmota caligata, living in mountainous areas of Siberia and northwestern North America and having a heavy, yellow-gray body, short black limbs, and black and white head and shoulders.
  • hoary-headed — having the gray or white hair of advanced age.
  • hypercoaster — Megacoaster.
  • hypoallergic — Hypoallergenic.
  • in-goal area — the area between the goal-line and the dead-ball line
  • inchoateness — The quality of being inchoate.
  • inchoatively — in an inchoative or rudimentary fashion; initially
  • incoagulable — of a nature that cannot be coagulated
  • intercoastal — existing or done between seacoasts; involving two or more seacoasts.
  • isoantigenic — relating to an isoantigen or isoantigens
  • kashmir goat — one of a long-haired breed of goat raised in Tibet and the higher elevations of China, the Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan, and Turkey for its meat, milk, and cashmere wool.
  • ketoacidosis — (pathology) A severe form of ketosis, most commonly seen in diabetics, in which so much ketone is produced that acidosis occurs.
  • ketoaciduria — (pathology) The presence of (excess) ketoacids in the urine.
  • keyboardists — Plural form of keyboardist.
  • kitchen soap — heavy-duty soap intended for use in the kitchen
  • kiteboarding — A sport in which participants ride a form of wakeboard or surfboard harnessed to a large kite which is controlled by the rider.
  • lagging load — A lagging load is one where the phase of the current lags behind the phase of the voltage when supplied with an alternating voltage.
  • leader board — a board on which the scores of the leading competitors are displayed, as in a golf tournament.
  • leaderboards — Plural form of leaderboard.
  • ledger board — a horizontal board, as in a fence.
  • let floating — (programming)   A program transformation used in functional programming to implement full laziness. E.g. the function f x = x + sqrt 4 can be expressed as f x = let t = sqrt 4 in x + t but note that t does not depend on the argument x so we can automatically transform this to t = sqrt 4 f x = x + t Making t into a global constant which need only be evaluated at most once, rather than every time f is called. The general idea is to float each subexpression as far out (toward the top level) as possible to maximise sharing.
  • liberty loan — any of the five bond issues of the U.S. government floated in World War I.
  • linux loader — (operating system)   (LILO) A boot loader for Linux. LILO does not depend on a specific file system, it can boot Linux kernel images from floppy disks and hard disks and can even boot other operating systems. One of up to sixteen differernt images can be selected at boot time. Various parameters, such as the root device, can be set independently for each kernel. LILO can even be used as the master boot record.
  • load-bearing — bearing the weight that is carried by a structure
  • loading coil — an inductance coil used to improve the characteristics of a transmission line.
  • loading ramp — a ramp that is used for loading a ship
  • loan account — finance: bank
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