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12-letter words containing ook

  • account book — a booklet in which all the transactions that take place in a bank account or a company's accounts are recorded
  • address book — An address book is a book in which you write people's names and addresses.
  • all shook up — shaken, upset
  • an open book — a person or subject that is thoroughly understood
  • book burning — the destruction of writings of which the subject, the view of the author, or the like is considered politically or socially objectionable: used as a means of censorship or oppression.
  • book matches — safety matches made of paper and fastened into a small cardboard folder
  • book of odes — a collection of 305 poems compiled in the 6th century b.c. by Confucius.
  • book signing — a prearranged and publicized event at which an author signs copies of their latest book, often with individual dedications to purchasers
  • book society — book club.
  • book-keeping — the skill or occupation of maintaining accurate records of business transactions
  • bookcrossing — the practice of deliberately leaving books in places where they will be found and read by other people
  • booking form — a form used to book a holiday, accommodation, etc
  • booklet pane — Philately. any of a number of panes or small pages of postage stamps, stapled together into a booklet for the convenience of users.
  • brooks range — a mountain range in N Alaska. Highest peak: Mount Isto, 2761 m (9058 ft)
  • 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.
  • cape-lookoutCape, a sandy reef in the Outer Banks, off E North Carolina, SW of Cape Hatteras: lighthouse.
  • chapter book — a children's book, typically a work of fiction, of moderate length and complexity, divided into chapters and intended for readers approximately seven to ten years old
  • chook chaser — a small motorcycle, esp for off-road use
  • chook raffle — a raffle for which the main prize is a roast chicken
  • cock a snook — to make a rude gesture by putting one thumb to the nose with the fingers of the hand outstretched
  • cook islands — a group of islands in the SW Pacific, an overseas territory of New Zealand: consists of the Lower Cooks and the Northern Cooks Capital: Avarua, on Rarotonga. Pop: 10 447 (2013 est). Area: 234 sq km (90 sq miles)
  • cook-general — (formerly, esp in the 1920s and '30s) a domestic servant who did cooking and housework
  • cookery book — A cookery book is the same as a cookbook.
  • cookie press — a device, operating in a manner similar to that of a syringe, in which dough is inserted in a chamber and extruded, by means of a plunger, through one of a number of interchangeable dies to form a shaped cylinder that is sliced into individual cookies.
  • cookie sheet — A cookie sheet is a flat piece of metal on which you bake foods such as cookies in an oven.
  • cooking film — a plastic film used for wrapping or covering food
  • cooking foil — a thin sheet of aluminium used for wrapping or covering food
  • cooking salt — a type of salt used in cooking
  • cooking time — the time that something needs to cook
  • corner brook — a city in Newfoundland, in E Canada, on the W part of the island.
  • crack a book — to break without complete separation of parts; become fissured: The plate cracked when I dropped it, but it was still usable.
  • crochet hook — a hooked needle used for crocheting
  • crook rafter — a rafter for maintaining the angle between a principal rafter and a tie or collar beam.
  • crookes lens — a type of lens, used in sunglasses, that is made from glass containing cerium. It reduces the transmission of ultraviolet radiation
  • crookes tube — a type of cathode-ray tube in which the electrons are produced by a glow discharge in a low-pressure gas
  • curtain hook — a hook used to attach a curtain to a curtain rail
  • facebook.com — (web)   One of the most popular social networking websites.
  • fully booked — having no vacancies or spaces
  • george crookGeorge, 1829–90, U.S. general in Indian wars.
  • get the hook — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
  • gobbledegook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
  • gobbledygook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
  • good-looking — of good or attractive appearance; handsome or beautiful: a good-looking young man; a good-looking hat.
  • hash cookies — biscuits containing cannabis
  • home cooking — home-made food
  • hook and eye — a two-piece clothes fastener, usually of metal, consisting of a hook that catches onto a loop or bar.
  • hookswinging — a ritualistic torture, practiced among the Mandan Indians, in which a voluntary victim was suspended from hooks attached to the flesh of the back.
  • jungle books — a series of jungle stories in two volumes (1894, 1895) by Rudyard Kipling.
  • library book — a book owned by a library
  • look askance — glance sidelong or with suspicion

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