12-letter words containing roo
- assay groove — (in silverwork) a furrow left in a piece by the digging out of metal for assay.
- auction room — a room in a building where auctions take place
- backroom boy — You can refer to a man as a backroom boy when he does important work in an organization and has good ideas but is not seen or known about by the public.
- banquet room — A banquet room is a room in a hotel where large formal meals for many people can be held.
- barrack room — a room inside a military barracks, esp one in which soldiers sleep
- bedroom eyes — sexy eyes
- 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.
- bullet-proof — Something that is bullet-proof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
- burglarproof — safeguarded or secure against burglary.
- chapter room — a room for the use of the chapter of a religious institution
- childproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of childproof.
- clean a room — If you clean a room, you make the inside of it and the furniture in it free from dirt and dust.
- control room — a room from which a system, network, or piece of equipment is controlled
- corner brook — a city in Newfoundland, in E Canada, on the W part of the island.
- counterproof — a reverse impression of a newly printed proof of an engraving made by laying it while wet upon plain paper and passing it through the press
- 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
- cutting room — The cutting room in a film production company is the place where the film is edited.
- cybertrooper — (in Malaysia) An activist who uses cyberspace.
- dealing room — A dealing room is a place where shares, currencies, or commodities are bought and sold.
- draughtproof — That prevents the access of draughts.
- drawing room — a formal reception room, especially in an apartment or private house.
- dyer's-broom — woadwaxen.
- editing room — a room in which a film or television programme is prepared by selecting, rearranging, or rejecting previously filmed material
- fibrous root — a root, as in most grasses, having numerous, very fine branches of approximately the same length.
- fireproofing — the act or process of rendering fireproof.
- fitness room — a room with gym equipment in it
- fitting room — a room, as in a clothing store, where garments are tried on and measurements taken for alterations or other changes.
- flameproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of flameproof.
- flameproofer — any agent which renders something flameproof
- florida room — a sunroom.
- furnace room — a room containing a furnace or an enclosed chamber for producing heat, often on the bottom floor of the building that it heats
- future-proof — (of a system, computer, program, etc) guaranteed not to be superseded by future versions, developments, etc
- galley proof — a proof, originally one set from type in a galley, taken before the material has been made up into pages and usually printed as a single column of type with wide margins for marking corrections.
- gambrel roof — a gable roof, each side of which has a shallower slope above a steeper one. Compare mansard (def 1).
- george crook — George, 1829–90, U.S. general in Indian wars.
- groom's cake — a fruit cake in layers of graduated size, served at a wedding.
- grooving saw — a circular saw used for making grooves
- hall bedroom — a small bedroom off a corridor, esp. a small bedroom formed by partitioning off the end of an upstairs corridor
- heteroousian — a person who believes the Father and the Son to be unlike in substance or essence; an Arian (opposed to Homoousian).
- hit the roof — the external upper covering of a house or other building.
- jackarooesse — (Australia, obsolete, rare) A female jackaroo.
- kangaroo dog — an Australian breed of large rough-haired dog that resembles a greyhound and is bred to hunt kangaroos
- 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
- kangaroo rat — any of various small jumping rodents of the family Heteromyidae, of Mexico and the western U.S.
- keeping room — hall (def 11).
- ladies' room — a public lavatory for women.
- lamella roof — a vaulted roof composed of lamellae.
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