12-letter words that end in k
- luggage rack — shelf for baggage on a train
- machtpolitik — power politics
- magnetic ink — ink containing particles of a magnetic material used for printing characters for magnetic character recognition
- magnitogorsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Asia, on the Ural River, near the boundary between Europe and Asia.
- make sb sick — disgust sb morally
- maker's mark — the personal mark of a goldsmith or silversmith, struck on the completed pieces.
- margin plank — a plank forming a border for wooden decking.
- mary of teck — Mary (def 4).
- melrose park — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- memory stick — computing: flashcard, dongle
- mental block — inability to recall
- middle greek — Medieval Greek.
- minute steak — a thin slice of beefsteak that is prepared by sautéeing quickly on each side.
- missing link — a hypothetical form of animal assumed to have constituted a connecting link between the anthropoid apes and humans, identified by some authorities as constituting the genus Australopithecus.
- modern greek — the Greek language since c1500. Abbreviation: ModGk.
- monkey block — Nautical. a single block that swivels.
- moo shu pork — a Chinese dish made of shredded pork and vegetables and beaten eggs, sautéed and usually served in a crêpe with hoisin sauce
- mooring rack — a row of piles, connected at the tops, to which ships or boats can be moored.
- mortice lock — A mortice lock is a type of lock which fits into a hole cut into the edge of a door rather than being fixed to one side of it.
- mortise lock — a lock housed within a mortise in a door or the like, so that the lock mechanism is covered on both sides.
- mossycup oak — bur oak
- mount kazbek — an extinct volcano in N Georgia in the central Caucasus Mountains. Height: 5047 m (16 558 ft)
- mullein pink — rose campion.
- muscovy duck — a large, crested, wild duck, Cairina moschata, of tropical America, that has been widely domesticated.
- nevinnomyssk — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, S of Stavropol.
- nip and tuck — to squeeze or compress tightly between two surfaces or points; pinch; bite.
- no such luck — You can say 'No such luck' when you want to express your disappointment over something.
- novokuznetsk — a city in the S Russian Federation in central Asia: an industrial center is located here because of coal deposits of the Kuznetsk Basin.
- novomoskovsk — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Moscow.
- novorossiysk — a seaport in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Black Sea.
- oakland park — a town in S Florida.
- occurs check — (programming) A feature of some implementations of unification which causes unification of a logic variable V and a structure S to fail if S contains V. Binding a variable to a structure containing that variable results in a cyclic structure which may subsequently cause unification to loop forever. Some implementations use extra pointer comparisons to avoid this. Most implementations of Prolog do not perform the occurs check for reasons of efficiency. Without occurs check the complexity of unification is O(min(size(term1), size(term2))) with occurs check it's O(max(size(term1), size(term2))) In theorem proving unification without the occurs check can lead to unsound inference. For example, in Prolog it is quite valid to write X = f(X). which will succeed, binding X to a cyclic structure. Clearly however, if f is taken to stand for a function rather than a constructor, then the above equality is only valid if f is the identity function. Weijland calls unification without occur check, "complete unification". The reference below describes a complete unification algorithm in terms of Colmerauer's consistency algorithm.
- off the hook — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
- off the rack — (of clothing) not made to specific or individual requirements; ready-made: off-the-rack men's suits.
- off-the-rack — (of clothing) not made to specific or individual requirements; ready-made: off-the-rack men's suits.
- office block — a large office building.
- on the blink — to open and close the eye, especially involuntarily; wink rapidly and repeatedly.
- on the block — for sale at auction
- on the stick — alert, efficient, etc.
- on your mark — a command given to runners in a race to prepare themselves at the starting line
- optical disk — Also, optical disc. Also called laser disk. a grooveless disk on which digital data, as text, music, or pictures, is stored as tiny pits in the surface and is read or replayed by a laser beam scanning the surface.
- orange stick — a slender, rounded stick, originally of orangewood, having tapered ends and used in manicuring, especially to push back the cuticles or clean the fingernails.
- out of stock — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- out of whack — to strike with a smart, resounding blow or blows.
- outside work — work done off the premises of a business
- pallet truck — a powered truck with a mast, sometimes telescopic, on which slides a carriage which can be raised and lowered hydraulically. The carriage has extended forks which can be passed under a palletized load for stacking or moving to a new position
- panic attack — an intense attack of anxiety characterized by feelings of impending doom and trembling, sweating, pounding heart, and other physical symptoms.
- parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
- parity check — a method for detecting errors in data communications or within a computer system by counting the number of ones or zeros per byte or per word, including a special check bit (parity bit) to see if the value is even or odd.
- passage hawk — a young hawk during its first migration.