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12-letter words that end in l

  • victory roll — a roll of an aircraft made by a pilot to announce or celebrate the shooting down of an enemy plane or other cause for celebration
  • video rental — the system of renting films on video or DVD for a period of time in exchange for payment
  • vigentennial — a 20th anniversary.
  • village hall — function venue in small community
  • virgin metal — primary metal.
  • visitatorial — of or relating to an official visitor or official visitation.
  • visuospatial — pertaining to perception of the spatial relationships among objects within the field of vision.
  • vitamin pill — a tablet containing a vitamin or vitamins
  • vocicultural — relating to voice training
  • volatile oil — a distilled oil, especially one obtained from plant tissue, as distinguished from glyceride oils by their volatility and failure to saponify.
  • volitational — relating to flying
  • voltaic cell — cell1 (def 7a).
  • vulvovaginal — relating to the external female genitals
  • wailing wall — a wall in Jerusalem where Jews, on certain occasions, assemble for prayer and lamentation: traditionally believed to be the remains of the western wall of Herod's temple, destroyed by the Romans in a.d. 70.
  • wake-up call — an act or instance of waking up.
  • wall-to-wall — covering the entire floor from one wall to another: wall-to-wall carpeting.
  • wanne-eickel — a city in the Ruhr region in W Germany.
  • war memorial — monument to dead soldiers
  • warren, earl — Earl, 1891–1974, U.S. lawyer and political leader: chief justice of the U.S. 1953–69.
  • water pistol — a toy gun that shoots a stream of liquid.
  • weather girl — A weather girl is a young woman who presents weather forecasts at regular times on television or radio.
  • weaving mill — a mill where cloth is woven
  • western roll — a technique in high-jumping in which the jumper executes a half-turn of the body to clear the bar
  • western wall — a wall in Jerusalem, the last extant part of the Temple of Herod, held sacred by Jews as a place of prayer and pilgrimage
  • wherewithall — Misspelling of wherewithal.
  • whiffle ball — any of various lightweight, hollow plastic balls with several large air holes that cause them to abruptly curve or sink when thrown, hit, etc.
  • whippoorwill — a nocturnal North American nightjar, Caprimulgus vociferus, having a variegated plumage of gray, black, white, and tawny.
  • white squall — a whirlwind at sea or a violent disturbance of small radius not accompanied by clouds but indicated merely by whitecaps and turbulent water.
  • william tell — a legendary Swiss patriot forced by the Austrian governor to shoot an apple off his son's head with bow and arrow.
  • wineglassful — the capacity of a wineglass, typically containing four to six fluid ounces.
  • wishing well — a well or pool of water supposed to grant the wish of one who tosses a coin into it.
  • without fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
  • wood alcohol — methyl alcohol.
  • working girl — Older Use: Often Offensive. a woman who works.
  • working rail — fly rail (def 2).
  • wormseed oil — chenopodium oil.
  • worst of all — You say worst of all to indicate that what you are about to mention is the most unpleasant or has the most disadvantages out of all the things you are mentioning.
  • yale haskell — (language)   A fully integrated Haskell programming environment. It provides tightly coupled interactive editing, incremental compilation and dynamic execution of Haskell programs. Two major modes of compilation, correspond to Lisp's traditional "interpreted" and "compiled" modes. Compiled and interpreted modules may be freely mixed in any combination. Yale Haskell is run using either a command-line interface or as an inferior process running under the Emacs editor. Using the Emacs interface, simple two-keystroke commands evaluate expressions, run dialogues, compile modules, turn specific compiler diagnostics on and off and enable and disable various optimisers. Commands may be queued up arbitrarily, thus allowing, for example, a compilation to be running in the background as the editing of a source file continues in Emacs in the foreground. A "scratch pad" may be automatically created for any module. Such a pad is a logical extension of the module, in which additional function and value definitions may be added, but whose evaluation does not result in recompilation of the module. A tutorial on Haskell is also provided in the Emacs environment. A Macintosh version of Yale Haskell includes its own integrated programming environment, complete with an Emacs-like editor and pull-down menus. Yale Haskell is a complete implementation of the Haskell language, but also contains a number of extensions, including: (1) Instead of stream based I/O, a monadic I/O system is used. Although similar to what will be part of the new Haskell 1.3 report, the I/O system will change yet again when 1.3 becomes official. (2) Haskell programs can call both Lisp and C functions using a flexible foreign function interface. (3) Yale Haskell includes a dynamic typing system. Dynamic typing has been used to implement derived instances in a user extensible manner. (4) A number of small Haskell 1.3 changes have been added, including polymorphic recursion and the use of @[email protected] in an expression to denote bottom. Although the 1.3 report is not yet complete, these changes will almost certainly be part of the new report. (5) A complete Haskell level X Window System interface, based on CLX. (6) A number of annotations are available for controlling the optimiser, including those for specifying both function and data constructor strictness properties, "inlining" functions, and specialising over-loaded functions. Many standard prelude functions have been specialised for better performance using these annotations. (7) Separate compilation (including mutually recursive modules) is supported using a notion of a UNIT file, which is a kind of localised makefile that tells the compiler about compiler options and logical dependencies amongst program files. (8) Yale Haskell supports both standard and "literate" Haskell syntax. Performance of Yale Haskell's compiled code has been improved considerably over previous releases. Although still not as good as the Glasgow (GHC) and Chalmers (HBC) compilers, the flexibility afforded by the features described earlier makes Yale Haskell a good choice for large systems development. For some idea of performance, Hartel's latest "Nuc" benchmark runs at about the same speed under both Yale Haskell and hbc. (Our experiments suggest, however, that Yale Haskell's compiled code is on average about 3 times slower than hbc.) Binaries are provided for Sun/SPARC and Macintosh, but it is possible to build the system on virtually any system that runs one of a number of Common Lisp implementations: CMU Common Lisp, Lucid Common Lisp, Allegro Common Lisp or Harlequin LispWorks. akcl, gcl and CLisp do not have adaquate performance for our compiler. The current version is 2.1.
  • yellow metal — a type of brass having about 60 per cent copper and 40 per cent zinc
  • yellow peril — (in historical contexts) the alleged danger that predominantly white Western civilizations and populations could be overwhelmed by Asian peoples.
  • youth hostel — hostel (def 1).
  • zebra mussel — a small striped freshwater mussel from NE Europe, Dreissena polymorpha: introduced to the Great Lakes in the 1980s and deleteriously affecting water pipes, other fauna, etc.
  • zootechnical — of or relating to zootechny
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