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11-letter words containing a, r, o, w

  • marrow bone — Marrow bones are the bones of certain animals, especially cows, that contain a lot of bone marrow. They are used in cooking and in dog food.
  • marrowbones — Plural form of marrowbone.
  • mars yellow — a medium to deep orange-yellow color.
  • marshmallow — a sweetened paste or confection made from the mucilaginous root of the marsh mallow.
  • marshmellow — Misspelling of marshmallow.
  • master-work — masterpiece.
  • masterworks — Plural form of masterwork.
  • meadow bird — the bobolink.
  • meadowlarks — Plural form of meadowlark.
  • metalworker — A person who shapes metal.
  • microwaving — Present participle of microwave.
  • moore's law — (architecture)   /morz law/ The observation, made in 1965 by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore while preparing a speech, that each new memory integrated circuit contained roughly twice as much capacity as its predecessor, and each chip was released within 18-24 months of the previous chip. If this trend continued, he reasoned, computing power would rise exponentially with time. Moore's observation still holds in 1997 and is the basis for many performance forecasts. In 24 years the number of transistors on processor chips has increased by a factor of almost 2400, from 2300 on the Intel 4004 in 1971 to 5.5 million on the Pentium Pro in 1995 (doubling roughly every two years). Date Chip Transistors MIPS clock/MHz ----------------------------------------------- Nov 1971 4004 2300 0.06 0.108 Apr 1974 8080 6000 0.64 2 Jun 1978 8086 29000 0.75 10 Feb 1982 80286 134000 2.66 12 Oct 1985 386DX 275000 5 16 Apr 1989 80486 1200000 20 25 Mar 1993 Pentium 3100000 112 66 Nov 1995 Pentium Pro 5500000 428 200 ----------------------------------------------- Moore's Law has been (mis)interpreted to mean many things over the years. In particular, microprocessor performance has increased faster than the number of transistors per chip. The number of MIPS has, on average, doubled every 1.8 years for the past 25 years, or every 1.6 years for the last 10 years. While more recent processors have had wider data paths, which would correspond to an increase in transistor count, their performance has also increased due to increased clock rates. Chip density in transistors per unit area has increased less quickly - a factor of only 146 between the 4004 (12 mm^2) and the Pentium Pro (196 mm^2) (doubling every 3.3 years). Feature size has decreased from 10 to 0.35 microns which would give over 800 times as many transistors per unit. However, the automatic layout required to cope with the increased complexity is less efficient than the hand layout used for early processors. See also Parkinson's Law of Data.
  • mopani worm — an edible caterpillar that feeds on mopani leaves
  • most-farrow — (of a cow) not pregnant.
  • mural crown — a golden crown formed with indentations to resemble a battlement, bestowed by the ancient Romans on the soldiers who first mounted the wall of a besieged place and there lodged a standard.
  • narrow boat — A narrow boat is a long, low boat used on canals.
  • narrow down — refine, limit
  • narrow seas — the channels between Great Britain and the Continent and Great Britain and Ireland
  • narrowboats — Plural form of narrowboat.
  • new flavors — An object-oriented Lisp from Symbolics, the successor to Flavors, it led to CLOS.
  • new georgia — a group of islands in the Solomon Islands.
  • new harmony — a town in SW Indiana: socialistic community established by Robert Owen 1825.
  • new orleans — a seaport in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi: British defeated (1815) by Americans under Andrew Jackson.
  • non-renewal — the act of renewing.
  • northwardly — Northwards, towards the north.
  • norway pine — red pine.
  • on a downer — If you are on a downer, you are feeling depressed and without hope.
  • or whatever — You say or whatever to refer generally to something else of the same kind as the thing or things that you have just mentioned.
  • orangewoman — a female member of the Orangemen
  • other woman — a woman who is romantically or sexually involved with another woman's husband or lover, especially a woman who is having an affair with a married man.
  • otter trawl — a trawl net equipped with otter boards.
  • outswearing — Present participle of outswear.
  • outwardness — (uncountable) The quality of being outward.
  • overdrawing — Present participle of overdraw.
  • overforward — too familiar
  • overweather — to expose too long to harsh weather
  • oysterwoman — a woman who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
  • pace bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
  • paddle worm — any of a family of green-blue faintly iridescent active marine polychaete worms of the genus Phyllodoce, having paddle-shaped swimming lobes, found under stones on the shore
  • palmer worm — the hairy black and white caterpillar of the goldtail moth
  • palolo worm — a polychaete worm, Eunice viridis, that lives in burrows among the coral reefs of several South Pacific islands, producing sperm or eggs in posterior segments that are cast off periodically in enormous numbers.
  • paper towel — absorbent kitchen tissue
  • passagework — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
  • patrolwoman — a policewoman who is assigned to patrol a specific district, route, etc.
  • pawnbroking — the business of a pawnbroker.
  • peanut worm — any small, unsegmented, marine worm of the phylum Sipuncula, that when disturbed retracts its anterior portion into the body, giving the appearance of a peanut seed.
  • pedal power — use of a cycle
  • plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
  • polonnaruwa — a town in E central Sri Lanka: Buddhist ruins.
  • potato worm — tomato hornworm.
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