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

  • greasewoods — Plural form of greasewood.
  • greasy wool — untreated wool, still retaining the lanolin, which is used for waterproof clothing
  • great power — a nation that has exceptional military and economic strength, and consequently plays a major, often decisive, role in international affairs.
  • great world — fashionable society and its way of life
  • ground wave — a radio wave that propagates on or near the earth's surface and is affected by the ground and the troposphere.
  • groundwater — the water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.
  • growth area — a geographic or economic area in which there is noticeable growth
  • growth rate — increase per unit
  • guardswomen — Plural form of guardswoman.
  • guinea worm — a long, slender roundworm, Dracunculus medinensis, parasitic under the skin of humans and animals, common in parts of India and Africa.
  • hammer blow — a blow from a hammer
  • hammer down — a tool consisting of a solid head, usually of metal, set crosswise on a handle, used for beating metals, driving nails, etc.
  • hand-worker — a person who does handwork
  • harrow hell — to enter hell and rescue the righteous
  • heart-whole — not in love.
  • home waters — territorial waters
  • horse-drawn — A horse-drawn carriage, cart, or other vehicle is one that is pulled by one or more horses.
  • id software — (games)   Creators and publishers of the DOOM game for IBM PCs. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Telephone: +1 800-ID-GAMES (Orders only).
  • inner woman — a woman's mind, soul, or nature
  • jabberwocky — a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words; nonsense; gibberish.
  • joel barlow — Joel, 1754–1812, U.S. poet and diplomat.
  • lacquerwork — lacquered wood, often with ivory inlays
  • land worker — a person who works on the land
  • latticework — work consisting of crossed strips usually arranged in a diagonal pattern of open spaces.
  • least-worst — bad but better than any available alternative
  • leatherwood — an American shrub, Dirca palustris, having a tough bark.
  • leatherwork — work or decoration done in leather.
  • leavenworth — a city in NE Kansas.
  • lock washer — a washer placed under a nut on a bolt or screw, so made as to prevent the nut from shaking loose.
  • lolly water — any of various coloured soft drinks
  • low-calorie — containing relatively fewer calories than comparable foods, diets, etc
  • lower apsis — See under apsis (def 1).
  • lower class — classes lower in rank than middle class
  • lower lakes — Lakes Erie and Ontario
  • lower-class — of, relating to, or characteristic of the lower class: lower-class values.
  • mallow rose — a rose mallow of the genus Hibiscus.
  • marine snow — small particles of organic biogenic marine sediment, including the remains of organisms, faecal matter, and the shells of planktonic organisms, that slowly drift down to the sea floor
  • market town — a town where a regularly scheduled market is held.
  • marrow bean — a plump-seeded strain of the common field bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), grown for its dry, edible seeds
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • narrow seas — the channels between Great Britain and the Continent and Great Britain and Ireland
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