11-letter words containing e, w

milky-white — of a cream or whitish colour similar to the colour of milk
mill worker — a person who works in a mill, esp a cotton mill
milwaukeean — a port in SE Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
mince words — speak tentatively, tactfully
mind-blower — a hallucinogenic drug.
mineral wax — ozocerite.
minesweeper — a specially equipped ship used for dragging a body of water in order to remove or destroy enemy mines.
mineworkers — Plural form of mineworker.
minke whale — a dark-colored baleen whale, Baleanoptera acutorostrata, inhabiting temperate and polar seas and growing to a length of 33 feet (10 meters): reduced in numbers.
misbestowal — a wrong or improper bestowal
mishallowed — falsely hallowed or revered
money cowry — a tropical marine gastropod, Cypraea moneta
money wages — wages evaluated with reference to the money paid rather than the equivalent purchasing power
moonflowers — Plural form of moonflower.
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.
moscow mule — a cocktail of vodka, lime juice, and ginger beer, traditionally served in a copper mug.
motherworts — Plural form of motherwort.
motor mower — a motor-powered lawn mower
mounds view — a town in E Minnesota.
mouse elbow — (jargon, medical) A tennis-elbow-like fatigue syndrome resulting from excessive use of a WIMP. Similarly, "mouse shoulder". GLS reports that he used to get this a lot before he taught himself to be ambimoustrous.
mulled wine — wine heated with sugar and spices, often served at Christmas
musk flower — a sticky-hairy plant, Mimulus moschata, of the figwort family, native to northern and western North America, having pale-yellow flowers and a musky odor.
narrow seas — the channels between Great Britain and the Continent and Great Britain and Ireland
nation-wide — extending throughout the nation: The incident aroused nationwide interest.
nature walk — a walk on a nature trail, especially with an experienced guide.
needlewoman — a woman who does needlework.
needlewomen — Plural form of needlewoman.
netherworld — the infernal regions; hell.
new bedford — a seaport in SE Massachusetts: formerly a chief whaling port.
new biology — the branch of biology that deals with the nature of biological phenomena at the molecular level through the study of DNA and RNA, proteins, and other macromolecules involved in genetic information and cell function, characteristically making use of advanced tools and techniques of separation, manipulation, imaging, and analysis.
new britain — the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea, in the W central Pacific Ocean. About 14,600 sq. mi. (37,814 sq. km). Capital: Rabaul.
new castile — a region in central Spain: formerly a province. 27,933 sq. mi. (72,346 sq. km).
new country — a style of country music that emerged in the late 1980s characterized by a more contemporary sound and down-to-earth rather than sentimental lyrics
new cuisine — nouvelle cuisine.
new economy — the postindustrial world economy based on internet trading and advanced technology
new england — an area in the NE United States, including the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
new english — Modern English.
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 glasgow — a city in N central Nova Scotia, in E Canada.
new granada — a former Spanish viceroyalty in NW South America, comprising the present republics of Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, and Panama.
new harmony — a town in SW Indiana: socialistic community established by Robert Owen 1825.
new ireland — an island in the Bismarck Archipelago, in the W central Pacific Ocean NE of New Guinea: part of Papua New Guinea. About 3800 sq. mi. (9800 sq. km).
new kingdom — a period of Egyptian history, extending from the 18th to the 20th dynasty (?1570–?1080 bc)
new mexican — a state in the SW United States. 121,666 sq. mi. (315,115 sq. km). Capital: Santa Fe. Abbreviation: NM (for use with zip code), N. Mex., N.M.
new milford — a town in W Connecticut.
new orleans — a seaport in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi: British defeated (1815) by Americans under Andrew Jackson.
new planets — the outer planets Uranus, Neptune, and (formerly) Pluto, only discovered comparatively recently
new realism — neorealism.
new thought — a system of doctrine and practice originating in the 19th century and stressing the power of thought to control physical and mental events.

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