11-letter words containing m, a, w
- mammy wagon — a W African vehicle built on a lorry chassis, capable of carrying both passengers and goods
- manual work — work involving the hands, as opposed to an office job, for example
- march brown — an angler's name for the dun and spinner of various mayflies or an artificial fly imitating one of these
- 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.
- marshmallow — a sweetened paste or confection made from the mucilaginous root of the marsh mallow.
- marshmellow — Misspelling of marshmallow.
- martial law — the law temporarily imposed upon an area by state or national military forces when civil authority has broken down or during wartime military operations.
- master-work — masterpiece.
- masterworks — Plural form of masterwork.
- mawkishness — characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
- may as well — If you say that something, usually something bad, might as well be true or may as well be true, you mean that the situation is the same or almost the same as if it were true.
- mdewakanton — a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Santee branch of the Dakota.
- meadow bird — the bobolink.
- meadow lily — Canada lily.
- meadow vole — meadow mouse.
- meadowlands — Plural form of meadowland.
- meadowlarks — Plural form of meadowlark.
- meadowsweet — any plant belonging to the genus Spiraea, of the rose family, especially S. latifolia, having white or pink flowers.
- medium wave — Medium wave is a range of radio waves which are used for broadcasting.
- megan’s law — any of various statutes requiring that public notification be given of the whereabouts of persons who have been convicted of certain sexual crimes
- mellowspeak — bland or vague language associated with New Age philosophy
- metalworker — A person who shapes metal.
- mexican war — the war between the U.S. and Mexico, 1846–48.
- microwaving — Present participle of microwave.
- middlewoman — The female equivalent of a middleman; a female intermediary.
- milwaukeean — a port in SE Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- mineral wax — ozocerite.
- 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 wages — wages evaluated with reference to the money paid rather than the equivalent purchasing power
- 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.
- mu'awiyah i — ?602–680 ad, first caliph (661–80) of the Omayyad dynasty of Damascus; regarded as having secularized the caliphate
- 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.
- musical saw — a handsaw played as a musical instrument with a violin bow or a hammer while the saw is bent with varying tension to change the pitch.
- musk mallow — Also called musk rose. a European mallow, Malva moschata, introduced into North America, having musk-scented white or lavender flowers.
- needlewoman — a woman who does needlework.
- new harmony — a town in SW Indiana: socialistic community established by Robert Owen 1825.
- 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 realism — neorealism.
- ombudswoman — a woman employed to investigate complaints against government or institutional officials, employers, etc.
- 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.