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11-letter words containing o, r, w

  • 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.
  • master-work — masterpiece.
  • masterworks — Plural form of masterwork.
  • meadow bird — the bobolink.
  • meadowlarks — Plural form of meadowlark.
  • merry widow — a woman's undergarment consisting of a strapless brassiere and short corset with attached garters.
  • metalworker — A person who shapes metal.
  • microbrewed — Produced by microbrewing.
  • microbrewer — The person or company that operates a microbrewery.
  • microswitch — a highly sensitive switch used in automatic-control devices.
  • microwaving — Present participle of microwave.
  • microwriter — a small device with six keys for creating text that can be printed or displayed on a visual display unit
  • middlebrows — Plural form of middlebrow.
  • mildewproof — able to withstand or repel the effect of mildew.
  • milk powder — dry milk.
  • mill worker — a person who works in a mill, esp a cotton mill
  • mince words — speak tentatively, tactfully
  • mind-blower — a hallucinogenic drug.
  • mineworkers — Plural form of mineworker.
  • money cowry — a tropical marine gastropod, Cypraea moneta
  • 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.
  • mopani worm — an edible caterpillar that feeds on mopani leaves
  • most-farrow — (of a cow) not pregnant.
  • motherworts — Plural form of motherwort.
  • motion work — clockwork by which the hour hand is driven from the shaft of the minute hand.
  • motor mower — a motor-powered lawn mower
  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • netherworld — the infernal regions; hell.
  • new bedford — a seaport in SE Massachusetts: formerly a chief whaling port.
  • 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 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 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 yorkese — the speech thought to be characteristic of a person from New York City, as in pronunciation or vocabulary.
  • new-for-old — (of insurance) issued on the principle that claims will be based on the cost of replacing old damaged, destroyed, or lost items with brand new items
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