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11-letter words containing r, a, w

  • 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.
  • meadow bird — the bobolink.
  • meadowlarks — Plural form of meadowlark.
  • metalworker — A person who shapes metal.
  • mexican war — the war between the U.S. and Mexico, 1846–48.
  • microwaving — Present participle of microwave.
  • mineral wax — ozocerite.
  • 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.
  • natural law — a principle or body of laws considered as derived from nature, right reason, or religion and as ethically binding in human society.
  • nature walk — a walk on a nature trail, especially with an experienced guide.
  • 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 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 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 orleans — a seaport in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi: British defeated (1815) by Americans under Andrew Jackson.
  • new realism — neorealism.
  • news reader — (messaging)   A browser program which enables a user to read articles posted to Usenet. Articles may be stored in a local (or NFS-mounted) spool directory, or retrieved via NNTP. Examples are rn, GNUS, and nn.
  • newscasters — Plural form of newscaster.
  • newsdealers — Plural form of newsdealer.
  • nicht wahr? — isn't that so?
  • nightwalker — a person who walks or roves about at night, especially a thief, prostitute, etc.
  • 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.
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