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

  • 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.
  • mars yellow — a medium to deep orange-yellow color.
  • marshmellow — Misspelling of marshmallow.
  • 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.
  • new flavors — An object-oriented Lisp from Symbolics, the successor to Flavors, it led to CLOS.
  • new orleans — a seaport in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi: British defeated (1815) by Americans under Andrew Jackson.
  • non-renewal — the act of renewing.
  • otter trawl — a trawl net equipped with otter boards.
  • pace bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
  • paddle worm — any of a family of green-blue faintly iridescent active marine polychaete worms of the genus Phyllodoce, having paddle-shaped swimming lobes, found under stones on the shore
  • palmer worm — the hairy black and white caterpillar of the goldtail moth
  • paper towel — absorbent kitchen tissue
  • pedal power — use of a cycle
  • plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
  • potwalloper — (in some boroughs before the Reform Bill of 1832) a man who qualified as a householder, and therefore a voter, by virtue of ownership of his own fireplace at which to boil pots.
  • powder flag — red flag (def 4).
  • power alley — either of the two areas in the outfield between the outfielders
  • power cable — cable for conducting electric power.
  • power plant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
  • prairie owl — burrowing owl.
  • rainbowlike — resembling a rainbow
  • rose mallow — any of several plants of the genus Hibiscus, of the mallow family, having rose-colored flowers.
  • rule of law — the principle that all people and institutions are subject to and accountable to law that is fairly applied and enforced; the principle of government by law.
  • safe-blower — a person who uses explosives to open safes and rob them
  • satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • seam bowler — a fast bowler who makes the ball bounce on its seam so that it will change direction
  • snailflower — a tropical vine, Vigna caracalla, of the legume family, having fragrant, yellowish or purplish flowers, a segment of which is shaped like a snail's shell.
  • solar power — energy generated by the sun
  • stonewaller — to engage in stonewalling.
  • strawflower — any of several everlasting flowers, especially an Australian composite plant, Helichrysum bracteatum, having heads of chaffy yellow, orange, red, or white flowers.
  • tallow tree — a small tree, Sapium sebiferum, of the spurge family, cultivated in China and the tropics, having popcorn-shaped seeds with a waxy coating that is used for soap, candles, and oil.
  • tidal power — the use of the rise and fall of tides involving very large volumes of water at low heads to generate electric power
  • torrens law — any of various statutes that provide for the registration of the title to land with the government, which issues a warranted title deed (Torrens certificate) to said land
  • tree mallow — a malvaceous treelike plant, Lavatera arborea, of rocky coastal areas of Europe and N Africa, having a woody stem, rounded leaves, and red-purple flowers
  • trombe wall — a glass-fronted exterior masonry wall that absorbs solar heat for radiation into a building.
  • waffle iron — appliance for cooking waffles
  • waffle-iron — a batter cake with a pattern of deep indentations on each side, formed by the gridlike design on each of the two hinged parts of the metal appliance (waffle iron) in which the cake is baked.
  • wall rocket — any of several yellow-flowered European plants of the genus Diplotaxis, such as D. muralis, that grow on old walls and in waste places: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • wallflowers — Plural form of wallflower.
  • warmblooded — Alternative spelling of warm-blooded.
  • warriorlike — Like a warrior.
  • water clock — a device, as a clepsydra, for measuring time by the flow of water.
  • water lemon — yellow granadilla.
  • water louse — an aquatic isopod of the genus Asellus, common in weedy water
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