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11-letter words containing r, o, s, a, l

  • lobsterback — redcoat.
  • lock washer — a washer placed under a nut on a bolt or screw, so made as to prevent the nut from shaking loose.
  • loggerheads — a thick-headed or stupid person; blockhead.
  • long radius — the distance from the centre of a regular polygon to a vertex
  • loss leader — a popular article that is sold at a very low price or at a loss for the purpose of attracting customers to a retail store. Compare leader (def 4).
  • lotus sutra — a central scripture of Mahayana Buddhism, emphasizing that anyone can attain enlightenment
  • lotus-eater — Classical Mythology. a member of a people whom Odysseus found existing in a state of languorous forgetfulness induced by their eating of the fruit of the legendary lotus; one of the lotophagi.
  • loudhailers — Plural form of loudhailer.
  • loudspeaker — any of various devices, usually electronic, by which speech, music, etc., can be intensified and made audible throughout a room, hall, or the like.
  • 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.
  • lumbosacral — of, relating to, or involving the lumbar and sacral regions or parts of the body.
  • lythraceous — belonging to the Lythraceae, the loosestrife family of plants.
  • macrofossil — a fossil large enough to be studied and identified without the use of a microscope.
  • mail orders — goods that have been ordered by mail order
  • mailpersons — Plural form of mailperson.
  • major scale — a scale consisting of a series of whole steps except for half steps between the third and fourth and seventh and eighth degrees.
  • malapropism — an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.
  • malapropist — a person who regularly makes malapropisms
  • malefactors — Plural form of malefactor.
  • mallow rose — a rose mallow of the genus Hibiscus.
  • malodourous — Alternative form of malodorous.
  • maltotriose — (carbohydrate) A maltooligosaccharide consisting of three glucose units.
  • manorialism — the manorial organization, or its principles and practices in the Middle Ages.
  • mariologist — a student of Mariology.
  • mars violet — a dark grayish-purple color.
  • 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.
  • marvelously — superb; excellent; great: a marvelous show.
  • mayoralties — Plural form of mayoralty.
  • meadowlarks — Plural form of meadowlark.
  • megalosaurs — Plural form of megalosaur.
  • memorialise — (British) alternative spelling of memorialize.
  • memorialist — a person who writes memorials.
  • meridionals — Plural form of meridional.
  • meroblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing partial cleavage, resulting in unequal blastomeres.
  • mesocranial — mesocephalic
  • metrosexual — a heterosexual, usually urban male who pays much attention to his personal appearance and cultivates an upscale lifestyle.
  • minor scale — Also called harmonic minor scale. a scale having half steps between the second and third, fifth and sixth, and seventh and eighth degrees, with whole steps for the other intervals.
  • misrelation — an erroneous or imperfect relation
  • modularised — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
  • monocrystal — A single crystal.
  • monolatrism — Belief in multiple deities but worship of only one.
  • 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.
  • moral sense — the ability to determine the rightness or wrongness of actions.
  • mortadellas — Plural form of mortadella.
  • mortalities — Plural form of mortalitie.
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