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11-letter words containing s, e, w, l

  • low-density — having a low concentration.
  • low-tension — subjected to, or capable of operating under, relatively low voltage: low-tension wire. Abbreviation: lt, L.T.
  • lower apsis — See under apsis (def 1).
  • lower class — classes lower in rank than middle class
  • lower house — one of two branches of a legislature, generally more representative and with more members than the upper branch.
  • lower lakes — Lakes Erie and Ontario
  • lower sixth — the first year of the sixth form
  • lower-class — of, relating to, or characteristic of the lower class: lower-class values.
  • lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
  • mallow rose — a rose mallow of the genus Hibiscus.
  • mars yellow — a medium to deep orange-yellow color.
  • marshmellow — Misspelling of marshmallow.
  • 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.
  • meadowlands — Plural form of meadowland.
  • meadowlarks — Plural form of meadowlark.
  • 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
  • middle west — the region of the United States bounded on the W by the Rocky Mountains, on the S by the Ohio River and the S extremities of Missouri and Kansas, and on the E, variously, by the Allegheny Mountains, the E border of Ohio, or the E border of Illinois.
  • middlebrows — Plural form of middlebrow.
  • misbestowal — a wrong or improper bestowal
  • mishallowed — falsely hallowed or revered
  • 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.
  • moscow mule — a cocktail of vodka, lime juice, and ginger beer, traditionally served in a copper mug.
  • mouse elbow — (jargon, medical)   A tennis-elbow-like fatigue syndrome resulting from excessive use of a WIMP. Similarly, "mouse shoulder". GLS reports that he used to get this a lot before he taught himself to be ambimoustrous.
  • 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.
  • new castile — a region in central Spain: formerly a province. 27,933 sq. mi. (72,346 sq. km).
  • new english — Modern English.
  • new flavors — An object-oriented Lisp from Symbolics, the successor to Flavors, it led to CLOS.
  • new glasgow — a city in N central Nova Scotia, in E Canada.
  • new orleans — a seaport in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi: British defeated (1815) by Americans under Andrew Jackson.
  • new planets — the outer planets Uranus, Neptune, and (formerly) Pluto, only discovered comparatively recently
  • new realism — neorealism.
  • news weekly — a weekly newspaper or news magazine
  • newsdealers — Plural form of newsdealer.
  • newsletters — Plural form of newsletter.
  • nippleworts — Plural form of nipplewort.
  • nonwashable — Not washable.
  • offset well — An offset well is a wellbore which is close to a proposed well, and which provides information for planning the proposed well.
  • old swedish — the language of Sweden as spoken and written from about 1225 to 1500.
  • otherwhiles — at other times, sometimes
  • otherworlds — Plural form of otherworld.
  • overswollen — too swollen
  • overwrestle — to overpower by wrestling
  • plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
  • plasticware — knives, forks, spoons, cups, etc., made of plastic: a picnic hamper with plasticware for six.
  • rose mallow — any of several plants of the genus Hibiscus, of the mallow family, having rose-colored flowers.
  • rose weevil — Fuller rose beetle.
  • safe-blower — a person who uses explosives to open safes and rob them
  • saltirewise — in the direction or manner of a saltire.
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