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

  • foamflowers — Plural form of foamflower.
  • foreshadows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshadow.
  • forswearing — Present participle of forswear.
  • forwardmost — all the way at the front; first.
  • forwardness — overreadiness to push oneself forward; lack of appropriate modesty; presumption; boldness.
  • fox sparrow — a North American sparrow, Passerella iliaca, having a bright rufous tail and streaked breast.
  • frowardness — The quality of being froward.
  • glassblower — A person skilled in the art of glassblowing.
  • glassworker — a person who makes or does glasswork.
  • grass widow — a woman who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from her husband.
  • grease wool — shorn fleece before it has been cleaned
  • greasewoods — Plural form of greasewood.
  • greasy wool — untreated wool, still retaining the lanolin, which is used for waterproof clothing
  • groatsworth — the amount that is, or may be, bought or sold for a groat
  • guardswoman — A female guardsman.
  • guardswomen — Plural form of guardswoman.
  • handbarrows — Plural form of handbarrow.
  • hash browns — fried potato cake
  • home waters — territorial waters
  • horse-drawn — A horse-drawn carriage, cart, or other vehicle is one that is pulled by one or more horses.
  • howard moss — Howard, 1922–1987, U.S. poet, editor, and playwright.
  • id software — (games)   Creators and publishers of the DOOM game for IBM PCs. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Telephone: +1 800-ID-GAMES (Orders only).
  • kwashiorkor — a malnutrition disease, chiefly of children, caused by severe protein and vitamin deficiency and characterized by retarded growth, changes in pigmentation, potbelly, and anemia.
  • least-worst — bad but better than any available alternative
  • lock washer — a washer placed under a nut on a bolt or screw, so made as to prevent the nut from shaking loose.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • meadowlarks — Plural form of meadowlark.
  • 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.
  • most-farrow — (of a cow) not pregnant.
  • narrow seas — the channels between Great Britain and the Continent and Great Britain and Ireland
  • narrowboats — Plural form of narrowboat.
  • 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.
  • outswearing — Present participle of outswear.
  • outwardness — (uncountable) The quality of being outward.
  • oysterwoman — a woman who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
  • passagework — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
  • plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
  • potter wasp — any of several mason wasps, especially of the genus Eumenes, that construct a juglike nest of mud.
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