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

  • gallowglass — a follower and supporter of or a soldier owing allegiance to an Irish chief.
  • gallowsness — the quality of being bold or reckless
  • glassblower — A person skilled in the art of glassblowing.
  • glassworker — a person who makes or does glasswork.
  • grease wool — shorn fleece before it has been cleaned
  • greasy wool — untreated wool, still retaining the lanolin, which is used for waterproof clothing
  • groundswell — a broad, deep swell or rolling of the sea, due to a distant storm or gale.
  • guildswoman — a woman who is a member of a guild
  • hinshelwood — Sir Cyril Norman, 1897–1967, English chemist: Nobel Prize 1956.
  • hooke's law — the law stating that the stress on a solid substance is directly proportional to the strain produced, provided the stress is less than the elastic limit of the substance.
  • hornswoggle — to swindle, cheat, hoodwink, or hoax.
  • housewifely — of, like, or befitting a housewife.
  • ice flowers — formations of ice crystals on the surface of a still, slowly freezing body of water.
  • joule's law — the principle that the rate of production of heat by a constant direct current is directly proportional to the resistance of the circuit and to the square of the current.
  • keyhole saw — a compass saw for cutting keyholes, etc.
  • lamb's wool — a soft, virgin wool possessing superior spinning qualities, shorn from a seven-month-old lamb.
  • law society — association of lawyers
  • least-worst — bad but better than any available alternative
  • lewy bodies — abnormal proteins that occur in the nerve cells of the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia, causing Parkinson's disease and dementia
  • life's work — Someone's life's work or life work is the main activity that they have been involved in during their life, or their most important achievement.
  • lister-plow — Also called lister plow, middlebreaker, middlebuster. a plow with a double moldboard, used to prepare the ground for planting by producing furrows and ridges.
  • lock washer — a washer placed under a nut on a bolt or screw, so made as to prevent the nut from shaking loose.
  • loose-weave — loosely woven
  • low hurdles — a race in which runners leap over hurdles 2 feet 6 inches (76 cm) high.
  • low-density — having a low concentration.
  • low-scoring — (of a sports match) having, getting, or ending in a low score
  • low-sulphur — (esp of fuel) containing or made from sources containing relatively little sulphur
  • 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.
  • lutosławski — Witold (ˈvitɔlt). 1913–94, Polish composer, whose works frequently juxtapose aleatoric and notated writing
  • mallow rose — a rose mallow of the genus Hibiscus.
  • 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.
  • meadowlands — Plural form of meadowland.
  • meadowlarks — Plural form of meadowlark.
  • mellowspeak — bland or vague language associated with New Age philosophy
  • middlebrows — Plural form of middlebrow.
  • misbestowal — a wrong or improper bestowal
  • mishallowed — falsely hallowed or revered
  • monsoon low — the seasonal low found over most continents in summer and, to a lesser extent, over adjacent ocean areas in winter.
  • 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.
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