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

  • lock washer — a washer placed under a nut on a bolt or screw, so made as to prevent the nut from shaking loose.
  • low hurdles — a race in which runners leap over hurdles 2 feet 6 inches (76 cm) high.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • microswitch — a highly sensitive switch used in automatic-control devices.
  • middlebrows — Plural form of middlebrow.
  • mince words — speak tentatively, tactfully
  • mineworkers — Plural form of mineworker.
  • 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.
  • most-farrow — (of a cow) not pregnant.
  • motherworts — Plural form of motherwort.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • new yorkese — the speech thought to be characteristic of a person from New York City, as in pronunciation or vocabulary.
  • news editor — a person who is in charge of the news desk at a newspaper or broadcasting organization and whose job is to oversee the selection and preparation of news items for publication or broadcast
  • news vendor — a person who sells newspapers or periodicals.
  • newsmongers — Plural form of newsmonger.
  • newspersons — Plural form of newsperson.
  • newsvendors — Plural form of newsvendor.
  • nippleworts — Plural form of nipplewort.
  • northwester — New England and South Atlantic States. a wind or gale from the northwest.
  • objectworks — An object-oriented development environment developed by ParcPlace, available under Smalltalk and C++.
  • old windsor — a royal residence in the time of Edward the Confessor, 3 km (2 miles) southeast of the town of Windsor in Berkshire
  • otherwhiles — at other times, sometimes
  • otherworlds — Plural form of otherworld.
  • otter shrew — a chiefly aquatic insectivore, Potamogale velox, of western Africa, that resembles an otter, having sleek, brown fur and a flattened tail.
  • outswearing — Present participle of outswear.
  • outswingers — Plural form of outswinger.
  • outwardness — (uncountable) The quality of being outward.
  • over-sewing — to sew with stitches passing successively over an edge, especially closely, so as to cover the edge or make a firm seam.
  • oversweeten — to sweeten too much
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