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11-letter words containing s, w

  • 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.
  • ludwigsburg — a city in Baden-Württemberg state, SW Germany.
  • lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
  • lutosławski — Witold (ˈvitɔlt). 1913–94, Polish composer, whose works frequently juxtapose aleatoric and notated writing
  • madonnawise — in the manner of a Madonna
  • mains water — gas supplied to a building through pipes
  • makeweights — Plural form of makeweight.
  • mallow rose — a rose mallow of the genus Hibiscus.
  • malt whisky — whisky, as Scotch, made entirely from malted barley.
  • 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.
  • mawkishness — characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
  • 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.
  • meadowsweet — any plant belonging to the genus Spiraea, of the rose family, especially S. latifolia, having white or pink flowers.
  • 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
  • microswitch — a highly sensitive switch used in automatic-control devices.
  • 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.
  • millwrights — Plural form of millwright.
  • mince words — speak tentatively, tactfully
  • minesweeper — a specially equipped ship used for dragging a body of water in order to remove or destroy enemy mines.
  • mineworkers — Plural form of mineworker.
  • misbestowal — a wrong or improper bestowal
  • mishallowed — falsely hallowed or revered
  • money wages — wages evaluated with reference to the money paid rather than the equivalent purchasing power
  • 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.
  • most-farrow — (of a cow) not pregnant.
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