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11-letter words containing w, a, l

  • 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.
  • luckengowan — a daisy or other flower having petals drawn together similar to a bud
  • lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
  • lutosławski — Witold (ˈvitɔlt). 1913–94, Polish composer, whose works frequently juxtapose aleatoric and notated writing
  • mallee fowl — an Australian bird, Leipoa ocellata, of variegated gray, brown, white, and black plumage, that lays up to 35 eggs in an incubating mound.
  • mallow rose — a rose mallow of the genus Hibiscus.
  • malt whisky — whisky, as Scotch, made entirely from malted barley.
  • manual work — work involving the hands, as opposed to an office job, for example
  • 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.
  • martial law — the law temporarily imposed upon an area by state or national military forces when civil authority has broken down or during wartime military operations.
  • 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.
  • meadow lily — Canada lily.
  • meadow vole — meadow mouse.
  • 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
  • metalworker — A person who shapes metal.
  • middlewoman — The female equivalent of a middleman; a female intermediary.
  • milwaukeean — a port in SE Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
  • mineral wax — ozocerite.
  • minke whale — a dark-colored baleen whale, Baleanoptera acutorostrata, inhabiting temperate and polar seas and growing to a length of 33 feet (10 meters): reduced in numbers.
  • misbestowal — a wrong or improper bestowal
  • mishallowed — falsely hallowed or revered
  • 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.
  • mural crown — a golden crown formed with indentations to resemble a battlement, bestowed by the ancient Romans on the soldiers who first mounted the wall of a besieged place and there lodged a standard.
  • musical saw — a handsaw played as a musical instrument with a violin bow or a hammer while the saw is bent with varying tension to change the pitch.
  • musk mallow — Also called musk rose. a European mallow, Malva moschata, introduced into North America, having musk-scented white or lavender flowers.
  • natural law — a principle or body of laws considered as derived from nature, right reason, or religion and as ethically binding in human society.
  • nature walk — a walk on a nature trail, especially with an experienced guide.
  • needlewoman — a woman who does needlework.
  • new castile — a region in central Spain: formerly a province. 27,933 sq. mi. (72,346 sq. km).
  • new england — an area in the NE United States, including the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
  • 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 ireland — an island in the Bismarck Archipelago, in the W central Pacific Ocean NE of New Guinea: part of Papua New Guinea. About 3800 sq. mi. (9800 sq. km).
  • 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.
  • new zealand — a country in the S Pacific, SE of Australia, consisting of North Island, South Island, and adjacent small islands: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 103,416 sq. mi. (267,845 sq. km). Capital: Wellington.
  • new-fangled — If someone describes a new idea or a new piece of equipment as new-fangled, they mean that it is too complicated or is unnecessary.
  • newsdealers — Plural form of newsdealer.
  • nightwalker — a person who walks or roves about at night, especially a thief, prostitute, etc.
  • non-renewal — the act of renewing.
  • nonwashable — Not washable.
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