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

  • interweaves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interweave.
  • jawbreakers — Plural form of jawbreaker.
  • jesuit ware — Chinese porcelain of the early 18th century, decorated with Christian motifs, usually in black and gold on a white background.
  • jew-s--harp — (sometimes lowercase) a small, simple musical instrument consisting of a lyre-shaped metal frame containing a metal tongue, which is plucked while the frame is held in the teeth, the vibrations causing twanging tones.
  • kew gardens — the Royal Botanic Gardens in the Greater London borough of Richmond-upon-Thames, on the River Thames; established in 1759 and given to the nation in 1841
  • lawbreakers — Plural form of lawbreaker.
  • least shrew — a small, brownish shrew, Cryptotis parva, of grassy regions of the eastern U.S.
  • least-worst — bad but better than any available alternative
  • leg warmers — a set of coverings for the legs, worn for warmth or, as by dancers rehearsing, to prevent leg cramps
  • leisurewear — casual clothes that are designed for wear during leisure time.
  • lewis range — a mountain range in NW Montana, a front range of the N Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Mount Cleveland, 10,466 feet (3192 meters).
  • 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.
  • lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
  • mains water — gas supplied to a building through pipes
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • narrow seas — the channels between Great Britain and the Continent and Great Britain and Ireland
  • 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 realism — neorealism.
  • news reader — (messaging)   A browser program which enables a user to read articles posted to Usenet. Articles may be stored in a local (or NFS-mounted) spool directory, or retrieved via NNTP. Examples are rn, GNUS, and nn.
  • newscasters — Plural form of newscaster.
  • newsdealers — Plural form of newsdealer.
  • 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.
  • plasticware — knives, forks, spoons, cups, etc., made of plastic: a picnic hamper with plasticware for six.
  • potter wasp — any of several mason wasps, especially of the genus Eumenes, that construct a juglike nest of mud.
  • radio waves — an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength between 1 millimeter and 30,000 meters, or a frequency between 10 kilohertz and 300,000 megahertz.
  • rain shower — a brief rainfall, usually of variable intensity.
  • reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
  • red seaweed — any marine red alga, especially one of the genus Polysiphonia, having a reddish, much branched thallus.
  • rose mallow — any of several plants of the genus Hibiscus, of the mallow family, having rose-colored flowers.
  • sacred writ — Scripture.
  • safe-blower — a person who uses explosives to open safes and rob them
  • saltirewise — in the direction or manner of a saltire.
  • samian ware — a red-glazed terracotta pottery produced in Gaul and the Moselle Valley a.d. 100–300 and copied from Arretine ware.
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