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11-letter words containing w, e, l, a

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • otter trawl — a trawl net equipped with otter boards.
  • pace bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
  • paddle worm — any of a family of green-blue faintly iridescent active marine polychaete worms of the genus Phyllodoce, having paddle-shaped swimming lobes, found under stones on the shore
  • palmer worm — the hairy black and white caterpillar of the goldtail moth
  • paper towel — absorbent kitchen tissue
  • pedal power — use of a cycle
  • peely-wally — off colour; pale and ill-looking
  • pillow lace — bobbin lace.
  • pilot whale — a small, common whale, Globicephala sieboldii, of tropical and temperate seas, having a bulbous head.
  • plain weave — the most common and tightest of basic weave structures in which the filling threads pass over and under successive warp threads and repeat the same pattern with alternate threads in the following row, producing a checkered surface.
  • plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
  • plasticware — knives, forks, spoons, cups, etc., made of plastic: a picnic hamper with plasticware for six.
  • policewoman — a female member of a police force or body.
  • potwalloper — (in some boroughs before the Reform Bill of 1832) a man who qualified as a householder, and therefore a voter, by virtue of ownership of his own fireplace at which to boil pots.
  • powder flag — red flag (def 4).
  • power alley — either of the two areas in the outfield between the outfielders
  • power cable — cable for conducting electric power.
  • power plant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
  • prairie owl — burrowing owl.
  • private law — a branch of law dealing with the legal relationships of private individuals. Compare public law (def 2).
  • racewalking — the activity of racing by walking fast rather than running
  • rainbowlike — resembling a rainbow
  • rewardingly — in a rewarding way or manner
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