11-letter words containing w, e, l, r, o

lock washer — a washer placed under a nut on a bolt or screw, so made as to prevent the nut from shaking loose.
lolly water — any of various coloured soft drinks
low hurdles — a race in which runners leap over hurdles 2 feet 6 inches (76 cm) high.
low profile — a deliberately inconspicuous, modest, or anonymous manner.
low-calorie — containing relatively fewer calories than comparable foods, diets, etc
low-powered — having little power or capacity
low-profile — a deliberately inconspicuous, modest, or anonymous manner.
low-protein — Low-protein substances contain very little protein.
lower apsis — See under apsis (def 1).
lower bound — an element less than or equal to all the elements in a given set: The numbers 0 and 1 are lower bounds of the set consisting of 1, 2, and 3.
lower class — classes lower in rank than middle class
lower court — any court other than the highest court in a jurisdiction
lower egypt — Arab Republic of. a republic in NE Africa. 386,198 sq. mi. (1,000,252 sq. km). Capital: Cairo. Formerly (1958–71) United Arab Republic.
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 rhine — a section of the Rhine River between Bonn, Germany and the North Sea.
lower sixth — the first year of the sixth form
lower world — Classical Mythology. the regions of the dead, conceived of as lying beneath the surface of the earth; Hades; the underworld.
lower-class — of, relating to, or characteristic of the lower class: lower-class values.
mallow rose — a rose mallow of the genus Hibiscus.
mars yellow — a medium to deep orange-yellow color.
marshmellow — Misspelling of marshmallow.
meadowlarks — Plural form of meadowlark.
metalworker — A person who shapes metal.
middlebrows — Plural form of middlebrow.
mildewproof — able to withstand or repel the effect of mildew.
milk powder — dry milk.
mill worker — a person who works in a mill, esp a cotton mill
mind-blower — a hallucinogenic drug.
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.
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.
netherworld — the infernal regions; hell.
new flavors — An object-oriented Lisp from Symbolics, the successor to Flavors, it led to CLOS.
new milford — a town in W Connecticut.
new orleans — a seaport in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi: British defeated (1815) by Americans under Andrew Jackson.
new-for-old — (of insurance) issued on the principle that claims will be based on the cost of replacing old damaged, destroyed, or lost items with brand new items
nippleworts — Plural form of nipplewort.
non-renewal — the act of renewing.
olde worlde — Olde worlde is used to describe places and things that are or seem to be from an earlier period of history, and that look interesting or attractive.
olive brown — a dull yellowish-brown to yellowish-green colour
olive crown — (esp in ancient Greece and Rome) a garland of olive leaves awarded as a token of victory
one-worlder — a person who supports or believes in any of various movements to establish a world government or a federation of nations stronger than any individual nation, for the purpose of promoting the common good.
other world — the world after death; the future world.
otherwhiles — at other times, sometimes
otherworlds — Plural form of otherworld.
otherworldy — With a quality unlike those normal to everyday life, or outside typical human experience.
otter trawl — a trawl net equipped with otter boards.
overblowing — A technique for playing a wind instrument so as to produce overtones.
overflowing — to flow or run over, as rivers or water: After the thaw, the river overflows and causes great damage.

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