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11-letter words containing w, e, m

  • market town — a town where a regularly scheduled market is held.
  • marrow bean — a plump-seeded strain of the common field bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), grown for its dry, edible seeds
  • marrow bone — Marrow bones are the bones of certain animals, especially cows, that contain a lot of bone marrow. They are used in cooking and in dog food.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • mdewakanton — a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Santee branch of the Dakota.
  • meadow bird — the bobolink.
  • meadow lily — Canada lily.
  • meadow vole — meadow mouse.
  • 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.
  • medium wave — Medium wave is a range of radio waves which are used for broadcasting.
  • medium well — Meat that is medium well is cooked so that the inside is slightly pink.
  • 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
  • merry widow — a woman's undergarment consisting of a strapless brassiere and short corset with attached garters.
  • metalworker — A person who shapes metal.
  • mexican war — the war between the U.S. and Mexico, 1846–48.
  • microbrewed — Produced by microbrewing.
  • microbrewer — The person or company that operates a microbrewery.
  • microwriter — a small device with six keys for creating text that can be printed or displayed on a visual display unit
  • 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.
  • middlewoman — The female equivalent of a middleman; a female intermediary.
  • middlewomen — Plural form of middlewoman.
  • mig welding — metal inert gas welding: a method of welding in which the filler metal wire supplies the electric current to maintain the arc, which is shielded from the access of air by an inert gas, usually argon
  • mildewproof — able to withstand or repel the effect of mildew.
  • milk powder — dry milk.
  • milky-white — of a cream or whitish colour similar to the colour of milk
  • mill worker — a person who works in a mill, esp a cotton mill
  • milwaukeean — a port in SE Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
  • mince words — speak tentatively, tactfully
  • mind-blower — a hallucinogenic drug.
  • mineral wax — ozocerite.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • money cowry — a tropical marine gastropod, Cypraea moneta
  • money wages — wages evaluated with reference to the money paid rather than the equivalent purchasing power
  • 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.
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