11-letter words containing w, e, s, l, a
- law student — sb who studies legal system
- lawbreakers — Plural form of lawbreaker.
- lawlessness — contrary to or without regard for the law: lawless violence.
- lawn tennis — tennis, especially when played on a grass court.
- 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
- lech walesa — Lech [lek] /lɛk/ (Show IPA), born 1943, Polish labor leader: a leader of Solidarity 1980; president 1990–96; Nobel Peace Prize 1983.
- 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.
- loose-weave — loosely woven
- 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
- mallow rose — a rose mallow of the genus Hibiscus.
- mars yellow — a medium to deep orange-yellow color.
- marshmellow — Misspelling of marshmallow.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- new castile — a region in central Spain: formerly a province. 27,933 sq. mi. (72,346 sq. km).
- 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 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.
- newsdealers — Plural form of newsdealer.
- nonwashable — Not washable.
- plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
- plasticware — knives, forks, spoons, cups, etc., made of plastic: a picnic hamper with plasticware for six.
- rose mallow — any of several plants of the genus Hibiscus, of the mallow family, having rose-colored flowers.
- safe-blower — a person who uses explosives to open safes and rob them
- saltirewise — in the direction or manner of a saltire.
- satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- saul bellow — Saul, 1915–2005, U.S. novelist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize in Literature 1976.
- scaled-down — reduced in level of activity, extent, numbers, etc
- scape wheel — escape wheel.
- screw plate — a metal plate having threaded holes, used for cutting screw threads by hand.
- sea swallow — any of several terns, especially Sterna hirundo.
- sealing wax — a resinous preparation, soft when heated, used for sealing letters, documents, etc.
- seam bowler — a fast bowler who makes the ball bounce on its seam so that it will change direction
- sei (whale) — a rorqual (Balaenoptera borealis) with a light-gray or bluish back, found in all seas