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11-letter words containing w, e, s, m

  • mishallowed — falsely hallowed or revered
  • 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.
  • motherworts — Plural form of motherwort.
  • mounds view — a town in E Minnesota.
  • mouse elbow — (jargon, medical)   A tennis-elbow-like fatigue syndrome resulting from excessive use of a WIMP. Similarly, "mouse shoulder". GLS reports that he used to get this a lot before he taught himself to be ambimoustrous.
  • 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.
  • new realism — neorealism.
  • newsmongers — Plural form of newsmonger.
  • ombudswomen — Plural form of ombudswoman.
  • oysterwoman — a woman who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
  • rose mallow — any of several plants of the genus Hibiscus, of the mallow family, having rose-colored flowers.
  • samian ware — a red-glazed terracotta pottery produced in Gaul and the Moselle Valley a.d. 100–300 and copied from Arretine ware.
  • schwarmerei — excessive enthusiasm or sentimentality.
  • seam bowler — a fast bowler who makes the ball bounce on its seam so that it will change direction
  • semi-weekly — occurring, done, appearing, or published twice a week: semiweekly visits.
  • sewage farm — a place where sewage is treated, esp for use as manure
  • shameworthy — deserving shame; denoting something a person ought to be ashamed of
  • show jumper — A show jumper is a person who takes part in the sport of show jumping.
  • shower room — a room which contains a shower
  • simmer down — to cook or cook in a liquid at or just below the boiling point.
  • simple vows — the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience when taken for a limited period
  • slumdweller — a person who lives in a slum.
  • small white — a small white butterfly, Artogeia rapae, with scanty black markings, the larvae of which feed on brassica leaves
  • snowmobiler — a person who drives a snowmobile
  • solemn vows — the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience when taken as a perpetual and more solemn commitment
  • somersworth — a town in SE New Hampshire.
  • somewhither — to some unspecified place; somewhere.
  • sperm whale — a large, square-snouted whale, Physeter catodon, valued for its oil and spermaceti: now reduced in number and rare in some areas.
  • spokeswoman — a woman who speaks for another person or for a group.
  • stateswoman — a woman who is experienced in the art of government.
  • stem-winder — a stemwinding watch.
  • stemwinding — wound by turning a knob at the stem.
  • storm sewer — a sewer for carrying off rainfall drained from paved surfaces, roofs, etc.
  • storm water — standing water produced after a heavy rainfall or snowfall
  • swamp barge — A swamp barge is a vessel used for offshore drilling in very shallow water, which is towed out and then rests on the bottom.
  • swamp blues — a style of slow blues originating in Louisiana
  • swamp fever — leptospirosis.
  • swamp maple — red maple.
  • swan maiden — any of a class of folkloric maidens, in many Indo-European and Asian tales, capable of being transformed into swans, as by magic or sorcery.
  • swarm spore — zoospore
  • sweetlambda — Sugared lambda-calculus(?).
  • swingometer — a device used in television broadcasting during a general election to indicate the swing of votes from one political party to another
  • time switch — Electronics
  • time waster — If you say that someone or something is a time waster, you mean that they cause you to spend a lot of time doing something that is unnecessary or does not produce any benefit.
  • tradeswoman — a woman engaged in trade.
  • tribeswoman — a female member of a tribe.
  • unwholesome — not wholesome; unhealthful; deleterious to health or physical or moral well-being: unwholesome food; unwholesome activities.
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