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

  • 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.
  • mural crown — a golden crown formed with indentations to resemble a battlement, bestowed by the ancient Romans on the soldiers who first mounted the wall of a besieged place and there lodged a standard.
  • musical saw — a handsaw played as a musical instrument with a violin bow or a hammer while the saw is bent with varying tension to change the pitch.
  • musk mallow — Also called musk rose. a European mallow, Malva moschata, introduced into North America, having musk-scented white or lavender flowers.
  • needlewoman — a woman who does needlework.
  • new realism — neorealism.
  • 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
  • palolo worm — a polychaete worm, Eunice viridis, that lives in burrows among the coral reefs of several South Pacific islands, producing sperm or eggs in posterior segments that are cast off periodically in enormous numbers.
  • patrolwoman — a policewoman who is assigned to patrol a specific district, route, etc.
  • pillow sham — an ornamental cover laid over a bed pillow.
  • plantswoman — a nurserywoman.
  • policewoman — a female member of a police force or body.
  • random walk — Statistics. the path taken by a point or quantity that moves in steps, where the direction of each step is determined randomly.
  • rose mallow — any of several plants of the genus Hibiscus, of the mallow family, having rose-colored flowers.
  • seam bowler — a fast bowler who makes the ball bounce on its seam so that it will change direction
  • small white — a small white butterfly, Artogeia rapae, with scanty black markings, the larvae of which feed on brassica leaves
  • sperm whale — a large, square-snouted whale, Physeter catodon, valued for its oil and spermaceti: now reduced in number and rare in some areas.
  • swamp blues — a style of slow blues originating in Louisiana
  • swamp maple — red maple.
  • sweetlambda — Sugared lambda-calculus(?).
  • tally-woman — a mistress
  • tree mallow — a malvaceous treelike plant, Lavatera arborea, of rocky coastal areas of Europe and N Africa, having a woody stem, rounded leaves, and red-purple flowers
  • trombe wall — a glass-fronted exterior masonry wall that absorbs solar heat for radiation into a building.
  • twelfth man — a reserve player in a cricket team
  • waldemar ii — known as Waldemar the Victorious. 1170–1241, king of Denmark (1202–41); son of Waldemar I. He extended the Danish empire, conquering much of Estonia (1219)
  • waldemar iv — surnamed Atterdag. ?1320–75, king of Denmark (1340–75), who reunited the Danish territories but was defeated (1368) by a coalition of his Baltic neighbours
  • waldmeister — An herb used for flavouring wines and liqueurs.
  • wall system — a modular system of shelves, some of which may be enclosed by doors, either mounted on a wall or arranged in freestanding units, for holding books, bric-a-brac, etc., and sometimes including such features as a drop-leaf desk or specially designed storage space, as to accommodate records or electronic equipment.
  • wallclimber — a glass-walled elevator whose shaft is on the exterior wall of a building
  • walthamstow — a former borough, now part of Waltham Forest, in SE England.
  • warmblooded — Alternative spelling of warm-blooded.
  • water lemon — yellow granadilla.
  • watermelons — Plural form of watermelon.
  • wearisomely — causing weariness; fatiguing: a difficult and wearisome march.
  • welcome mat — a doormat, especially one with the word “welcome” printed on it.
  • well-marked — strikingly noticeable; conspicuous: with marked success.
  • wesleyanism — the evangelical principles taught by John Wesley; Methodism.
  • westmorland — a former county in NW England, now part of Cumbria, partially in the Lake District.
  • wheel clamp — A wheel clamp is a large metal device which is fitted to the wheel of an illegally parked car or other vehicle in order to prevent it from being driven away. The motorist has to pay to have the clamp removed.
  • whigmaleery — whigmaleerie.
  • whimsically — given to whimsy or fanciful notions; capricious: a pixyish, whimsical fellow.
  • white metal — any of various light-colored alloys, as Babbitt metal or Britannia metal.
  • wild madder — madder1 (defs 1, 2).
  • william iii — (William III of Orange) 1650–1702, stadholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands 1672–1702; king of England 1689–1702, joint ruler with his wife, Mary II.
  • william joy — (person)   (Bill Joy) Author of the C shell and vi, he was also one of the people at the University of California at Berkeley responsible for the Berkeley Software Distribution of Unix. He also wrote a book on Unix. He was a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he is still (1997) Vice-President of Research. Among his many projects for Sun have been helping to design the Network File System and the SPARC architechture. See also dinosaur.
  • willimantic — a city in NE Connecticut.
  • winckelmann — Johann Joachim [yoh-hahn yoh-ah-khim] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈyoʊ ɑ xɪm/ (Show IPA), 1717–68, German archaeologist and art historian.
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