11-letter words containing w, o, a, l
- know-it-all — a person who acts as though he or she knows everything and who dismisses the opinions, comments, or suggestions of others.
- knowability — capable of being known.
- labour ward — a ward or department of a hospital for the care and admission of women in the process of childbirth
- lace pillow — pillow (def 3).
- lacquerwork — lacquered wood, often with ivory inlays
- lamb's wool — a soft, virgin wool possessing superior spinning qualities, shorn from a seven-month-old lamb.
- lampworking — the method or process of producing articles made of glass tubes or rods formed or shaped while softened by the flame of a lamp or blast lamp.
- land worker — a person who works on the land
- latticework — work consisting of crossed strips usually arranged in a diagonal pattern of open spaces.
- laughworthy — worthy of being laughed at
- law society — association of lawyers
- least-worst — bad but better than any available alternative
- leatherwood — an American shrub, Dirca palustris, having a tough bark.
- leatherwork — work or decoration done in leather.
- leavenworth — a city in NE Kansas.
- 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
- long barrow — a funerary barrow having an elongate shape, sometimes constructed over a megalithic chamber tomb and usually containing one or more inhumed corpses along with artifacts: primarily Neolithic but extending into the Bronze Age.
- loose-weave — loosely woven
- low-alcohol — (of beer or wine) containing only a small amount of alcohol
- low-calorie — containing relatively fewer calories than comparable foods, diets, etc
- low-quality — substandard; of inferior quality: It’s hard to make a delicious dish when you start with low-quality ingredients. Repairs made with low-quality parts are cheaper, but they won’t last long.
- 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.
- luckengowan — a daisy or other flower having petals drawn together similar to a bud
- lutosławski — Witold (ˈvitɔlt). 1913–94, Polish composer, whose works frequently juxtapose aleatoric and notated writing
- mallee fowl — an Australian bird, Leipoa ocellata, of variegated gray, brown, white, and black plumage, that lays up to 35 eggs in an incubating mound.
- mallow rose — a rose mallow of the genus Hibiscus.
- manual work — work involving the hands, as opposed to an office job, for example
- mars yellow — a medium to deep orange-yellow color.
- marshmallow — a sweetened paste or confection made from the mucilaginous root of the marsh mallow.
- marshmellow — Misspelling of marshmallow.
- meadow lily — Canada lily.
- meadow vole — meadow mouse.
- meadowlands — Plural form of meadowland.
- meadowlarks — Plural form of meadowlark.
- mellowspeak — bland or vague language associated with New Age philosophy
- metalworker — A person who shapes metal.
- middlewoman — The female equivalent of a middleman; a female intermediary.
- 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.
- 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 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.