11-letter words containing w, o, l, e

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.
middlebrows — Plural form of middlebrow.
middlewoman — The female equivalent of a middleman; a female intermediary.
middlewomen — Plural form of middlewoman.
mildewproof — able to withstand or repel the effect of mildew.
milk powder — dry milk.
mill worker — a person who works in a mill, esp a cotton mill
mind-blower — a hallucinogenic drug.
misbestowal — a wrong or improper bestowal
mishallowed — falsely hallowed or revered
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.
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.
needlewoman — a woman who does needlework.
needlewomen — Plural form of needlewoman.
netherworld — the infernal regions; hell.
new biology — the branch of biology that deals with the nature of biological phenomena at the molecular level through the study of DNA and RNA, proteins, and other macromolecules involved in genetic information and cell function, characteristically making use of advanced tools and techniques of separation, manipulation, imaging, and analysis.
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 milford — a town in W Connecticut.
new orleans — a seaport in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi: British defeated (1815) by Americans under Andrew Jackson.
new-for-old — (of insurance) issued on the principle that claims will be based on the cost of replacing old damaged, destroyed, or lost items with brand new items
nippleworts — Plural form of nipplewort.
non-renewal — the act of renewing.
nonwashable — Not washable.
offset well — An offset well is a wellbore which is close to a proposed well, and which provides information for planning the proposed well.
old swedish — the language of Sweden as spoken and written from about 1225 to 1500.
olde worlde — Olde worlde is used to describe places and things that are or seem to be from an earlier period of history, and that look interesting or attractive.
olive brown — a dull yellowish-brown to yellowish-green colour
olive crown — (esp in ancient Greece and Rome) a garland of olive leaves awarded as a token of victory
one-worlder — a person who supports or believes in any of various movements to establish a world government or a federation of nations stronger than any individual nation, for the purpose of promoting the common good.
other world — the world after death; the future world.
otherwhiles — at other times, sometimes
otherworlds — Plural form of otherworld.
otherworldy — With a quality unlike those normal to everyday life, or outside typical human experience.
otter trawl — a trawl net equipped with otter boards.
overblowing — A technique for playing a wind instrument so as to produce overtones.
overflowing — to flow or run over, as rivers or water: After the thaw, the river overflows and causes great damage.
overswollen — too swollen
overwhelmed — to overcome completely in mind or feeling: overwhelmed by remorse.
overwrestle — to overpower by wrestling
pace bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
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

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