11-letter words containing a, l, m, e, r, s
- memorialist — a person who writes memorials.
- menstrually — In a menstrual manner; in terms of the menses.
- meridionals — Plural form of meridional.
- meroblastic — (of certain eggs) undergoing partial cleavage, resulting in unequal blastomeres.
- mesocranial — mesocephalic
- metacarpals — Plural form of metacarpal.
- metatarsals — Plural form of metatarsal.
- metrosexual — a heterosexual, usually urban male who pays much attention to his personal appearance and cultivates an upscale lifestyle.
- miliarensis — a silver coin of ancient Rome, introduced by Constantine I as the 14th part of a solidus. Under Justinian it became the 12th part.
- militarised — Simple past tense and past participle of militarise.
- militarizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of militarize.
- millenarism — Millenarianism.
- millstreams — Plural form of millstream.
- mineralised — Simple past tense and past participle of mineralise.
- mineralizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mineralize.
- ministerial — pertaining to the ministry of religion, or to a minister or other member of the clergy.
- minor scale — Also called harmonic minor scale. a scale having half steps between the second and third, fifth and sixth, and seventh and eighth degrees, with whole steps for the other intervals.
- miserablest — Superlative form of miserable.
- mislearning — Present participle of mislearn.
- misregulate — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- misrelation — an erroneous or imperfect relation
- modularised — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- 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.
- moral sense — the ability to determine the rightness or wrongness of actions.
- mortadellas — Plural form of mortadella.
- mortalities — Plural form of mortalitie.
- most-caller — (of fruit, fish, vegetables, etc.) fresh; recently picked or caught.
- motherlands — Plural form of motherland.
- motorsailer — A boat equipped with both sails and an engine.
- multitasker — Computers. (of a single CPU) to execute two or more jobs concurrently.
- multiversal — Of or pertaining to the multiverse.
- muscle mary — a homosexual man who practises bodybuilding
- musculature — the muscular system of the body or of its parts.
- mussel crab — a pea crab, Pinnotheres maculatus, the female of which lives as a commensal within the mantle cavity of mussels.
- neo-realism — art, cinema: social realist style
- neurilemmas — Plural form of neurilemma.
- new realism — neorealism.
- normalities — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
- orientalism — a peculiarity or idiosyncrasy of the peoples of Asia, especially the East.
- ornamentals — Plural form of ornamental.
- osteodermal — characterized by osteoderms
- palm desert — a town in S California, near Palm Springs.
- parallelism — the position or relation of parallels.
- paternalism — the system, principle, or practice of managing or governing individuals, businesses, nations, etc., in the manner of a father dealing benevolently and often intrusively with his children: The employees objected to the paternalism of the old president.
- peroxisomal — of or relating to a peroxisome; of the nature of a peroxisome
- personalism — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
- peru balsam — an aromatic balsam that is obtained from the tropical South American leguminous tree Myroxylon pereirae and is similar to balsam of Tolu
- plastometer — an instrument for measuring the plasticity of a substance.
- pleinairism — pertaining to a manner or style of painting developed chiefly in France in the mid-19th century, characterized by the representation of the luminous effects of natural light and atmosphere as contrasted with the artificial light and absence of the sense of air or atmosphere associated with paintings produced in the studio.
- poetry slam — a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.