11-letter words containing a, l, m, e, r
- metalworker — A person who shapes metal.
- metatarsals — Plural form of metatarsal.
- meteoroidal — (astronomy) Of or pertaining to meteoroids. (from 19th c.).
- methacrylic — denoting a type of acid
- metharbital — A barbiturate anticonvulsant used in the treatment of epilepsy.
- metrosexual — a heterosexual, usually urban male who pays much attention to his personal appearance and cultivates an upscale lifestyle.
- microcephal — a person with microcephaly
- middlemarch — a novel (1871–72) by George Eliot.
- mile-marker — a numbered milepost along a highway: used as a way of determining the exact location of a vehicle.
- 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.
- militarized — Simple past tense and past participle of militarize.
- militarizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of militarize.
- millenarian — of or relating to a thousand, especially the thousand years of the prophesied millennium.
- millenarism — Millenarianism.
- milliampere — a unit of electric current equal to one thousandth of an ampere. Abbreviation: mA.
- milligramme — Obsolete spelling of milligram.
- millionaire — a person whose wealth amounts to a million or more in some unit of currency, as dollars.
- millstreams — Plural form of millstream.
- mineral oil — a colorless, oily, almost tasteless, water-insoluble liquid, usually of either a standard light density (light mineral oil) or a standard heavy density (heavy mineral oil) consisting of mixtures of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum by distillation: used chiefly as a lubricant, in the manufacture of cosmetics, and in medicine as a laxative.
- mineral tar — bitumen of the consistency of tar; maltha.
- mineral wax — ozocerite.
- mineralised — Simple past tense and past participle of mineralise.
- mineralized — Simple past tense and past participle of mineralize.
- mineralizer — to convert into a mineral substance.
- 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.
- miracle man — a person who performs or appears to perform miracles.
- miracle-man — a man who is capable of miraculous feats
- 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
- mitrailleur — (UK, military, obsolete) rapid-fire team-served musket or rifle.
- mixed layer — the surface layer of water, seasonally varying in thickness, that is at almost uniform temperature owing to agitation by waves and wind.
- modularised — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- modularized — having been made modular or relating to the use of modular concepts or forms
- molecularly — of or relating to or caused by molecules: molecular structure.
- molendinary — a mill
- momentarily — for a moment; briefly: to pause momentarily.
- mononuclear — Also, mononucleate. Cell Biology. having only one nucleus.
- montbéliard — an industrial town in E France: former capital of the duchy of Burgundy. Pop: 27 570 (1999)
- monte carlo — a town in Monaco principality, in SE France: gambling resort.
- montherlant — Henry de [ahn-ree duh] /ɑ̃ˈri də/ (Show IPA), 1896–1972, French author.
- 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 fiber — Moral fiber is the quality of being determined to do what you think is right.
- moral fibre — Moral fibre is the quality of being determined to do what you think is right.
- moral sense — the ability to determine the rightness or wrongness of actions.
- morcellated — Simple past tense and past participle of morcellate.