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11-letter words containing a, r, m, o, l

  • molly-guard — /mol'ee-gard/ [University of Illinois] A shield to prevent tripping of some Big Red Switch by clumsy or ignorant hands. Originally used of the plexiglass covers improvised for the BRS on an IBM 4341 after a programmer's toddler daughter (named Molly) frobbed it twice in one day. Later generalised to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and networking equipment.
  • momentarily — for a moment; briefly: to pause momentarily.
  • monarchical — of, like, or pertaining to a monarch or monarchy.
  • monocrystal — A single crystal.
  • monocularly — In a monocular manner.
  • monolatrism — Belief in multiple deities but worship of only one.
  • 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.
  • moon pillar — a halo phenomenon in which a vertical streak of light appears above and below the moon, believed to be caused by the reflection of moonlight by ice crystals with vertical axes.
  • 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.
  • morgan hill — a town in W California.
  • moronically — Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment: I wonder why they elected that narrow-minded moron to Congress.
  • morrill act — an act of Congress (1862) granting each state 30,000 acres (12,000 hectares) of land for each member it had in Congress, 90 percent of the gross proceeds of which were to be used for the endowment and maintenance of colleges and universities teaching agricultural and mechanical arts and other subjects.
  • mortadellas — Plural form of mortadella.
  • mortal mind — the illusion that mind and life arise from matter and are subject to death. Compare mind (def 19).
  • mortalities — Plural form of mortalitie.
  • mortalizing — Present participle of mortalize.
  • most-caller — (of fruit, fish, vegetables, etc.) fresh; recently picked or caught.
  • motherlands — Plural form of motherland.
  • motorically — motor (def 11).
  • motorsailer — A boat equipped with both sails and an engine.
  • mount pearl — a town in Newfoundland, in E Canada, on the SE part of the island, S of St. John's.
  • mucociliary — Of or pertaining to the action of cilia in transporting mucus.
  • multiauthor — having numerous or many authors
  • multicarbon — having several carbon atoms
  • multifactor — Of or pertaining to more than one factor.
  • multifloral — Of or relating to more than one (variety of) flower.
  • multiformat — Accessible in more than one format.
  • multiparous — of or relating to a multipara.
  • 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.
  • mustard oil — oil expressed from the seed of mustard, used chiefly in making soap.
  • myelography — the production of myelograms.
  • naupliiform — shaped like a nauplius larva
  • neo-realism — art, cinema: social realist style
  • no-platform — to deny (a person) the opportunity to speak in a political debate or forum
  • nomenclator — a person who assigns names, as in scientific classification; classifier.
  • nominal par — an equality in value or standing; a level of equality: The gains and the losses are on a par.
  • non-mineral — any of a class of substances occurring in nature, usually comprising inorganic substances, as quartz or feldspar, of definite chemical composition and usually of definite crystal structure, but sometimes also including rocks formed by these substances as well as certain natural products of organic origin, as asphalt or coal.
  • noncriminal — of the nature of or involving crime.
  • nonhormonal — not involving hormones, not hormonal
  • nonmaterial — not material or composed of matter.
  • nonmetrical — (music) Without the constraints of a metronome; not played or sung with a strict underlying rhythmic method.
  • nonmilitary — Not belonging to, characteristic of, or involving the armed forces; civilian.
  • nontemporal — not indicating time
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