11-letter words containing m, a, o, s
- molestation — to bother, interfere with, or annoy.
- monarchists — Plural form of monarchist.
- monasteries — Plural form of monastery.
- monasticism — the monastic system, condition, or mode of life.
- mondo grass — any of several plants belonging to the genus Ophiopogon, of the lily family, native to western Asia, especially O. japonicus, having grasslike leaves and lavender or white flowers.
- money talks — If you say that money talks, you mean that if someone has a lot of money, they also have a lot of power.
- money wages — wages evaluated with reference to the money paid rather than the equivalent purchasing power
- moneymakers — Plural form of moneymaker.
- monkey bars — children's climbing frame
- monoblastic — having a single layer, as an embryo in the blastula stage or developing from a single layer.
- monocarpous — having a gynoecium that forms only a single ovary.
- monochasial — Relating to the monochasium.
- monochasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which the main axis produces only a single branch.
- monocracies — Plural form of monocracy.
- monocrystal — A single crystal.
- monogamists — Plural form of monogamist.
- monogastric — (biology) Having a simple single-chambered stomach.
- monogeneans — Plural form of monogenean.
- monolatrism — Belief in multiple deities but worship of only one.
- monophagous — feeding on only one kind of food.
- monstrances — Plural form of monstrance.
- montelukast — a type of oral drug containing a leukotriene inhibitor, used in the treatment of asthma and seasonal allergies.
- 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.
- moratoriums — Plural form of moratorium.
- morningstar — Alternative spelling of morning star.
- morse taper — a taper that is one of a standard series used in the shank of tools to fit a matching taper in the mandrel of a machine tool
- mortadellas — Plural form of mortadella.
- mortalities — Plural form of mortalitie.
- mosaic gold — Chemistry. stannic sulfide.
- moshe dayan — Moshe [maw-she;; English moh-shuh] /mɔˈʃɛ;; English ˈmoʊ ʃə/ (Show IPA), 1915–81, Israeli politician and military leader: defense minister 1967–74, foreign minister 1977–79.
- moss animal — bryozoan.
- most of all — above all else
- most-caller — (of fruit, fish, vegetables, etc.) fresh; recently picked or caught.
- most-comate — Botany. having a coma.
- most-farrow — (of a cow) not pregnant.
- mostaccioli — penne
- motherlands — Plural form of motherland.
- motivations — Plural form of motivation.
- motorsailer — A boat equipped with both sails and an engine.
- mount athos — a mountainous peninsula in NE Greece: location of the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos, an autonomous administrative division of Greece since 1927; inhabited by Eastern Orthodox monks in about 20 monasteries, some founded in the 10th century; prohibited to women and children. Pop: 1942 (2001)
- mount sinai — the mountain where Moses received the Law from God (Exodus 19–20): often identified as Jebel Musa, sometimes as Jebel Serbal, both on the S Sinai Peninsula
- mountainous — (of a region) having many mountains.
- mountebanks — Plural form of mountebank.
- mouse ahead — The point-and-click analog of "type ahead". To manipulate a computer's pointing device (almost always a mouse in this usage, but not necessarily) and its selection or command buttons before a computer program is ready to accept such input, in anticipation of the program accepting the input. Handling this properly is rare, but it can help make a WIMP environment much more usable, assuming the users are familiar with the behaviour of the user interface.
- moustachial — (of a stripe on a beak or snout of an animal) resembling a moustache
- movableness — The quality or state of being movable; mobility.
- moviemakers — Plural form of moviemaker.
- mpls domain — (networking) A portion of a network that contains devices that understand MPLS.
- multanimous — having many sides