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

  • monolatrism — Belief in multiple deities but worship of only one.
  • 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.
  • multiparous — of or relating to a multipara.
  • mustard oil — oil expressed from the seed of mustard, used chiefly in making soap.
  • neo-realism — art, cinema: social realist style
  • normalising — Present participle of normalise.
  • 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.
  • originalism — The principle or belief that the original intent of an author should be adhered to in later interpretations of a work.
  • ornamentals — Plural form of ornamental.
  • oscillogram — the record produced by the action of an oscillograph or oscilloscope.
  • osteodermal — characterized by osteoderms
  • pastoralism — the practice of herding as the primary economic activity of a society.
  • 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.
  • plastometer — an instrument for measuring the plasticity of a substance.
  • poetry slam — a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
  • polyamorous — noting or relating to polyamory, the practice or condition of participating simultaneously in more than one serious romantic or sexual relationship with the knowledge and consent of all partners.
  • polyspermia — the secretion of an excessive amount of semen.
  • postmarital — occurring, effective, or provided after marriage
  • probabilism — Philosophy. the doctrine, introduced by the Skeptics, that certainty is impossible and that probability suffices to govern faith and practice.
  • pronatalism — the policy or practice of encouraging the bearing of children, especially government support of a higher birthrate.
  • pronominals — Grammar. pertaining to, resembling, derived from, or containing a pronoun: “My” in “my book” is a pronominal adjective. “There” is a pronominal adverb.
  • quarrelsome — inclined to quarrel; argumentative; contentious.
  • rationalism — the principle or habit of accepting reason as the supreme authority in matters of opinion, belief, or conduct.
  • regionalism — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
  • relationism — a doctrine maintaining the existence of relations between things
  • rock salmon — (formerly) any of several coarse fishes when used as food, esp the dogfish or wolffish: now called rockfish or catfish
  • roman snail — a large edible European snail, Helix pomatia, the usual escargot of menus, erroneously thought to have been introduced to northern Europe by the Romans
  • rose family — the plant family Rosaceae, characterized by trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants having compound or simple leaves with stipules, flowers typically with five sepals and five petals, and fruit in a variety of forms, many of which are fleshy and edible, and including the almond, apple, apricot, blackberry, cherry, cinquefoil, hawthorn, peach, pear, plum, raspberry, rose, spirea, and strawberry.
  • rose mallow — any of several plants of the genus Hibiscus, of the mallow family, having rose-colored flowers.
  • sacculiform — (of plant parts, etc) shaped like a small sac
  • sacrolumbar — of, relating to, or involving the lumbar and sacral regions or parts of the body.
  • salinometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of salt in a solution.
  • salmon farm — an enclosed area of water devoted to the rearing of salmon for food
  • salmonberry — the salmon-colored, edible fruit of a raspberry, Rubus spectabilis, of the Pacific coast of North America.
  • sample room — a room, as in a hotel suite, in which merchandise is displayed for sale to the trade.
  • sarcolemmal — of or relating to the sarcolemma
  • scalariform — ladderlike.
  • scalpriform — chisel-shaped, as the incisors of certain rodents.
  • schoolmarms — a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
  • scleroderma — a disease in which connective tissue anywhere in the body becomes hardened and rigid.
  • seam bowler — a fast bowler who makes the ball bounce on its seam so that it will change direction
  • semelparous — (of a plant) producing flowers and fruit only once before dying
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