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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • mount pearl — a town in Newfoundland, in E Canada, on the SE part of the island, S of St. John's.
  • myelography — the production of myelograms.
  • neo-realism — art, cinema: social realist style
  • nomenclator — a person who assigns names, as in scientific classification; classifier.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • nontemporal — not indicating time
  • nonterminal — Alternative spelling of non-terminal.
  • normal mode — an oscillation of a mechanical system in which all particles move with the same frequency and phase.
  • normal time — the standard length of time allowed for a match before any extra time, such as injury time, is added
  • normalities — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
  • normatively — of or relating to a norm, especially an assumed norm regarded as the standard of correctness in behavior, speech, writing, etc.
  • oil embargo — a prohibition of the trade of petroleum from one country to another
  • onyx marble — Mexican onyx.
  • orientalism — a peculiarity or idiosyncrasy of the peoples of Asia, especially the East.
  • ornamentals — Plural form of ornamental.
  • osteodermal — characterized by osteoderms
  • paddle worm — any of a family of green-blue faintly iridescent active marine polychaete worms of the genus Phyllodoce, having paddle-shaped swimming lobes, found under stones on the shore
  • palmer worm — the hairy black and white caterpillar of the goldtail moth
  • paracetamol — painkilling drug
  • parcel bomb — explosive device in a package
  • parlor game — any game usually played indoors, especially in the living room or parlor, as a word game or a quiz, requiring little or no physical activity.
  • patelliform — having the form of a patella; shaped like a saucer, kneecap, or limpet shell.
  • pelargonium — any plant of the genus Pelargonium, the cultivated species of which are usually called geranium. Compare geranium (def 2).
  • performable — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
  • 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.
  • plate armor — armor made of thin, flat, shaped pieces of wrought iron or steel.
  • poetry slam — a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
  • polarimeter — an instrument for measuring the amount of light received from a given source as a function of its state of polarization.
  • pole hammer — a shafted weapon having a spiked hammer head.
  • policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
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