11-letter words containing m, r, s
- monohybrids — Plural form of monohybrid.
- monolatrism — Belief in multiple deities but worship of only one.
- monorhinous — having a single, median nostril, as the cyclostomes.
- monostrophe — a poem in which all the strophes or stanzas are of the same metrical form.
- monseigneur — a French title of honor given to princes, bishops, and other persons of eminence.
- monstrances — Plural form of monstrance.
- monstrosity — the state or character of being monstrous.
- monstrously — frightful or hideous, especially in appearance; extremely ugly.
- moonflowers — Plural form of moonflower.
- moonshiners — Plural form of moonshiner.
- 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.
- morbidities — a morbid state or quality.
- morgenstern — a weapon consisting of a ball set with spikes attached to the end of a club, often attached by a chain
- 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.
- mortiferous — deadly; fatal.
- mossbluiter — the bittern
- mossbunkers — Plural form of mossbunker.
- mosstrooper — a marauder who operated in the mosses, or bogs, of the border between England and Scotland in the 17th century.
- most-caller — (of fruit, fish, vegetables, etc.) fresh; recently picked or caught.
- most-deform — deformed; ugly.
- most-farrow — (of a cow) not pregnant.
- most-livery — liverish.
- mother ship — a vessel or craft that services others operating far from a home port or center.
- motherhouse — The monastery from which the other 'houses' of a religious order or congregation were (directly or indirectly) founded, often eponymous.
- motherlands — Plural form of motherland.
- motherships — Plural form of mothership.
- motherworts — Plural form of motherwort.
- motocrosses — Plural form of motocross.
- motoneurons — Plural form of motoneuron.
- motorcycles — Plural form of motorcycle.
- motormouths — Plural form of motormouth.
- motorsailer — A boat equipped with both sails and an engine.
- motorsports — Plural form of motorsport.
- moussorgsky — Modest Petrovich [moh-dest pi-troh-vich;; Russian muh-dyest pyi-traw-vyich] /moʊˈdɛst pɪˈtroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian mʌˈdyɛst pyɪˈtrɔ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1839–81, Russian composer.
- moviemakers — Plural form of moviemaker.
- mrs. grundy — Mrs. a narrow-minded, conventional person who is extremely critical of any breach of propriety.
- mu shu pork — moo shu pork
- mudskippers — Plural form of mudskipper.
- mudspringer — mudskipper.
- muleskinner — (slang)A mule driver.
- multicourse — a direction or route taken or to be taken.
- multimeters — Plural form of multimeter.
- multiparous — of or relating to a multipara.
- multiperson — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- multipliers — Plural form of multiplier.