11-letter words containing o, a, r, s, m
- mesotherapy — a cosmetic procedure in which minute doses of medication, vitamins, etc, are injected repeatedly into the mesodermal tissue under the skin to promote fat loss
- mess around — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
- metachrosis — the ability of some animals, such as chameleons, to change their colour
- metanephros — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of higher vertebrates, becoming the permanent and functional kidney.
- metaphorist — a creator or user of metaphors
- metrosexual — a heterosexual, usually urban male who pays much attention to his personal appearance and cultivates an upscale lifestyle.
- micro saint — (simulation) A general purpose simulation tool from US company Micro Analysis and Design.
- microarrays — Plural form of microarray.
- microfarads — Plural form of microfarad.
- micrographs — Plural form of micrograph.
- micronesian — of or relating to Micronesia, its inhabitants, or their languages.
- microphages — Plural form of microphage.
- microquasar — (astronomy, stars) A high-energy binary star system that includes black hole or neutron star and which resembles a quasar.
- microsmatic — (of humans and certain animals) having a poor sense of smell
- mimeographs — Plural form of mimeograph.
- minor scale — Also called harmonic minor scale. a scale having half steps between the second and third, fifth and sixth, and seventh and eighth degrees, with whole steps for the other intervals.
- misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- misanthropy — hatred, dislike, or distrust of humankind.
- misbehavior — improper, inappropriate, or bad behavior.
- miscreation — miscreated.
- misdemeanor — Law. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony.
- misorganize — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
- misrelation — an erroneous or imperfect relation
- mobocracies — Plural form of mobocracy.
- moderations — the quality of being moderate; restraint; avoidance of extremes or excesses; temperance.
- modularised — to form or organize into modules, as for flexibility.
- monarchists — Plural form of monarchist.
- monasteries — Plural form of monastery.
- 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.
- moneymakers — Plural form of moneymaker.
- monkey bars — children's climbing frame
- monocarpous — having a gynoecium that forms only a single ovary.
- monocracies — Plural form of monocracy.
- monocrystal — A single crystal.
- monogastric — (biology) Having a simple single-chambered stomach.
- monolatrism — Belief in multiple deities but worship of only one.
- monstrances — Plural form of monstrance.
- 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.
- most-caller — (of fruit, fish, vegetables, etc.) fresh; recently picked or caught.
- most-farrow — (of a cow) not pregnant.
- motherlands — Plural form of motherland.
- motorsailer — A boat equipped with both sails and an engine.
- moviemakers — Plural form of moviemaker.
- multiparous — of or relating to a multipara.