8-letter words containing meta
- cemetary — Misspelling of cemetery.
- cometary — a celestial body moving about the sun, usually in a highly eccentric orbit, consisting of a central mass surrounded by an envelope of dust and gas that may form a tail that streams away from the sun.
- elmameta — A Fortran extension, written at the Tallinn Poly Inst in 1978, used for lexical, syntactic and semantic sepecification in the ELMA compiler writer. This system was widely used in the Soviet Union, and produced an Ada to Diana compiler.
- gunmetal — any of various alloys or metallic substances with a dark gray or blackish color or finish, used for chains, belt buckles, etc.
- meta bit — (character) The most-signigicant bit of an 8-bit character, which is on in character values 128--255. Also called the high bit, "alt bit" (alternate bit) or hobbit. Some terminals and consoles (see space-cadet keyboard) have a META shift key. Others (including, *mirabile dictu*, keyboards on IBM PC-class machines) have an ALT key. See also bucky bits. Historical note: although, in modern usage shaped by a universe of 8-bit bytes, the meta bit is invariably hex 80 (octal 0200), things were different on earlier machines with 36-bit words and 9-bit bytes. The MIT and Stanford keyboards (see space-cadet keyboard) generated hex 100 (octal 400) from their meta keys.
- meta tag — META element
- metablog — (neologism, Internet) a blog about blogs.
- metabola — (in the plural, entomology) Insects that metamorphose.
- metabole — Alternative spelling of metabola.
- metaboly — the ability of some cells, esp protozoans, to alter their shape
- metacard — A commercial human interface and hypertext system for Unix and the X Window System, similar to Hypercard.
- metadata — A set of data that describes and gives information about other data.
- metafile — (graphics, file format) 1. An image file format for transport between different machines, often as a device independent bitmap. 2. A functional specification for encoding computer graphics for later display on some suitable device.
- metafont — A system for the design of raster-based alphabets by Donald Knuth. A companion to TeX.
- metagame — A game about games; a game based on exploiting the rules etc. of some other game, at a higher level than simply playing the game normally.
- metairie — an area of land held under the metayage system
- metaling — any of a class of elementary substances, as gold, silver, or copper, all of which are crystalline when solid and many of which are characterized by opacity, ductility, conductivity, and a unique luster when freshly fractured.
- metalist — a person who works with metals.
- metalize — to make metallic; give the characteristics of metal to.
- metalled — any of a class of elementary substances, as gold, silver, or copper, all of which are crystalline when solid and many of which are characterized by opacity, ductility, conductivity, and a unique luster when freshly fractured.
- metaller — (music, informal) One who listens to metal music.
- metallic — of, relating to, or consisting of metal.
- metallo- — denoting metal
- metamale — a sterile male organism, esp a fruit fly (Drosophila) that has one X chromosome and three sets of autosomes
- metamere — a somite.
- metamers — a compound exhibiting metamerism with one or more other compounds.
- metamict — of or denoting the amorphous state of a substance that has lost its crystalline structure as a result of the radioactivity of uranium or thorium within it
- metanira — queen of Eleusis, who took Demeter in to nurse her child.
- metanoia — a profound, usually spiritual, transformation; conversion.
- metaphor — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- metasoma — the posterior part of an arachnid's abdomen (opisthosoma) that never carries appendages
- metayage — the system of agriculture based on the use of métayers.
- metazoal — a zoological group comprising the multicellular animals.
- metazoan — a zoological group comprising the multicellular animals.
- metazoic — Of, or relating to the metazoa.
- metazoon — (zoology) One of the Metazoa.
- nametags — Plural form of nametag.
- nametape — a fabric tape on which a person's name is written, woven, or printed: for affixing to garments and other personal belongings to identify ownership.
- nonmetal — an element not having the character of a metal, as carbon or nitrogen.
- nu-metal — a type of rock music popular from the late 1990s, featuring much of the sound typical of heavy metal but also influenced by rap and hip-hop
- palometa — a pompano, Trachinotus goodei, of tropical and temperate Atlantic seas, having long, tapering fins.
- prometal — a type of cast iron with high heat resistance
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