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14-letter words starting with m

  • motorola 88000 — A family of RISC microprocessors from Motorola.
  • motorola, inc. — (company)   One of the world's leading providers of wireless communications, semiconductors and advanced electronic systems and services. Major equipment businesses include mobile telephone, two-way radio, paging and data communications, personal communications, automotive, defense and space electronics, computers, satellite communications systems, police and emergency service radio systems, taxicab dispatching (radio) systems. Communication devices, computers and millions of consumer products are powered by Motorola semiconductors. They are probably best known in the computing world for their microprocessors, including the Motorola 6800 and Motorola 68000 CISC families and Motorola 88000 RISCs, the Motorola DSP56000 digital signal processors and the PowerPC on which they collaborated. They also led the development of VMEbus. Quarterly sales $5400M, profits $367M (Aug 1994). See also Envoy, Monsoon, MPL. Address: Schaumberg, Illinois, USA.
  • mottled enamel — fluorosis (def 2).
  • moulding board — a board on which dough is kneaded
  • mound builders — a member of any of the early American Indian peoples who built the burial mounds, fortifications, and other earthworks found in the Midwest and the Southwest
  • mount demavend — a volcanic peak in N Iran, in the Elburz Mountains. Height: 5671 m (18 606 ft)
  • mount mckinley — a mountain in S central Alaska: highest peak in North America, 20,310 feet (6190 meters).
  • mount pleasant — a city in central Michigan.
  • mount prospect — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • mount rushmore — Mount, a peak in the Black Hills of South Dakota that is a memorial (Mount Rushmore National Memorial) having 60-foot (18-meter) busts of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, carved into its face between 1927 and 1941, from a design by and under the direction of Gutzon Borglum. 5600 feet (1707 meters).
  • mount victoria — a mountain in SE Papua New Guinea: the highest peak of the Owen Stanley Range. Height: 4073 m (13 363 ft)
  • mount wrangell — a mountain in S Alaska, in the W Wrangell Mountains. Height: 4269 m (14 005 ft)
  • mountain avens — either of two trailing evergreen white-flowered rosaceous shrubs of the genus Dryas that grow on mountains in N temperate regions and in the Arctic
  • mountain chain — a series of ranges of mountains
  • mountain guide — a trained professional mountaineer who guides climbers up a mountain
  • mountain nyala — a similar and related Ethiopian animal, T. buxtoni, lacking the white crest
  • mountain range — series or chain of mountains
  • mountain sheep — wild sheep in mountainous area
  • mountain state — any of the eight states of the W U.S. through which the Rocky Mountains pass; Mont., Ida., Wyo., Nev., Utah, Colo., Ariz., or N.Mex.
  • mountaineering — The sport or activity of climbing mountains.
  • mounted police — police who patrol on horseback
  • mounting-block — a block of stone formerly used to aid a person when mounting a horse
  • mourning bride — a plant, Scabiosa atropurpurea, native to Europe, cultivated for its purple, reddish, or white flowers.
  • mourning cloak — a common butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa) having purplish-brown wings with a wide yellow border, found throughout Europe and North America
  • mouth-to-mouth — designating a method of artificial respiration involving blowing air rhythmically into the mouth of a person who has stopped breathing, to stimulate return of spontaneous breathing
  • mouth-watering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
  • mouths to feed — family members, dependents
  • movable system — a system of solmization which assigns the names re, mi, fa, sol, la to the major scale in any key
  • moveable feast — a religious festival that occurs on a different date each year
  • moving average — one of a succession of averages of data from a time series, where each average is calculated by successively shifting the interval by the same period of time.
  • moving picture — A moving picture is a film.
  • mowing machine — a machine for mowing or cutting down grass, grain, etc.
  • mpeg-1 layer 3 — MPEG-1 audio layer 3
  • mpeg-4 aac ssr — MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding Scalable Sampling Rate
  • much-travelled — A much-travelled person has travelled a lot in foreign countries.
  • mucoviscidosis — cystic fibrosis.
  • muddle through — to mix up in a confused or bungling manner; jumble.
  • muddleheadedly — In a muddleheaded manner.
  • muhammad ahmed — ("the Mahdi") 1844–85, Muslim leader in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
  • muhammad ghori — Mohammed of Ghor.
  • mulching mower — a lawn mower that shreds blades of grass into very small pieces that are left on the lawn to decay and return moisture and nutrients to the soil
  • multarticulate — having multiple joints
  • multi-cultures — the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
  • multi-function — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
  • multi-location — the state or power of being in more than two places at the same time.
  • multi-part key — compound key
  • multi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
  • multi-skilling — Multi-skilling is the practice of training employees to do a number of different tasks.
  • multi-talented — having talent or special ability; gifted.
  • multiarticular — of or relating to the joints.
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