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11-letter words starting with mo

  • monte carlo — a town in Monaco principality, in SE France: gambling resort.
  • monte corno — a mountain in central Italy: highest peak in the Apennines, 9585 feet (2922 meters).
  • monte leone — Giovanni [jaw-vahn-nee] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni/ (Show IPA), 1908–2001, Italian political leader: prime minister 1963, 1968; president 1971–78.
  • montefeltro — an Italian noble family who ruled Urbino from the 13th to the 16th century. Federigo Montefeltro, duke of Urbino (1422–82), was a noted patron of the arts and military leader
  • montego bay — a city in NW Jamaica: seaside resort.
  • montelukast — a type of oral drug containing a leukotriene inhibitor, used in the treatment of asthma and seasonal allergies.
  • montenegrin — a republic in S Europe since 2006: formerly a constituent republic of Yugoslavia, in the SW part (1918–2006); an independent kingdom 1878–1918. 6333 sq. mi. (13,812 sq. km). Capital: Podgorica.
  • montesquieu — (Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu) 1689–1755, French philosophical writer.
  • montgolfier — a balloon raised by air heated from a fire in the lower part.
  • montherlant — Henry de [ahn-ree duh] /ɑ̃ˈri də/ (Show IPA), 1896–1972, French author.
  • months-mind — a Requiem Mass said on the thirtieth day after a person's death or burial.
  • monticolous — existing or having a habitat in or on mountains
  • monticulate — having low rising mounds or protrusions
  • montmorency — Anne [an;; French an] /æn;; French an/ (Show IPA), Duc de, 1493–1567, French marshal: constable of France 1537.
  • montpellier — a department in S France. 2403 sq. mi. (6225 sq. km). Capital: Montpellier.
  • moon letter — any letter, as bā or mīm, representing a consonant that does not assimilate the l of a prefixed definite article.
  • moon pillar — a halo phenomenon in which a vertical streak of light appears above and below the moon, believed to be caused by the reflection of moonlight by ice crystals with vertical axes.
  • moonflowers — Plural form of moonflower.
  • moonlighted — Simple past tense and past participle of moonlight.
  • moonlighter — the light of the moon.
  • moonshiners — Plural form of moonshiner.
  • moonshining — the practice of illegally making or smuggling distilled spirits
  • moor myrtle — an aromatic shrub, Myrica gale, of marshes, having lance-shaped leaves and yellowish fruit.
  • moorbuzzard — a bird of prey known as the marsh harrier, Circus Aeruginosus
  • moore bound — An upper limit on the number of nodes in a regular graph of degree d>2 and diameter k:
  • moore graph — A graph which achieves the Moore bound. These are complete graphs, polygon graphs (regular graphs of degree 2) and three others: (nodes, degree, diameter) = (10,3,2), (50,7,2) and the possible but undiscovered (3250,57,2).
  • 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.
  • mopani worm — an edible caterpillar that feeds on mopani leaves
  • mope around — If you mope around or mope about a place, you wander around there not doing anything, looking and feeling unhappy.
  • 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.
  • moratoriums — Plural form of moratorium.
  • moray firth — an arm of the North Sea projecting into the NE coast of Scotland. Inland portion about 30 miles (48 km) long.
  • morbidities — a morbid state or quality.
  • morcellated — Simple past tense and past participle of morcellate.
  • morgan city — a city in S Louisiana: headquarters for offshore oil drilling and base for shrimp fleet.
  • morgan hill — a town in W California.
  • morgenstern — a weapon consisting of a ball set with spikes attached to the end of a club, often attached by a chain
  • moribundity — in a dying state; near death.
  • morning gun — a gun fired at the first note of reveille.
  • morning tea — a mid-morning snack with a cup of tea
  • morningstar — Alternative spelling of morning star.
  • morningtide — (poetic) Morning time.
  • moronically — Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment: I wonder why they elected that narrow-minded moron to Congress.
  • morphogenic — the development of structural features of an organism or part.
  • morphograph — A logical fragment of a word, such as prefix or suffix, used in teaching spelling.
  • morphologic — Of or pertaining to morphology; morphological.
  • morphometry — (biology) the measurement of the form of organisms.
  • morphotropy — the study of the changes in crystal structure that occur when chemicals replace one another
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