12-letter words containing a, c, e, n, d, i
- incendiarism — the act or practice of an arsonist; malicious burning.
- incidentally — apart or aside from the main subject of attention, discussion, etc.; by the way; parenthetically.
- incoordinate — not coordinate; not coordinated.
- incorporated — legally incorporated, as a company.
- increditable — (rare) Incapable of being believed; not creditable.
- incriminated — Simple past tense and past participle of incriminate.
- indeclinable — not capable of being declined; having no inflected forms: used especially of a word belonging to a form class most of whose members are declined, as the Latin adjective decem, “ten.”.
- indelicacies — Plural form of indelicacy.
- indelicately — In an indelicate manner.
- indexicality — (philosophy) The quality or state of being indexical.
- indian cress — a nasturtium, Tropaeolum majus, of South America, having red-spotted or red-striped, yellow-orange flowers, the young flower buds and fruits being used as seasoning.
- indian ocean — an ocean S of Asia, E of Africa, and W of Australia. 28,357,000 sq. mi. (73,444,630 sq. km).
- indicatively — showing, signifying, or pointing out; expressive or suggestive (usually followed by of): behavior indicative of mental disorder.
- indirect tax — a tax levied indirectly, as one levied on commodities before they reach the consumer but ultimately paid by the consumer as part of the market price.
- indoctrinate — to instruct in a doctrine, principle, ideology, etc., especially to imbue with a specific partisan or biased belief or point of view.
- indoleacetic — as in indoleacetic acid, a naturally-occurring plant growth hormone
- indomethacin — a substance, C 19 H 16 ClNO 4 , with anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, and analgesic properties: used in the treatment of certain kinds of arthritis and gout.
- induced drag — the drag force generated in the production of lift.
- ineradicable — not eradicable; not capable of being eradicated, rooted out, or completely removed.
- ineradicably — not eradicable; not capable of being eradicated, rooted out, or completely removed.
- inexactitude — the quality or state of being inexact or inaccurate; inexactness.
- infanticides — Plural form of infanticide.
- initial code — a system used in the U.S. to facilitate the delivery of mail, consisting of a five- or nine-digit code printed directly after the address, the first five digits (initial code) indicating the state and post office or postal zone, the last four (expanded code) the box section or number, portion of a rural route, building, or other specific delivery location.
- inside track — the inner, or shorter, track of a racecourse.
- intercalated — to interpolate; interpose.
- interchanged — Simple past tense and past participle of interchange.
- intermediacy — the state of being intermediate or of acting intermediately.
- intexticated — (of a driver) distracted while writing or reading a text message on a mobile phone
- landed price — the price when delivered
- lapidescence — a lapidescent quality or condition
- leading case — a case that is regarded as having settled a particular point of law; a case that is used as guidance for legal decisions
- line dancing — to participate in a line dance.
- linseed cake — a cake or a mass made by expressing the oil from linseed, used chiefly as feed for cattle.
- longicaudate — having a long posterior or tail
- machine code — (language) The representation of a computer program that is read and interpreted by the computer hardware (rather than by some other machine code program). A program in machine code consists of a sequence of "instructions" (possibly interspersed with data). An instruction is a binary string, (often written as one or more octal, decimal or hexadecimal numbers). Instructions may be all the same size (e.g. one 32-bit word for many modern RISC microprocessors) or of different sizes, in which case the size of the instruction is determined from the first word (e.g. Motorola 68000) or byte (e.g. Inmos transputer). The collection of all possible instructions for a particular computer is known as its "instruction set". Each instruction typically causes the Central Processing Unit to perform some fairly simple operation like loading a value from memory into a register or adding the numbers in two registers. An instruction consists of an op code and zero or more operands. Different processors have different instruction sets - the collection of possible operations they can perform. Execution of machine code may either be hard-wired into the central processing unit or it may be controlled by microcode. The basic execution cycle consists of fetching the next instruction from main memory, decoding it (determining which action the operation code specifies and the location of any arguments) and executing it by opening various gates (e.g. to allow data to flow from main memory into a CPU register) and enabling functional units (e.g. signalling to the ALU to perform an addition). Humans almost never write programs directly in machine code. Instead, they use programming languages. The simplest kind of programming language is assembly language which usually has a one-to-one correspondence with the resulting machine code instructions but allows the use of mnemonics (ASCII strings) for the "op codes" (the part of the instruction which encodes the basic type of operation to perform) and names for locations in the program (branch labels) and for variables and constants. Other languages are either translated by a compiler into machine code or executed by an interpreter
- machine head — a metal peg-and-gear mechanism for tuning a string on an instrument such as a guitar
- machine word — word (def 10).
- machine-made — made or constructed by machine
- machine-word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
- magnetic dip — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
- maledictions — Plural form of malediction.
- masculinized — Simple past tense and past participle of masculinize.
- matricentred — Matricentric.
- media center — a library, usually in school, that contains and encourages the use of audiovisual media and associated equipment as well as books, periodicals, and the like.
- medical unit — a group of doctors and nurses working as part of a larger organization, such as the armed forces or a prison
- medicalizing — Present participle of medicalize.
- medicine hat — a city in SE Alberta, in SW Canada.
- medicine man — (among North American Indians and some other aboriginal peoples) a person believed to possess magical or supernatural powers; shaman.
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
- merchandised — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.