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12-letter words containing a, c, h, e, d

  • hexadactylic — having six fingers or toes
  • hexadecanoic — Of or pertaining to hexadecanoic acid or its derivatives.
  • hexadecapole — (physics) Anything having sixteen poles or electrodes, or a combination of four quadrupoles.
  • hiding place — location where sb is concealed
  • hierarchized — Simple past tense and past participle of hierarchize.
  • highway code — In Britain, the Highway Code is an official book published by the Department of Transport, which contains the rules which tell people how to use public roads safely.
  • hitch a ride — hitchhike
  • huffman code — Huffman coding
  • human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
  • hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
  • hydraulicked — (of an extracted mineral) excavated using water
  • hydrocephaly — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
  • hydrocracker — a high-pressure processing unit used for hydrocracking.
  • hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
  • hyperacidity — excessive acidity, as of the gastric juice.
  • hyperdactyly — the presence of extra fingers or toes.
  • hyperdynamic — (physiology) Describing an increase in both blood pressure and pulse pressure.
  • hypermediacy — Hypermedia literacy; the state of being conversant with hypermedia technologies.
  • hypothecated — Simple past tense and past participle of hypothecate.
  • icosahedrons — Plural form of icosahedron.
  • immethodical — not methodical; without method or system.
  • in the cards — a usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, thin pasteboard, or plastic for various uses, as to write information on or printed as a means of identifying the holder: a 3″ × 5″ file card; a membership card.
  • 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.
  • interchanged — Simple past tense and past participle of interchange.
  • jack-the-lad — a young man who is regarded as a brash, loud show-off
  • knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
  • lady teacher — a teacher who is a woman
  • latch needle — a part of a knitting machine consisting of a thin shaft with a hook on one end and a pivoting latch that closes over the hook so that yarn can be drawn through the developing knitting to make a stitch.
  • latchkey kid — variant form of latchkey child
  • lead a chase — to go before or with to show the way; conduct or escort: to lead a group on a cross-country hike.
  • machicolated — Having machicolations.
  • 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.
  • mail-cheeked — (of certain fishes) having the cheeks crossed with a bony plate.
  • medicine hat — a city in SE Alberta, in SW Canada.
  • merchandised — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
  • merchandiser — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
  • merchandises — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
  • merchandized — Simple past tense and past participle of merchandize.
  • merchandizer — Alternative spelling of merchandiser.
  • method actor — actor who follows the Method
  • methodically — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
  • middle watch — the watch from midnight until 4 a.m.
  • moustachioed — Alternative spelling of moustachio\u2019d.
  • needle match — a bitterly fought contest between two competitors or teams who bear each other a grudge
  • netherlandic — Dutch (def 7).
  • night dancer — (in Uganda) a person believed to employ the help of the dead in destroying other people
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