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12-letter words containing a, d, i, m, e, o

  • ladies' room — a public lavatory for women.
  • lepidomelane — (mineralogy) A black iron-potash mica, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales.
  • lime cordial — a drink made from sweetened lime juice and plain or carbonated water
  • 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 word — word (def 10).
  • 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.
  • mademoiselle — (often initial capital letter) a French title of respect equivalent to “Miss”, used in speaking to or of a girl or unmarried woman: Mademoiselle Lafitte. Abbreviation: Mlle.
  • maderization — the process whereby wine is heated and oxidized, resulting in a darker colour and an altered taste
  • madisonville — a city in W Kentucky.
  • madreporites — Plural form of madreporite.
  • make inroads — If one thing makes inroads into another, the first thing starts affecting or destroying the second.
  • male bonding — the process by which two or more men or boys become emotionally attached to each another
  • maledictions — Plural form of malediction.
  • malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
  • maltodextrin — a compound of dextrin and maltose, used as a food additive and in some health and beauty products.
  • man-tailored — (of women's clothing) tailored in the general style and with the details of men's clothing. Compare dressmaker (def 2).
  • manifoldness — (mathematics) multiplicity.
  • māori warden — a person appointed to exercise advisory and minor disciplinary powers in Māori communities
  • mastoid bone — a large, bony prominence on the base of the skull behind the ear, containing air spaces that connect with the middle ear cavity.
  • matinee idol — a male actor, usually a leading man, idolized especially by female audiences.
  • meadow pipit — a common European songbird, Anthus pratensis, with a pale brown speckled plumage: family Motacillidae (pipits and wagtails)
  • media person — a person who works in the mass media
  • median point — centroid (def 2).
  • mediatorship — the position of a mediator
  • medico-legal — pertaining to medicine and law or to forensic medicine.
  • meditational — Of, or pertaining to, meditation.
  • megalocardia — hypertrophy of the heart.
  • melodramatic — of, like, or befitting melodrama.
  • memorial day — Also called Decoration Day. a day, May 30, set aside in most states of the U.S. for observances in memory of dead members of the armed forces of all wars: now officially observed on the last Monday in May.
  • memorialised — Simple past tense and past participle of memorialise.
  • memorialized — (US) Simple past tense and past participle of memorialize.
  • mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
  • meridionally — In a meridional manner.
  • mesoappendix — the mesentery of the vermiform appendix.
  • methodically — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
  • micromanaged — Simple past tense and past participle of micromanage.
  • microreaders — Plural form of microreader.
  • midafternoon — the part of the afternoon centering approximately on three o'clock; the period approximately halfway between noon and sunset.
  • midwife toad — a European toad, Alytes obstetricans (family Discoglossidae), noted for its unusual breeding habits, in which mating occurs on land and the male broods the egg strings by wrapping them around his legs.
  • mimeographed — Simple past tense and past participle of mimeograph.
  • misallocated — to allocate mistakenly or improperly: to misallocate resources.
  • misdemeanors — Plural form of misdemeanor.
  • misdemeanour — Law. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony.
  • misdiagnosed — Simple past tense and past participle of misdiagnose.
  • misdiagnoses — to make an incorrect diagnosis.
  • miseducation — to educate improperly.
  • misericordia — (legal, obsolete) An amercement.
  • misfashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of misfashion.
  • modern latin — the Latin that has come into use since about 1500, chiefly in scientific literature
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