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

  • ladies' room — a public lavatory for women.
  • lampadedromy — (in ancient Greece) a relay race in which the runners or riders carried a lighted torch
  • land measure — any system of measurement for measuring land.
  • landing beam — a radio beam transmitted from a landing field to enable aircraft to make an instrument landing
  • large-minded — having tolerant views or liberal ideas; broad-minded.
  • laue diagram — a diffraction pattern used to study crystal structure, consisting of symmetrically arranged spots obtained when a beam of x-rays, electrons, or neutrons is passed through a thin crystal and exposes a photographic plate.
  • laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
  • leading mark — either of two conspicuous objects regarded as points on a line (leading line) upon which a vessel can sail a safe course.
  • leaf mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
  • leopard moth — a moth, Zeuzera pyrina, having white wings spotted with black and larvae that bore into the wood of various trees and shrubs.
  • 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.
  • like a dream — If you say that someone does something like a dream, you think that they do it very well. If you say that something happens like a dream, you mean that it happens successfully without any problems.
  • lime cordial — a drink made from sweetened lime juice and plain or carbonated water
  • linseed meal — ground linseed cake.
  • lunar module — the portion of the Apollo spacecraft in which two astronauts landed on the moon's surface and then returned to the orbiting command module. Abbreviation: LM.
  • lyme disease — an acute inflammatory disease caused by a tick-borne spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi , characterized by recurrent episodes of decreasing severity in which joint swelling, fever, and rash occur, sometimes with cardiac or nervous system complications.
  • lymphadenoma — an enlarged lymph node.
  • macclesfield — a market town in NW England, in Cheshire: former centre of the silk industry; pharmaceuticals, services. Pop: 50 688 (2001)
  • 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.
  • madeira cake — a kind of rich sponge cake
  • madeira vine — a herbaceous tropical vine, Anredera cordifolia, having shiny leaves and small, fragrant, white flowers.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • maid service — cleaner, cleaning business
  • maidenliness — The state or condition of being maidenly.
  • maidservants — Plural form of maidservant.
  • mail-cheeked — (of certain fishes) having the cheeks crossed with a bony plate.
  • mainstreamed — Simple past tense and past participle of mainstream.
  • major orders — the degree or grade of priesthood, diaconate, or subdiaconate.
  • make a stand — to take a position for defense or opposition
  • make demands — If someone or something makes demands on you, they require you to do things which need a lot of time, energy, or money.
  • make friends — get to know people
  • make headway — forward movement; progress in a forward direction: The ship's headway was slowed by the storm.
  • make inroads — If one thing makes inroads into another, the first thing starts affecting or destroying the second.
  • make the bed — rearrange the bedsheets
  • maladjustive — Exhibiting or relating to maladjustment.
  • malcontented — Malcontent.
  • male bonding — the process by which two or more men or boys become emotionally attached to each another
  • maledictions — Plural form of malediction.
  • malimprinted — (of an animal or person) suffering from a defect in the behavioural process of imprinting, resulting in attraction to members of other species, fetishism, etc
  • 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.
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