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

  • jamal ud-din — (Jamal ud-Din al-Afghani) 1838–97, Muslim educator and political leader, born in Persia: founder of modern Pan-Islamism.
  • jameson raid — an expedition into the Transvaal in 1895 led by Sir Leander Starr Jameson (1853–1917) in an unsuccessful attempt to topple its Boer regime
  • judgment day — the day of the Last Judgment; doomsday.
  • judgmentally — involving the use or exercise of judgment.
  • kalmar sound — a strait between SE Sweden and Öland Island. 85 miles (137 km) long; 14 miles (23 km) wide.
  • kath and kim — a personification of the White population of middle Australia
  • kim dae jung — 1925–2009, president of South Korea 1998–2003.
  • kingdom hall — a meeting place of Jehovah's Witnesses for religious services.
  • lambda point — the temperature of approximately 2.186 K, at which the transition from helium I to superfluid helium II occurs.
  • lampadomancy — a method of divination by studying the carbon deposits left by a burning lamp or candle
  • 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.
  • laundry mark — a symbol on a label on an article of clothing, bed-linen, etc, which specifies how the item should be washed and cared for, for example, at which temperature it should be washed at, whether it should be ironed, dry-cleaned, etc
  • laundry room — utility room
  • laundrywoman — laundress.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • linseed meal — ground linseed cake.
  • loading ramp — a ramp that is used for loading a ship
  • 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.
  • lymphadenoma — an enlarged lymph node.
  • macadamizing — Present participle of macadamize.
  • machairodont — having sabre-like teeth; sabre-toothed
  • 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 vine — a herbaceous tropical vine, Anredera cordifolia, having shiny leaves and small, fragrant, white flowers.
  • maderization — the process whereby wine is heated and oxidized, resulting in a darker colour and an altered taste
  • madisonville — a city in W Kentucky.
  • madonna lily — a lily, Lilium candidum, having clusters of pure white, bell-shaped flowers.
  • 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.
  • magnoliopsid — (botany) a member of the class Magnoliopsida. Circumscription of this class will vary with the taxonomic system being used.
  • maidenliness — The state or condition of being maidenly.
  • maidservants — Plural form of maidservant.
  • mainstreamed — Simple past tense and past participle of mainstream.
  • 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 inroads — If one thing makes inroads into another, the first thing starts affecting or destroying the second.
  • 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.
  • malonic acid — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, dibasic acid, C 3 H 4 O 4 , easily decomposed by heat: used chiefly as an intermediate in the synthesis of barbiturates.
  • maltodextrin — a compound of dextrin and maltose, used as a food additive and in some health and beauty products.
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