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12-letter words containing c, a, o, m, i

  • isochromatic — Optics. having the same color or tint.
  • isodiametric — having equal diameters or axes.
  • isoenzymatic — isoenzymic
  • jim crow law — any state law discriminating against black persons.
  • kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
  • kurchatovium — (chemistry) A rejected name for rutherfordium.
  • lachrymation — the secretion of tears, especially in abnormal abundance.
  • lachrymiform — Shaped like a teardrop.
  • lachrymosity — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
  • lamprophyric — belonging or relating to a lamprophyre
  • lay claim to — to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
  • leptosomatic — a person of asthenic build.
  • limacologist — a person who specialises in the study of slugs
  • lime cordial — a drink made from sweetened lime juice and plain or carbonated water
  • limnological — Of or pertaining to limnology, the study of freshwater bodies of water.
  • liposarcomas — Plural form of liposarcoma.
  • logical form — the syntactic structure that may be shared by different expressions as abstracted from their content and articulated by the logical constants of a particular logical system, esp the structure of an argument by virtue of which it can be shown to be formally valid. Thus John is tall and thin, so John is tall has the same logical form as London is large and dirty, so London is large, namely P & Q, so P
  • macassar oil — an oil derived from materials said to be obtained from Macassar, formerly used as a hairdressing.
  • machairodont — having sabre-like teeth; sabre-toothed
  • machicolated — Having machicolations.
  • machinations — an act or instance of machinating.
  • machine bolt — a threaded fastener, used with a nut for connecting metal parts, having a thread diameter of about 1/4 inch (6.4 mm) or more and a square or hexagonal head for tightening by a wrench.
  • 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 shop — a workshop in which metal and other substances are cut, shaped, etc., by machine tools.
  • machine tool — a power-operated machine, as a lathe, used for general cutting and shaping of metal and other substances.
  • 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.
  • machtpolitik — power politics
  • macintosh ii — (computer)   (Mac II) A version of Apple's Macintosh personal computer, released in March 1987, using the Motorola 68020 CPU, which runs at a higher clock rate than the Motorola 68000 used in the original Mac. The Mac II has a full 32-bit data bus instead of a 16-bit bus. Mac II models have built-in 40 to 160 megabyte hard disks and can take up to eight megabytes of RAM (and more as denser memory chips arive). The Mac II was the first Macintosh to provide a colour graphics option, with up to 256 colours on screen at a 640x480 resolution. Mac II models are designed for expandability with three (Macintosh IIcx) or six (II & IIx) built-in NuBus expansion slots for additional peripheral and coprocessor boards.
  • mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
  • macro-cosmic — the great world or universe; the universe considered as a whole (opposed to microcosm).
  • macrobiotics — a philosophically oriented program incorporating elements from several ancient cultures and emphasizing harmony with nature, especially through adherence to a diet consisting primarily of whole grains, beans, vegetables, and moderate amounts of seafood and fruit.
  • macroclimate — the general climate of a large area, as of a continent or country.
  • macrocytosis — The presence of macrocytes in the blood.
  • macroetching — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
  • macrofossils — Plural form of macrofossil.
  • macroglossia — Enlargement or hypertrophy of the tongue.
  • macromineral — any mineral required in the diet in relatively large amounts, especially calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, and zinc.
  • macrophysics — the branch of physics that deals with physical objects large enough to be observed and treated directly.
  • magic cookie — 1. Something passed between routines or programs that enables the receiver to perform some operation; a capability ticket or opaque identifier. Especially used of small data objects that contain data encoded in a strange or intrinsically machine-dependent way. E.g. on non-Unix operating systems with a non-byte-stream model of files, the result of "ftell" may be a magic cookie rather than a byte offset; it can be passed to "fseek", but not operated on in any meaningful way. The phrase "it hands you a magic cookie" means it returns a result whose contents are not defined but which can be passed back to the same or some other program later. 2. An in-band code for changing graphic rendition (e.g. inverse video or underlining) or performing other control functions. Some older terminals would leave a blank on the screen corresponding to mode-change magic cookies; this was also called a glitch (or occasionally a "turd"; compare mouse droppings). See also cookie.
  • magnetooptic — pertaining to the effect of magnetism upon the propagation of light.
  • majolicaware — goods made from majolica
  • malacologist — A person who studies molluscs, who specializes in malacology.
  • maledictions — Plural form of malediction.
  • malefactions — Plural form of malefaction.
  • malfunctions — Plural form of malfunction.
  • malocclusion — faulty occlusion; irregular contact of opposing teeth in the upper and lower jaws.
  • 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.
  • mammographic — Of, or pertaining to, mammography.
  • marcatissimo — in a heavily accented manner
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