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12-letter words containing c, h, e, m, o

  • high wycombe — a town in S central England, in S Buckinghamshire: furniture industry. Pop: 77 178 (2001)
  • hire company — a company that hires things out to people
  • histochemist — someone who specializes in histochemistry
  • home cooking — home-made food
  • home country — the country a person comes from
  • home machine — 1. Synonym home box. 2. The machine that receives your e-mail. These senses might be distinct, for example, for a hacker who owns one computer at home, but reads e-mail at work.
  • home stretch — final stages: of race or journey
  • home teacher — private tutor
  • homeomorphic — similarity in crystalline form but not necessarily in chemical composition.
  • homeothermic — (biology, of an, animal) Capable of maintaining a relatively constant body temperature independent of the surrounding environment.
  • homeschooled — Simple past tense and past participle of homeschool.
  • homeschooler — One who homeschools a student (typically the parent).
  • homescreetch — a mistle thrush
  • homesickness — sad or depressed from a longing for home or family while away from them for a long time.
  • homo erectus — an extinct species of the human lineage, formerly known as Pithecanthropus erectus, having upright stature and a well-evolved postcranial skeleton, but with a smallish brain, low forehead, and protruding face.
  • homocysteine — An amino acid that occurs in the body as an intermediate in the metabolism of methionine and cysteine.
  • homoeopathic — Alternative spelling of homeopathic.
  • homolecithal — having a fairly uniform distribution of yolk, as certain eggs or ova having relatively little yolk.
  • honeycombing — Present participle of honeycomb.
  • horometrical — Relating to horometry.
  • 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.
  • hyperchromic — (physics, chemistry) Describing an increase in the intensity of a spectral band due to a change in the molecular environment.
  • hypercomplex — (mathematics) Describing any of several types of higher-dimensional numbers having some characteristics of complex numbers.
  • hypersarcoma — a growth of proud or fungous flesh
  • hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
  • hypocalcemia — an abnormally small amount of calcium in the blood.
  • hypocalcemic — Relating to, or exhibiting, hypocalcemia.
  • hypoglycemia — an abnormally low level of glucose in the blood.
  • hypoglycemic — an abnormally low level of glucose in the blood.
  • hysterectomy — excision of the uterus.
  • iatrochemist — a person who practises iatrochemistry
  • immethodical — not methodical; without method or system.
  • 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.
  • lemon cheese — a soft paste made from lemons, sugar, eggs, and butter, used as a spread or filling
  • light comedy — a play or film which deals with its subject matter in an amusing and lighthearted way
  • machicolated — Having machicolations.
  • 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.
  • mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
  • macrocephaly — Cephalometry. being or having a head with a large cranial capacity.
  • macroetching — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
  • macroweather — Longer term average weather, covering period of length between that of weather and climate.
  • make much of — great in quantity, measure, or degree: too much cake.
  • mechatronics — The synergistic combination of mechanical engineering, electronic engineering and software engineering for the study of automata from an engineering perspective and the control of advanced hybrid systems.
  • melancholiac — affected with melancholia.
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