12-letter words containing c, o, e, n, a, m
- free company — a band of free companions.
- fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
- furnace room — a room containing a furnace or an enclosed chamber for producing heat, often on the bottom floor of the building that it heats
- game console — Also called game(s) console, gaming console, video-game console. a computer system specially made for playing video games by connecting it to a television or other display for video and sound.
- gangliectomy — (medicine) Excision of a ganglion; surgical removal of a mass of tissue.
- gastrocnemii — Plural form of gastrocnemius.
- geomechanics — the study and application of rock and soil mechanics
- geometrician — a person skilled in geometry.
- german ocean — an arm of the Atlantic between Great Britain and the European mainland. About 201,000 sq. mi. (520,600 sq. km); greatest depth, 1998 feet (610 meters).
- graeco-roman — of or having both Greek and Roman characteristics: the Greco-Roman influence.
- graminaceous — Of, pertaining to, or resembling a grass.
- gynecomastia — abnormal enlargement of the breast in a male.
- gyromagnetic — of or relating to the magnetic properties of a rotating charged particle.
- haemodynamic — Alternative spelling of hemodynamic.
- hamming code — (algorithm) Extra, redundant bits added to stored or transmitted data for the purposes of error detection and correction. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming, Hamming codes greatly improve the reliability of data, e.g. from distant space probes, where it is impractical, because of the long transmission delay, to correct errors by requesting retransmission.
- have company — If you have company, you have a visitor or friend with you.
- hemodynamics — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
- hire company — a company that hires things out to people
- 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.
- 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.
- hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- iceland moss — an edible lichen, Cetraria islandica, of arctic regions, containing a starchlike substance used in medicine.
- imogene coca — Imogene, 1908–2001, U.S. comic actress.
- importancies — Plural form of importancy.
- imprecations — Plural form of imprecation.
- incommutable — not exchangeable.
- incomparable — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
- incompatible — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
- incompliance — not compliant; unyielding.
- incomputable — incapable of being computed; incalculable.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- 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.
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- informercial — infomercial.
- intercompany — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
- intercompare — (of members of a group) to compare each member against all other members
- isoenzymatic — isoenzymic
- keep company — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
- kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
- laryngectomy — excision of part or all of the larynx.
- 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.
- macroeconomy — A large-scale economic system.
- macroetching — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).