12-letter words containing c, o, m, e, d
- dopaminergic — activated by or sensitive to dopamine.
- double cream — (in France) a fresh, soft cheese with at least 60 percent fat, made from cow's milk enriched with cream.
- dow compiler — An early system on the Datatron 200 series.
- duodenectomy — a complete or incomplete removal of the duodenum
- dynamometric — Relating to dynamometry.
- echinodermal — (zoology) Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.
- eunuchoidism — A syndrome in males with a lack of sex characteristics due to lack of proper male sex hormones.
- farm produce — agricultural products regarded collectively
- fixed-income — gaining or yielding a more or less uniform rate of income.
- forced march — any march that is longer than troops are accustomed to and maintained at a faster pace than usual, generally undertaken for a particular objective under emergency conditions.
- fundusectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of the fundus of an organ, such as the uterus or the stomach.
- gynodioecism — the condition of having flowers that are only female in one example of a plant and flowers that have stamens and pistils in another example of a plant of the same species
- 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.
- hemichordate — belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms.
- hemodynamics — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
- heroic drama — Restoration tragedy, especially that popular in England c1660–1700, using highly rhetorical language and written in heroic couplets.
- homeschooled — Simple past tense and past participle of homeschool.
- 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.
- iceland moss — an edible lichen, Cetraria islandica, of arctic regions, containing a starchlike substance used in medicine.
- immethodical — not methodical; without method or system.
- improvidence — not provident; lacking foresight; incautious; unwary.
- 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.
- iridectomies — Plural form of iridectomy.
- iridectomize — to perform an iridectomy on.
- isodiametric — having equal diameters or axes.
- kingdom come — the next world; the hereafter; heaven.
- light comedy — a play or film which deals with its subject matter in an amusing and lighthearted way
- lime cordial — a drink made from sweetened lime juice and plain or carbonated water
- 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 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.
- malcontented — Malcontent.
- maledictions — Plural form of malediction.
- managed code — (operating system) Code that is executed by the .NET common language runtime (CLR). VB.NET code is always managed code but C++ .NET can optionally use unmanaged code. Managed code provides metadata allowing the CLR to manage security (role-based as well as new approaches to code access security). The CLR also handles errors, manages the program stack and finds methods in assembly modules. Managed data is memory that's subject to garbage collection. There are additional restrictions to permit interoperability of different languages, for example, Visual Basic arrays must be zero-based.
- mass-produce — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
- mcleod gauge — a device for determining very low gas pressures by manometrically measuring the pressure of a sample after its compression to a known fraction of its original volume.
- medicine box — a small box used to hold medicines
- medico-legal — pertaining to medicine and law or to forensic medicine.
- mediocrities — the state or quality of being mediocre.
- megalocardia — hypertrophy of the heart.
- melodramatic — of, like, or befitting melodrama.
- mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
- method actor — actor who follows the Method
- methodically — performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- micro-credit — the lending of very small amounts of money at low interest, especially to a start-up company or self-employed person.
- microchipped — Simple past tense and past participle of microchip.
- microlending — the lending of very small amounts of money at low interest, especially to a start-up company or self-employed person.