14-letter words containing c, o, n, h
- kitchen police — soldiers detailed by roster or as punishment to assist in kitchen duties.
- knock together — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- know the score — understand the situation
- kochel listing — the chronological number of a composition of Mozart as assigned in the catalog of the composer's works compiled in the 19th century by the Austrian musicologist Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877) and since revised several times. Abbreviation: K.
- lap microphone — a small microphone that may be clipped to the speaker's lapel, pocket, or the like.
- laughing stock — object of others' amusement
- laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
- lichenological — relating to lichenology
- light reaction — the stage of photosynthesis during which light energy is absorbed by chlorophyll and transformed into chemical energy stored in ATP
- lip microphone — a microphone designed and shaped to be held close to the mouth, for use in noisy environments
- logic-chopping — the use of excessively subtle argument
- low technology — any technology utilizing equipment and production techniques that are relatively unsophisticated (opposed to high technology).
- lower michigan — the southern part of Michigan, S of the Strait of Mackinac.
- lu-wang school — School of Mind.
- macaroni wheat — durum wheat.
- machicolations — Plural form of machicolation.
- machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
- macintosh iicx — (computer) (Mac IIcx) A version of Apple's Macintosh II personal computer, introduced in 1989, with a Motorola 68030 processor running at 16 MHz and up to 128 MB of RAM (120 ns, 30-pin DRAM chips). The IIcx requires System 6.0.3 or later and requires "Mode 32" or "32-bit Enabler" to use more than 8MB of RAM. It was discontinued 1991, and in 1996 is still considered one of the best-designed Macs ever.
- magnetic epoch — a geologically long period of time during which the magnetic field of the earth retains the same polarity. The magnetic field may reverse during such a period for a geologically short period of time (a magnetic event)
- magnetic north — north as indicated by a magnetic compass, differing in most places from true north.
- magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
- mechanotherapy — curative treatment by mechanical means.
- megatechnology — high technology that is developing rapidly
- melancholiness — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
- mesencephalons — Plural form of mesencephalon.
- mesh stockings — stockings with a netted pattern or made out of a netted material such as lace or netted nylon
- metencephalons — Plural form of metencephalon.
- methanoic acid — systematic name for formic acid
- methodicalness — The property of being methodical.
- michael jordan — Barbara Charline, 1936–96, U.S. politician.
- microfortnight — One millionth of the fundamental unit of time in the Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight system of measurement; 1.2096 sec. (A furlong is 1/8th of a mile; a firkin is 1/4th of a barrel; the mass unit of the system is taken to be a firkin of water). The VMS operating system has a lot of tuning parameters that you can set with the SYSGEN utility, and one of these is TIMEPROMPTWAIT, the time the system will wait for an operator to set the correct date and time at boot if it realises that the current value is bogus. This time is specified in microfortnights! Multiple uses of the millifortnight (about 20 minutes) and nanofortnight have also been reported.
- microtechnique — the art of preparing something so that it can properly be examined using a microscope
- misanthropical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- mmx technology — Matrix Math eXtensions
- mnemotechnical — Of or pertaining to mnemotechny.
- model checking — (theory, algorithm, testing) To algorithmically check whether a program (the model) satisfies a specification. The model is usually expressed as a directed graph consisting of nodes (or vertices) and edges. A set of atomic propositions is associated with each node. The nodes represents states of a program, the edges represent possible executions which alters the state, while the atomic propositions represent the basic properties that hold at a point of execution. A specification language, usually some kind of temporal logic, is used to express properties. The problem can be expressed mathematically as: given a temporal logic formula p and a model M with initial state s, decide if M,s \models p.
- money changing — the business of exchanging one currency for another, with the deduction of a commission for the service.
- money-changing — the business or act of exchanging currency, usually of different countries, esp. at a set rate
- money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
- monochromatism — the quality of having one color: the monochromatism of Picasso's Blue Period.
- monolithically — of or relating to a monolith.
- monophonically — In a monophonic manner.
- monophysitical — Of or pertaining to monophysitism.
- monosaccharide — a carbohydrate that does not hydrolyze, as glucose, fructose, or ribose, occurring naturally or obtained by the hydrolysis of glycosides or polysaccharides.
- monotheletical — like a monothelete
- mont-st-michel — islet just off the NW coast of France, noted for its fortified abbey
- morphinomaniac — a person with an uncontrollable addiction to morphine
- morphophonemic — noting or pertaining to morphophonemics or morphophonemes.
- morphotonemics — the morphophonemics of tonal phenomena.
- mos technology — (company) A microprocessor design company started by some ex-Motorola designers, shortly after the Intel 8080 and Motorola 6800 appeared, in about 1975. MOS Technology introduced the 650x series, based on the Motorola 6800 design, though they were not exact clones for legal reasons. The design goal was a low-cost (smaler chip) design, realized by simplifying the decoder stage. There were no instructions with the value xxxxxx11, reducing the 1-of-4 decoder to a single NAND gate. Instructions with the value xxxxxx11 actually executed two instructions in paralell, some of them useful. The 6501 was pin-compatible with the 6800 for easier market penetration. The 650x-series had an on-chip clock oscillator while the 651x-series had none. The 6510 was used in the Commodore 64, released September 1981 and MOS made almost all the ICs for Commodore's pocket calculators. The PET was an idea of the of the 6500 developers. It was completly developed by MOS, but was manufactured and marketed by Commodore. By the time the it was ready for production (and Commodore had cancelled all orders) MOS had been taken over by Rockwell (Commodore's parent company). Just at this time the 6522 (VIA) was finished, but the data sheet for it was not and its developers had left MOS. For years, Rockwell didn't know in detail how the VIA worked.