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14-letter words containing c, y, m, e, n

  • megatechnology — high technology that is developing rapidly
  • meniscocytosis — sickle cell anemia.
  • mental cruelty — behaviour that causes distress to another person but that does not involve physical assault
  • metaphysicians — Plural form of metaphysician.
  • metronomically — a mechanical or electrical instrument that makes repeated clicking sounds at an adjustable pace, used for marking rhythm, especially in practicing music.
  • microaneurysms — Plural form of microaneurysm.
  • mmx technology — Matrix Math eXtensions
  • modelling clay — mouldable substance fixed in a kiln
  • 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
  • monocarpellary — consisting of a single carpel.
  • monocotyledons — Plural form of monocotyledon.
  • monoglycerides — Plural form of monoglyceride.
  • 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.
  • mother country — the country of one's birth or ancestry.
  • mount mckinley — a mountain in S central Alaska: highest peak in North America, 20,310 feet (6190 meters).
  • multiethnicity — The state of being multiethnic.
  • multifrequency — Of or pertaining to multiple frequencies.
  • myelencephalon — the posterior section of the hindbrain comprising the medulla oblongata.
  • neurochemistry — the branch of science that is concerned with the chemistry of the nervous system.
  • nondocumentary — a film or television programme not reflecting real life
  • nonsymmetrical — Not symmetrical.
  • normoglycaemia — the condition of having a normal blood sugar level
  • normoglycaemic — Alt form normoglycemic.
  • nuclear family — a social unit composed of two parents and one or more children.
  • numeric keypad — a separate section on some computer keyboards, grouping together numeric keys and those for mathematical or other special functions in an arrangement like that of a calculator.
  • omega-c baryon — a neutral baryon having a mass 5292 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 6.4 X 10 -14 seconds.
  • pancreatectomy — excision of part or all of the pancreas.
  • parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • parent company — a corporation or other business enterprise that owns controlling interests in one or more subsidiary companies (distinguished from holding company).
  • pentadactylism — the state of having five digits on each limb
  • petty criminal — someone who commits petty crime or a petty crime
  • phonochemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with the chemical effects of sound and ultrasonic waves
  • plumbosolvency — the ability to dissolve lead
  • pneumatic tyre — a rubber tyre filled with air under pressure, used esp on motor vehicles
  • pneumodynamics — Physics. pneumatics.
  • primary accent — the principal or strongest stress of a word.
  • psychic income — the personal or subjective benefits, rewards, or satisfactions derived from a job or undertaking as separate from its objective or financial ones.
  • pumice country — volcanic farmland in the North Island
  • pyrenomycetous — of or relating to the former class Pyrenomycetes of fungi
  • quoted company — a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange
  • recommendatory — serving to recommend; recommending.
  • recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
  • record company — business: sells recorded music
  • rhythm section — band instruments, as drums or bass, that supply rhythm rather than harmony or melody.
  • sacramentality — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • scratch monkey — (humour)   As in "Before testing or reconfiguring, always mount a scratch monkey", a proverb used to advise caution when dealing with irreplaceable data or devices. Used to refer to any scratch volume hooked to a computer during any risky operation as a replacement for some precious resource or data that might otherwise get trashed. This term preserves the memory of Mabel, the Swimming Wonder Monkey, star of a biological research program at the University of Toronto. Mabel was not (so the legend goes) your ordinary monkey; the university had spent years teaching her how to swim, breathing through a regulator, in order to study the effects of different gas mixtures on her physiology. Mabel suffered an untimely demise one day when a DEC engineer troubleshooting a crash on the program's VAX inadvertently interfered with some custom hardware that was wired to Mabel. It is reported that, after calming down an understandably irate customer sufficiently to ascertain the facts of the matter, a DEC troubleshooter called up the field circus manager responsible and asked him sweetly, "Can you swim?" Not all the consequences to humans were so amusing; the sysop of the machine in question was nearly thrown in jail at the behest of certain clueless droids at the local "humane" society. The moral is clear: When in doubt, always mount a scratch monkey. A corespondent adds: The details you give are somewhat consistent with the version I recall from the Digital "War Stories" notesfile, but the name "Mabel" and the swimming bit were not mentioned, IIRC. Also, there's a very detailed account that claims that three monkies died in the incident, not just one. I believe Eric Postpischil wrote the original story at DEC, so his coming back with a different version leads me to wonder whether there ever was a real Scratch Monkey incident.
  • secondary beam — a beam of particles of one kind selected from the group of particles produced when a beam of particles from an accelerator (primary beam) strikes a target.
  • self-mockingly — in a self-mocking manner
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