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12-letter words containing d, i, a, c

  • james dickey — James, 1923–97, U.S. poet and novelist.
  • judicatories — Plural form of judicatory.
  • kachina doll — a Hopi Indian doll carved from cottonwood root in representation of a kachina and given as a gift to a child or used as a household decoration.
  • kaleidoscope — an optical instrument in which bits of glass, held loosely at the end of a rotating tube, are shown in continually changing symmetrical forms by reflection in two or more mirrors set at angles to each other.
  • ketoacidosis — (pathology) A severe form of ketosis, most commonly seen in diabetics, in which so much ketone is produced that acidosis occurs.
  • ketoaciduria — (pathology) The presence of (excess) ketoacids in the urine.
  • ladder logic — (programming)   Source code formatted in two columns with conditions on the left that lead to outputs on the right: if (c1) s1 else if (c2) s2 else if (c3) s3 ... (2007-03-15)
  • landed price — the price when delivered
  • landing card — an identification card issued to a traveler for presentation to the immigration authorities.
  • landscapists — Plural form of landscapist.
  • lapidescence — a lapidescent quality or condition
  • lapidicolous — living under stones
  • latchkey kid — variant form of latchkey child
  • laxadaisical — Misspelling of lackadaisical.
  • leading case — a case that is regarded as having settled a particular point of law; a case that is used as guidance for legal decisions
  • library card — a card issued by a library to individuals or organizations entitling them or their representatives to borrow materials.
  • lime cordial — a drink made from sweetened lime juice and plain or carbonated water
  • line dancing — to participate in a line dance.
  • linseed cake — a cake or a mass made by expressing the oil from linseed, used chiefly as feed for cattle.
  • loading coil — an inductance coil used to improve the characteristics of a transmission line.
  • loco disease — locoism.
  • locus standi — the right of a party to appear and be heard before a court
  • logodaedalic — of or relating to plays on words and word tricks
  • longicaudate — having a long posterior or tail
  • macadamizing — Present participle of macadamize.
  • macclesfield — a market town in NW England, in Cheshire: former centre of the silk industry; pharmaceuticals, services. Pop: 50 688 (2001)
  • machairodont — having sabre-like teeth; sabre-toothed
  • 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 head — a metal peg-and-gear mechanism for tuning a string on an instrument such as a guitar
  • machine word — word (def 10).
  • machine-made — made or constructed by machine
  • 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.
  • madeira cake — a kind of rich sponge cake
  • magnetic dip — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
  • maid service — cleaner, cleaning business
  • mail-cheeked — (of certain fishes) having the cheeks crossed with a bony plate.
  • maledictions — Plural form of malediction.
  • malonic acid — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, dibasic acid, C 3 H 4 O 4 , easily decomposed by heat: used chiefly as an intermediate in the synthesis of barbiturates.
  • marsh orchid — any of various orchids of the genus Dactylorhiza, growing in damp places and having mostly purplish flowers
  • masculinized — Simple past tense and past participle of masculinize.
  • matricentred — Matricentric.
  • matriculated — Be enrolled at a college or university.
  • maximum card — a picture postcard to which a stamp can be affixed on the picture side, after which it can be cancelled by the appropriate postal service.
  • media center — a library, usually in school, that contains and encourages the use of audiovisual media and associated equipment as well as books, periodicals, and the like.
  • media circus — excessive news coverage
  • medical care — the professional attention of medical practitioners
  • medical unit — a group of doctors and nurses working as part of a larger organization, such as the armed forces or a prison
  • medical ward — a hospital ward in which patients are being treated by drugs rather than surgery
  • medicalizing — Present participle of medicalize.
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