12-letter words containing e, c, o, n, m
- 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.
- homesickness — sad or depressed from a longing for home or family while away from them for a long time.
- homocysteine — An amino acid that occurs in the body as an intermediate in the metabolism of methionine and cysteine.
- honeycombing — Present participle of honeycomb.
- 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.
- imperception — lack of perception.
- imperfection — an imperfect detail; flaw: a law full of imperfections.
- importancies — Plural form of importancy.
- imprecations — Plural form of imprecation.
- improvidence — not provident; lacking foresight; incautious; unwary.
- in committee — under consideration by a committee, as a resolution or bill
- inclinometer — Aeronautics. an instrument for measuring the angle an aircraft makes with the horizontal.
- income group — a group in a given population having incomes within a certain range
- 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.
- incompetence — the quality or condition of being incompetent; lack of ability.
- incompetency — the quality or condition of being incompetent; lack of ability.
- incompetents — Plural form of incompetent.
- incompletely — not complete; lacking some part.
- incompletion — the state of being incomplete; incompleteness.
- incompliance — not compliant; unyielding.
- incomputable — incapable of being computed; incalculable.
- inconsumable — not consumable; incapable of being consumed.
- incumbent on — holding an indicated position, role, office, etc., currently: the incumbent officers of the club.
- 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.
- insomnolence — sleeplessness; insomnia: a troubled week of insomnolence.
- intercommune — to commune or converse together
- 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
- intermitotic — occurring between mitoses
- isoenzymatic — isoenzymic
- keep company — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
- kingdom come — the next world; the hereafter; heaven.
- kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
- laryngectomy — excision of part or all of the larynx.
- lemon cheese — a soft paste made from lemons, sugar, eggs, and butter, used as a spread or filling
- locum tenens — a temporary substitute, especially for a doctor or member of the clergy.
- logocentrism — a method of literary analysis in which words and language are regarded as a fundamental expression of external reality, excluding nonlinguistic factors such as historical context.
- lounge music — a type of popular music often including jazz, swing, and pop elements and played in cocktail lounges, piano bars, etc.
- lower-income — earning less than average
- 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.