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12-letter words containing e, n, m

  • leading mark — either of two conspicuous objects regarded as points on a line (leading line) upon which a vessel can sail a safe course.
  • lean mixture — A lean mixture is a fuel/air mixture containing a relatively low proportion of fuel.
  • legitimating — Present participle of legitimate.
  • legitimation — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
  • legitimising — Present participle of legitimise.
  • legitimizing — Present participle of legitimize.
  • lemminkainen — (in the Kalevala) a young, jovial hero who has many adventures in which he is sometimes helped by his mother.
  • lemnian seal — the earth of the Greek island of Lemnos, which is famous for its medicinal properties
  • lemon butter — a spread made of butter flavored with lemon
  • lemon cheese — a soft paste made from lemons, sugar, eggs, and butter, used as a spread or filling
  • lemon squash — lemon soda; a soft drink of lemon juice and soda water.
  • lemon yellow — a clear, yellowish-green color.
  • leontopodium — any plant of the Eurasian alpine genus Leontopodium, esp L. alpinum
  • lepidomelane — (mineralogy) A black iron-potash mica, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales.
  • light-minded — having or showing a lack of serious purpose, attitude, etc.; frivolous; trifling: to be in a light-minded mood.
  • lignum vitae — either of two tropical American trees, Guaiacum officinale or G. sanctum, of the caltrop family, having very hard, heavy wood.
  • line manager — immediate supervisor
  • line segment — segment (def 2b).
  • line trimmer — a gardening device used to trim the edges of lawns by means of a rapidly rotating motor-driven flexible wire or cord.
  • linear motor — an electric motor in which a movable part moves in a straight line, with power being supplied by a varying magnetic field set up by a fixed part of the system, as a metal rail on the ground.
  • linked rhyme — a rhyme in which the end of one line together with the first sound of the next line forms a rhyme with the end of another line.
  • linseed meal — ground linseed cake.
  • lisp machine — 1.   (architecture)   Any machine (whether notional or actual) whose instruction set is Lisp. 2.   (hardware, operating system)   A line of workstations made by Symbolics, Inc. from the mid-1970s (having grown out of the MIT AI Lab) to late 1980s. All system code for Symbolics Lisp Machines was written in Lisp Machine Lisp. Symbolics Lisp Machines were also notable for having had space-cadet keyboards.
  • little minch — a sea channel between Isle of Skye and the central Outer Hebrides Islands, Scotland, connecting the Minch, or North Minch (N), with the Sea of the Hebrides. 14 to 20 miles (23 to 32 km) wide.
  • little women — a novel (1868) by Louisa May Alcott.
  • 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.
  • lonesomeness — depressed or sad because of the lack of friends, companionship, etc.; lonely: to feel lonesome.
  • long measure — Also called long meter. Prosody. a four-line stanza in iambic tetrameter, often used in hymns, with the second and fourth lines rhyming and sometimes the first and third lines rhyming as well.
  • long-stemmed — having a long stem or stems: long-stemmed roses.
  • long-termism — the tendency to focus attention on long-term gains
  • longshoreman — a person employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
  • longshoremen — Plural form of longshoreman.
  • longsomeness — tiresome lengthiness
  • lose no time — act without delay
  • lounge music — a type of popular music often including jazz, swing, and pop elements and played in cocktail lounges, piano bars, etc.
  • lower merion — a town in SE Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.
  • lower-income — earning less than average
  • lowsing time — the time at which work or school finishes; knocking-off time
  • lukewarmness — The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
  • luminescence — the emission of light not caused by incandescence and occurring at a temperature below that of incandescent bodies.
  • luminiferous — producing light: the luminiferous properties of a gas.
  • luminosities — Plural form of luminosity.
  • luminousness — The condition of being luminous.
  • lunar module — the portion of the Apollo spacecraft in which two astronauts landed on the moon's surface and then returned to the orbiting command module. Abbreviation: LM.
  • lymphadenoma — an enlarged lymph node.
  • machiavelian — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
  • 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 head — a metal peg-and-gear mechanism for tuning a string on an instrument such as a guitar
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