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12-letter words containing h, a, e, m

  • idea hamster — a person who is employed as a source of new ideas
  • immethodical — not methodical; without method or system.
  • impeachments — Plural form of impeachment.
  • imperishable — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
  • imperishably — In an imperishable manner.
  • in the frame — If someone is in the frame for something such as a job or position, they are being considered for it.
  • 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.
  • inhumanities — Plural form of inhumanity.
  • inthrallment — Obsolete spelling of enthrallment.
  • isothermally — occurring at constant temperature.
  • james harper — James, 1795–1869, and his brothers John, 1797–1875, (Joseph) Wesley, 1801–70, and Fletcher, 1806–77, U.S. printers and publishers.
  • james hutton — James, 1726–97, Scottish geologist: formulated uniformitarianism.
  • jumping hare — springhare.
  • kamehameha i — ("the Great") 1737?–1819, king of the Hawaiian Islands 1810–19.
  • katharometer — (science) A device used for analyzing gas mixtures by measuring their thermal conductivity.
  • klamath weed — the St.-John's-wort, Hypericum perforatum.
  • lambeth walk — a spirited ballroom dance popular, especially in England, in the late 1930s.
  • lamellaphone — Alt form lamellophone.
  • lamellophone — (musical instruments) Any of several musical instruments in which the sound is produced by plucking a series of thin lamellaa attached to a sounding board.
  • lamp chimney — a glass tube that surrounds the wick in an oil lamp
  • lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
  • lamprophyres — Plural form of lamprophyre.
  • languishment — the act or state of languishing.
  • law merchant — the principles and rules, drawn chiefly from custom, determining the rights and obligations of commercial transactions; commercial law.
  • league match — a match played between teams in a league (as opposed to an international game)
  • lemon squash — lemon soda; a soft drink of lemon juice and soda water.
  • leopard moth — a moth, Zeuzera pyrina, having white wings spotted with black and larvae that bore into the wood of various trees and shrubs.
  • like a charm — perfectly; successfully
  • 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.
  • longshoreman — a person employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
  • lymphadenoma — an enlarged lymph node.
  • machiavelian — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
  • machicolated — Having machicolations.
  • 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
  • machine shop — a workshop in which metal and other substances are cut, shaped, etc., by machine tools.
  • machine time — time spent using mechanical equipment
  • machine tool — a power-operated machine, as a lathe, used for general cutting and shaping of metal and other substances.
  • 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.
  • mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
  • macrocephaly — Cephalometry. being or having a head with a large cranial capacity.
  • macroetching — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
  • macroweather — Longer term average weather, covering period of length between that of weather and climate.
  • magnetograph — a recording magnetometer, used especially for recording variations in the earth's magnetic field.
  • magnotherapy — Any of several alternative medicine therapies using magnetism.
  • mail-cheeked — (of certain fishes) having the cheeks crossed with a bony plate.
  • make headway — forward movement; progress in a forward direction: The ship's headway was slowed by the storm.
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