12-letter words containing h, a, n, c, e
- hunger march — a procession of protest or demonstration by the unemployed
- hunting case — a watchcase with a hinged cover to protect the crystal.
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
- hygienically — conducive to good health; healthful; sanitary.
- hyperdynamic — (physiology) Describing an increase in both blood pressure and pulse pressure.
- hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
- icosahedrons — Plural form of icosahedron.
- impeachments — Plural form of impeachment.
- in character — the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.
- in charge of — having responsibility for
- in search of — looking for, seeking
- in that case — then
- in the black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- in the cards — a usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, thin pasteboard, or plastic for various uses, as to write information on or printed as a means of identifying the holder: a 3″ × 5″ file card; a membership card.
- in the chair — chairing a debate or meeting
- in the clear — free from darkness, obscurity, or cloudiness; light: a clear day.
- incharitable — Obsolete form of uncharitable.
- inchoateness — The quality of being inchoate.
- inchoatively — in an inchoative or rudimentary fashion; initially
- 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.
- inheritances — Plural form of inheritance.
- inter-branch — a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
- interchanged — Simple past tense and past participle of interchange.
- interchanger — a person or thing that interchanges
- interchanges — Plural form of interchange.
- interchannel — occurring or existing between two or more channels
- interchapter — a short chapter in a book that occurs between two major chapters
- intrahepatic — (anatomy) Within the liver.
- ion exchange — the process of reciprocal transfer of ions between a solution and a resin or other suitable solid.
- jackson hole — a valley in NW Wyoming, near the Teton Range: wildlife preserve.
- kanchenjunga — a mountain in S Asia, between NE India and Nepal, in the E Himalayas: third highest in the world. 28,169 feet (8586 meters).
- kinaesthetic — Alternative form of kinesthetic.
- kinesipathic — of or relating to kinesipathy
- kitchen salt — coarse salt that is used in cooking but not at the table
- kitchen soap — heavy-duty soap intended for use in the kitchen
- kitchenwares — Plural form of kitchenware.
- knuckleheads — Plural form of knucklehead.
- laguna beach — a town in S California.
- lamp chimney — a glass tube that surrounds the wick in an oil lamp
- latch needle — a part of a knitting machine consisting of a thin shaft with a hook on one end and a pivoting latch that closes over the hook so that yarn can be drawn through the developing knitting to make a stitch.
- law merchant — the principles and rules, drawn chiefly from custom, determining the rights and obligations of commercial transactions; commercial law.
- leathernecks — Plural form of leatherneck.
- lecithinases — Plural form of lecithinase.
- 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.
- loose change — money in the form of coins suitable for small expenditures
- lounge chair — a chair designed for lounging, as an easy chair, chaise longue, or recliner.
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- 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