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12-letter words containing h, e, m, i, c

  • hypoglycemic — an abnormally low level of glucose in the blood.
  • iatrochemist — a person who practises iatrochemistry
  • immethodical — not methodical; without method or system.
  • impeachments — Plural form of impeachment.
  • 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.
  • intrenchment — Archaic spelling of entrenchment.
  • lamp chimney — a glass tube that surrounds the wick in an oil lamp
  • light comedy — a play or film which deals with its subject matter in an amusing and lighthearted way
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • macroetching — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
  • mail-cheeked — (of certain fishes) having the cheeks crossed with a bony plate.
  • manna lichen — any of several crustose lichens of the genus Lecanora, especially L. esculenta, found in the African and Arabian deserts, used for food by humans and other animals.
  • match-winner — a player who wins a sports match for his or her team, for example by scoring a goal
  • mathematical — of, relating to, or of the nature of mathematics: mathematical truth.
  • matriarchate — a matriarchal system or community.
  • matriarchies — Plural form of matriarchy.
  • mechanically — having to do with machinery: a mechanical failure.
  • mechanicians — Plural form of mechanician.
  • mechanizable — Capable of being mechanized.
  • mechatronics — The synergistic combination of mechanical engineering, electronic engineering and software engineering for the study of automata from an engineering perspective and the control of advanced hybrid systems.
  • mechlin lace — a fine bobbin lace with raised cord, originally made in Mechlin.
  • medicine hat — a city in SE Alberta, in SW Canada.
  • megacephalic — macrocephalic.
  • megalecithal — having a large amount of yolk, as certain eggs or ova.
  • melancholiac — affected with melancholia.
  • melancholics — Plural form of melancholic.
  • melancholies — a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
  • melanochroic — Melanochroid
  • men-children — plural of man-child.
  • merchandised — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
  • merchandiser — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
  • merchandises — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
  • merchandized — Simple past tense and past participle of merchandize.
  • merchandizer — Alternative spelling of merchandiser.
  • mercy flight — an aircraft flight to bring a seriously ill or injured person to hospital from an isolated community
  • mesocephalic — having a head with a cephalic index between that of dolichocephaly and brachycephaly.
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