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13-letter words containing h, y, a, c, i

  • inharmonicity — the quality of being inharmonic
  • intrathecally — In an intrathecal way; into the spinal canal.
  • kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
  • labyrinthical — Labyrinthine; like or relating to a labyrinth.
  • lethargically — of, relating to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish; apathetic.
  • literacy hour — (in England and Wales) a daily reading and writing lesson that was introduced into the national primary school curriculum in 1998 to raise standards of literacy
  • logarithmancy — Divination using logarithms.
  • lymphoblastic — (US, cytology, immunology) Of or pertaining to a lymphoblast.
  • lymphographic — of or relating to lymphography
  • machinability — The condition of being machinable.
  • machine cycle — (processor)   The four steps which the CPU carries out for each machine language instruction: fetch, decode, execute, and store. These steps are performed by the control unit, and may be fixed in the logic of the CPU or may be programmed as microcode which is itself usually fixed (in ROM) but may be (partially) modifiable (stored in RAM). The fetch cycle places the current program counter contents (the address of the next instruction to execute) on the address bus and reads in the word at that location into the instruction register (IR). In RISC CPUs instructions are usually a single word but in other architectures an instruction may be several words long, necessitating several fetches. The decode cycle uses the contents of the IR to determine which gates should be opened between the CPU's various functional units and busses and what operation the ALU(s) should perform (e.g. add, bitwise and). Each gate allows data to flow from one unit to another (e.g. from register 0 to ALU input 1) or enables data from one output onto a certain bus. In the simplest case ("horizontal encoding") each bit of the instruction register controls a single gate or several bits may control the ALU operation. This is rarely used because it requires long instruction words (such an architecture is sometimes called a very long instruction word architecture). Commonly, groups of bits from the IR are fed through decoders to control higher level aspects of the CPU's operation, e.g. source and destination registers, addressing mode and ALU operation. This is known as vertical encoding. One way RISC processors gain their advantage in speed is by having simple instruction decoding which can be performed quickly. The execute cycle occurs when the decoding logic has settled and entails the passing of values between the various function units and busses and the operation of the ALU. A simple instruction will require only a single execute cycle whereas a complex instruction (e.g. subroutine call or one using memory indirect addressing) may require three or four. Instructions in a RISC typically (but not invariably) take only a single cycle. The store cycle is when the result of the instruction is written to its destination, either a register or a memory location. This is really part of the execute cycle because some instructions may write to multiple destinations as part of their execution.
  • mesaticephaly — the state or condition of being mesaticephalic or mesocephalic
  • metaphoricity — The power of a metaphor.
  • metaphysician — a person who creates or develops metaphysical theories.
  • metaphysicist — a person who creates or develops metaphysical theories.
  • metaphysicize — to think, write, etc, metaphysically
  • michigan city — a port in NW Indiana, on Lake Michigan.
  • monarchically — In a monarchic or monarchical fashion.
  • morphemically — By means of, or in terms, of morphemes.
  • musicotherapy — the treatment of mental disorders with music
  • mythicization — to turn into, treat, or explain as a myth.
  • mythification — to create a myth about (a person, place, tradition, etc.); cause to become a myth.
  • nanochemistry — (chemistry) The synthesis, analysis and characterization of chemical compounds at the nanoscale.
  • narcohypnosis — the use of drugs to induce hypnosis
  • nithiocyamine — Amoscanate.
  • nonhaemolytic — relating to a transfusion reaction in which the red blood cells survive
  • nonhysterical — not hysterical or funny
  • nymphomaniacs — Plural form of nymphomaniac.
  • oklahoma city — a city in and the capital of Oklahoma, in the central part.
  • onychophagist — the practice of biting one's nails, especially when done habitually and as a symptom of emotional disturbance.
  • orchid family — the plant family Orchidaceae, characterized by terrestrial or epiphytic herbaceous plants having simple, parallel-veined, usually alternate leaves, complex and often large and showy flowers pollinated primarily by insects, and fruit in the form of a capsule containing numerous minute seeds, and including calypso, fringed orchis, lady's-slipper, pogonia, rattlesnake plantain, vanilla, as well as numerous tropical orchids such as those of the genera Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, and Vanda.
  • orthoepically — In terms of correct pronunciation.
  • oscillography — a device for recording the wave-forms of changing currents, voltages, or any other quantity that can be translated into electric energy, as sound waves.
  • parapsychosis — an abnormal psychosis
  • parasynthetic — the formation of a word by the addition of a derivational suffix to a phrase or compound, as of greathearted, which is great heart plus -ed.
  • party machine — the internal organization of a political party, which decides its policies and directs its activities
  • pathogenicity — the disease-producing capacity of a pathogen.
  • patriarchally — of or relating to a patriarch, the male head of a family, tribe, community, church, order, etc.: my father's conservative, patriarchal ways.
  • perilymphatic — the fluid between the bony and membranous labyrinths of the ear.
  • petrophysical — relating to the analysis of the constitution and characteristics of rocks
  • phenylic acid — phenol (def 1).
  • photodynamics — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
  • phreatophytic — of, possessing the properties of, or relating to a phreatophyte
  • physharmonica — a keyboard musical instrument fitted with free reeds, and which is an early form of harmonium
  • physical file — (file system)   A low-level view of the physical characteristics of a file, such as its location on a disk or its physical structure, for example, whether indexed or sequential.
  • physicalistic — of or relating to physicalism.
  • physicalities — the physical attributes of a person, especially when overdeveloped or overemphasized.
  • physicianship — the position, function, or office of a physician.
  • physiographic — the science of physical geography.
  • physiological — of or relating to physiology.
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