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13-letter words containing i, m, n, e, c, y

  • gray eminence — a person who wields unofficial power, especially through another person and often surreptitiously or privately.
  • gynaecomastia — abnormal overdevelopment of the breasts in a man
  • gynomonoecism — the condition of having female flowers and also flowers that have a pistil and stamen on the same plant
  • haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood
  • hypermagnetic — (physics) Extremely magnetic.
  • hyperromantic — extremely or excessively romantic
  • ichneumon fly — any of numerous wasplike insects of the family Ichneumonidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars and immature stages of other insects.
  • iconic memory — the temporary persistence of visual impressions after the stimulus has been removed
  • impecuniosity — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
  • impecuniously — In an impecunious manner.
  • incompetently — not competent; lacking qualification or ability; incapable: an incompetent candidate.
  • incrementally — increasing or adding on, especially in a regular series: small, incremental tax hikes.
  • indeterminacy — the condition or quality of being indeterminate; indetermination.
  • inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
  • inter-company — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
  • intermittency — stopping or ceasing for a time; alternately ceasing and beginning again: an intermittent pain.
  • kinematically — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
  • little cayman — an island in the W Caribbean: smallest of the Cayman Islands, NE of Grand Cayman. 10 sq. mi. (26 sq. km).
  • 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.
  • magnificently — making a splendid appearance or show; of exceptional beauty, size, etc.: a magnificent cathedral; magnificent scenery.
  • melvin conway — (person)   An early proto-hacker who wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE and (probably) formulated Conway's Law.
  • mercy killing — euthanasia (def 1).
  • messianically — the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people.
  • metaphysician — a person who creates or develops metaphysical theories.
  • metonic cycle — a cycle of 235 synodic months, very nearly equal to 19 years, after which the new moon occurs on the same day of the year as at the beginning of the cycle with perhaps a shift of one day, depending on the number of leap years in the cycle.
  • metonymically — In a metonymic fashion; using metonymy.
  • mexican poppy — any tropical American poppy of the genus Argemone, especially A. mexicana (Mexican poppy) having prickly pods and leaves and yellow or white, poppylike flowers.
  • microanalyses — Plural form of microanalysis.
  • microaneurysm — An extremely small aneurysm.
  • micropayments — Plural form of micropayment.
  • mixed economy — an economy in which there are elements of both public and private enterprise.
  • monkey orchid — a European orchid, Orchis simia, rare in Britain, having a short dense flower spike that opens from the top downwards. The flowers are white streaked with pink or violet and have five spurs thought to resemble a monkey's arms, legs, and tail
  • monkey tricks — mischievous behaviour or acts, such as practical jokes
  • monogenically — In a monogenic manner.
  • monoglyceride — an ester obtained from glycerol by the esterification of one hydroxyl group with a fatty acid.
  • monogynoecial — (of a fruit) developing from a single pistil.
  • monosymmetric — zygomorphic.
  • multicurrency — Involving more than one currency.
  • multicylinder — having more than one cylinder, as an internal-combustion or steam engine.
  • mutagenically — in a mutagenic manner
  • nanochemistry — (chemistry) The synthesis, analysis and characterization of chemical compounds at the nanoscale.
  • nice-nellyism — excessive modesty; prudishness.
  • nincompoopery — a fool or simpleton.
  • nithiocyamine — Amoscanate.
  • nonhaemolytic — relating to a transfusion reaction in which the red blood cells survive
  • nonsystematic — Not systematic.
  • normoglycemic — (medicine) Having the normal amount of glucose in the blood.
  • party machine — the internal organization of a political party, which decides its policies and directs its activities
  • plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
  • pneumatolytic — resulting from pneumatolysis
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