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13-letter words containing l, a, y, e

  • listenability — pleasant to listen to: soft, listenable music.
  • 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
  • literacy test — an examination to determine whether a person meets the literacy requirements for voting, serving in the armed forces, etc.; a test of one's ability to read and write.
  • little cayman — an island in the W Caribbean: smallest of the Cayman Islands, NE of Grand Cayman. 10 sq. mi. (26 sq. km).
  • livery stable — a stable where horses and vehicles are cared for or rented out for pay.
  • lonely hearts — of or for people seeking counseling or companionship to bring love or romance into their lives: a lonely-hearts column in the newspaper.
  • lonely-hearts — of or for people seeking counseling or companionship to bring love or romance into their lives: a lonely-hearts column in the newspaper.
  • lord's prayer — the, the prayer given by Jesus to His disciples, and beginning with the words Our Father. Matt. 6:9–13; Luke 11:2–4.
  • lymphadenitis — inflammation of a lymphatic gland.
  • lysergic acid — a crystalline solid, C 16 H 16 N 2 O 2 , obtained from ergot or synthesized: used in the synthesis of LSD.
  • 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.
  • macrencephaly — The presence of an abnormally large brain.
  • madder family — the large plant family Rubiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs having simple, opposite, or whorled leaves, usually four- or five-lobed flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, capsule, or nut, and including the gardenia, madder, partridgeberry, and shrubs and trees that are the source of coffee, ipecac, and quinine.
  • magdalena bay — a bay in NW Mexico, on the SW coast of Baja California. 17 miles (27 km) long; 12 miles (19 km) wide.
  • magisterially — In a magisterial manner; authoritatively.
  • magnificently — making a splendid appearance or show; of exceptional beauty, size, etc.: a magnificent cathedral; magnificent scenery.
  • major penalty — a penalty consisting of the removal of a player for five minutes from play, no substitute for the player being permitted.
  • majority rule — the principle that decisions supported by more than half the people in a group have effect upon all the people in that group
  • maldeployment — the inefficient use of resources or an instance of such
  • malted barley — barley that has been kiln-dried after it has germinated by soaking in water
  • manageability — that can be managed; governable; tractable; contrivable.
  • many-coloured — having many colours
  • marble quarry — a quarry where marble is extracted
  • marketability — readily salable.
  • martyrologies — Plural form of martyrology.
  • master policy — a single policy covering a group of people, typically employees of a company, issued to an employer.
  • matrilineally — In matrilineal fashion.
  • mealy-mouthed — avoiding the use of direct and plain language, as from timidity, excessive delicacy, or hypocrisy; inclined to mince words; insincere, devious, or compromising.
  • meaninglessly — In a meaningless manner; nonsensically.
  • measurability — capable of being measured.
  • medullary ray — (in the stems of woody plants) one of the vertical bands or plates of unspecialized tissue that radiate between the pith and the bark.
  • megalocephaly — Cephalometry, Craniometry. macrocephalic.
  • melrose abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey in Melrose in Scottish Borders: founded in 1136 and sacked by the English in 1385 and 1547: repaired in 1822 by Sir Walter Scott
  • melvin conway — (person)   An early proto-hacker who wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE and (probably) formulated Conway's Law.
  • mensurability — The quality of being mensurable.
  • meridionality — the quality or state of being on the meridian
  • merleau-ponty — Maurice, 1908–61, French phenomenological philosopher.
  • mesaticephaly — the state or condition of being mesaticephalic or mesocephalic
  • messianically — the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people.
  • meta-analysis — a research study that combines and analyzes statistics gathered from multiple independent studies
  • metabolically — of, relating to, or affected by metabolism.
  • metalloenzyme — (enzyme) Any enzyme that contains a metal atom which is essential for its biological activity.
  • metallography — the study of the structure of metals and alloys by means of microscopy.
  • metamerically — In a metameric manner.
  • metastability — An unstable but potentially long-lived state of a system; for example, a supersaturated solution or an excited atom.
  • methyl oleate — an oily, clear to amber, water-insoluble liquid, C 1 9 H 3 6 O 2 , used chiefly as an intermediate for detergents, wetting agents, and emulsifiers.
  • methylglyoxal — pyruvic aldehyde.
  • methylparaben — a fine, white, needlelike substance, C 8 H 8 O 3 , used chiefly as a preservative in foods and pharmaceuticals.
  • methylpropane — (organic compound) isobutane.
  • methylsulfate — a colorless or yellow, slightly water-soluble, poisonous liquid, (CH 3) 2 SO 2 , used chiefly in organic synthesis.
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