13-letter words containing l, c, h, a, y
- hockey player — sportsperson: plays hockey
- holy alliance — a league formed by the principal sovereigns of Europe in 1815 with the professed object of promoting Christian brotherhood but the practical object of repressing democratic revolutions and institutions. The English and Turkish rulers and Pope Pius VII did not join the league.
- holy mackerel — astonishment
- homiletically — In a homiletic fashion.
- honorifically — In a honorific manner.
- horologically — of or relating to horology.
- hubristically — in a presumptuous or arrogant manner
- human ecology — ecology (def 4).
- hydraulic ram — a device by which the energy of descending water is utilized to raise a part of the water to a height greater than that of the source.
- hydraulically — operated by, moved by, or employing water or other liquids in motion.
- hydraulicking — a type of mining that uses water to move rock
- hydrocephalic — of or relating to hydrocephalus.
- hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
- hydropathical — Alternative form of hydropathic.
- hydrostatical — Alternative form of hydrostatic.
- hygrometrical — Alternative form of hygrometric.
- hyperactively — In a hyperactive manner.
- hypercalcemia — an abnormally large amount of calcium in the blood.
- hypercritical — excessively or meticulously critical; overcritical.
- hyperdactylia — the presence of extra fingers or toes.
- hypergalactia — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
- hyperglycemia — an abnormally high level of glucose in the blood.
- hypermetrical — Hypermetric.
- hyperphysical — being above or beyond the physical; immaterial; supernatural.
- hyperthetical — Misspelling of hypothetical.
- hypervascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- hypobranchial — situated below the gills or beneath the branchial arches.
- hypocalcaemia — (medical) alternative spelling of hypocalcemia.
- hypocalcaemic — of or relating to hypocalcaemia
- hypoglycaemia — (medical) alternative spelling of hypoglycemia.
- hypoglycaemic — Alternative spelling of hypoglycemic.
- hypometabolic — Relating to hypometabolism.
- hyponymically — In a hyponymic way.
- hypotheticals — Plural form of hypothetical.
- hypsometrical — Of or pertaining to hypsometry.
- ichthyofaunal — relating to ichthyofauna
- intrathecally — In an intrathecal way; into the spinal canal.
- johnny collar — a small, pointed collar on a shirt, dress bodice, or the like, with close-fitting neckline.
- labyrinthical — Labyrinthine; like or relating to a labyrinth.
- laurel cherry — a tree, Prunus caroliniana, of the rose family, of the southeastern U.S., having small, milky-white flowers and black, shiny fruit.
- 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.
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- lymphoblastic — (US, cytology, immunology) Of or pertaining to a lymphoblast.
- lymphographic — of or relating to lymphography
- lymphosarcoma — a malignant tumor in lymphatic tissue, caused by the growth of abnormal lymphocytes.
- 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.
- macrencephaly — The presence of an abnormally large brain.