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

  • holiday camp — In Britain, a holiday camp is a place which provides holiday accommodation and entertainment for large numbers of people.
  • home machine — 1. Synonym home box. 2. The machine that receives your e-mail. These senses might be distinct, for example, for a hacker who owns one computer at home, but reads e-mail at work.
  • homoeopathic — Alternative spelling of homeopathic.
  • homolecithal — having a fairly uniform distribution of yolk, as certain eggs or ova having relatively little yolk.
  • homoromantic — Romantically attracted to those of the same gender.
  • horometrical — Relating to horometry.
  • humification — the formation of humus.
  • hydrodynamic — pertaining to forces in or motions of liquids.
  • hyperdynamic — (physiology) Describing an increase in both blood pressure and pulse pressure.
  • hyperkalemic — Having a high percentage of potassium in one's blood.
  • hypermagical — produced by or as if by magic: The change in the appearance of the room was magical.
  • hypermediacy — Hypermedia literacy; the state of being conversant with hypermedia technologies.
  • hypersomniac — a tendency to sleep excessively.
  • hypocalcemia — an abnormally small amount of calcium in the blood.
  • hypocalcemic — Relating to, or exhibiting, hypocalcemia.
  • hypoglycemia — an abnormally low level of glucose in the blood.
  • hypothalamic — Of or pertaining to the hypothalamus.
  • iatrochemist — a person who practises iatrochemistry
  • iconomachist — a person who campaigns against the use of icons in religious worship
  • 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.
  • inharmonical — Alternative form of inharmonic.
  • isochromatic — Optics. having the same color or tint.
  • itching palm — a grasping nature; avarice
  • kurchatovium — (chemistry) A rejected name for rutherfordium.
  • lachrymation — the secretion of tears, especially in abnormal abundance.
  • lachrymiform — Shaped like a teardrop.
  • lachrymosity — suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
  • lamp chimney — a glass tube that surrounds the wick in an oil lamp
  • lamprophyric — belonging or relating to a lamprophyre
  • 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.
  • machairodont — having sabre-like teeth; sabre-toothed
  • machiavelian — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
  • machicolated — Having machicolations.
  • machinations — an act or instance of machinating.
  • 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.
  • machtpolitik — power politics
  • machu picchu — the site of an ancient Incan and pre-Incan city, about 7000 feet (2130 meters) above sea level in the Andes, in S central Peru.
  • macintosh ii — (computer)   (Mac II) A version of Apple's Macintosh personal computer, released in March 1987, using the Motorola 68020 CPU, which runs at a higher clock rate than the Motorola 68000 used in the original Mac. The Mac II has a full 32-bit data bus instead of a 16-bit bus. Mac II models have built-in 40 to 160 megabyte hard disks and can take up to eight megabytes of RAM (and more as denser memory chips arive). The Mac II was the first Macintosh to provide a colour graphics option, with up to 256 colours on screen at a 640x480 resolution. Mac II models are designed for expandability with three (Macintosh IIcx) or six (II & IIx) built-in NuBus expansion slots for additional peripheral and coprocessor boards.
  • mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
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