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13-letter words containing m, a, n, i, c, h

  • cinematheques — Plural form of cinematheque.
  • cinematograph — a combined camera, printer, and projector
  • come in handy — If something comes in handy, it is useful in a particular situation.
  • commandership — a person who commands.
  • companionhood — companionship
  • companionship — Companionship is having someone you know and like with you, rather than being on your own.
  • craftsmanship — Craftsmanship is the skill that someone uses when they make beautiful things with their hands.
  • decamethonium — a drug that is used to relax or loosen the muscles
  • demochristian — a member or supporter of a Christian democratic party or movement
  • dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
  • endolymphatic — (anatomy) Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph.
  • fencing match — a match between fencers
  • fishing smack — any of various fore-and-aft-rigged fishing vessels of rather large size, often containing a well to keep the catch alive.
  • franchisement — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • fruit machine — gambling: slot machine
  • game-changing — having the potential to change significantly the outcome of something
  • green machine — A computer or peripheral device that has been designed and built to military specifications for field equipment (that is, to withstand mechanical shock, extremes of temperature and humidity, and so forth). Comes from the olive-drab "uniform" paint used for military equipment.
  • haemodynamics — a branch of physiology that deals with the circulation of the blood
  • harmonic mean — the mean obtained by taking the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of a set of nonzero numbers.
  • harmonic tone — a tone produced by suppressing the fundamental tone and bringing into prominence one of its overtones.
  • hate campaign — A hate campaign is a series of actions which are intended to harm or upset someone, or to make other people have a low opinion of them.
  • hermeneutical — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
  • histaminergic — releasing histamine
  • homogenetical — of, involving or relating to homogeny
  • human capital — the collective skills, knowledge, or other intangible assets of individuals that can be used to create economic value for the individuals, their employers, or their community: Education is an investment in human capital that pays off in terms of higher productivity.
  • human cloning — the act of producing a human as a clone
  • hydrodynamics — the branch of fluid dynamics that deals with liquids, including hydrostatics and hydrokinetics.
  • hypermagnetic — (physics) Extremely magnetic.
  • hyperromantic — extremely or excessively romantic
  • hyponymically — In a hyponymic way.
  • iceman cometh — a play (1946) by Eugene O'Neill.
  • impact wrench — an electric or pneumatic power wrench with interchangeable toolhead attachments, used for installing and removing nuts, bolts, and screws.
  • inharmonicity — the quality of being inharmonic
  • kitchen match — a wooden friction match with a large head, used especially for igniting gas ovens or burners.
  • lake michigan — a state in the N central United States. 58,216 sq. mi. (150,780 sq. km). Capital: Lansing. Abbreviation: MI (for use with zip code), Mich.
  • lamellibranch — bivalve.
  • logarithmancy — Divination using logarithms.
  • maccheroncini — thin pasta tubes made from wheat flour
  • machiavellian — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
  • machicolation — an opening in the floor between the corbels of a projecting gallery or parapet, as on a wall or in the vault of a passage, through which missiles, molten lead, etc., might be cast upon an enemy beneath.
  • machilipatnam — a city in E Andhra Pradesh state, in S India, on the Bay of Bengal: first British trading settlement 1611.
  • 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.
  • machine error — an error caused by a fault or defect in a machine rather than by human error
  • machine screw — a threaded fastener, either used with a nut or driven into a tapped hole, usually having a diameter of about 1/4 inch (6.4 mm) or less and a slotted head for tightening by a screwdriver.
  • machine-steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
  • machinegunned — Simple past tense and past participle of machinegun.
  • magnetic head — head (def 33).
  • maiden speech — the first speech made in a legislature by a newly elected member.
  • marching band — musical group that parades
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