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

  • grudge match — You can call a contest between two people or groups a grudge match when they dislike each other.
  • haemodynamic — Alternative spelling of hemodynamic.
  • haemophiliac — A person with haemophilia.
  • haemorrhagic — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of hemorrhagic.
  • hamantaschen — a small triangular cake often made with yeast and filled with a mixture of poppy seeds and honey or with prune paste, prepared especially for the festival of Purim.
  • hammer price — the price offered as the winning bid in a public auction
  • hamming code — (algorithm)   Extra, redundant bits added to stored or transmitted data for the purposes of error detection and correction. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming, Hamming codes greatly improve the reliability of data, e.g. from distant space probes, where it is impractical, because of the long transmission delay, to correct errors by requesting retransmission.
  • happy camper — Slang. a person who is cheerful and satisfied: There were no happy campers after the company was reorganized.
  • have company — If you have company, you have a visitor or friend with you.
  • hematochezia — the passage of bloody stools.
  • hematocolpos — (medicine) A medical condition in which the vagina fills with menstrual blood, often caused by the combination of menstruation with an imperforate hymen.
  • hemerocallis — the genus comprising the day lilies.
  • hemichordate — belonging or pertaining to the chordates of the phylum Hemichordata, comprising small, widely distributed, marine animals, as the acorn worms.
  • hemodynamics — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
  • hemophiliacs — Plural form of hemophiliac.
  • hermetically — so as to be airtight: hermetically sealed.
  • heroic drama — Restoration tragedy, especially that popular in England c1660–1700, using highly rhetorical language and written in heroic couplets.
  • heroicomical — blending heroic and comic elements: a heroicomic poem.
  • hibernaculum — a protective case or covering, especially for winter, as of an animal or a plant bud.
  • hire company — a company that hires things out to 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.
  • home teacher — private tutor
  • homoeopathic — Alternative spelling of homeopathic.
  • homolecithal — having a fairly uniform distribution of yolk, as certain eggs or ova having relatively little yolk.
  • horometrical — Relating to horometry.
  • huffman code — Huffman coding
  • human comedy — French La Comédie Humaine. a collected edition of tales and novels in 17 volumes (1842–48) by Honoré de Balzac.
  • hunger march — a procession of protest or demonstration by the unemployed
  • 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.
  • hypersarcoma — a growth of proud or fungous flesh
  • 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.
  • iatrochemist — a person who practises iatrochemistry
  • 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.
  • lamp chimney — a glass tube that surrounds the wick in an oil lamp
  • law merchant — the principles and rules, drawn chiefly from custom, determining the rights and obligations of commercial transactions; commercial law.
  • league match — a match played between teams in a league (as opposed to an international game)
  • 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.
  • machiavelian — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
  • machicolated — Having machicolations.
  • 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
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