13-letter words containing m, i, c, a
- intermuscular — of or relating to muscle or the muscles: muscular strain.
- interpandemic — occurring between two pandemics
- intramuscular — located or occurring within a muscle.
- irreclaimable — incapable of being reclaimed or rehabilitated: an irreclaimable swamp; irreclaimable offenders.
- irreclaimably — In an irreclaimable manner.
- islamic state — an Islamist terrorist organization, formed in the early 21st century, whose aim is to create a caliphate in the Middle East and N Africa
- islamofascism — an ideology promoted by some Islamists, the aims of which are to establish Islamic orthodoxy and to resist western secularism
- ismaticalness — the quality of following isms or fashionable doctrines
- isobarometric — isobaric
- isometrically — of, relating to, or having equality of measure.
- isosmotically — With the same osmotic pressure.
- judgmatically — in the manner of a judge
- jus canonicum — canon law.
- keratomycosis — Fungal infection of the cornea.
- kilomegacycle — a unit of frequency, equal to 10 9 cycles per second. Abbreviation: kMc.
- kinematically — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
- king mackerel — a game fish, Scomberomorus cavalla, found in the western Atlantic Ocean.
- kitchen match — a wooden friction match with a large head, used especially for igniting gas ovens or burners.
- kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
- lacedaemonian — of or relating to ancient Sparta; Spartan.
- lacrimal bone — a small, thin, membrane bone forming the front part of the inner wall of each orbit.
- lacrimal duct — either of two small ducts extending from the inner corner of each eyelid to the lacrimal sac.
- 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.
- laminectomies — Plural form of laminectomy.
- lapsus calami — a slip of the pen.
- latin america — the part of the American continents south of the United States in which Spanish, Portuguese, or French is officially spoken.
- leucaemogenic — leukemogenic
- leukaemogenic — relating to the development of leukaemia, or causing leukaemia
- liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
- lipogrammatic — of or relating to a lipogram
- little cayman — an island in the W Caribbean: smallest of the Cayman Islands, NE of Grand Cayman. 10 sq. mi. (26 sq. km).
- local maximum — maximum (def 4a).
- local minimum — minimum (def 5a).
- local-maximum — maximum (def 4a).
- logarithmancy — Divination using logarithms.
- logogrammatic — Of or pertaining to logograms; logographic.
- lucid dreamer — a person who has lucid dreams, either naturally or as a result of training
- lucifer match — friction match.
- lucretia mott — John Raleigh, 1865–1955, U.S. religious leader: Nobel Peace Prize 1946.
- lymphoblastic — (US, cytology, immunology) Of or pertaining to a lymphoblast.
- lymphographic — of or relating to lymphography
- macadamia nut — edible seed
- maccheroncini — thin pasta tubes made from wheat flour
- machiavellian — of, like, or befitting Machiavelli.
- machiavellism — 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.