13-letter words containing m, y, c, e
- hexadactylism — Sexdactyly.
- holy mackerel — astonishment
- homiletically — In a homiletic fashion.
- homopolymeric — relating to or made of homopolymers
- honey stomach — the crop of an ant, bee, or other hymenopterous insect, serving as a reservoir for honeydew and nectar, especially the enlarged crop of a honeybee in which nectar is acted on by enzymes to form honey.
- hormic theory — a theory that holds all behavior to be purposive, whether conscious or unconscious.
- human ecology — ecology (def 4).
- hygrometrical — Alternative form of hygrometric.
- hypercalcemia — an abnormally large amount of calcium in the blood.
- hyperglycemia — an abnormally high level of glucose in the blood.
- hyperglycemic — an abnormally high level of glucose in the blood.
- hypermagnetic — (physics) Extremely magnetic.
- hypermetrical — Hypermetric.
- hypermetropic — Exhibiting or relating to hypermetropia.
- hyperromantic — extremely or excessively romantic
- hyperuricemia — an excess of uric acid in the blood, often producing gout.
- hypocalcaemia — (medical) alternative spelling of hypocalcemia.
- hypocalcaemic — of or relating to hypocalcaemia
- hypoglycaemia — (medical) alternative spelling of hypoglycemia.
- hypoglycaemic — Alternative spelling of hypoglycemic.
- hypolipidemic — That reduces the concentration of lipid in blood serum.
- hypometabolic — Relating to hypometabolism.
- hypsometrical — Of or pertaining to hypsometry.
- hyracotherium — eohippus.
- ichneumon fly — any of numerous wasplike insects of the family Ichneumonidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars and immature stages of other insects.
- iconic memory — the temporary persistence of visual impressions after the stimulus has been removed
- ileocolostomy — the surgical formation of an artificial opening between the ileum and the colon.
- impeccability — faultless; flawless; irreproachable: impeccable manners.
- impecuniosity — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
- impecuniously — In an impecunious manner.
- imperceptibly — very slight, gradual, or subtle: the imperceptible slope of the road.
- implicatively — In an implicative way.
- incompetently — not competent; lacking qualification or ability; incapable: an incompetent candidate.
- incrementally — increasing or adding on, especially in a regular series: small, incremental tax hikes.
- indeterminacy — the condition or quality of being indeterminate; indetermination.
- inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
- inter-company — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
- intermittency — stopping or ceasing for a time; alternately ceasing and beginning again: an intermittent pain.
- irreclaimably — In an irreclaimable manner.
- isometrically — of, relating to, or having equality of measure.
- 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.
- laryngectomee — someone who has had a laryngectomy
- legacy system — (jargon) A computer system or application program which continues to be used because of the cost of replacing or redesigning it and often despite its poor competitiveness and compatibility with modern equivalents. The implication is that the system is large, monolithic and difficult to modify. If legacy software only runs on antiquated hardware the cost of maintaining this may eventually outweigh the cost of replacing both the software and hardware unless some form of emulation or backward compatibility allows the software to run on new hardware.
- limbic system — a ring of interconnected structures in the midline of the brain around the hypothalamus, involved with emotion and memory and with homeostatic regulatory systems.
- little cayman — an island in the W Caribbean: smallest of the Cayman Islands, NE of Grand Cayman. 10 sq. mi. (26 sq. km).
- lymphoid cell — a cell in the lymph glands that produces leukocytes.
- 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.