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

  • informercials — Plural form of informercial.
  • inharmonicity — the quality of being inharmonic
  • inner sanctum — sanctum (def 2).
  • inter-company — a number of individuals assembled or associated together; group of people.
  • intercommunal — used or shared in common by everyone in a group: a communal jug of wine.
  • interlacement — to cross one another, typically passing alternately over and under, as if woven together; intertwine: Their hands interlaced.
  • intermetallic — (inorganic chemistry) of, relating to, acting between, or comprising two or more metals.
  • intermuscular — of or relating to muscle or the muscles: muscular strain.
  • interpandemic — occurring between two pandemics
  • intramuscular — located or occurring within a muscle.
  • ismaticalness — the quality of following isms or fashionable doctrines
  • john mccarthy — (person, artificial intelligence)   A pioneer of artificial intelligence (he coined ther term). He invented Lisp at MIT in the late 1950s and later worked at SAIL. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • judgment call — Sports. an observational ruling by a referee or umpire that is necessarily subjective because of the disputable nature of the play in question, and one that may be appealed but not protested, as opposed to a matter of official rule interpretation: Balks and close plays at first are of course judgment calls, and umpires are human.
  • jus canonicum — canon law.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • laryngectomee — someone who has had a laryngectomy
  • 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
  • little cayman — an island in the W Caribbean: smallest of the Cayman Islands, NE of Grand Cayman. 10 sq. mi. (26 sq. km).
  • local minimum — minimum (def 5a).
  • logarithmancy — Divination using logarithms.
  • low churchman — a person who advocates or follows Low Church practices.
  • lowerclassman — underclassman.
  • lowerclassmen — underclassman.
  • luncheon meat — any of various sausages or molded loaf meats, usually sliced and served cold, as in sandwiches or as garnishes for salads.
  • macadamia nut — edible seed
  • 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.
  • macías nguema — a former name of Bioko.
  • mackinaw boat — a flat-bottomed boat with sharp prow and square stern, propelled by oars and sometimes sails, formerly widely used on the upper Great Lakes.
  • mackinaw coat — a short double-breasted coat of a thick woolen material, commonly plaid.
  • macrencephaly — The presence of an abnormally large brain.
  • macro-mineral — any mineral required in the diet in relatively large amounts, especially calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, and zinc.
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