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

  • judgementally — Alternative form of judgmentally.
  • justin martyr — Saint, a.d. c100–163? early church historian and philosopher.
  • kim young sam — born 1927, president of South Korea 1993–98.
  • kinematically — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
  • kingsley amis — Kingsley, 1922–95, English novelist.
  • lady's mantle — any of various rosaceous plants of the N temperate genus Alchemilla, having small green flowers
  • laryngectomee — someone who has had a laryngectomy
  • laryngotomies — Plural form of laryngotomy.
  • laundry-woman — laundress.
  • levy en masse — the conscription of the civilian population in large numbers in the face of impending invasion
  • linden family — the plant family Tiliaceae, characterized by deciduous trees or shrubs having simple, usually alternate leaves, fibrous bark, fragrant flowers, and dry, woody fruit, and including the basswood, jute, and linden.
  • little cayman — an island in the W Caribbean: smallest of the Cayman Islands, NE of Grand Cayman. 10 sq. mi. (26 sq. km).
  • logarithmancy — Divination using logarithms.
  • lymphadenitis — inflammation of a lymphatic gland.
  • lymphangiomas — Plural form of lymphangioma.
  • 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.
  • macrencephaly — The presence of an abnormally large brain.
  • macrodynamics — Large-scale dynamics.
  • made of money — very rich
  • magdalena bay — a bay in NW Mexico, on the SW coast of Baja California. 17 miles (27 km) long; 12 miles (19 km) wide.
  • magnanimously — In a magnanimous manner; with greatness of mind.
  • magnificently — making a splendid appearance or show; of exceptional beauty, size, etc.: a magnificent cathedral; magnificent scenery.
  • maiden voyage — the first voyage of a ship after its acceptance by the owners from the builders.
  • major penalty — a penalty consisting of the removal of a player for five minutes from play, no substitute for the player being permitted.
  • maldeployment — the inefficient use of resources or an instance of such
  • malonyl group — the bivalent group C 3 H 2 O 2 , derived from malonic acid.
  • mammary gland — any of the compound accessory reproductive organs of female mammals that occur in pairs on the chest or ventral surface and contain milk-producing lobes with ducts that empty into an external nipple, becoming functional when young are born and secreting milk for the duration of suckling.
  • manageability — that can be managed; governable; tractable; contrivable.
  • mango chutney — chutney which contains or is made from the fruit mango
  • many-coloured — having many colours
  • martagon lily — Turk's-cap lily.
  • martini-henry — a breech-loaded .45 caliber rifle adopted in 1871 as the standard British service weapon, using a center-fire metallic cartridge filled with black powder.
  • martyrization — The act or process of martyrizing.
  • maternity pay — the pay a woman receives from her work during her absence immediately before and after childbirth
  • matrilineally — In matrilineal fashion.
  • matrimonially — In a matrimonial way.
  • meaninglessly — In a meaningless manner; nonsensically.
  • melvin conway — (person)   An early proto-hacker who wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE and (probably) formulated Conway's Law.
  • mend o's ways — If someone who has been behaving badly mends their ways, they begin to behave well.
  • mensurability — The quality of being mensurable.
  • merchant navy — commercial ships
  • meridionality — the quality or state of being on the meridian
  • merleau-ponty — Maurice, 1908–61, French phenomenological philosopher.
  • merry dancers — the aurora borealis
  • messianically — the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people.
  • meta-analysis — a research study that combines and analyzes statistics gathered from multiple independent studies
  • metalloenzyme — (enzyme) Any enzyme that contains a metal atom which is essential for its biological activity.
  • metaphysician — a person who creates or develops metaphysical theories.
  • methylparaben — a fine, white, needlelike substance, C 8 H 8 O 3 , used chiefly as a preservative in foods and pharmaceuticals.
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