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12-letter words containing n, i, a, m, e

  • jameson raid — an expedition into the Transvaal in 1895 led by Sir Leander Starr Jameson (1853–1917) in an unsuccessful attempt to topple its Boer regime
  • jasmine rice — an aromatic, flavorful long-grain rice of Asia, especially Thailand.
  • julian bream — Julian (Alexander) born 1933, English guitarist and lutenist.
  • jumping bean — the seed of any of certain Mexican plants of the genera Sebastiania and Sapium, of the spurge family: the movements of a moth larva inside the seed cause it to move about or jump.
  • jumping hare — springhare.
  • kim dae jung — 1925–2009, president of South Korea 1998–2003.
  • kleptomaniac — a person who has kleptomania.
  • lamentations — the act of lamenting or expressing grief.
  • laminotomies — Plural form of laminotomy.
  • lamp chimney — a glass tube that surrounds the wick in an oil lamp
  • landing beam — a radio beam transmitted from a landing field to enable aircraft to make an instrument landing
  • languishment — the act or state of languishing.
  • large-minded — having tolerant views or liberal ideas; broad-minded.
  • latent image — an invisible image, produced on a sensitized emulsion by exposure to light, that will emerge in development.
  • leading mark — either of two conspicuous objects regarded as points on a line (leading line) upon which a vessel can sail a safe course.
  • lean mixture — A lean mixture is a fuel/air mixture containing a relatively low proportion of fuel.
  • legitimating — Present participle of legitimate.
  • legitimation — according to law; lawful: the property's legitimate owner.
  • lemminkainen — (in the Kalevala) a young, jovial hero who has many adventures in which he is sometimes helped by his mother.
  • lemnian seal — the earth of the Greek island of Lemnos, which is famous for its medicinal properties
  • lepidomelane — (mineralogy) A black iron-potash mica, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales.
  • lignum vitae — either of two tropical American trees, Guaiacum officinale or G. sanctum, of the caltrop family, having very hard, heavy wood.
  • line manager — immediate supervisor
  • linear motor — an electric motor in which a movable part moves in a straight line, with power being supplied by a varying magnetic field set up by a fixed part of the system, as a metal rail on the ground.
  • linseed meal — ground linseed cake.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • machine head — a metal peg-and-gear mechanism for tuning a string on an instrument such as a guitar
  • machine shop — a workshop in which metal and other substances are cut, shaped, etc., by machine tools.
  • machine time — time spent using mechanical equipment
  • machine tool — a power-operated machine, as a lathe, used for general cutting and shaping of metal and other substances.
  • machine word — word (def 10).
  • machine-made — made or constructed by machine
  • machine-word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • mackintoshes — Plural form of mackintosh.
  • macroetching — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
  • macromineral — any mineral required in the diet in relatively large amounts, especially calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, and zinc.
  • madeira vine — a herbaceous tropical vine, Anredera cordifolia, having shiny leaves and small, fragrant, white flowers.
  • maderization — the process whereby wine is heated and oxidized, resulting in a darker colour and an altered taste
  • madisonville — a city in W Kentucky.
  • magic number — the atomic number or neutron number of an exceptionally stable nuclide.
  • maginot line — a zone of heavy defensive fortifications erected by France along its eastern border in the years preceding World War II, but outflanked in 1940 when the German army attacked through Belgium.
  • magnetic dip — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
  • magnetic ink — ink containing particles of a magnetic material used for printing characters for magnetic character recognition
  • magnetically — By or as by, magnetism.
  • magnetizable — susceptible to magnetization.
  • magnetooptic — pertaining to the effect of magnetism upon the propagation of light.
  • magnetotails — Plural form of magnetotail.
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