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12-letter words containing n, i, c, d, m

  • eunuchoidism — A syndrome in males with a lack of sex characteristics due to lack of proper male sex hormones.
  • fixed-income — gaining or yielding a more or less uniform rate of income.
  • gas dynamics — the study of the dynamic properties of gases and their thermal effects.
  • gynodioecism — the condition of having flowers that are only female in one example of a plant and flowers that have stamens and pistils in another example of a plant of the same species
  • haemodynamic — Alternative spelling of hemodynamic.
  • hamming code — (algorithm)   Extra, redundant bits added to stored or transmitted data for the purposes of error detection and correction. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming, Hamming codes greatly improve the reliability of data, e.g. from distant space probes, where it is impractical, because of the long transmission delay, to correct errors by requesting retransmission.
  • harmonichord — a musical instrument resembling an upright piano intended to fuse the sound of a violin with the functionality of a piano, the tone therefore produced using friction rather than through striking
  • hemodynamics — the branch of physiology dealing with the forces involved in the circulation of the blood.
  • high command — the leadership or highest authority of a military command or other organization.
  • hydrodynamic — pertaining to forces in or motions of liquids.
  • hyperdynamic — (physiology) Describing an increase in both blood pressure and pulse pressure.
  • hyperendemic — manifesting a high and persistent occurrence
  • ibm discount — A price increase. Outside IBM, this derives from the common perception that IBM products are generally overpriced (see clone); inside, it is said to spring from a belief that large numbers of IBM employees living in an area cause prices to rise.
  • iceland moss — an edible lichen, Cetraria islandica, of arctic regions, containing a starchlike substance used in medicine.
  • idiodynamics — a system of beliefs in psychology emphasizing the role of the personality in choosing stimuli and in organizing responses.
  • improvidence — not provident; lacking foresight; incautious; unwary.
  • incendiarism — the act or practice of an arsonist; malicious burning.
  • incommodious — inconvenient, as not affording sufficient space or room; uncomfortable: incommodious hotel accommodations.
  • incriminated — Simple past tense and past participle of incriminate.
  • indomethacin — a substance, C 19 H 16 ClNO 4 , with anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, and analgesic properties: used in the treatment of certain kinds of arthritis and gout.
  • intermediacy — the state of being intermediate or of acting intermediately.
  • kingdom come — the next world; the hereafter; heaven.
  • macadamizing — Present participle of macadamize.
  • machairodont — having sabre-like teeth; sabre-toothed
  • 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 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.
  • 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.
  • maledictions — Plural form of malediction.
  • malonic acid — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, dibasic acid, C 3 H 4 O 4 , easily decomposed by heat: used chiefly as an intermediate in the synthesis of barbiturates.
  • masculinized — Simple past tense and past participle of masculinize.
  • matricentred — Matricentric.
  • media center — a library, usually in school, that contains and encourages the use of audiovisual media and associated equipment as well as books, periodicals, and the like.
  • medical unit — a group of doctors and nurses working as part of a larger organization, such as the armed forces or a prison
  • medicalizing — Present participle of medicalize.
  • medicine box — a small box used to hold medicines
  • medicine hat — a city in SE Alberta, in SW Canada.
  • medicine man — (among North American Indians and some other aboriginal peoples) a person believed to possess magical or supernatural powers; shaman.
  • men-children — plural of man-child.
  • mendaciously — In a lying or deceitful manner.
  • merchandised — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
  • merchandiser — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
  • merchandises — the manufactured goods bought and sold in any business.
  • merchandized — Simple past tense and past participle of merchandize.
  • merchandizer — Alternative spelling of merchandiser.
  • mexican jade — Mexican onyx artificially colored green.
  • microlending — the lending of very small amounts of money at low interest, especially to a start-up company or self-employed person.
  • micromanaged — Simple past tense and past participle of micromanage.
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