13-letter words containing n, i, m, y
- leonine rhyme — the form of internal rhyme used in leonine verse.
- 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.
- lymphopoietin — (protein) A cytokine protein that has a function in T cell maturation.
- 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.
- macrodynamics — Large-scale dynamics.
- 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.
- manageability — that can be managed; governable; tractable; contrivable.
- 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.
- mensurability — The quality of being mensurable.
- mercy killing — euthanasia (def 1).
- meridionality — the quality or state of being on the meridian
- mesmerizingly — In a way or to an extent that mesmerizes.
- 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
- metaphysician — a person who creates or develops metaphysical theories.
- metonic cycle — a cycle of 235 synodic months, very nearly equal to 19 years, after which the new moon occurs on the same day of the year as at the beginning of the cycle with perhaps a shift of one day, depending on the number of leap years in the cycle.
- metonymically — In a metonymic fashion; using metonymy.
- mexican poppy — any tropical American poppy of the genus Argemone, especially A. mexicana (Mexican poppy) having prickly pods and leaves and yellow or white, poppylike flowers.
- michigan city — a port in NW Indiana, on Lake Michigan.
- microanalyses — Plural form of microanalysis.
- microanalysis — Chemistry. the analysis of very small samples of substances.
- microaneurysm — An extremely small aneurysm.
- micropayments — Plural form of micropayment.
- microtonality — any musical interval smaller than a semitone, specifically, a quarter tone.
- midi-pyrénées — a region of SW France: consists of N slopes of the Pyrenees in the south, a fertile lowland area in the west crossed by the River Garonne, and the edge of the Massif Central in the north and east
- military band — a musical band, usually made up of players of wind, percussion and some brass instruments, that play at military functions, etc
- milton keynes — a residential district in S England, near London, established in the 1960s.
- mineral jelly — a gelatinous product made from petroleum, used to stabilize certain explosives.
- ministerially — In the character or capacity of a minister.
- minor penalty — a penalty consisting of the removal of a player from play for two minutes, no substitute for the player being permitted.
- misemployment — Wrong or mistaken employment.
- mistrustingly — In a mistrusting manner.
- mixed economy — an economy in which there are elements of both public and private enterprise.
- mollycoddling — Present participle of mollycoddle.
- monarchically — In a monarchic or monarchical fashion.
- monetary unit — the standard unit of value of the currency of a country, as the dollar in the U.S. and the franc in France.