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13-letter words containing y, i, n

  • kinematically — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
  • kinesitherapy — a movement-based therapy
  • king's bounty — a grant, given in the royal name, to a mother of triplets.
  • king's yellow — a yellow or red crystalline substance, As 2 S 3 , occurring in nature as the mineral orpiment, and used as a pigment (king's yellow) and in pyrotechnics.
  • kingsley amis — Kingsley, 1922–95, English novelist.
  • knickknackery — Various trinkets or novelties; bric-a-brac.
  • knocking copy — advertising or publicity material designed to denigrate a competing product
  • know by sight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
  • kyrie eleison — (italics) the brief petition “Lord, have mercy,” used in various offices of the Greek Orthodox Church and of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • labyrinthical — Labyrinthine; like or relating to a labyrinth.
  • labyrinthitis — inflammation of the inner ear, or labyrinth, characterized by dizziness, nausea, and visual disturbances.
  • land registry — In Britain, a land registry is a government office where records are kept about each area of land in a country or region, including information about who owns it.
  • landing party — a component of a ship's company detached for special duty ashore.
  • languishingly — In a languishing manner.
  • laryngologist — A person who studies or specializes in laryngology; a subspeciality of otorhinolaryngology.
  • laryngoscopic — Of or pertaining to laryngoscopy.
  • laryngotomies — Plural form of laryngotomy.
  • latitudinally — of or relating to latitude.
  • legionary ant — army ant
  • leonine rhyme — the form of internal rhyme used in leonine verse.
  • libyan desert — a desert in N Africa, in E Libya, W Egypt, and NW Sudan, W of the Nile: part of the Sahara. About 650,000 sq. mi. (1,683,500 sq. km).
  • like anything — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
  • 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.
  • lingayen gulf — a gulf in the Philippines, on the NW coast of Luzon.
  • liquid oxygen — a clear, pale blue liquid obtained by compressing oxygen and then cooling it below its boiling point: used chiefly as an oxidizer in liquid rocket propellants.
  • listenability — pleasant to listen to: soft, listenable music.
  • little cayman — an island in the W Caribbean: smallest of the Cayman Islands, NE of Grand Cayman. 10 sq. mi. (26 sq. km).
  • loblolly pine — a coniferous tree, Pinus taeda, of the southeastern U.S., having bundles of stout often twisted needles and blackish-gray bark.
  • logarithmancy — Divination using logarithms.
  • lying-in ward — a room where women were confined in childbirth
  • 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).
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