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12-letter words containing chi

  • hitachi 6309 — (processor)   (HD6309) Hitachi's version of the Motorola 6809 microprocessor. Compatible with the 6809, it added two new eight-bit registers that could be added to form a second 16-bit register, and all four eight-bit registers could form a 32-bit register. It also featured division, and some 32-bit arithmetic and was generally 30% faster in native mode. This information, surprisingly, was never published by Hitachi.
  • home machine — 1. Synonym home box. 2. The machine that receives your e-mail. These senses might be distinct, for example, for a hacker who owns one computer at home, but reads e-mail at work.
  • iconomachist — a person who campaigns against the use of icons in religious worship
  • in the chips — a small, slender piece, as of wood, separated by chopping, cutting, or breaking.
  • india chintz — a sturdy, heavyweight fabric constructed in a figured weave, used especially in upholstery.
  • interpsychic — of or relating to the human soul or mind; mental (opposed to physical).
  • intrapsychic — Within the psyche or mind.
  • ischiorectal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the region between the rectum and the ischial tuberosity.
  • itching palm — a grasping nature; avarice
  • java archive — (file format, filename extension)   (jar) A compressed archive file containing Java class files, filename extension: ".jar". The Java Development Kit contains a tool called "jar" for creating .jar files, similar to the standard Unix tar command. As well as archiving and compressing the Java class files, it also inserts a "manifest" file which can contain information about the class files, such as a digital signature. Combining class files into a single archive file makes it possible to download them in a single HTTP transaction. This, and the compression, speeds up execution of Java programs delivered via the Internet. (2001}-02-03)
  • kachina doll — a Hopi Indian doll carved from cottonwood root in representation of a kachina and given as a gift to a child or used as a household decoration.
  • kinchinjunga — Kanchenjunga.
  • lamp chimney — a glass tube that surrounds the wick in an oil lamp
  • 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.
  • machicolated — Having machicolations.
  • machinations — an act or instance of machinating.
  • 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.
  • macroetching — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
  • marsh orchid — any of various orchids of the genus Dactylorhiza, growing in damp places and having mostly purplish flowers
  • matriarchial — Characteristic of or pertaining to a matriarchy. Alternative form of matriarchal.
  • matriarchies — Plural form of matriarchy.
  • men-children — plural of man-child.
  • metapsychics — the study of psychic phenomena beyond the limits of ordinary or orthodox psychology
  • microchipped — Simple past tense and past participle of microchip.
  • mischievious — Misconstruction of mischievous.
  • monorchidism — a prenatal or postnatal condition in which one testis is absent or has not descended into the scrotum.
  • moschiferous — giving off or producing musk
  • moustachioed — Alternative spelling of moustachio\u2019d.
  • natchitoches — a city in NW Louisiana.
  • neckerchiefs — Plural form of neckerchief.
  • non-achiever — a person who consistently fails to achieve, esp academically
  • non-matching — not matching: a nonmatching set of furniture.
  • nonarchitect — a person or builder who is not an architect
  • nonbreaching — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
  • object chill — ["Object CHILL - An Object Oriented Language for Systems Implementation", J. Winkler et al, ACM Comp Sci Conf 1992, pp. 139-147].
  • oligarchical — of, relating to, or having the form of an oligarchy.
  • optic chiasm — a site at the base of the forebrain where the inner half of the fibers of the left and right optic nerves cross to the opposite side of the brain.
  • orchidaceous — belonging to the plant family Orchidaceae.
  • orchidectomy — orchiectomy.
  • orchidomania — an obsession with or passion for orchids
  • outpouchings — Plural form of outpouching.
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