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13-letter words that end in le

  • irretrievable — not capable of being retrieved; irrecoverable; irreparable.
  • jack crevalle — any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.
  • jigsaw puzzle — Also called picture puzzle. a set of irregularly cut pieces of pasteboard, wood, or the like that form a picture or design when fitted together.
  • judicial sale — a forced sale of property authorized or required by a court of law in order to satisfy a debt etc
  • khapra beetle — a tiny cosmopolitan beetle, Trogoderma granarium, that is a pest of stored grain and other dried organic matter.
  • kilomegacycle — a unit of frequency, equal to 10 9 cycles per second. Abbreviation: kMc.
  • knowledgeable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • kosher pickle — a garlic-flavored pickle, sold especially in Jewish delicatessens.
  • kriss kringle — Santa Claus.
  • lady's mantle — any of various rosaceous plants of the N temperate genus Alchemilla, having small green flowers
  • larder beetle — a black beetle, Dermestes lardarius, the larvae of which feed on dried meats, hides, furs, etc.
  • library table — a large pedestal writing table or desk.
  • light vehicle — a vehicle designed to carry loads or a small number of passengers up to an officially determined weight, such as a scooter, motorbike, rickshaw, etc
  • little cuttle — a small cuttlefish, Sepiola atlantica, often found on beaches
  • little people — small supernatural beings, such as elves, pixies, or leprechauns
  • little turtle — (Michikinikwa) 1752?–1812, leader of the Miami tribe.
  • livery stable — a stable where horses and vehicles are cared for or rented out for pay.
  • loop of henle — the part of a nephron between the proximal and distal convoluted tubules that extends, in a loop, from the cortex into the medulla of the kidney.
  • losing battle — attempt doomed to failure
  • love triangle — relationship between three people
  • love-entangle — the stonecrop, Sedum acre.
  • lubber's hole — (in a top on a mast) an open space through which a sailor may pass instead of climbing out on the futtock shrouds.
  • 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.
  • macromolecule — a very large molecule, as a colloidal particle, protein, or especially a polymer, composed of hundreds or thousands of atoms.
  • magnetic pole — the region of a magnet toward which the lines of magnetic induction converge (south pole) or from which the lines of induction diverge (north pole)
  • maiden castle — an ancient fortification in Dorsetshire, England, first erected c250 b.c. over the remains of Neolithic and Bronze Age settlements of c2000–c1500 b.c.
  • majority rule — the principle that decisions supported by more than half the people in a group have effect upon all the people in that group
  • manipulatable — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
  • mare australe — (Southern Sea) an area near the south pole of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
  • metabolizable — (biochemistry) Able to be metabolized.
  • 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.
  • metrical mile — (in track and swimming) a race of 1500 meters, nearly equivalent to a mile.
  • metronidazole — a synthetic antimicrobial substance, C 6 H 9 N 3 O 3 , used chiefly in the treatment of infections, such as Trichomonas vaginalis and certain anaerobic bacterial infections.
  • mexican apple — a tropical American tree, Casimiroa edulis, of the rue family, having greenish, inconspicuous flowers and tomatolike fleshy fruit that is yellow on the inside and gray or yellowish-green on the outside.
  • microfilmable — Suitable for storage on microfilm.
  • microparticle — An extremely small particle.
  • microwaveable — Alternative spelling of microwavable.
  • middle temple — an edifice or place dedicated to the service or worship of a deity or deities.
  • mille-feuille — napoleon (def 1).
  • milledgeville — a city in central Georgia: state capital 1807–68.
  • mineralizable — Capable of being mineralized.
  • mingle-mangle — a jumbled or confused mixture; hodgepodge.
  • mira variable — any of a group of long-period variable stars having a variability similar to that of the star Mira.
  • moderate gale — a wind of 32–38 miles per hour (14–17 m/sec).
  • mohr's circle — a graphical construction enabling the stresses in the cross-section of a body to be determined if the principal stresses are known
  • monkey puzzle — a South American, coniferous timber tree, Araucaria araucana, having candelabralike branches, stiff sharp leaves, and edible nuts.
  • motor vehicle — an automobile, truck, bus, or similar motor-driven conveyance.
  • multiparticle — comprising or involving several particles
  • multiplicable — capable of being multiplied.
  • multisyllable — polysyllable.
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