7-letter words containing c, i, s, l
- jalisco — a state in W Mexico. 31,152 sq. mi. (80,685 sq. km). Capital: Guadalajara.
- lachish — a Canaanite city captured by Joshua: now an archaeological site in Israel.
- laciest — Superlative form of lacy.
- lacings — Plural form of lacing.
- laicism — the nonclerical, or secular, control of political and social institutions in a society (distinguished from clericalism).
- latices — a plural of latex.
- lectins — Plural form of lectin.
- leucism — An animal condition characterized by reduced pigmentation.
- liassic — of or pertaining to the Lias series
- license — formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to carry on some business or profession.
- lichens — Plural form of lichen.
- lickers — Plural form of licker.
- lictors — Plural form of lictor.
- linches — Plural form of linch.
- linctus — (medicine) Any syrupy medication; especially a remedy for coughs.
- litchis — Plural form of litchi.
- locoism — a disease chiefly of sheep, horses, and cattle, caused by the eating of locoweed and characterized by weakness, impaired vision, irregular behavior, and paralysis.
- loessic — relating to or consisting of loess
- lychnis — any showy-flowered plant belonging to the genus Lychnis, of the pink family.
- lycoris — any of several bulbous plants belonging to the genus Lycoris, of the amaryllis family, native to eastern Asia, bearing clustered, variously colored flowers that appear after the leaves have faded and disappeared.
- lycosid — a spider of the family Lycosidae, comprising the wolf spiders.
- maclisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp developed at MIT AI Lab in 1966, known for its efficiency and programming facilities. MacLisp was later used by Project MAC, Mathlab and Macsyma. It ran on the PDP-10. It introduced the LEXPR (a function with variable arity), macros, arrays, and CATCH/THROW. MacLisp was one of two main branches of LISP (the other being Interlisp). In 1981 Common LISP was begun in an effort to combine the best features of both.
- malices — desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness: the malice and spite of a lifelong enemy.
- miscall — to call by a wrong name.
- miskolc — a city in N Hungary.
- misluck — Ill luck; misfortune.
- multics — (operating system) /muhl'tiks/ MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service. A time-sharing operating system co-designed by a consortium including MIT, GE and Bell Laboratories as a successor to MIT's CTSS. The system design was presented in a special session of the 1965 Fall Joint Computer Conference and was planned to be operational in two years. It was finally made available in 1969, and took several more years to achieve respectable performance and stability. Multics was very innovative for its time - among other things, it was the first major OS to run on a symmetric multiprocessor; provided a hierarchical file system with access control on individual files; mapped files into a paged, segmented virtual memory; was written in a high-level language (PL/I); and provided dynamic inter-procedure linkage and memory (file) sharing as the default mode of operation. Multics was the only general-purpose system to be awarded a B2 security rating by the NSA. Bell Labs left the development effort in 1969. Honeywell commercialised Multics in 1972 after buying out GE's computer group, but it was never very successful: at its peak in the 1980s, there were between 75 and 100 Multics sites, each a multi-million dollar mainframe. One of the former Multics developers from Bell Labs was Ken Thompson, a circumstance which led directly to the birth of Unix. For this and other reasons, aspects of the Multics design remain a topic of occasional debate among hackers. See also brain-damaged and GCOS. MIT ended its development association with Multics in 1977. Honeywell sold its computer business to Bull in the mid 1980s, and development on Multics was stopped in 1988 when Bull scrapped a Boston proposal to port Multics to a platform derived from the DPS-6. A few Multics sites are still in use as late as 1996. The last Multics system running, the Canadian Department of National Defence Multics site in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, shut down on 2000-10-30 at 17:08 UTC. The Jargon file 3.0.0 claims that on some versions of Multics one was required to enter a password to log out but James J. Lippard <[email protected]>, who was a Multics developer in Phoenix, believes this to be an urban legend. He never heard of a version of Multics which required a password to logout. Tom Van Vleck <[email protected]> agrees. He suggests that some user may have implemented a 'terminal locking' program that required a password before one could type anything, including logout.
- musical — of, relating to, or producing music: a musical instrument.
- nichols — John, born 1940, U.S. novelist.
- nickels — Plural form of nickel.
- nickles — Plural form of nickle.
- nicolas — a masculine name
- oculist — ophthalmologist.
- oilcans — Plural form of oilcan.
- orchils — Plural form of orchil.
- ossicle — a small bone.
- plasmic — Anatomy, Physiology. the liquid part of blood or lymph, as distinguished from the suspended elements.
- plastic — Often, plastics. any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.
- polices — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- saclike — a baglike structure in an animal, plant, or fungus, as one containing fluid.
- salicin — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble glucoside, C 1 3 H 1 8 O 7 , obtained from the bark of the American aspen: used in medicine chiefly as an antipyretic and analgesic.
- sanicle — any plant belonging to the genus Sanicula, of the parsley family, as S. marilandica, of America, used in medicine.
- saucily — impertinent; insolent: a saucy remark; a saucy child.
- scaglia — a type of reddish limestone found in Italy
- scaling — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
- scarily — in a scary or frightening manner
- schiele — Egon [ey-gawn] /ˈeɪ gɔn/ (Show IPA), 1890–1918, Austrian expressionist painter.
- schlich — finely crushed ore of metals, such as gold, tin, or lead
- schlick — Moritz. 1882–1936, German philosopher, working in Austria, who founded (1924) the Vienna Circle to develop the doctrine of logical positivism. His works include the General Theory of Knowledge (1918) and Problems of Ethics (1930)
- sciolto — (of a piece of music) to be played freely and easily