7-letter words containing c, l, u
- misluck — Ill luck; misfortune.
- mockful — (obsolete) mocking.
- mollusc — any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one, two, or more pieces that wholly or partly enclose the soft, unsegmented body, including the chitons, snails, bivalves, squids, and octopuses.
- muckily — In a mucky way.
- mucosal — mucous membrane.
- mulched — Simple past tense and past participle of mulch.
- mulcher — a person or thing that mulches.
- mulches — Plural form of mulch.
- mulcted — Simple past tense and past participle of mulct.
- mullock — (in Australasia) refuse or rubbish, as rock or earth, from a mine; muck.
- 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.
- muscled — a tissue composed of cells or fibers, the contraction of which produces movement in the body.
- muscles — Plural form of muscle.
- muscul- — musculo-
- muscule — (military) A long movable shed used by besiegers in ancient times in attacking the walls of a fortified town.
- musical — of, relating to, or producing music: a musical instrument.
- noctule — a large reddish insectivorous bat, Nyctalus noctula, common to Europe and Asia.
- nucelli — Plural form of nucellus.
- nucleal — of or pertaining to a nucleus; nuclear
- nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
- nucleic — Referring to the nucleus of something. (As nucleic acids are found in the nucleus of cells.).
- nuclein — (biochemistry) A phosphorus-rich protein found in the nucleus of a cell, later specifically nucleohistone or nucleoprotamine; also, any similar compound present in the cell nucleus. (from 19th c.).
- nucleo- — nucleus or nuclear
- nucleol — List processing language, influenced by EOL. J. Nievergelt, Computer J 13(3) (Aug 1970).
- nucleon — a proton or neutron, especially when considered as a component of a nucleus.
- nucleus — a central part about which other parts are grouped or gathered; core: A few faithful friends formed the nucleus of the club.
- nuclide — an atomic species in which the atoms all have the same atomic number and mass number.
- nucules — Plural form of nucule.
- nuncles — Plural form of nuncle.
- occlude — to close, shut, or stop up (a passage, opening, etc.).
- occults — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of occult.
- ocellus — a type of simple eye common to invertebrates, consisting of retinal cells, pigments, and nerve fibers.
- octuple — eightfold; eight times as great.
- octuply — in an octuple or eightfold manner
- oculars — Plural form of ocular.
- oculate — Having eyes.
- oculist — ophthalmologist.
- olomouc — a city in central Moravia, in the E Czech Republic.
- opuscle — Obsolete form of opuscule.
- oscular — pertaining to an osculum.
- osculum — a small mouthlike aperture, as of a sponge.
- outcall — A visit by an escort, prostitute, etc., to the address of the caller.
- pascual — of or relating to pasture
- piculet — any of numerous small, tropical woodpeckers, chiefly of the genus Picumnus, that lack stiffened shafts in the tail feathers.
- plucked — to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken.
- plucker — to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken.
- plumbic — containing lead, especially in the tetravalent state.
- plumcot — a hybrid tree produced by crossing the apricot and the plum.
- potluck — food or a meal that happens to be available without special preparation or purchase: to take potluck with a friend.
- poulenc — Francis [frahn-sees] /frɑ̃ˈsis/ (Show IPA), 1899–1963, French composer and pianist.