7-letter words containing c, m
- mucosae — mucous membrane.
- mucosal — mucous membrane.
- mudcake — Mudcake is solid residue from the drilling fluid, left when the liquid passes through a permeable medium.
- mudcats — Plural form of mudcat.
- mudpack — a pastelike preparation, as one consisting of fuller's earth, astringents, etc., used on the face as a cosmetic restorative.
- mudscow — a boat or barge for travelling over mudflats
- 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.
- munched — to chew with steady or vigorous working of the jaws, often audibly.
- munchen — German name of Munich.
- muncher — to chew with steady or vigorous working of the jaws, often audibly.
- munches — to chew with steady or vigorous working of the jaws, often audibly.
- munchie — crunchy or chewy. Informal. for snacking: munchy foods like popcorn and cookies.
- muntjac — any of various small deer of the genus Muntiacus, of southern and eastern Asia and the adjacent islands, especially M. muntjac, of Java, India, etc., having well-developed horns on bony pedicels.
- murcott — a thin-skinned, juicy variety of tangerine.
- murdoch — (Dame) (Jean) Iris, 1919–99, British novelist and philosopher, born in Ireland.
- muscids — Plural form of muscid.
- muscled — a tissue composed of cells or fibers, the contraction of which produces movement in the body.
- muscles — Plural form of muscle.
- muscoid — a moss-like plant
- muscone — an oily, very slightly water-soluble, large cyclic ketone containing a 15-membered ring, C 1 6 H 3 0 O, obtained from musk: used in the perfume industry.
- muscose — resembling moss
- muscovy — Also called Grand Duchy of Muscovy. a principality founded c1271 and centered on the ancient city of Moscow. Its rulers gradually gained control over the neighboring Great Russian principalities and established the Russian Empire under the czars.
- 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.
- musicam — (audio, compression) A name for MPEG-1 Layer 2 used for broadcasting. Common data rates are 192, 224, and 256 kbps.
- myalgic — Pertaining to myalgia.
- mycelia — Plural form of mycelium.
- mycella — a blue-veined Danish cream cheese, less strongly flavoured than Danish blue
- mycenae — an ancient city in S Greece, in Argolis: important ruins.
- mycetes — a collective term for fungi, esp microscopic pathogenic fungi
- myceto- — fungus
- mycoses — Plural form of mycosis.
- mycosis — the presence of parasitic fungi in or on any part of the body.
- mycotic — of, relating to, or caused by a fungus.
- myocyte — a contractile cell, especially an elongated cell in sponges that forms a sphincter around body openings.
- myrcene — (organic compound) An olefinic natural organic compound, a hydrocarbon and monoterpene, important in perfumery.
- myspace — (Internet) One's profile on the MySpace website.
- mystics — Plural form of mystic.
- narcism — inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity. Synonyms: self-centeredness, smugness, egocentrism.
- narcoma — stupor produced by narcotics.
- nematic — noting a mesomorphic state in which the arrangement of the molecules is linear.
- newcomb — Simon, 1835–1909, U.S. astronomer.
- newcome — Just arrived; lately come.
- nipmuck — a member of an Algonquian Indian people living in the vicinity of Worcester, Mass.