7-letter words containing c, s, i, m
- miscall — to call by a wrong name.
- miscast — to assign an unsuitable role to (an actor): Tom was miscast as Romeo.
- miscing — (in prescriptions) mix.
- miscite — to cite incorrectly
- miscode — to code mistakenly, as in data processing.
- miscoin — to coin (a word or phrase) wrongly
- miscook — (transitive) To cook badly or incorrectly.
- miscopy — to copy incorrectly: to miscopy an address.
- miscued — a stroke in which the cue fails to make solid contact with the cue ball.
- miscues — Plural form of miscue.
- miscure — An incorrect cure of any kind.
- miskick — (sports) An bad kick.
- miskolc — a city in N Hungary.
- misluck — Ill luck; misfortune.
- mispick — a pick or filling yarn that has failed to interlace with the warp as a result of a mechanical defect in the loom.
- mistico — a small Mediterranean sailing ship with three masts
- mitches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mitch.
- moccies — moccasin shoes or slippers
- morisco — Moorish.
- mosaics — Plural form of mosaic.
- mosconi — William Joseph ("Willie") 1913–93, U.S. billiards and pool player.
- 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.
- muscids — Plural form of muscid.
- muscoid — a moss-like plant
- 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.
- mycosis — the presence of parasitic fungi in or on any part of the body.
- mystics — Plural form of mystic.
- narcism — inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity. Synonyms: self-centeredness, smugness, egocentrism.
- osmatic — of or relating to the sense of smell.
- osmotic — Physical Chemistry, Cell Biology. the tendency of a fluid, usually water, to pass through a semipermeable membrane into a solution where the solvent concentration is higher, thus equalizing the concentrations of materials on either side of the membrane. the diffusion of fluids through membranes or porous partitions. Compare endosmosis, exosmosis.
- plasmic — Anatomy, Physiology. the liquid part of blood or lymph, as distinguished from the suspended elements.
- racisms — a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
- schemie — a resident of a housing scheme
- schisma — a musical term referring to a short interval of half a comma
- schmick — excellent, elegant, or stylish
- schmidt — Helmut (Heinrich Waldemar) [hel-moo t hahyn-rik vahl-duh-mahr;; German hel-moot hahyn-rikh vahl-duh-mahr] /ˈhɛl mʊt ˈhaɪn rɪk ˈvɑl dəˌmɑr;; German ˈhɛl mut ˈhaɪn rɪx ˈvɑl dəˌmɑr/ (Show IPA), born 1918, West German political leader: chancellor 1974–82.
- schmitt — Bernadotte Everly [bur-nuh-dot ev-er-lee] /ˈbɜr nəˌdɒt ˈɛv ər li/ (Show IPA), 1886–1969, U.S. historian.
- scotism — the set of doctrines of Duns Scotus.
- scrimpy — scanty; meager; barely adequate.
- seismic — pertaining to, of the nature of, or caused by an earthquake or vibration of the earth, whether due to natural or artificial causes.
- sematic — serving as a sign or warning of danger, as the conspicuous colors or markings of certain poisonous animals.
- sememic — of or relating to sememes
- semitic — a subfamily of Afroasiatic languages that includes Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Hebrew, and Phoenician.
- simatic — an assemblage of rocks, rich in silica and magnesium, that constitutes the lower layer of the earth's crust and is found beneath the ocean floors and the sial of continents.
- simcity — (games) Maxis Software's simulation game which lets you design and build your own city, which must be administered well if it is to thrive. Land must be zoned, transportation systems built, and police and fire protection provided. Once you've zoned some land, and provided electrical power, the simulation takes over, and simcitizens move in. If you perform your mayoral duties poorly, however, they will move out again. If you don't provide enough police, crime will rise and sims will vote with their feet. Try to save money on fire protection, and your city may burn to the ground. There is no predefined way to win the game, building the largest city you can is just one possible strategy. SimCity runs on Archimedes, Amiga, Atari ST, IBM PC and Macintosh. There was also a NeWS version for Sun SPARC workstations running OpenWindows.
- smectic — noting a mesomorphic state in which the arrangement of the molecules is in layers or planes.
- smicker — beautiful, pretty or handsome
- smicket — a woman's under-garment or smock
- smickly — amorously