7-letter words containing c, s, t
- metrics — Mathematics. a nonnegative real-valued function having properties analogous to those of the distance between points on a real line, as the distance between two points being independent of the order of the points, the distance between two points being zero if, and only if, the two points coincide, and the distance between two points being less than or equal to the sum of the distances from each point to an arbitrary third point.
- misacts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misact.
- miscast — to assign an unsuitable role to (an actor): Tom was miscast as Romeo.
- miscite — to cite incorrectly
- mistico — a small Mediterranean sailing ship with three masts
- mitches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mitch.
- mobcast — a podcast created and uploaded using a mobile phone
- moscato — A sweet Italian dessert wine.
- mudcats — Plural form of mudcat.
- 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.
- mycetes — a collective term for fungi, esp microscopic pathogenic fungi
- mystics — Plural form of mystic.
- narcist — inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity. Synonyms: self-centeredness, smugness, egocentrism.
- nascent — beginning to exist or develop: That nascent republic is holding its first election this month.
- neustic — the part of a sentence which differs with the mood of the sentence
- newcast — (transitive) To recast; form or mould anew.
- nicetas — Saint (Ignatius Theophorus) a.d. c40–107? bishop of Antioch and Apostolic Father.
- nitches — Plural form of nitch.
- noetics — the science of the intellect or of pure thought; reasoning.
- nostocs — Plural form of nostoc.
- notches — an angular or V -shaped cut, indentation, or slit in an object, surface, or edge.
- notices — Plural form of notice.
- nowcast — (meteorology) A weather forecast predicting the weather for a very short upcoming period, usually of a few hours.
- nutcase — a deranged person; lunatic.
- objects — Say something to express one's disapproval of or disagreement with something.
- occults — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of occult.
- ocelots — Plural form of ocelot.
- octants — Plural form of octant.
- octapus — Misspelling of octopus.
- octaves — Plural form of octave.
- octavos — Plural form of octavo.
- octavus — eighth.
- octopus — any octopod of the genus Octopus, having a soft, oval body and eight sucker-bearing arms, living mostly at the bottom of the sea.
- oculist — ophthalmologist.
- offcast — discarded or rejected; castoff: his offcast suits.
- offcuts — Plural form of offcut.
- oncosts — Plural form of oncost.
- oocysts — Plural form of oocyst.
- oocytes — Plural form of oocyte.
- 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.
- ossetic — Ossetian.
- ostraca — (in ancient Greece) a potsherd, especially one used as a ballot on which the name of a person voted to be ostracized was inscribed.
- ostrich — a large, two-toed, swift-footed flightless bird, Struthio camelus, indigenous to Africa and Arabia, domesticated for its plumage: the largest of living birds.
- otocyst — a statocyst.
- outcast — a falling out; quarrel.
- pectase — an enzyme occurring in various fruits and involved in the formation of pectic acid from pectin.
- pectose — protopectin.
- pectous — of, relating to, or consisting of pectin or protopectin.
- petscii — (character) /pet'skee/ PET ASCII. The variation (many would say perversion) of the ASCII character set used by the Commodore Business Machines' PET series of personal computers and the later Commodore 64, Commodore 16, and Commodore 128 computers. The PETSCII set used left-arrow and up-arrow (as in old-style ASCII) instead of underscore and caret, placed the unshifted alphabet at positions 65--90, put the shifted alphabet at positions 193--218, and added graphic characters.