7-letter words containing l, i, t, c
- itchily — In an itchy way.
- laciest — Superlative form of lacy.
- laicity — The principles, status, or influence of the laity.
- latices — a plural of latex.
- latinic — of or relating to the Latin language or the ancient Latin-speaking peoples.
- lattice — a structure of crossed wooden or metal strips usually arranged to form a diagonal pattern of open spaces between the strips.
- lectins — Plural form of lectin.
- lection — a version of a passage in a particular copy or edition of a text; a variant reading.
- lenitic — lentic.
- leucite — a whitish or grayish mineral, potassium aluminum silicate, KAlSi 2 O 6 , found in alkali volcanic rocks.
- licente — permitted or allowed
- lichtly — to treat discourteously or contemptuously
- licitly — In a licit manner, legally, in a manner compatible with law.
- lickpot — The forefinger.
- lictors — Plural form of lictor.
- linctus — (medicine) Any syrupy medication; especially a remedy for coughs.
- linecut — an engraving or print obtained from a line drawing
- linocut — a cut made from a design cut into linoleum mounted on a block of wood.
- litchis — Plural form of litchi.
- litotic — of or relating to litotes; characterized by negation of the contrary
- lunatic — (no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) an insane person.
- metical — a brass coin and monetary unit of Mozambique, equal to 100 centavos: replaced the escudo in 1980.
- midcult — (sometimes initial capital letter) the intellectual culture intermediate between highbrow and lowbrow; middlebrow culture.
- mitilac — (language) An early system on the IBM 650.
- 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.
- nicolet — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1598–1642, French explorer in America.
- nilotic — of or relating to the Nile River or the inhabitants of the Nile region.
- octylic — (chemistry) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing octyl.
- oculist — ophthalmologist.
- oolitic — (geology) Made up of, or containing oolites.
- optical — of, relating to, or applying optics or the principles of optics.
- otalgic — (pathology) Of or pertaining to otalgia.
- piculet — any of numerous small, tropical woodpeckers, chiefly of the genus Picumnus, that lack stiffened shafts in the tail feathers.
- 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.
- plicate — Also, plicated. folded like a fan; pleated.
- politic — shrewd or prudent in practical matters; tactful; diplomatic.
- recital — a musical entertainment given usually by a single performer or by a performer and one or more accompanists.
- reticle — a network of fine lines, wires, or the like placed in the focus of the eyepiece of an optical instrument.
- sciolto — (of a piece of music) to be played freely and easily
- sectile — capable of being cut smoothly with a knife.
- solicit — to seek for (something) by entreaty, earnest or respectful request, formal application, etc.: He solicited aid from the minister.
- split-c — Parallel extension of C for distributed memory multiprocessors. Aims to provide efficient low-level access to the underlying machine.
- stencil — a device for applying a pattern, design, words, etc., to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material from which figures or letters have been cut out, a coloring substance, ink, etc., being rubbed, brushed, or pressed over the sheet, passing through the perforations and onto the surface.
- stickle — to argue or haggle insistently, especially on trivial matters.
- stoical — impassive; characterized by a calm, austere fortitude befitting the Stoics: a stoical sufferer.
- tachiol — silver fluoride.
- tacitly — understood without being openly expressed; implied: tacit approval.
- tactile — of, pertaining to, endowed with, or affecting the sense of touch.
- telepic — a feature-length film made for television
- telomic — relating to the telome