7-letter words containing l, u, m
- mousily — In a mousy manner.
- mouthly — Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the mouth or of mouths; oral.
- muckily — In a mucky way.
- mucosal — mucous membrane.
- mud eel — a slime-coated, eel-like siren salamander (Siren lacertina) with no hind legs, two short front legs, internal lungs, and external gills: it lives in swamps, ditches, and ponds, in the SE U.S.
- muddily — In a muddy manner.
- muddled — to mix up in a confused or bungling manner; jumble.
- muddler — a swizzle stick with an enlarged tip for stirring drinks, crushing fruit or sugar, etc.
- muddles — Plural form of muddle.
- mudflap — Also called mud flap. splash guard.
- mudflat — A stretch of muddy land left uncovered at low tide.
- mudflow — a flow of mixed earth debris containing a large amount of water.
- mudhole — a depression in which mud collects.
- mudlark — Chiefly British. a person who gains a livelihood by searching for iron, coal, old ropes, etc., in mud or low tide.
- mudlump — a small, short-lived island of clay or silt that forms within a river delta.
- mudsill — the lowest sill of a structure, usually placed in or on the ground.
- mueller — Paul, 1899–1965, Swiss chemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1948.
- muffled — to wrap with something to deaden or prevent sound: to muffle drums.
- muffler — a scarf worn around one's neck for warmth.
- muffles — Plural form of muffle.
- muggled — Simple past tense and past participle of muggle.
- muggles — Plural form of muggle.
- mukalla — a seaport in SE Yemen, on the Gulf of Aden.
- mukluks — Plural form of mukluk.
- mulatta — A mulatto woman.
- mulatto — Anthropology. (not in technical use) the offspring of one white parent and one black parent.
- 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.
- muldoon — Robert David, 1921–92, New Zealand political leader: prime minister 1975–84.
- muletas — Plural form of muleta.
- mülheim — city in W Germany, on the Ruhr, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia: pop. 177,000
- mullahs — Plural form of mullah.
- mullein — any of various plants belonging to the genus Verbascum, of the figwort family, native to the Old World, especially V. thapsus, a tall plant with woolly leaves and a dense spike of yellow flowers.
- mullens — Plural form of mullen.
- mullets — Plural form of mullet.
- mulling — to study or ruminate; ponder.
- mullion — a vertical member, as of stone or wood, between the lights of a window, the panels in wainscoting, or the like.
- mullite — a rare clay mineral, aluminum silicate, Al 6 Si 2 O 1 3 , produced artificially during various melting and firing processes: used as a refractory.
- 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.
- multure — a toll or fee given to the proprietor of a mill for the grinding of grain, usually consisting of a fixed proportion of the grain brought or of the flour made.
- mumbled — Simple past tense and past participle of mumble.
- mumbler — Agent noun of mumble; one who mumbles.
- mumbles — Plural form of mumble.
- mumetal — an alloy containing nickel, iron, and copper, characterized by high magnetic permeability and low hysteresis losses.
- mungrel — Archaic form of mongrel.
- munhall — a city in W Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.
- muraled — decorated with a mural or murals.