7-letter words containing m, a, s, c
- chasmic — a yawning fissure or deep cleft in the earth's surface; gorge.
- chiasma — the cross-shaped connection produced by the crossing over of pairing chromosomes during meiosis
- chiasmi — Plural form of chiasmus.
- chlamys — a short woollen cloak, secured on the right shoulder, worn by ancient Greek men and soldiers
- chumash — a printed book containing one of the Five Books of Moses
- cimaise — a pewter wine jar having a spout, a fixed handle on the side opposite the spout, and a bail for carrying.
- cinemas — Plural form of cinema.
- cis man — an adult who was born male and whose gender identity is male.
- cladism — the cladistic method of classification.
- clamors — Plural form of clamor.
- comales — a griddle made from sandstone or earthenware.
- combats — Plural form of combat.
- compass — A compass is an instrument that you use for finding directions. It has a dial and a magnetic needle that always points to the north.
- compast — rounded
- cumbias — Plural form of cumbia.
- cumshaw — (used, esp formerly, by beggars in Chinese ports) a present or tip
- cushman — Charlotte Saunders [sawn-derz,, sahn-] /ˈsɔn dərz,, ˈsɑn-/ (Show IPA), 1816–76, U.S. actress.
- cymaise — a pewter wine jar having a spout, a fixed handle on the side opposite the spout, and a bail for carrying.
- cymbals — Plural form of cymbal.
- cystoma — a cystic tumor.
- czarism — the Russian government under the czars
- dashcam — a small video camera situated on the dashboard of a vehicle, used to record the view through the windscreen
- decamps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decamp.
- discman — a small portable CD player with light headphones
- drachms — Plural form of drachm.
- emiscan — a computerized radiological technique for examining the soft tissues of the body, esp the brain, to detect the presence of tumours, abscesses, etc
- encamps — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encamp.
- etacism — (grammar) The pronunciation of the Greek eta like the Italian long e, or the vowel in the English word 'ate'.
- factums — Plural form of factum.
- fascism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
- gnumacs — /gnoo'maks/ [contraction of "GNU Emacs"] Often-heard abbreviated name for the GNU project's flagship tool, Emacs. Used especially in contrast with GOSMACS.
- gosmacs — /goz'maks/ Gosling Emacs. The first Emacs implementation in C, predating but now largely eclipsed by GNU Emacs. Originally freeware; a commercial version is now modestly popular as UniPress Emacs. The author (James Gosling) went on to invent NeWS.
- gramsci — Antonio [an-toh-nee-oh;; Italian ahn-taw-nyaw] /ænˈtoʊ ni oʊ;; Italian ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1891–1937, Italian political leader and theorist: a founder of the Italian Communist Party 1921.
- iambics — Plural form of iambic.
- impacts — Plural form of impact.
- islamic — the religious faith of Muslims, based on the words and religious system founded by the prophet Muhammad and taught by the Koran, the basic principle of which is absolute submission to a unique and personal god, Allah.
- ismatic — following fashionable doctrines
- itacism — the pronunciation of the Greek letter eta as in Modern Greek
- jicamas — Plural form of jicama.
- laicism — the nonclerical, or secular, control of political and social institutions in a society (distinguished from clericalism).
- macacos — Plural form of macaco.
- machans — Plural form of machan.
- mackles — Plural form of mackle.
- maclisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp developed at MIT AI Lab in 1966, known for its efficiency and programming facilities. MacLisp was later used by Project MAC, Mathlab and Macsyma. It ran on the PDP-10. It introduced the LEXPR (a function with variable arity), macros, arrays, and CATCH/THROW. MacLisp was one of two main branches of LISP (the other being Interlisp). In 1981 Common LISP was begun in an effort to combine the best features of both.
- macrons — Plural form of macron.
- macsyma — Project MAC's SYmbolic MAnipulator. The first comprehensive symbolic mathematics system, written in Lisp by Joel Moses <[email protected]> of MIT in 1969, later Symbolics, Inc. Versions include Symbolics Macsyma, DOE Maxima (ANL, in Common LISP) and Vaxima.
- macules — Plural form of macule.
- malchus — (Malchus) a.d. c233–c304, Greek philosopher.
- malices — desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness: the malice and spite of a lifelong enemy.
- maniacs — Plural form of maniac.