7-letter words containing m, u, s, l
- malchus — (Malchus) a.d. c233–c304, Greek philosopher.
- malleus — the outermost of a chain of three small bones in the middle ear of mammals. Also called hammer. Compare incus (def 1), stapes.
- malthus — Thomas Robert, 1766–1834, English economist and clergyman.
- manuals — Plural form of manual.
- masculy — covered with mascles
- mastful — (of a tree) yielding mast in abundance
- maulers — a heavy hammer, as for driving stakes or wedges.
- medusal — medusan
- mesclun — a salad consisting especially of young, tender mixed greens.
- miletus — Classical Mythology. a son of Apollo and Aria, and the founder of the city of Miletus.
- milieus — surroundings, especially of a social or cultural nature: a snobbish milieu.
- misluck — Ill luck; misfortune.
- misrule — bad or unwise rule; misgovernment.
- mistful — clouded with or full of mist
- modules — Plural form of module.
- modulus — Physics. a coefficient pertaining to a physical property.
- mollusc — any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one, two, or more pieces that wholly or partly enclose the soft, unsegmented body, including the chitons, snails, bivalves, squids, and octopuses.
- mollusk — any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one, two, or more pieces that wholly or partly enclose the soft, unsegmented body, including the chitons, snails, bivalves, squids, and octopuses.
- moulins — a river flowing N from S France to the Loire. About 250 miles (400 km) long.
- mousily — In a mousy manner.
- mucosal — mucous membrane.
- muddles — Plural form of muddle.
- mudsill — the lowest sill of a structure, usually placed in or on the ground.
- muffles — Plural form of muffle.
- muggles — Plural form of muggle.
- mukluks — Plural form of mukluk.
- mulches — Plural form of mulch.
- muletas — Plural form of muleta.
- mullahs — Plural form of mullah.
- mullens — Plural form of mullen.
- mullets — Plural form of mullet.
- 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.
- mumbles — Plural form of mumble.
- muscled — a tissue composed of cells or fibers, the contraction of which produces movement in the body.
- muscles — Plural form of muscle.
- muscul- — musculo-
- muscule — (military) A long movable shed used by besiegers in ancient times in attacking the walls of a fortified town.
- museful — deeply thoughtful; pensive.
- mushily — In a mushy manner.
- musical — of, relating to, or producing music: a musical instrument.
- muskily — in a musky manner
- mussels — Plural form of mussel.
- mustily — In a musty manner.
- mutuals — Plural form of mutual.
- muzzles — Plural form of muzzle.
- mytilus — Any of the genus Mytilus of marine bivalve shells, including the common mussel.
- numbles — The entrails of an animal, especially a deer, used for food.
- olympus — Mount, a mountain in NE Greece, on the boundary between Thessaly and Macedonia: mythical abode of the greater Grecian gods. 9730 feet (2966 meters).
- osculum — a small mouthlike aperture, as of a sponge.
- plumist — a person who makes ornamental plumes