7-letter words containing m, u, t, s
- misturn — (transitive) To turn wrongly or incorrectly; turn aside wrongly; pervert.
- mouthes — (archaic, dialectal) Plural form of mouth.
- mudcats — Plural form of mudcat.
- mugshot — Also called headshot. an identifying photograph of a suspect or criminal, often one of a set showing a frontal view, a profile view, and a view of the back of the head.
- muletas — Plural form of muleta.
- 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.
- mumsnet — a website, based in the UK, set up to provide advice and support about family and parenting issues
- munites — to fortify.
- munster — a city in NW Germany: treaty of Westphalia 1648.
- muntins — Plural form of muntin.
- muppets — Plural form of muppet.
- musette — Also called musette bag. a small leather or canvas bag with a shoulder strap, used for carrying personal belongings, food, etc., while hiking, marching, or the like.
- muskets — Plural form of musket.
- muskrat — a large, aquatic, North American rodent, Ondatra zibethica, having a musky odor.
- must've — Must've is the usual spoken form of 'must have', especially when 'have' is an auxiliary verb.
- mustagh — Karakoram (def 1).
- mustang — a small, hardy horse of the American plains, descended from Spanish stock.
- mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
- mustees — the offspring of a white person and a quadroon; octoroon.
- musters — Plural form of muster.
- mustier — Comparative form of musty.
- mustily — In a musty manner.
- musting — to be obliged; be compelled: Do I have to go? I must, I suppose.
- mustn't — Mustn't is the usual spoken form of 'must not'.
- mutants — Plural form of mutant.
- mutases — Plural form of mutase.
- mutates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mutate.
- mutters — Plural form of mutter.
- mutuals — Plural form of mutual.
- mytilus — Any of the genus Mytilus of marine bivalve shells, including the common mussel.
- natsume — Soseki [saw-se-kee] /ˈsɔ sɛˌki/ (Show IPA), (Kinnosuke Natsume) 1867–1916, Japanese novelist.
- nostrum — our sea, especially the Mediterranean to the ancient Romans.
- numbats — Plural form of numbat.
- nutmegs — Plural form of nutmeg.
- oestrum — Alternative spelling of estrum.
- outmost — farthest out; outermost.
- outswim — (transitive) To swim faster than.
- paestum — an ancient coastal city of Lucania, in S Italy: the extant ruins include three Greek temples and a Roman amphitheater.
- plumist — a person who makes ornamental plumes
- rastrum — a pen for drawing the five lines of a musical stave simultaneously
- restump — to provide (a building) with new stumps
- rostrum — any platform, stage, or the like, for public speaking.
- sanctum — a sacred or holy place.
- satsuma — a Japanese pottery from Kyushu, first produced in the early 17th century and after 1800 having a crackle glaze and overglaze polychrome enameling and gilding.
- schmutz — dirt; filth; garbage.
- scrotum — the pouch of skin that contains the testes.
- sfumato — the subtle and minute gradation of tone and color used to blur or veil the contours of a form in painting.
- sistrum — an ancient Egyptian percussion instrument consisting of a looped metal frame set in a handle and fitted with loose crossbars that rattle when shaken.
- smutchy — of or relating to smutch; dirty; grimy; soiled; smudged.