7-letter words containing n, i, u
- unixism — (operating system, jargon) A piece of code or a coding technique that depends on the protected multitasking environment with relatively low process-spawn overhead that exists on virtual-memory Unix systems. Common Unixisms include: gratuitous use of "fork"; the assumption that certain undocumented but well-known features of Unix libraries such as "stdio" are supported elsewhere; reliance on obscure side-effects of system calls (use of "sleep" with a 0 argument to tell the scheduler that you're willing to give up your time-slice, for example); the assumption that freshly allocated memory is zeroed; and the assumption that fragmentation problems won't arise from never freeing memory. Compare vaxocentrism. See also New Jersey.
- unjoint — to sever or dislocate a joint of; disjoint.
- unliked — not enjoyed or considered agreeable
- unlined — paper: without ruled lines
- unlucid — easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible: a lucid explanation.
- unmined — an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- unmired — a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- unmiter — to deprive of a miter; depose from the rank of a bishop.
- unmitre — to deprive of a miter; depose from the rank of a bishop.
- unmixed — not mixed; pure: unmixed joy.
- unnoisy — quiet
- unoiled — not covered or smeared with oil
- unpaint — to remove paint from
- unplait — to alter from a plaited state; unbraid, as hair.
- unquiet — agitated; restless; disordered; turbulent: unquiet times.
- unright — a wrong
- unrigid — stiff or unyielding; not pliant or flexible; hard: a rigid strip of metal.
- unrisen — not risen
- unrisky — attended with or involving risk; hazardous: a risky undertaking.
- unriven — not torn apart
- unrivet — to undo or loosen the rivets of
- unsaint — to divest of sainthood
- unshift — to release the shift key, as on a typewriter or the keyboard of a computer terminal.
- unsight — without inspection or examination: to buy a thing unsight, unseen.
- unsinew — to weaken
- unsized — having size as specified (often used in combination): middle-sized.
- unslain — not killed or cut down
- unslick — not slick
- unsling — to remove (something) from being slung: to unsling a rifle from one's shoulder.
- unsolid — having three dimensions (length, breadth, and thickness), as a geometrical body or figure.
- unspied — unnoticed
- unspilt — not spilled
- unsplit — not split
- unstaid — unrestrained
- unstick — to free, as one thing stuck to another.
- unstrip — to strip
- unthink — to end one's thought or reverse the process of thought.
- untimed — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- untired — not tired; unwearied
- untoxic — of, pertaining to, affected with, or caused by a toxin or poison: a toxic condition.
- untried — not tried; not attempted, proved, or tested.
- untwine — to untwist
- untwist — to untangle
- unvisor — to remove a visor from
- unvital — not vital or crucial; unessential; unnecessary
- unvoice — to pronounce without vibration of the vocal cords
- unwhite — not white; no longer white
- unwiped — not wiped; not cleaned by wiping
- unwired — not wired, especially not connected by power lines, cables, or wires to receive electricity or cable television.
- unwitch — to release from a witch or from witchcraft