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6-letter words containing n, t

  • turned — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
  • turner — Frederick Jackson, 1861–1932, U.S. historian.
  • turnip — the thick, fleshy, edible root of either of two plants of the mustard family, the white-fleshed Brassica rapa rapifera or the yellow-fleshed rutabaga.
  • turnon — something that arouses one's interest or excitement.
  • turnup — something that is turned up or that turns up.
  • turpin — Ben, 1874–1940, U.S. silent-film comedian.
  • tuscan — of, relating to, or characteristic of Tuscany, its people, or their dialect.
  • tustin — a city in SW California.
  • tutman — a man who does tutwork
  • tutsan — a woodland shrub, Hypericum androsaemum, of Europe and W Asia, having yellow flowers and reddish-purple fruits: family Hypericaceae
  • twangy — having the sharp, vibrating tone of a plucked string.
  • tweeny — 'tween (def 2).
  • twenex — (operating system)   /twe'neks/ The TOPS-20 operating system by DEC - the second proprietary OS for the PDP-10 - preferred by most PDP-10 hackers over TOPS-10 (that is, by those who were not ITS or WAITS partisans). TOPS-20 began in 1969 as Bolt, Beranek & Newman's TENEX operating system using special paging hardware. By the early 1970s, almost all of the systems on the ARPANET ran TENEX. DEC purchased the rights to TENEX from BBN and began work to make it their own. The first in-house code name for the operating system was VIROS (VIRtual memory Operating System); when customers started asking questions, the name was changed to SNARK so DEC could truthfully deny that there was any project called VIROS. When the name SNARK became known, the name was briefly reversed to become KRANS; this was quickly abandoned when someone objected that "krans" meant "funeral wreath" in Swedish (though some Swedish speakers have since said it means simply "wreath"; this part of the story may be apocryphal). Ultimately DEC picked TOPS-20 as the name of the operating system, and it was as TOPS-20 that it was marketed. The hacker community, mindful of its origins, quickly dubbed it TWENEX (a contraction of "twenty TENEX"), even though by this point very little of the original TENEX code remained (analogously to the differences between AT&T V6 Unix and BSD). DEC people cringed when they heard "TWENEX", but the term caught on nevertheless (the written abbreviation "20x" was also used). TWENEX was successful and very popular; in fact, there was a period in the early 1980s when it commanded as fervent a culture of partisans as Unix or ITS - but DEC's decision to scrap all the internal rivals to the VAX architecture and its relatively stodgy VMS OS killed the DEC-20 and put a sad end to TWENEX's brief day in the sun. DEC attempted to convince TOPS-20 users to convert to VMS, but instead, by the late 1980s, most of the TOPS-20 hackers had migrated to Unix.
  • twenty — a cardinal number, 10 times 2.
  • twined — a strong thread or string composed of two or more strands twisted together.
  • twiner — a strong thread or string composed of two or more strands twisted together.
  • twinge — a sudden, sharp pain: On damp days, he's often bothered by a twinge of rheumatism.
  • tyburn — a former place of public execution in London, England.
  • tycoon — a person of great wealth, influence, or power; magnate: a business tycoon; a political tycoon.
  • tymnet — (networking, history)   A United States-wide commercial computer network, created by Tymshare, Inc. some time before 1970, and used for remote login and file transfer. The network public went live in November 1971. In its original implementation, it consisted of fairly simple circuit-oriented nodes, whose circuits were created by central network supervisors writing into the appropriate nodes' "permuter tables". The supervisors also performed login validations as well as circuit management. Circuits were character oriented and the network was oriented toward interactive character-by-character full-duplex communications circuits. The network had more than one supervisor running, but only one was active, the others being put to sleep with "sleeping pill" messages. If the active supervisor went down, all the others would wake up and battle for control of the network. After the battle, the supervisor with the highest pre-set priority would dominate, and the network would then again be controlled by only one supervisor. (During the takeover battle, the net consisted of subsets of itself across which new circuits could not be built). Existing circuits were not affected by supervisor switches. There was a clever scheme to switch the echoing function between the local node and the host based on whether or not a special character had been typed by the user. Data transfers were also possible via "auxiliary circuits". The Tymshare hosts (which ran customer code) were SDS 940, DEC PDP-10, and eventually IBM 370 computers. Xerox XDS 940 might have been used if Xerox, who bought the design for the SDS 940 from Scientific Data Systems, had ever built any. The switches were originally Varian Data Machines 620i. The Interdata 8/32 was never used because the performance was disappointing. The TYMNET Engine, based loosely on the Interdata 7/32, was developed instead to replace the Varian 620i. In the early 1990s, newer "Turbo" nodes based on the Motorola 68000 began to replace the 7/32s. These were later replaced with SPARCs. PDP-10s supported (and still do in 1999) cross-platform development and billing. La Roy Tymes booted up the public TYMNET in November of 1971 and, as of March 2002, it had been running ever since without a single system crash. TYMNET was the largest commercial network in the United States in its heyday, with nodes in every major US city and a few overseas as well. Tymshare acquired a French subsidiary, SLIGOS, and had TYMNET nodes in Paris, France. Tymshare sold the TYMNET network software to TRW, who created their own private network (which was not called TYMNET). In about 1979, TYMNET Inc. was spun off from Tymshare, Inc. to continue administration and development of the network. TYMNET outlived its parent company Tymshare and was acquired by MCI. As of May 1994 they still ran three DEC KL-10s under TYMCOM-X, although they planned to decommission them soon. The original creators of TYMNET included: Ann Hardy, Norm Hardy, Bill Frantz. La Roy Tymes (who always insisted that his name was NOT the source of the name) wrote the first supervisor which ran on the 940. Joe Rinde made many significant technical and marketing contributions. La Roy wrote most of the code of the network proper. Several others wrote code in support of development and administration. Just recently (1999) La Roy, on contract, wrote a version of the supervisor to run on SPARC hardware. The name TYMNET was suggested by Vigril Swearingen in a weekly meeting between Tymshare technical and marketing staff in about 1970.
  • tympan — Printing. a padlike device interposed between the platen or its equivalent and the sheet to be printed, in order to soften and equalize the pressure.
  • typhon — a signal horn operated by compressed air or steam.
  • typing — a number of things or persons sharing a particular characteristic, or set of characteristics, that causes them to be regarded as a group, more or less precisely defined or designated; class; category: a criminal of the most vicious type.
  • tyrant — a sovereign or other ruler who uses power oppressively or unjustly.
  • tyrian — of or relating to ancient Tyre or its people.
  • tyring — to furnish with tires.
  • tyrone — a former administrative county in W Northern Ireland: replaced by several new districts 1973.
  • tyumen — a city in the SW Russian Federation in Asia.
  • u-turn — a U -shaped turn made by a vehicle so as to head in the opposite direction from its original course.
  • ubuntu — humanity or fellow feeling; kindness
  • ultion — revenge; vengeance; retaliation
  • umteen — innumerable; many.
  • unbelt — to remove the belt from.
  • unbent — simple past tense and past participle of unbend.
  • unbitt — to unfasten or remove (a cable) from the bitts of a ship
  • unbolt — to open (a door, window, etc.) by or as if by removing a bolt; unlock; unfasten.
  • unboot — to remove the boots (from)
  • uncart — to remove from a cart
  • uncast — to throw or hurl; fling: The gambler cast the dice.
  • uncolt — to divest or deprive of a horse
  • unctad — United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
  • uncute — not cute
  • undate — to remove a date from
  • undset — Sigrid [sig-rid;; Norwegian si-gri] /ˈsɪg rɪd;; Norwegian ˈsɪ grɪ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1949, Norwegian novelist: Nobel prize 1928.
  • uneath — not easily
  • unfact — a fabrication that is disseminated as fact.
  • unfelt — not felt
  • ungirt — having a girdle loosened or removed.
  • unhurt — to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
  • uniate — a member of an Eastern church that is in union with the Roman Catholic Church, acknowledges the Roman pope as supreme in matters of faith, but maintains its own liturgy, discipline, and rite.
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