7-letter words containing s, c, i, u
- ischium — the lower portion of either innominate bone.
- ischury — (medicine) A retention or suppression of urine.
- iustice — Obsolete spelling of justice.
- juicers — Plural form of juicer.
- justice — Donald, 1925–2004, U.S. poet.
- leucism — An animal condition characterized by reduced pigmentation.
- linctus — (medicine) Any syrupy medication; especially a remedy for coughs.
- mencius — c380–289 b.c, Chinese philosopher.
- miscued — a stroke in which the cue fails to make solid contact with the cue ball.
- miscues — Plural form of miscue.
- miscure — An incorrect cure of any kind.
- misluck — Ill luck; misfortune.
- 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.
- muscids — Plural form of muscid.
- muscoid — a moss-like plant
- musical — of, relating to, or producing music: a musical instrument.
- musicam — (audio, compression) A name for MPEG-1 Layer 2 used for broadcasting. Common data rates are 192, 224, and 256 kbps.
- neustic — the part of a sentence which differs with the mood of the sentence
- nuncios — Plural form of nuncio.
- oculist — ophthalmologist.
- pci bus — Peripheral Component Interconnect
- piceous — of, relating to, or resembling pitch.
- prussic — of or derived from prussic acid.
- puckish — mischievous; impish.
- quiches — Plural form of quiche.
- quiesce — Become quiet or quieter.
- quinces — Plural form of quince.
- ricinus — the castor-oil plant
- roscius — Quintus [kwin-tuh s] /ˈkwɪn təs/ (Show IPA), c126–c62 b.c, Roman actor.
- saucier — a chef or cook who specializes in making sauces.
- saucily — impertinent; insolent: a saucy remark; a saucy child.
- sciurid — a squirrel or related rodent
- scourie — a young seagull
- scullin — James Henry, 1876–1953, Australian statesman: prime minister 1929–31.
- sculpin — any small, freshwater fish of the genus Cottus, of the family Cottidae, having a large head with one or more spines on each side; bullhead.
- scurril — vulgar or indecent
- scutari — Lake, a lake between NW Albania and Montenegro. About 135 sq. mi. (350 sq. km).
- sichuan — a province in S central China. 219,691 sq. mi. (569,000 sq. km). Capital: Chengdu.
- sickout — an organized absence from work by employees on the pretext of sickness, as to avoid the legal problems or antistrike clauses that would be invoked in the case of a formal strike.
- socinus — Faustus [faw-stuh s] /ˈfɔ stəs/ (Show IPA), (Fausto Sozzini) 1539–1604, and his uncle, Laelius [lee-lee-uh s] /ˈli li əs/ (Show IPA) (Lelio Sozzini), 1525–62, Italian Protestant theologians and reformers.
- spicula — a spicule.
- spicule — a small or minute, slender, sharp-pointed body or part; a small, needlelike crystal, process, or the like.
- squinch — a small arch, corbeling, or the like, built across the interior angle between two walls, as in a square tower for supporting the side of a superimposed octagonal spire.
- squitch — couch grass
- stickum — any adhesive substance.
- stickup — a holdup; robbery.
- subacid — slightly or moderately acid or sour: a subacid fruit.
- suberic — of or relating to cork.
- succise — ending abruptly, as if cut off
- succubi — a demon in female form, said to have sexual intercourse with men in their sleep. Compare incubus (def 1).