7-letter words containing s, c, u, t
- 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.
- neustic — the part of a sentence which differs with the mood of the sentence
- nutcase — a deranged person; lunatic.
- occults — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of occult.
- octapus — Misspelling of octopus.
- octavus — eighth.
- octopus — any octopod of the genus Octopus, having a soft, oval body and eight sucker-bearing arms, living mostly at the bottom of the sea.
- oculist — ophthalmologist.
- offcuts — Plural form of offcut.
- outcast — a falling out; quarrel.
- pectous — of, relating to, or consisting of pectin or protopectin.
- quetsch — Horticulture. a variety of plum.
- sackbut — a medieval form of the trombone.
- sanctum — a sacred or holy place.
- sanctus — (italics). Also called Tersanctus. the hymn beginning “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts,” with which the Eucharistic preface culminates.
- schmutz — dirt; filth; garbage.
- schultz — Dutch, nickname of Arthur Flegenheimer.
- scouted — a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
- scouter — a person who scouts.
- scrotum — the pouch of skin that contains the testes.
- scrunty — stunted
- scultch — culch (def 3).
- scutage — (in the feudal system) a payment exacted by a lord in lieu of military service due to him by the holder of a fee.
- scutari — Lake, a lake between NW Albania and Montenegro. About 135 sq. mi. (350 sq. km).
- scutate — Botany. formed like a round buckler.
- scutter — scurry.
- scuttle — Nautical. a small hatch or port in the deck, side, or bottom of a vessel. a cover for this.
- 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.
- smutchy — of or relating to smutch; dirty; grimy; soiled; smudged.
- squitch — couch grass
- stackup — stack (def 13).
- staunch — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- stickum — any adhesive substance.
- stickup — a holdup; robbery.
- subcult — a cult within a larger cult
- subduct — to take away; subtract.
- subject — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
- subsect — a body of persons adhering to a particular religious faith; a religious denomination.
- succoth — Sukkoth.
- suction — the act, process, or condition of sucking.
- suffect — in ancient Rome, an additional or suffect consul
- sulcate — having long, narrow grooves or channels, as plant stems, or being furrowed or cleft, as hoofs.
- surcoat — a garment worn over medieval armor, often embroidered with heraldic arms.
- suspect — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
- tacitus — Publius Cornelius [puhb-lee-uh s] /ˈpʌb li əs/ (Show IPA), a.d. c55–c120, Roman historian.
- teacups — a cup in which tea is served, usually of small or moderate size.
- tractus — an anthem sung in some Roman Catholic masses
- trochus — (in ancient Greece and Rome) a hoop or wheel, as used in play or exercise
- tuckals — An old statistical package still in use on some VM computers.
- tumesce — to swell or become tumid