7-letter words containing s, i, t, u
- misturn — (transitive) To turn wrongly or incorrectly; turn aside wrongly; pervert.
- 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.
- munites — to fortify.
- muntins — Plural form of muntin.
- 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.
- mytilus — Any of the genus Mytilus of marine bivalve shells, including the common mussel.
- neustic — the part of a sentence which differs with the mood of the sentence
- nitrous — pertaining to compounds obtained from niter, usually containing less oxygen than the corresponding nitric compounds.
- nonsuit — a judgment given against a plaintiff who neglects to prosecute, or who fails to show a legal cause of action or to bring sufficient evidence.
- nudists — Plural form of nudist.
- oculist — ophthalmologist.
- ousting — to expel or remove from a place or position occupied: The bouncer ousted the drunk; to oust the prime minister in the next election.
- oustiti — a device for opening a locked door from the outside
- outbids — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outbid.
- outfish — to catch more fish than
- outfits — Plural form of outfit.
- outings — Plural form of outing.
- outjies — Plural form of outjie.
- outkiss — to exceed in kissing
- outsail — to outdo in sailing; sail farther, more skillfully, or faster than.
- outside — the outer side, surface, or part; exterior: The outside of the house needs painting.
- outsing — to sing better than.
- outsits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outsit.
- outsize — an uncommon or irregular size, especially one larger than average.
- outswim — (transitive) To swim faster than.
- outvies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outvie.
- outwish — to wish more or more strongly than
- outwits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outwit.
- paulist — a member of the “Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle,” a community of priests founded in New York in 1858.
- peritus — a Catholic theological expert and consultant who gives advice at an ecumenical council of the church
- photius — a.d. c820–891, patriarch of Constantinople 858–867, 877–882.
- pilatus — a mountain in central Switzerland, near Lucerne: a peak of the Alps; cable railway. 6998 feet (2130 meters).
- pitatus — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 50 miles (80 km) in diameter.
- piteous — evoking or deserving pity; pathetic: piteous cries for help.
- plumist — a person who makes ornamental plumes
- pursuit — the act of pursuing: in pursuit of the fox.
- pushpit — a safety rail at the stern of a boat
- querist — a person who inquires or questions.
- questin — (organic compound) The substituted anthraquinone 3-methyl, 1,6-dihydroxy, 8-methoxy 9,10-anthraquinone found in some species of Rubiaceae.
- quietus — a finishing stroke; anything that effectually ends or settles: Having given a quietus to the argument, she left.
- revuist — someone who writes revues or light theatre consisting of satirical sketches
- riotous — (of an act) characterized by or of the nature of rioting or a disturbance of the peace.
- runtish — an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
- rustavi — a city in the SE Georgian Republic, SE of Tbilisi.
- rusting — Also called iron rust. the red or orange coating that forms on the surface of iron when exposed to air and moisture, consisting chiefly of ferric hydroxide and ferric oxide formed by oxidation.
- ruttish — salacious; lustful.
- sautoir — a ribbon, chain, scarf, or the like, tied around the neck in such a manner that the ends cross over each other.
- scutari — Lake, a lake between NW Albania and Montenegro. About 135 sq. mi. (350 sq. km).