7-letter words containing s, t, c, l
- custrel — a servant or attendant to a knight or man-at-arms
- cutlass — A cutlass is a short sword that used to be used by sailors.
- cutlers — Plural form of cutler.
- cutlets — Plural form of cutlet.
- cuttles — Plural form of cuttle.
- cyclist — A cyclist is someone who rides a bicycle, or is riding a bicycle.
- cytosol — the solution of proteins and metabolites inside a biological cell, in which the organelles are suspended
- dactyls — Plural form of dactyl.
- delicts — Plural form of delict.
- elastic — (of an object or material) able to resume its normal shape spontaneously after contraction, dilatation, or distortion.
- elicits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elicit.
- fluctus — (astronomy, geology) An area covered by outflow from a volcano.
- italics — designating or pertaining to a style of printing types in which the letters usually slope to the right, patterned upon a compact manuscript hand, and used for emphasis, to separate different kinds of information, etc.: These words are in italic type.
- klatsch — a casual gathering of people, especially for refreshments and informal conversation: a sewing klatsch.
- laciest — Superlative form of lacy.
- lacoste — René [ruh-ney;; French ruh-ney] /rəˈneɪ;; French rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1905–1996, French tennis player.
- lactase — an enzyme capable of hydrolyzing lactose into glucose and galactose.
- lactose — Biochemistry. a disaccharide, C 12 H 22 O 11 , present in milk, that upon hydrolysis yields glucose and galactose.
- lancets — Plural form of lancet.
- latches — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- latices — a plural of latex.
- lectins — Plural form of lectin.
- lectors — Plural form of lector.
- letches — a lecherous desire or craving.
- lictors — Plural form of lictor.
- linctus — (medicine) Any syrupy medication; especially a remedy for coughs.
- litchis — Plural form of litchi.
- locates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of locate.
- lockets — Plural form of locket.
- lockset — an assembly of parts making up a complete locking system, especially one used on a door, including knobs, plates, and a lock mechanism.
- locusta — the spikelet of grasses
- locusts — Plural form of locust.
- lolcats — Plural form of lolcat.
- 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.
- occults — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of occult.
- ocelots — Plural form of ocelot.
- oculist — ophthalmologist.
- plastic — Often, plastics. any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.
- saltcat — a salty matter for attracting pigeons
- satchel — Leroy Robert ("Satchel") 1906–82, U.S. baseball player.
- scantle — a small or scant amount
- scantly — barely sufficient in amount or quantity; not abundant; almost inadequate: to do scant justice.
- scarlet — a bright-red color inclining toward orange.
- scheldt — a river in W Europe, flowing from N France through W Belgium and SW Netherlands into the North Sea. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- schultz — Dutch, nickname of Arthur Flegenheimer.
- sciolto — (of a piece of music) to be played freely and easily
- scultch — culch (def 3).
- scuttle — Nautical. a small hatch or port in the deck, side, or bottom of a vessel. a cover for this.
- scytale — a tool used to transmit secret messages by way of wrapping a strip of leather around a cylinder and writing on it. The leather is then unwound and must be wrapped around a cylinder of the same size to read the message. Used by the Ancient Greeks, particularly the Spartans
- sectile — capable of being cut smoothly with a knife.