7-letter words containing s, t, i, m
- mistake — an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
- mistbow — fogbow.
- mistell — A message sent to an incorrect recipient in an instant messaging program or online game.
- mistend — to care for or tend wrongly or improperly
- misterm — To call by a wrong name; to miscall.
- misters — Plural form of mister.
- mistery — Archaic form of mystery (a trade).
- mistful — clouded with or full of mist
- mistico — a small Mediterranean sailing ship with three masts
- mistide — (obsolete, intransitive) To happen or come to pass through misfortune.
- mistify — To envelop or shroud in mist.
- mistily — abounding in or clouded by mist.
- mistime — to time badly; perform, say, propose, etc., at a bad or inappropriate time.
- misting — a cloudlike aggregation of minute globules of water suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface, reducing visibility to a lesser degree than fog.
- mistook — simple past tense of mistake.
- mistral — Frédéric [frey-dey-reek] /freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, French Provençal poet: Nobel prize 1904.
- mistune — to fail to tune correctly
- misturn — (transitive) To turn wrongly or incorrectly; turn aside wrongly; pervert.
- mistype — 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.
- miswart — /mis-wort/ [By analogy with misbug] A feature that superficially appears to be a wart but has been determined to be the Right Thing. For example, in some versions of the Emacs text editor, the "transpose characters" command exchanges the character under the cursor with the one before it on the screen, *except* when the cursor is at the end of a line, in which case the two characters before the cursor are exchanged. While this behaviour is perhaps surprising, and certainly inconsistent, it has been found through extensive experimentation to be what most users want. This feature is a miswart.
- mitches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mitch.
- mithers — Plural form of mither.
- mithras — the god of light and truth, later of the sun.
- mitoses — the usual method of cell division, characterized typically by the resolving of the chromatin of the nucleus into a threadlike form, which condenses into chromosomes, each of which separates longitudinally into two parts, one part of each chromosome being retained in each of two new cells resulting from the original cell.
- mitosis — the usual method of cell division, characterized typically by the resolving of the chromatin of the nucleus into a threadlike form, which condenses into chromosomes, each of which separates longitudinally into two parts, one part of each chromosome being retained in each of two new cells resulting from the original cell.
- mitsvah — mitzvah.
- mittens — Plural form of mitten.
- mobbist — One who engages in mobbism; a member of a mob.
- modiste — Older Use. a female maker of or dealer in women's fashionable attire.
- moisten — Wet slightly.
- moister — moderately or slightly wet; damp.
- moistly — In a moist manner.
- mojitos — Plural form of mojito.
- monists — Plural form of monist.
- morisot — Berthe [bert] /bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1841–95, French Impressionist painter.
- mortise — a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
- moshpit — The moshpit at a rock concert is the area in front of the stage where people jump up and down.
- motions — Plural form of motion.
- motives — Plural form of motive.
- 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.
- mystics — Plural form of mystic.
- mystify — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
- mytilus — Any of the genus Mytilus of marine bivalve shells, including the common mussel.
- osmatic — of or relating to the sense of smell.
- osmotic — Physical Chemistry, Cell Biology. the tendency of a fluid, usually water, to pass through a semipermeable membrane into a solution where the solvent concentration is higher, thus equalizing the concentrations of materials on either side of the membrane. the diffusion of fluids through membranes or porous partitions. Compare endosmosis, exosmosis.