7-letter words containing u, n, m, s
- temenus — a son of Aristomachus who was allotted the city of Argos for his participation in the Heraclidae invasion of Peloponnesus.
- tsunami — an unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or undersea volcanic eruption.
- unbosom — to disclose (a confidence, secret, etc.).
- unixism — (operating system, jargon) A piece of code or a coding technique that depends on the protected multitasking environment with relatively low process-spawn overhead that exists on virtual-memory Unix systems. Common Unixisms include: gratuitous use of "fork"; the assumption that certain undocumented but well-known features of Unix libraries such as "stdio" are supported elsewhere; reliance on obscure side-effects of system calls (use of "sleep" with a 0 argument to tell the scheduler that you're willing to give up your time-slice, for example); the assumption that freshly allocated memory is zeroed; and the assumption that fragmentation problems won't arise from never freeing memory. Compare vaxocentrism. See also New Jersey.
- unsmart — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
- urmston — a town in NW England, in Trafford unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 40 964 (2001)