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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)
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