Words containing w, i, m
3 letter words containing w, i, m
- wmi — Windows Management Interface
4 letter words containing w, i, m
- dwim — /dwim/ [acronym, "Do What I Mean" (not what I say)] 1. Able to guess, sometimes even correctly, the result intended when bogus input was provided. 2. The BBNLISP/INTERLISP function that attempted to accomplish this feat by correcting many of the more common errors. See hairy. 3. Occasionally, an interjection hurled at a balky computer, especially when one senses one might be tripping over legalisms (see legalese). Warren Teitelman originally wrote DWIM to fix his typos and spelling errors, so it was somewhat idiosyncratic to his style, and would often make hash of anyone else's typos if they were stylistically different. Some victims of DWIM thus claimed that the acronym stood for "Damn Warren's Infernal Machine!'. In one notorious incident, Warren added a DWIM feature to the command interpreter used at Xerox PARC. One day another hacker there typed "delete *$" to free up some disk space. (The editor there named backup files by appending "$" to the original file name, so he was trying to delete any backup files left over from old editing sessions.) It happened that there weren't any editor backup files, so DWIM helpfully reported "*$ not found, assuming you meant 'delete *'". It then started to delete all the files on the disk! The hacker managed to stop it with a Vulcan nerve pinch after only a half dozen or so files were lost. The disgruntled victim later said he had been sorely tempted to go to Warren's office, tie Warren down in his chair in front of his workstation, and then type "delete *$" twice. DWIM is often suggested in jest as a desired feature for a complex program; it is also occasionally described as the single instruction the ideal computer would have. Back when proofs of program correctness were in vogue, there were also jokes about "DWIMC" (Do What I Mean, Correctly). A related term, more often seen as a verb, is DTRT (Do The Right Thing); see Right Thing.
- swim — to move in water by movements of the limbs, fins, tail, etc.
- whim — an odd or capricious notion or desire; a sudden or freakish fancy: a sudden whim to take a midnight walk.
- wimp — any of a group of weakly interacting elementary particles predicted by various unified field theories, as the W particle and Z-zero particle, that are characterized by relatively large masses.
5 letter words containing w, i, m
- aswim — in a drifting or bobbing manner
- cmiiw — correct me if I'm wrong
- immew — Alternative form of emmew.
- iswim — (language) (If You See What I Mean) An influential but unimplemented computer programming language described in the article by Peter J. Landin cited below. Landin attempted to capture all known programming language concepts, including assignment and control operators such as goto and coroutines, within a single lambda calculus based framework. ISWIM is an imperative language with a functional core, consisting of sugared lambda calculus plus mutable variables and assignment. A powerful control mechanism, Landin's J operator, enables capture of the current continuation (the call/cc operator of Scheme is a simplified version). Being based on lambda calculus ISWIM had higher order functions and lexically scoped variables. The operational semantics of ISWIM are defined using Landin's SECD machine and use call-by-value (eager evaluation). To make ISWIM look more like mathematical notation, Landin replaced ALGOL's semicolons and begin end blocks with the off-side rule and scoping based on indentation. An ISWIM program is a single expression qualified by "where" clauses (auxiliary definitions including equations among variables), conditional expressions and function definitions. With CPL, ISWIM was one of the first programming languages to use "where" clauses. New data types could be defined as a (possibly recursive) sum of products like the algebraic data types found in modern functional languages. ISWIM variables were probably dynamically typed but Landin may have planned some form of type inference. Concepts from ISWIM appear in Art Evan's PAL and John Reynold's Gedanken, Milner's ML and purely functional languages with lazy evaluation like SASL, Miranda and Haskell.
- miaow — to make the sound of a cat.
6 letter words containing w, i, m
- dimwit — a stupid or slow-thinking person.
- impawn — to put in pawn; pledge.
- malawi — Formerly Nyasaland. a republic in SE Africa, on the W and S shores of Lake Malawi: formerly a British protectorate and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence July 6, 1964; a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 49,177 sq. mi. (127,368 sq. km). Capital: Lilongwe.
- mawkin — malkin.
- mawlid — a Muslim holiday celebrating the birth of Muhammad, occurring on the twelfth day of the month of Rabiʿ al-awwal, and characterized especially by the recitation of panegyrical poems honoring Muhammad.
7 letter words containing w, i, m
- aruwimi — a river in NE Democratic Republic of Congo, rising near Lake Albert as the Ituri and flowing west into the River Congo. Length: about 1288 km (800 miles)
- dimwits — Plural form of dimwit.
- downmix — (transitive) To mix (a number of distinct audio channels) to produce a lower number of channels.
- imbower — Archaic form of embower.
- impower — Archaic form of empower.
8 letter words containing w, i, m
9 letter words containing w, i, m
- antiwoman — hostile to women
- arm-twist — to subject to arm-twisting: The unions arm-twisted the government into negotiating by threatening widespread strikes.
- bashawism — the combined characteristics of a bashaw, esp haughtiness, imperiousness
- blindworm — a legless lizard (Anguis fragilis) of the Old World; slowworm: it has very small eyes and a snakelike body that is usually brownish
- brainworm — a microscopic, parasitic roundworm that infests the brain of large hoofed animals, as deer.
10 letter words containing w, i, m
- aircrewman — a member of an aircrew.
- anthemwise — alternately
- anti-woman — the female human being, as distinguished from a girl or a man.
- arrowsmith — a novel (1925) by Sinclair Lewis.
- atomweight — (martial arts, combat sports) the weightclass below strawweight of less than 105lbs.
11 letter words containing w, i, m
- antimalware — Designed or intended to combat or eliminate malware on a computer system.
- backswimmer — an aquatic bug belonging to the family Notonectidae that swims on its back using its back legs as oars
- betweentime — the time between events; interval
- bewitchment — the state of being bewitched
- chairwarmer — an office holder, committee member, or employee who is inactive and ineffective
12 letter words containing w, i, m
- al-khwarizmi — Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
- arm-twisting — persuasion
- backswimmers — Plural form of backswimmer.
- bantamweight — A bantamweight is a boxer who weighs between 51 and 53.5 kilograms, or a wrestler who weighs between 52 and 57 kilograms. A bantamweight is heavier than a flyweight but lighter than a featherweight.
- betweentimes — between other activities; during intervals
13 letter words containing w, i, m
- aircraftwoman — The female equivalent of an aircraftman.
- aircraftwomen — Plural form of aircraftwoman.
- bantamweights — Plural form of bantamweight.
- businesswoman — A businesswoman is a woman who works in business.
- checkweighman — a representative elected by coal miners to check the findings of the mine owner's weighman where miners are paid by the weight of coal mined.
14 letter words containing w, i, m
- aircraftswoman — a woman holding a noncommissioned rank in the RAF.
- atomic-powered — powered by atomic energy
- committeewoman — a female member of a committee
- committeewomen — Plural form of committeewoman.
- disembowelling — (chiefly, British) present participle of disembowel.
15 letter words containing w, i, m
- casement-window — a window sash opening on hinges that are generally attached to the upright side of its frame.
- craftswomanship — The body of skills, techniques, and expertise of (a) feminine craft(s).
- ex-servicewoman — a woman who has served in the army, navy, or air force
- flamingo-flower — a central American plant, Anthurium scherzeranum, of the arum family, having a red, coiled spadix and a bright red, shiny, heart-shaped spathe, grown as an ornamental.
- low-maintenance — requiring little attention or upkeep
16 letter words containing w, i, m
- asalam-wa-leikum — a salutation used in India
- narrowmindedness — Alternative spelling of narrow-mindedness.
- overwhelmingness — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
- swedenborgianism — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
- whatchamacallits — Plural form of whatchamacallit.
17 letter words containing w, i, m
- browserconfig.xml — (web) A Microsoft configuration file used to customise the appearance and behaviour of website links pinned to the Windows start screen or desktop taskbar. browserconfig.xml allows the site owner to specify things like badges and tile images.
- down-in-the-mouth — glum
- downwardly-mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
- well-accomplished — completed; done; effected: an accomplished fact.
- white-nationalism — white supremacy.
20 letter words containing w, i, m
- climbing-bittersweet — Also called woody nightshade. a climbing or trailing plant, Solanum dulcamara, of the nightshade family, having small, violet, star-shaped flowers with a protruding yellow center and scarlet berries.
- gentleman-in-waiting — a man who comes from a family of high social standing and who is attached to a royal household or to the household of a person of high rank
- hail-fellow-well-met — friendly but insincere
- hawaii-standard-time — Alaska-Hawaii time.
- mecklenburg-schwerin — a former state in NE Germany, formed in 1934 from two states (Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz)
21 letter words containing w, i, m
- model-view-controller — (programming) (MVC) A way of partitioning the design of interactive software; a software architecture pattern. The "model" is the internal workings of the program (the data objects and algorithms), the "view" is how the user sees the state of the model and the "controller" is how the user changes the state or provides input. MVC was the original kind of what is now sometimes called an MV* pattern. Trygve Reenskaug introduced it into Smalltalk-76 while visiting Xerox PARC in the 1970s.
22 letter words containing w, i, m
- mind-your-own-business — baby's-tears.
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