7-letter words containing ic
- mochica — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pre-Inca culture that flourished on the northern coast of Peru from the 3rd century b.c. to the 7th century a.d. and is especially noted for fine pottery vessels with stirrup spouts, some bearing drawings of all aspects of cultural life.
- modicum — a moderate or small amount: He hasn't even a modicum of common sense.
- mohican — Mahican.
- monadic — Biology. any simple, single-celled organism. any of various small, flagellate, colorless ameboids with one to three flagella, especially of the genus Monas.
- monodic — of or relating to monody.
- moronic — Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment: I wonder why they elected that narrow-minded moron to Congress.
- morphic — Linguistics. a sequence of phonemes constituting a minimal unit of grammar or syntax, and, as such, a representation, member, or contextual variant of a morpheme in a specific environment. Compare allomorph (def 2).
- morrice — A morris dance.
- mortice — to secure with a mortise and tenon.
- mosaics — Plural form of mosaic.
- motific — Producing motion.
- motivic — of or relating to a motif.
- motoric — motor (def 11).
- 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.
- musical — of, relating to, or producing music: a musical instrument.
- musicam — (audio, compression) A name for MPEG-1 Layer 2 used for broadcasting. Common data rates are 192, 224, and 256 kbps.
- myalgic — Pertaining to myalgia.
- mycotic — of, relating to, or caused by a fungus.
- mystics — Plural form of mystic.
- nematic — noting a mesomorphic state in which the arrangement of the molecules is linear.
- neozoic — of or formed at any time after the end of the Mesozoic era
- nephric — renal.
- nepotic — patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics: She was accused of nepotism when she made her nephew an officer of the firm.
- neritic — of or relating to the region of water lying directly above the sublittoral zone of the sea bottom.
- neustic — the part of a sentence which differs with the mood of the sentence
- niblick — a club with an iron head, the face of which has the greatest slope of all the irons, for hitting the ball with maximum loft.
- nicaean — Nicene.
- niceish — quite nice, fairly nice
- nicetas — Saint (Ignatius Theophorus) a.d. c40–107? bishop of Antioch and Apostolic Father.
- niching — an ornamental recess in a wall or the like, usually semicircular in plan and arched, as for a statue or other decorative object.
- nichole — a female given name.
- nichols — John, born 1940, U.S. novelist.
- nickels — Plural form of nickel.
- nickers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nicker.
- nicking — a small notch, groove, chip, or the like, cut into or existing in something.
- nickles — Plural form of nickle.
- nicoise — in the style of Nice, France.
- nicol i — 1. Small subset of PL/I by (Massachusetts) Computer Assoc, ca. 1965. Version: NICOL II (1967). Sammet 1969, p.542. 2. ICL, 1968. [same as 1?]
- nicolai — (Carl) Otto (Ehrenfried) [kahrl awt-oh ey-ruh n-freet] /kɑrl ˈɔt oʊ ˈeɪ rənˌfrit/ (Show IPA), 1810–49, German composer.
- nicolas — a masculine name
- nicolay — John George, 1832–1901, U.S. biographer.
- nicolet — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1598–1642, French explorer in America.
- nicolle — Charles [sharl] /ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1866–1936, French physician: Nobel prize 1928.
- nicosia — an island republic in the Mediterranean, S of Turkey: formerly a British colony; independent since 1960. 3572 sq. mi. (9250 sq. km). Capital: Nicosia.
- nicotic — (chemistry) nicotinic.
- nictate — to wink.
- niddick — the nape of the neck
- niladic — (programming) A less common synonym for "nullary", presumably following the more common monadic, dyadic, etc. The term was in use as early as 1976, and probably originated in APL.
- nilotic — of or relating to the Nile River or the inhabitants of the Nile region.
- nitpick — to be excessively concerned with or critical of inconsequential details.