7-letter words containing s, i, m, l
- mistral — Frédéric [frey-dey-reek] /freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, French Provençal poet: Nobel prize 1904.
- mizzles — mist or drizzle.
- mobiles — Plural form of mobile.
- moistly — In a moist manner.
- molines — a city in NW Illinois, on the Mississippi.
- molinos — Miguel de [mee-gel de] /miˈgɛl dɛ/ (Show IPA), c1640–c95, Spanish priest and mystic: chief exponent of quietism.
- mollies — Plural form of molly.
- moulins — a river flowing N from S France to the Loire. About 250 miles (400 km) long.
- mousily — In a mousy manner.
- ms mail — Microsoft Mail
- mudsill — the lowest sill of a structure, usually placed in or on the ground.
- 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.
- mushily — In a mushy manner.
- musical — of, relating to, or producing music: a musical instrument.
- muskily — in a musky manner
- mustily — In a musty manner.
- myalism — a kind of witchcraft, similar to obi, practised esp in the Caribbean
- mytilus — Any of the genus Mytilus of marine bivalve shells, including the common mussel.
- obelism — the practice of marking or adding comments on passages in a text
- oralism — the theory, practice, or advocacy of education for the deaf chiefly or exclusively through lipreading, training in speech production, and training of residual hearing.
- osmanli — an Ottoman.
- phlomis — a plant that belongs to the genus Phlomis and family Labiatae or Lamiaceae
- plasmic — Anatomy, Physiology. the liquid part of blood or lymph, as distinguished from the suspended elements.
- plasmid — a segment of DNA independent of the chromosomes and capable of replication, occurring in bacteria and yeast: used in recombinant DNA procedures to transfer genetic material from one cell to another.
- plasmin — fibrinolysin.
- plenism — the philosophical theory that there are no vacuums in nature
- plumist — a person who makes ornamental plumes
- prelims — preliminary.
- quilmes — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
- realism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- riksmal — Bokmål.
- rimless — glasses: without full frames
- salamis — a kind of sausage, originally Italian, often flavored with garlic.
- sawmill — a place or building in which timber is sawed into planks, boards, etc., by machinery.
- selfism — an emphasis on self; a selfish concentration on one's own interests or a philosophy based on them
- semilog — (of graphing) having one scale logarithmic and the other arithmetic or of uniform gradation.
- seminal — pertaining to, containing, or consisting of semen.
- similar — having a likeness or resemblance, especially in a general way: two similar houses.
- similes — a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.”. Compare metaphor.
- similix — An autoprojector (self-applicable partial evaluator) for a higher order subset of the strict functional language Scheme. Similix handles programs with user defined primitive abstract data type operators which may process global variables (such as input/output operators). Version 5.0. Anders Bondorf <[email protected]> conformance: extension of large subset of R4RS Scheme. requires: Scheme ports: Scm, Chez Scheme portability: high E-mail: Anders Bondorf <[email protected]>
- similor — an alloy used in the manufacture of cheap jewellery
- simpl-t — The base language for a family of languages and compilers.
- simpler — easy to understand, deal with, use, etc.: a simple matter; simple tools.
- simplex — simple; consisting of or characterized by a single element.
- simplon — a mountain pass in S Switzerland, in the Lepontine Alps: crossed by a carriage road constructed 1800–06 on Napoleon's orders. 6592 feet (2010 meters) high.
- simular — a person or thing that simulates; pretender.
- slavism — something that is native to, characteristic of, or associated with the Slavs or Slavic.
- sliming — thin, glutinous mud.
- slimmer — a garment size meant for a thin person.
- slumism — the prevalence or increase of urban slums and blighted areas.