14-letter words containing a, c, o, m
- rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- re-accommodate — to do a kindness or a favor to; oblige: to accommodate a friend by helping him move to a new apartment.
- reaccumulation — act or state of accumulating; state of being accumulated.
- reach-me-downs — trousers
- recommendation — an act of recommending.
- recommendatory — serving to recommend; recommending.
- recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
- reconfirmation — the act of confirming.
- record company — business: sells recorded music
- report a claim — If you report a claim, you inform an insurer that an insured event has occurred and that you intend to ask the insurer for financial payment.
- rhaeto-romance — the group of closely related Romance dialects, including Romansch and Ladin, spoken in SE Switzerland, the Tirol, and N Italy
- rhaeto-romanic — a Romance language consisting of Friulian, Tyrolese, Ladin, and the Romansh dialects.
- rhombic aerial — a directional travelling-wave aerial, usually horizontal, consisting of two conductors each forming a pair of adjacent sides of a rhombus
- rock formation — rock that is arranged or formed in a certain way
- rock mechanics — the study of the mechanical behaviour of rocks, esp their strength, elasticity, permeability, porosity, density, and reaction to stress
- roman calendar — the calendar in use in ancient Rome until 46 b.c., when it was replaced with the Julian calendar.
- roman catholic — of or relating to the Roman Catholic Church.
- rosicrucianism — the practices or principles of Rosicrucians.
- rostral column — a memorial column having sculptures representing the rams of ancient ships.
- rowing machine — an exercise machine having a mechanism with two oarlike handles, foot braces, and a sliding seat, allowing the user to go through the motions of rowing in a racing shell.
- royal coachman — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
- saccharomycete — a single-celled yeast of the family Saccharomycetaceae, having no mycelium.
- sacred monster — a celebrity whose eccentricities or indiscretions are easily forgiven by admirers.
- sado-masochism — Sado-masochism is the enjoyment of hurting people and being hurt.
- sample section — a section of sth, intended as representative of the whole
- sarcocarcinoma — carcinosarcoma.
- scandium oxide — a white infusible powder, Sc 2 O 3 , soluble in acids.
- scapulohumeral — of, relating to, or involving the scapula and humerus.
- scaremongering — a person who creates or spreads alarming news.
- sceuophylacium — a place where sacred vessels are kept
- schafer method — a method of artificial respiration in which the patient is placed face downward, pressure then being rhythmically applied with the hands to the lower part of the thorax.
- schematization — to reduce to or arrange according to a scheme.
- schlaer-mellor — An object-oriented analysis (OOA), design and modelling method that addresses the integration of structural and behavioural properties. It also allows an animation of the design.
- scholar's mate — a simple mate by the queen on the f7 square, achievable by white's fourth move
- scratch monkey — (humour) As in "Before testing or reconfiguring, always mount a scratch monkey", a proverb used to advise caution when dealing with irreplaceable data or devices. Used to refer to any scratch volume hooked to a computer during any risky operation as a replacement for some precious resource or data that might otherwise get trashed. This term preserves the memory of Mabel, the Swimming Wonder Monkey, star of a biological research program at the University of Toronto. Mabel was not (so the legend goes) your ordinary monkey; the university had spent years teaching her how to swim, breathing through a regulator, in order to study the effects of different gas mixtures on her physiology. Mabel suffered an untimely demise one day when a DEC engineer troubleshooting a crash on the program's VAX inadvertently interfered with some custom hardware that was wired to Mabel. It is reported that, after calming down an understandably irate customer sufficiently to ascertain the facts of the matter, a DEC troubleshooter called up the field circus manager responsible and asked him sweetly, "Can you swim?" Not all the consequences to humans were so amusing; the sysop of the machine in question was nearly thrown in jail at the behest of certain clueless droids at the local "humane" society. The moral is clear: When in doubt, always mount a scratch monkey. A corespondent adds: The details you give are somewhat consistent with the version I recall from the Digital "War Stories" notesfile, but the name "Mabel" and the swimming bit were not mentioned, IIRC. Also, there's a very detailed account that claims that three monkies died in the incident, not just one. I believe Eric Postpischil wrote the original story at DEC, so his coming back with a different version leads me to wonder whether there ever was a real Scratch Monkey incident.
- second baseman — the player whose position is second base.
- second chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
- secondary beam — a beam of particles of one kind selected from the group of particles produced when a beam of particles from an accelerator (primary beam) strikes a target.
- self-dominance — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
- semi-automatic — partly automatic.
- semi-dominance — incomplete dominance.
- semi-nocturnal — active at night (opposed to diurnal): nocturnal animals.
- semi-socialism — a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
- semicommercial — of, relating to, or characterized by limited marketing of an experimental product
- semiofficially — in a semiofficial manner
- semiologically — in a semiological manner; in a way that pertains to semiology
- semito-hamitic — a former name for the Afro-Asiatic family of languages
- service a room — If you service a room, you clean it and change the towels and bed linen in it.
- servomechanism — an electronic control system in which a hydraulic, pneumatic, or other type of controlling mechanism is actuated and controlled by a low-energy signal.
- shalach manoth — the practice of giving gifts to one another or to the needy on Purim.