14-letter words containing a, n, c, t, i, o
- rostrocarinate — a chipped flint with a beaklike shape found in the late Tertiary sediments of Suffolk, England, once thought to have been worked by humans but now known to have been shaped by natural nonhuman agencies.
- rotating stock — Rotating stock is a system used especially in food stores and to reduce wastage, in which the oldest stock is moved to the front of shelves and new stock is added at the back.
- rsa encryption — (cryptography, algorithm) A public-key cryptosystem for both encryption and authentication, invented in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. Its name comes from their initials. The RSA algorithm works as follows. Take two large prime numbers, p and q, and find their product n = pq; n is called the modulus. Choose a number, e, less than n and relatively prime to (p-1)(q-1), and find its reciprocal mod (p-1)(q-1), and call this d. Thus ed = 1 mod (p-1)(q-1); e and d are called the public and private exponents, respectively. The public key is the pair (n, e); the private key is d. The factors p and q must be kept secret, or destroyed. It is difficult (presumably) to obtain the private key d from the public key (n, e). If one could factor n into p and q, however, then one could obtain the private key d. Thus the entire security of RSA depends on the difficulty of factoring; an easy method for factoring products of large prime numbers would break RSA.
- saint boniface — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
- saint francois — a river in S Quebec, Canada, flowing generally W to the St. Lawrence River. 165 miles (266 km) long.
- saint nicholas — Saint ("Nicholas the Great") died a.d. 867, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 858–867.
- sample section — a section of sth, intended as representative of the whole
- sanctification — to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
- sanguification — hematopoiesis.
- sansculotterie — the characteristics of sansculottes
- sansculottides — the festivities held during the five complementary days in the French Republican Calendar
- saponification — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.
- satisfactional — an act of satisfying; fulfillment; gratification.
- schematization — to reduce to or arrange according to a scheme.
- schizognathous — (of birds) having a separation in the vomer and maxillo-palatine bones, having a cleft-palate
- schoolteaching — the profession of a schoolteacher.
- sclerotization — the state of being sclerotized.
- scrutinization — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- scsi initiator — (hardware) A device that begins a SCSI transaction by issuing a command to another device (the SCSI target), giving it a task to perform. Typically a SCSI host adapter is the initiator but targets may also become initiators.
- sectionization — the act or state of being sectionized
- secularization — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
- securitization — the use of such securities as eurobonds to enable investors to lend directly to borrowers with a minimum of risk but without using banks as intermediaries
- self-contained — containing in oneself or itself all that is necessary; independent.
- semi-nocturnal — active at night (opposed to diurnal): nocturnal animals.
- serbo-croatian — a Slavic language spoken in Serbia and Croatia, usually written with Cyrillic letters in Serbia but with Roman letters in Croatia.
- sericitization — the process of transforming into sericite
- serodiscordant — pertaining to a relationship with one HIV-positive partner and one HIV-negative partner.
- shadow cabinet — (in the British Parliament) a group of prominent members of the opposition who are expected to hold positions in the cabinet when their party assumes power.
- shooting match — a contest in marksmanship.
- shouting match — a loud, often abusive quarrel or argument.
- shower curtain — waterproof sheet around a shower
- silent auction — an auction at which previously submitted written bids of prospective buyers are opened and compared, with each item being sold to the highest bidder.
- simplification — to make less complex or complicated; make plainer or easier: to simplify a problem.
- smart sanction — a sanction intended to affect only a particular area of a country's activities or economy
- smoking jacket — a loose-fitting jacket for men, often of a heavy fabric and trimmed with braid, worn indoors, especially as a lounging jacket.
- social control — Sociology. the enforcement of conformity by society upon its members, either by law or by social pressure.
- social network — a network of friends, colleagues, and other personal contacts: Strong social networks can encourage healthy behaviors.
- social tagging — the practice of generating electronic tags or keywords by users rather than specialists as a way to classify and describe online content: Social tagging can enhance students' access to online collections of art.
- socratic irony — pretended ignorance in discussion.
- solidification — to make solid; make into a hard or compact mass; change from a liquid or gaseous to a solid form.
- somali current — a current of the Indian Ocean, flowing northward along the coast of Somalia in summer and southwestward the rest of the year.
- son of a bitch — a contemptible or thoroughly disagreeable person; scoundrel.
- sophisticating — a sophisticated person.
- sophistication — sophisticated character, ideas, tastes, or ways as the result of education, worldly experience, etc.: the sophistication of the wealthy.
- sorting tracks — the part of a railroad yard used for the final sorting of cars from a classification yard.
- south american — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- south carolina — a state in the SE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 31,055 sq. mi. (80,430 sq. km). Capital: Columbia. Abbreviation: SC (for use with zip code), S.C.
- specialisation — the act of specializing, or pursuing a particular line of study or work: Medical students with high student loans often feel driven into specialization.
- specialization — the act of specializing, or pursuing a particular line of study or work: Medical students with high student loans often feel driven into specialization.
- spinthariscope — an instrument that detects ionizing radiation by picking up sparks of light from alpha particles.