14-letter words containing a, n, o, y, m, s
- mayonnaiselike — Resembling mayonnaise.
- mean solar day — day (def 3a).
- mediastinotomy — (surgery) incision of the mediastinum.
- metalloenzymes — Plural form of metalloenzyme.
- microaneurysms — Plural form of microaneurysm.
- minicoy island — a small island in the S Laccadive Islands, off the SW coast of India. 1.25 sq. mi. (3.24 sq. km).
- minor seminary — a Roman Catholic preparatory school where persons planning to enter the priesthood follow a course of secondary education.
- modal analysis — Modal analysis is the analysis of a structure to find its natural frequencies of vibration.
- money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
- monophysitical — Of or pertaining to monophysitism.
- no easy matter — If something is no easy matter, it is difficult to do it.
- nonsymmetrical — Not symmetrical.
- nonsymptomatic — pertaining to a symptom or symptoms.
- norman dynasty — a succession of English kings founded by Duke William of the duchy of Normandy in northern France, who conquered England in 1066 and whose successors ruled the country to 1154.
- oyster farming — the activity of cultivating oysters for food or pearls
- parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- parsimoniously — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
- pneumodynamics — Physics. pneumatics.
- psychodynamics — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
- pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
- rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
- rna polymerase — an enzyme that synthesizes the formation of RNA from a DNA template during transcription.
- salvation army — an international Christian organization founded in England in 1865 by William Booth, organized along quasi-military lines and devoted chiefly to evangelism and to providing social services, especially to the poor.
- savanna monkey — any of several common, closely allied long-tailed monkeys of African savannas ranging from Senegal to South Africa, including the green monkey, grivet, tantalus, and vervet, which are sometimes considered subspecies and classified together as Cercopithecus aethiops.
- 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.
- 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.
- ship's company — company (def 11).
- simultaneously — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
- snowy mountain — of or relating to the Snowy Mountains of Australia or their inhabitants
- sockeye salmon — an important food fish, Oncorhynchus nerka, inhabiting the North Pacific.
- sodium cyanide — a white, crystalline, deliquescent, water-soluble, poisonous powder, NaCN, prepared by heating sodium amide with charcoal: used chiefly in casehardening alloys, in the leaching and flotation of ore, and in electroplating.
- st. marylebone — former metropolitan borough of London: since 1965, part of Westminster
- standard money — money made of a metal that has utility and value apart from its use as a unit of monetary exchange.
- start-up money — money that is spent on setting up a new business or other project
- storming party — a group deployed to make the first assault on a position or building
- sunday morning — a poem (1923) by Wallace Stevens.
- synaposematism — the display of common warning colours between different organisms inhabiting the same region
- syntactic foam — any of several buoyant materials made up of tiny hollow spheres embedded in a surrounding plastic
- thermoanalysis — thermal analysis.
- thermodynamics — the science concerned with the relations between heat and mechanical energy or work, and the conversion of one into the other: modern thermodynamics deals with the properties of systems for the description of which temperature is a necessary coordinate.
- thomas younger — Thomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
- transpulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
- unaccustomedly — in an unaccustomed manner
- yellow jasmine — Carolina jessamine.
- yeoman service — excellent service
- young marrieds — young married people
- zygosporangium — a sporangium that bears a zygospore.