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14-letter words containing a, n, y, t

  • radiant energy — energy transmitted in wave motion, especially electromagnetic wave motion.
  • radiotelephony — the constructing or operating of radiotelephones.
  • rallying point — A rallying point is a place, event, or person that people are attracted to as a symbol of a political group or ideal.
  • rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • recommendatory — serving to recommend; recommending.
  • recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
  • reconciliatory — tending to reconcile.
  • recreationally — of or relating to recreation: recreational facilities in the park.
  • rectilinearity — the state or quality of being rectilinear
  • referentiality — the quality or state of being referential or containing references
  • refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
  • refund annuity — an annuity providing for a lump-sum payment or installment payments to the beneficiary for the amount remaining of the purchase price at the death of the annuitant.
  • rental library — lending library.
  • retirement pay — a pension; the pay a retired person gets
  • richard tawney — Richard Henry, 1880–1962, English historian, born in Calcutta.
  • rna synthetase — an enzyme that catalyzes the synthesis of RNA in cells infected with RNA viruses, allowing production of copies of the viral RNA.
  • röntgenography — radiography
  • rotary printer — a machine for printing from a revolving cylinder, or a plate attached to one, usually onto a continuous strip of paper
  • roundaboutedly — in a roundabout manner
  • royal standard — a flag bearing the arms of the British sovereign, flown only when she (or he) is present
  • 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.
  • sacramentality — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • safety curtain — a sheet of asbestos or other fireproof material that can be lowered just inside the proscenium arch in case of fire, sealing off the backstage area from the auditorium.
  • safety harness — apparatus with straps to secure sb
  • safety islands — a group of three small French islands in the Atlantic, off the coast of French Guiana
  • 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.
  • sanctuary lamp — a lamp, usually red, placed in a prominent position in the sanctuary of a church, that when lit indicates the presence of the Blessed Sacrament
  • sanitary towel — sanitary napkin.
  • sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
  • scaly anteater — pangolin.
  • scientifically — of or relating to science or the sciences: scientific studies.
  • 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.
  • secure tenancy — the letting of a dwelling by a nonprivate landlord, usually a local council or housing association, under an agreement that allows security of tenure, subletting, improvements made to the property by the tenant without consequent rent increase, and the right to buy the dwelling at a discount after three years' occupancy
  • sentimentality — the quality or state of being sentimental or excessively sentimental.
  • seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
  • shabby-genteel — trying to maintain dignity and self-respect despite shabbiness.
  • shoo-fly plant — apple of Peru.
  • shooting party — a social gathering when people shoot game together
  • silky anteater — an arboreal, tropical American anteater, Cyclopes didactylus, about the size of a rat, having a prehensile tail, glossy, golden fur, and two toes on each forelimb.
  • simultaneously — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
  • sinistrorsally — in a sinistrorsal manner
  • snowy mountain — of or relating to the Snowy Mountains of Australia or their inhabitants
  • socratic irony — pretended ignorance in discussion.
  • spiny anteater — echidna.
  • st. john's day — the saint's day of St. John the Baptist, celebrated on June 24, being one of the four quarter days in England.
  • st. marylebone — former metropolitan borough of London: since 1965, part of Westminster
  • stagflationary — of, caused by, or relating to, stagflation
  • standard money — money made of a metal that has utility and value apart from its use as a unit of monetary exchange.
  • stanley dancer — Stanley, 1927–2005, U.S. harness racer and trainer.
  • start-up money — money that is spent on setting up a new business or other project
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