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14-letter words containing a, s, m, n

  • saint matthias — the disciple chosen by lot to replace Judas as one of the 12 apostles (Acts 1:15–26). Feast day: May 14 or Aug 9
  • sales campaign — product promotion and publicity
  • salle a manger — a dining room.
  • salmon fishing — the sport of angling for salmon
  • 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.
  • sample section — a section of sth, intended as representative of the whole
  • 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
  • sanitation man — a man who collects and disposes of refuse for the sanitation department of local government
  • sarcocarcinoma — carcinosarcoma.
  • 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.
  • saxe-meiningen — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
  • scandium oxide — a white infusible powder, Sc 2 O 3 , soluble in acids.
  • scaremongering — a person who creates or spreads alarming news.
  • schematization — to reduce to or arrange according to a scheme.
  • schumann-heink — Ernestine, 1861–1936, U.S. contralto, born in Bohemia.
  • scrap merchant — dealer in discarded materials
  • 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.
  • scream and die — Synonym cough and die, but connotes that an error message was printed or displayed before the program crashed.
  • scrimmage line — line of scrimmage.
  • seaman recruit — a noncommissioned enlisted person of the lowest rank. Abbreviation: SR.
  • 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.
  • segmental arch — a shallow arch not including a complete semicircle
  • seine-et-marne — a department in N France. 2290 sq. mi. (5930 sq. km). Capital: Melun.
  • seine-maritime — a department in NW France. 2449 sq. mi. (6340 sq. km). Capital: Rouen.
  • self-abasement — humiliation of oneself, especially as a result of guilt, shame, or the like.
  • self-adornment — something that adds attractiveness; ornament; accessory: the adornments and furnishings of a room.
  • self-dominance — rule; control; authority; ascendancy.
  • self-formation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
  • self-impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
  • self-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
  • self-mediating — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
  • self-treatment — an act or manner of treating.
  • selling climax — a brief, abrupt decline in stock prices that is succeeded by a rally.
  • semantic field — an area of human experience or perception, as color, that is delimited and subcategorized by a set of interrelated vocabulary items in a language.
  • semi-dominance — incomplete dominance.
  • semi-legendary — somewhat legendary; having something of the nature of a legend; almost legendary
  • semi-malignant — disposed to cause harm, suffering, or distress deliberately; feeling or showing ill will or hatred.
  • semi-narrative — a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
  • semi-nocturnal — active at night (opposed to diurnal): nocturnal animals.
  • semiautonomous — partially self-governing, especially with reference to internal affairs.
  • semicentennial — of or relating to a fiftieth anniversary.
  • semilunar bone — lunate (def 2).
  • semimembranous — consisting of, of the nature of, or resembling membrane.
  • semiminor axis — Geometry. one half the minor axis of an ellipse.
  • semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
  • semistarvation — the state of being nearly starved.
  • semivegetarian — a person who eats mostly plant foods, dairy products, and eggs, and occasionally chicken, fish, and red meat.
  • send a message — to convey or communicate one's feelings, desires, etc. in a subtle or indirect manner
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