14-letter words containing a, s, t, r, y
- safety officer — The safety officer in a company or an organization is the person who is responsible for the safety of the people who work or visit there.
- salary bracket — a given range or bracket of salaries within which the amount of pay earned by someone falls
- 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.
- satisfactorily — giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements: a satisfactory solution.
- sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
- scaly anteater — pangolin.
- scarcity value — increased value due to the inadequate supply of something
- 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.
- secretary bird — a large, long-legged, raptorial bird, Sagittarius serpentarius, of Africa, that feeds on reptiles.
- 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
- security guard — a uniformed guard employed by a bank, airport, office building, etc., to maintain security.
- self-laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
- seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
- serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
- seyfert galaxy — one of a group of spiral galaxies with compact, bright nuclei having characteristically broad emission lines suggestive of very hot gases in violent motion at the center.
- shooting party — a social gathering when people shoot game together
- shrove tuesday — the last day of Shrovetide, long observed as a season of merrymaking before Lent.
- 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.
- sinistrorsally — in a sinistrorsal manner
- slaughterously — murderously
- slurry reactor — A slurry reactor is a reactor in which contact is achieved by suspending a solid in a liquid.
- sobriety coach — a person who is employed to help another to refrain from drinking alcohol
- social history — a view of historical events seen in terms of social trends
- socratic irony — pretended ignorance in discussion.
- solar activity — the sum of all variable and short-lived disturbances on the sun, as sunspots, prominences, and solar flares.
- solitary vireo — a vireo, Vireo solitarius, of North and Central America, having the top and sides of the head bluish-gray.
- south ayrshire — a council area of SW Scotland, on the Firth of Clyde: comprises the S part of the historical county of Ayrshire; formerly part of Strathclyde Region (1975–96): chiefly agricultural, with fishing and tourism. Administrative centre: Ayr. Pop: 111 580 (2003 est). Area: 1202 sq km (464 sq miles)
- south-easterly — A south-easterly point, area, or direction is to the south-east or towards the south-east.
- spectacularity — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
- spectra yellow — a vivid yellow color.
- speech therapy — treatment for speaking disorders
- sphaerocrystal — a spherical crystalline mass
- spiny anteater — echidna.
- 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
- state attorney — (in judicial proceedings) the legal representative of the state.
- statutory body — a body set up by the government to consider evidence and make judgements in some field of activity
- statutory rape — sexual intercourse or other sexual relations with a person under the legal age of consent, which age varies in different states. See also rape1 (def 1).
- stay-in strike — sit-down strike.
- steely-hearted — hard-hearted
- storming party — a group deployed to make the first assault on a position or building
- strait-lacedly — in a strait-laced manner
- strange to say — surprisingly
- street railway — a company that operates streetcars or buses.
- stretchability — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.