14-letter words containing a, s, y, m, e, t
- recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
- saccharomycete — a single-celled yeast of the family Saccharomycetaceae, having no mycelium.
- sacramentality — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- safety measure — a measure taken to increase or ensure safety or protection from danger
- 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.
- sentimentality — the quality or state of being sentimental or excessively sentimental.
- simultaneously — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
- 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
- supplementally — supplementary.
- syllable-timed — having a rhythm in which syllables are approximately equal in duration and thus tend to follow each other at regular intervals of time.
- symmetrophobia — an avoidance of symmetry, esp in Japanese art and Egyptian temples
- symmetry plane — reflection plane.
- synaposematism — the display of common warning colours between different organisms inhabiting the same region
- syrian hamster — golden hamster.
- system program — a program, as an operating system, compiler, or utility program, that controls some aspect of the operation of a computer (opposed to application program).
- systematically — having, showing, or involving a system, method, or plan: a systematic course of reading; systematic efforts.
- systematicness — having, showing, or involving a system, method, or plan: a systematic course of reading; systematic efforts.
- telesmatically — in a telesmatic manner
- testamentarily — in a testamentary manner
- 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.
- thymelaeaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Thymelaeaceae, a family of trees and shrubs having tough acrid bark and simple leaves: includes spurge laurel, leatherwood, and mezereon
- trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
- transit system — public transport service
- tymshare, inc. — (company) The US company that created the TYMNET network.
- unaccustomedly — in an unaccustomed manner
- unmetaphysical — (of a statement or theory) not metaphysical or abstract
- unsystematical — unsystematic
- unsystematized — not systematized or arranged in a system
- vestmannaeyjar — a group of 14 small Icelandic islands off the S coast of Iceland.
- yosemite falls — a series of falls in Yosemite National Park: upper falls, 1436 feet (438 meters) high; middle falls, 626 feet (190 meters) high; lower falls, 320 feet (98 meters) high. Total height (including rapids), 2526 feet (770 meters).
- yttrium metals — a series of closely related metals including yttrium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, and sometimes, terbium, gadolinium, and dysprosium