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14-letter words containing c, o, r, m, e

  • rhaeto-romanic — a Romance language consisting of Friulian, Tyrolese, Ladin, and the Romansh dialects.
  • rhombic aerial — a directional travelling-wave aerial, usually horizontal, consisting of two conductors each forming a pair of adjacent sides of a rhombus
  • rhythm section — band instruments, as drums or bass, that supply rhythm rather than harmony or melody.
  • rock mechanics — the study of the mechanical behaviour of rocks, esp their strength, elasticity, permeability, porosity, density, and reaction to stress
  • roman calendar — the calendar in use in ancient Rome until 46 b.c., when it was replaced with the Julian calendar.
  • rowing machine — an exercise machine having a mechanism with two oarlike handles, foot braces, and a sliding seat, allowing the user to go through the motions of rowing in a racing shell.
  • saccharomycete — a single-celled yeast of the family Saccharomycetaceae, having no mycelium.
  • sacred monster — a celebrity whose eccentricities or indiscretions are easily forgiven by admirers.
  • scapulohumeral — of, relating to, or involving the scapula and humerus.
  • scaremongering — a person who creates or spreads alarming news.
  • schafer method — a method of artificial respiration in which the patient is placed face downward, pressure then being rhythmically applied with the hands to the lower part of the thorax.
  • schlaer-mellor — An object-oriented analysis (OOA), design and modelling method that addresses the integration of structural and behavioural properties. It also allows an animation of the design.
  • schlockmeister — a person who deals in or sells inferior or worthless goods; junk dealer.
  • scholar's mate — a simple mate by the queen on the f7 square, achievable by white's fourth move
  • schoolmistress — a woman who presides over or teaches in a school.
  • scintillometer — a device for detecting and measuring radioactivity, having a crystal scintillator, a photoelectric cell sensitive to the light from scintillations, and an amplifier.
  • 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.
  • screening room — a room where films are screened for a private audience
  • 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.
  • self-composure — calmness and self-possession
  • semi-nocturnal — active at night (opposed to diurnal): nocturnal animals.
  • semicommercial — of, relating to, or characterized by limited marketing of an experimental product
  • sequestrectomy — the removal of dead spicules or portions, especially of bone.
  • service a room — If you service a room, you clean it and change the towels and bed linen in it.
  • service module — (often initial capital letters) U.S. Aerospace. the section of an Apollo spacecraft containing the principal propulsion system, electrical system, water, and other supplies.
  • servomechanism — an electronic control system in which a hydraulic, pneumatic, or other type of controlling mechanism is actuated and controlled by a low-energy signal.
  • sex chromosome — a chromosome, differing in shape or function from other chromosomes, that determines the sex of an individual.
  • simaroubaceous — belonging to the Simaroubaceae, the quassia family of plants.
  • smoke detector — an electronic fire alarm that is activated by the presence of smoke.
  • smoker's cough — a chronic cough caused by smoking.
  • social climber — a person who attempts to gain admission into a group with a higher social standing.
  • social realism — a style of painting, especially of the 1930s in the U.S., in which the scenes depicted typically convey a message of social or political protest edged with satire.
  • sodium citrate — a white, crystalline or granular, water-soluble, odorless solid, Na 3 C 6 H 5 O 7 ⋅2H 2 O, having a cool, saline taste: used in photography, in soft drinks, and in medicine chiefly to prevent the coagulation of blood.
  • soft ice-cream — a softer and lighter-textured ice cream that contains more air than standard ice-cream. It was developed in Britain in the 20th century.
  • somali current — a current of the Indian Ocean, flowing northward along the coast of Somalia in summer and southwestward the rest of the year.
  • source program — an original computer program written by a programmer that is converted into the equivalent object program, written in machine language, by the compiler or assembler
  • south american — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
  • space platform — space station.
  • spectator pump — a woman's spectator shoe, closed at the front and back, usually having a medium or medium-high heel.
  • spermatic cord — the cord by which a testis is suspended in the scrotum, containing the vas deferens and the blood vessels and nerves of the testis.
  • spermatothecae — a female reproductive organ in some insects
  • sports complex — exercise facility, leisure centre
  • spruce budworm — the larva of a common tortricid moth, Choristoneura fumiferana, that is a destructive pest primarily of spruce and balsam fir in the northern and northeastern U.S. and in Canada.
  • stereochemical — of, relating to, stereochemistry
  • stereoisomeric — pertaining to or exhibiting stereoisomerism.
  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • stoichiometric — of or relating to stoichiometry.
  • stumble across — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
  • subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
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