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14-letter words containing c, o, r, n, e, t

  • sclerotization — the state of being sclerotized.
  • scotch furnace — ore hearth.
  • 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.
  • scsi reconnect — (hardware)   The ability of a SCSI initiator to initiate new transactions before earlier ones have completed. A target or initiator can disconnect from the bus when it experiences a delay in completing a task so that another device can use the bus. It can reconnect later and complete the task.
  • secularization — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
  • securitization — the use of such securities as eurobonds to enable investors to lend directly to borrowers with a minimum of risk but without using banks as intermediaries
  • selection rule — any of several rules designating allowed transitions between quantum states in terms of the quantum numbers associated with the states.
  • self-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
  • semi-nocturnal — active at night (opposed to diurnal): nocturnal animals.
  • senior citizen — an elderly or aged person, especially one who is retired.
  • sensory cortex — the region of the cerebral cortex concerned with receiving and interpreting sensory information from various parts of the body.
  • serbo-croatian — a Slavic language spoken in Serbia and Croatia, usually written with Cyrillic letters in Serbia but with Roman letters in Croatia.
  • sericitization — the process of transforming into sericite
  • serodiscordant — pertaining to a relationship with one HIV-positive partner and one HIV-negative partner.
  • short covering — purchases that close out short sales on stocks or commodities.
  • shower curtain — waterproof sheet around a shower
  • size reduction — Size reduction is a process in which the particle size of a solid is made smaller.
  • sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
  • social network — a network of friends, colleagues, and other personal contacts: Strong social networks can encourage healthy behaviors.
  • somali current — a current of the Indian Ocean, flowing northward along the coast of Somalia in summer and southwestward the rest of the year.
  • sorting office — postal
  • south american — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
  • southern cross — Also called Cross. Astronomy. a southern constellation between Centaurus and Musca. Compare Northern Cross.
  • southern crown — the constellation Corona Australis.
  • southern ocean — that part of the Indian Ocean south of Australia
  • spinthariscope — an instrument that detects ionizing radiation by picking up sparks of light from alpha particles.
  • spironolactone — a steroid, C 2 4 H 3 2 O 4 S, used in combination with other drugs as a diuretic and antihypertensive.
  • standard score — the test score of a participant expressed as the deviation of the score from the mean score of the sample in units of standard deviation.
  • steganographic — of, or pertaining to, steganography
  • stepstone corp — (company)   A company founded by Brad Cox, responsible for Objective C. Telephone: +1 (203) 426-1875.
  • stock in trade — the requisites for carrying on a business, especially goods kept on hand for sale in a store.
  • stock transfer — Stock transfer is the act of moving goods from one part of the distribution chain to another.
  • stock turnover — the rate at which stock is sold and replenished
  • stock watering — the creation of more new shares in a company than is justified by its assets
  • stock-in-trade — items used in performing a job
  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • streptothricin — an antibacterial substance produced by a soil fungus, Actinomyces lavendulae.
  • subarborescent — below or under trees
  • subcontrariety — the quality or state of being subcontrary
  • superconductor — the phenomenon of almost perfect conductivity shown by certain substances at temperatures approaching absolute zero. The recent discovery of materials that are superconductive at temperatures hundreds of degrees above absolute zero raises the possibility of revolutionary developments in the production and transmission of electrical energy.
  • superconfident — very or extremely confident, overly confident
  • supercontinent — a hypothetical protocontinent of the remote geologic past that rifted apart to form the continents of today.
  • superinfection — marked proliferation of a parasitic microorganism during antimicrobial treatment for another infection.
  • superscription — the act of superscribing.
  • superstruction — the action of superstructing
  • sync-generator — an electronic generator that supplies synchronizing pulses to television scanning and transmitting equipment.
  • taínaron, cape — Matapan
  • tape recording — sound reproduction on cassette
  • technothriller — a suspense novel in which the manipulation of sophisticated technology, as of aircraft or weapons systems, plays a prominent part.
  • teleconference — a business meeting, educational session, etc., conducted among participants in different locations via telecommunications equipment. Compare videoconference.
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