17-letter words containing c, r, o, s, m, y
- psychometric test — a test designed to test a person's mental state, personality and thought processes
- recursive acronym — (convention) A hackish (and especially MIT) tradition is to choose acronyms and abbreviations that refer humorously to themselves or to other acronyms or abbreviations. The classic examples were two MIT editors called EINE ("EINE Is Not Emacs") and ZWEI ("ZWEI Was EINE Initially"). More recently, there is a Scheme compiler called LIAR (Liar Imitates Apply Recursively), and GNU stands for "GNU's Not Unix!" - and a company with the name CYGNUS, which expands to "Cygnus, Your GNU Support". See also mung.
- ross and cromarty — a historic county in NW Scotland.
- scheme repository — A collection of free Scheme programs.
- semimicroanalysis — any analytical method in which the weight of the sample is between 10 and 100 milligrams.
- spectrophotometry — an instrument for making photometric comparisons between parts of spectra.
- spongy parenchyma — the lower layer of the ground tissue of a leaf, characteristically containing irregularly shaped cells with relatively few chloroplasts and large intercellular spaces.
- stand on ceremony — to insist on or act with excessive formality
- superaerodynamics — the branch of aerodynamics that deals with gases at very low densities.
- sydenham's chorea — a form of chorea affecting children, often associated with rheumatic fever
- synchronous motor — a synchronous machine that acts as a motor.
- tertiary consumer — a carnivore at the topmost level in a food chain that feeds on other carnivores; an animal that feeds only on secondary consumers.
- zygomatic process — any of several bony processes that articulate with the cheekbone.