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14-letter words containing e, n, o, m, t, y

  • not merely sth — You use not merely before the less important of two contrasting statements, as a way of emphasizing the more important statement.
  • on your mettle — If you are on your mettle, you are ready to do something as well as you can, because you know that you are being tested or challenged.
  • overemployment — an act or instance of employing someone or something.
  • oyster farming — the activity of cultivating oysters for food or pearls
  • pancreatectomy — excision of part or all of the pancreas.
  • parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • parent company — a corporation or other business enterprise that owns controlling interests in one or more subsidiary companies (distinguished from holding company).
  • phonochemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with the chemical effects of sound and ultrasonic waves
  • plane geometry — the geometry of figures whose parts all lie in one plane.
  • polymerization — the act or process of forming a polymer or polymeric compound.
  • polysynthesism — the synthesis of various elements.
  • pre-employment — being required or accomplished before an employee begins a new job: a preemployment medical exam.
  • pulmonary tree — the trachea, bronchi, and bronchioles of the lungs, which together resemble an upside-down tree.
  • pumice country — volcanic farmland in the North Island
  • put money into — to invest money in
  • pyrenomycetous — of or relating to the former class Pyrenomycetes of fungi
  • pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
  • quantum theory — any theory predating quantum mechanics that encompassed Planck's radiation formula and a scheme for obtaining discrete energy states for atoms, as Bohr theory.
  • quoted company — a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange
  • recommendatory — serving to recommend; recommending.
  • recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
  • rhythm section — band instruments, as drums or bass, that supply rhythm rather than harmony or melody.
  • 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.
  • self-enjoyment — the act of enjoying.
  • simultaneously — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
  • sit-down money — social security benefits
  • southern yemen — a former name of Yemen (def 1).
  • 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
  • styling mousse — a light foamy substance applied to the hair before styling in order to retain the shape of the style
  • synaposematism — the display of common warning colours between different organisms inhabiting the same region
  • the full monty — something in its entirety
  • the unemployed — people who are out of work
  • theory of mind — Psychology, Philosophy. the ability to interpret one’s own and other people’s mental and emotional states, understanding that each person has unique motives, perspectives, etc.: People with autism seem to lack theory of mind. Abbreviation: ToM, TOM.
  • 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.
  • torrens system — (in Australia, England, Canada, certain states of the U.S., etc.) a system of registration of land titles in which the titles are settled consequent to establishment and validation by a legal proceeding, designed chiefly to make title insurance unnecessary and to facilitate transfers.
  • tumorigenicity — (of cells or a substance) capable of producing tumors.
  • tunny emulator — (hardware, cryptography)   A special-purpose computer designed at Bletchley Park (UK) based upon the reverse engineering of the Lorenz Cypher. The Lorenz Cypher was used by the German army to encrypt high command orders for transmission via teleprinter (the Enigma was a field-use cypher). Once the key to a message was discovered (by the computer Colossus) the Tunny machine would be set to decrypt the message. The process took about four days from intercept to printout. The original Tunny machine was built about 1943 and scrapped after the war. In 2011 a working model was re-built at Bletchley Park where it is on display.
  • turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
  • unaccustomedly — in an unaccustomed manner
  • uncontemporary — outmoded
  • volunteer army — a military force composed entirely of enlistees.
  • white mahogany — an Australian eucalyptus, Eucalyptus acmenioides.
  • youth movement — a political, religious or social movement that is made up of young people
  • zygomatic bone — a bone on each side of the face below the eye, forming the prominence of the cheek; cheekbone.
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