14-letter words containing h, a, r, y, o, t
- röntgenography — radiography
- rotary shutter — a camera shutter consisting of a rotating disk pierced with a slit that passes in front of the lens to expose the film or plate.
- saccharomycete — a single-celled yeast of the family Saccharomycetaceae, having no mycelium.
- sacred history — history that is retold with the aim of instilling religious faith and which may or may not be founded on fact
- 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.
- shooting party — a social gathering when people shoot game together
- shrove tuesday — the last day of Shrovetide, long observed as a season of merrymaking before Lent.
- slaughterously — murderously
- sobriety coach — a person who is employed to help another to refrain from drinking alcohol
- social history — a view of historical events seen in terms of social trends
- south ayrshire — a council area of SW Scotland, on the Firth of Clyde: comprises the S part of the historical county of Ayrshire; formerly part of Strathclyde Region (1975–96): chiefly agricultural, with fishing and tourism. Administrative centre: Ayr. Pop: 111 580 (2003 est). Area: 1202 sq km (464 sq miles)
- south-easterly — A south-easterly point, area, or direction is to the south-east or towards the south-east.
- sphaerocrystal — a spherical crystalline mass
- symmetrophobia — an avoidance of symmetry, esp in Japanese art and Egyptian temples
- synoptic chart — a chart showing the distribution of meteorological conditions over a wide region at a given moment.
- telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
- thalassography — oceanography, especially that branch dealing with smaller bodies of water, as bays, sounds, and gulfs.
- thaumatography — a treatise or description of the wonders of the natural world
- the lord's day — the Christian Sabbath; Sunday
- the phoney war — a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II
- the real mccoy — the genuine thing or person as promised, stated, or implied (usually preceded by the or the real): Those other paintings are copies, but this one is the McCoy.
- the royal mail — the national postal service of the United Kingdom
- there's no way — If you say there's no way that something will happen, you are emphasizing that you think it will definitely not happen.
- 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.
- thermolability — the state of being unstable or subject to transformation or destruction when heated
- thomas younger — Thomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
- throw a wobbly — to become suddenly very agitated or angry
- thysanopterous — of or relating to the Thysanoptera genus of insects which are characterized by fringed wings
- trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
- try one's hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
- unhypocritical — of the nature of hypocrisy, or pretense of having virtues, beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually possess: The parent who has a “do what I say and not what I do” attitude can appear hypocritical to a child.
- unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
- vasoinhibitory — an agent, as a drug, that inhibits the action of the vasomotor nerves.
- voyage charter — the hire of a ship or aircraft for a specified number of voyages
- wholeheartedly — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
- x short of a y — If you say that someone is, for example, several cards short of a full deck or one sandwich short of a picnic, you think they are stupid, foolish, or crazy.
- xerophytically — As a xerophyte.
- xylotypography — a type of printing using wooden blocks
- yeddo hawthorn — a Japanese shrub, Raphiolepis umbellata, of the rose family, having leathery leaves and dense, hairy clusters of fragrant white flowers.
- zygobranchiate — of or relating to zygobranchs or the Zygobranchia genus
- zygomatic arch — the bony arch at the outer border of the eye socket, formed by the union of the cheekbone and the zygomatic process of the temporal bone.