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14-letter words containing m, a, c, e

  • reaccumulation — act or state of accumulating; state of being accumulated.
  • reach-me-downs — trousers
  • recommendation — an act of recommending.
  • recommendatory — serving to recommend; recommending.
  • recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
  • reconfirmation — the act of confirming.
  • record company — business: sells recorded music
  • recrementitial — of, relating to, or consisting of recrement or waste matter
  • reference mark — Surveying. a permanent mark set at a specific distance in a specific direction from a survey station so as to permit accurate reestablishment of the station.
  • remanufacturer — a company or industry that engages in making an existing product new again
  • reminiscential — of or relating to reminiscence; reminiscent.
  • remittance man — a person who is supported abroad chiefly by remittances from home.
  • report a claim — If you report a claim, you inform an insurer that an insured event has occurred and that you intend to ask the insurer for financial payment.
  • rescue attempt — an attempt to bring a person or people out of danger, harm, attack, etc
  • reverse racism — a perceived discrimination against a dominant group or political majority
  • reverse-racism — intolerance or prejudice directed at members of historically dominant racial groups.
  • rhaeto-romance — the group of closely related Romance dialects, including Romansch and Ladin, spoken in SE Switzerland, the Tirol, and N Italy
  • 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
  • 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.
  • sabermetrician — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
  • saccharomycete — a single-celled yeast of the family Saccharomycetaceae, having no mycelium.
  • sacramentalism — a belief in or emphasis on the importance and efficacy of the sacraments for achieving salvation and conferring grace.
  • sacramentality — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • sacramentarian — a person who maintains that the Eucharistic elements have only symbolic significance and are not corporeal manifestations of Christ.
  • sacred monster — a celebrity whose eccentricities or indiscretions are easily forgiven by admirers.
  • sales campaign — product promotion and publicity
  • sample section — a section of sth, intended as representative of the whole
  • scandium oxide — a white infusible powder, Sc 2 O 3 , soluble in acids.
  • scapular medal — a medal that has been blessed and may be substituted for a scapular (sense 3)
  • scapulohumeral — of, relating to, or involving the scapula and humerus.
  • scaremongering — a person who creates or spreads alarming news.
  • sceuophylacium — a place where sacred vessels are kept
  • 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.
  • schematization — to reduce to or arrange according to a scheme.
  • scheme library — (library)   (SLIB) A portable Scheme library providing compatibiliy and utility functions for all standard Scheme implementations. Version 2c5 supports Bigloo, Chez, ELK, GAMBIT, MacScheme, MITScheme, PocketScheme, RScheme, Scheme->C, Scheme48, SCM, SCSH, T3.1, UMB-Scheme, and VSCM.
  • 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.
  • schleiermacher — Friedrich Ernst Daniel [free-drikh ernst dah-nee-el] /ˈfri drɪx ɛrnst ˈdɑ niˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1768–1834, German theologian and philosopher.
  • scholar's mate — a simple mate by the queen on the f7 square, achievable by white's fourth move
  • schumann-heink — Ernestine, 1861–1936, U.S. contralto, born in Bohemia.
  • scrambled eggs — scrambled eggs are eggs that are mixed together and then cooked in butter.
  • scrap merchant — dealer in discarded materials
  • 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.
  • scream and die — Synonym cough and die, but connotes that an error message was printed or displayed before the program crashed.
  • scrimmage line — line of scrimmage.
  • seaman recruit — a noncommissioned enlisted person of the lowest rank. Abbreviation: SR.
  • second baseman — the player whose position is second base.
  • second chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
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