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14-letter words containing m, a, r, t, y, s

  • macartney rose — a trailing or climbing evergreen rose, Rosa bracteata, of China, having shiny leaves and large, solitary white flowers.
  • macrodactylous — related to or having macrodactyly
  • masonry cement — a mix typically of Portland cement, hydrated lime, and other materials, used to improve the water retention and workability of the cement in masonry work.
  • megakaryoblast — a cell that gives rise to a megakaryocyte.
  • megakaryocytes — Plural form of megakaryocyte.
  • metal spraying — a process in which a layer of one metal is sprayed onto another in the molten state
  • metrosexuality — The quality of being metrosexual.
  • military brush — one of a pair of matched hairbrushes having no handles, especially for men and boys.
  • moralistically — a person who teaches or inculcates morality.
  • multifariously — In a multifarious manner.
  • mustard family — the plant family Cruciferae (or Brassicaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate leaves, acrid or pungent juice, clusters of four-petaled flowers, and fruit in the form of a two-parted capsule, and including broccoli, cabbage, candytuft, cauliflower, cress, mustard, radish, sweet alyssum, turnip, and wallflower.
  • myofibroblasts — Plural form of myofibroblast.
  • no easy matter — If something is no easy matter, it is difficult to do it.
  • nonsymmetrical — Not symmetrical.
  • norman dynasty — a succession of English kings founded by Duke William of the duchy of Normandy in northern France, who conquered England in 1066 and whose successors ruled the country to 1154.
  • numeral system — any notation for the representation of numerals or numbers.
  • osmoregulatory — Of or pertaining to osmoregulation.
  • oyster farming — the activity of cultivating oysters for food or pearls
  • pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
  • parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • plastic memory — the tendency of certain plastics after being deformed to resume their original form when heated
  • plethysmograph — a device for measuring and recording changes in the volume of the body or of a body part or organ.
  • praying mantis — mantis.
  • premenstrually — in a premenstrual manner
  • presymptomatic — relating to or describing a symptom that occurs before the typical symptoms of a disease
  • primary stress — primary accent.
  • primary tissue — any tissue resulting directly from differentiation of an apical meristem.
  • pygmy marmoset — a related form, Cebuella pygmaea: the smallest monkey, inhabiting tropical forests of the Amazon
  • pyramidologist — a person who believes in pyramidology
  • pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
  • quasi-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
  • radiochemistry — the chemical study of radioactive elements, both natural and artificial, and their use in the study of chemical processes.
  • rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
  • saccharomycete — a single-celled yeast of the family Saccharomycetaceae, having no mycelium.
  • sacramentality — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • safety measure — a measure taken to increase or ensure safety or protection from danger
  • salvation army — an international Christian organization founded in England in 1865 by William Booth, organized along quasi-military lines and devoted chiefly to evangelism and to providing social services, especially to the poor.
  • sanctuary lamp — a lamp, usually red, placed in a prominent position in the sanctuary of a church, that when lit indicates the presence of the Blessed Sacrament
  • 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.
  • 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
  • storming party — a group deployed to make the first assault on a position or building
  • symmetrophobia — an avoidance of symmetry, esp in Japanese art and Egyptian temples
  • symmetry plane — reflection plane.
  • syrian hamster — golden hamster.
  • system program — a program, as an operating system, compiler, or utility program, that controls some aspect of the operation of a computer (opposed to application program).
  • tailor's dummy — a mannequin used to help tailor or fit clothes
  • testamentarily — in a testamentary manner
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