16-letter words containing m, c, s, d
- promiscuous mode — (networking) Where a node on a network accepts all packets, regardless of their destination address.
- pseudoparenchyma — (in certain fungi and red algae) a compact mass of tissue, made up of interwoven hyphae or filaments, that superficially resembles plant tissue.
- quasi-democratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
- quasi-diplomatic — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
- radiosymmetrical — radially symmetrical.
- ramsden eyepiece — an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex crown-glass lenses of equal focal length, placed with the convex sides facing each other and with a separation between the lenses of about two-thirds of the focal length of each.
- recorded message — words spoken by someone and recorded electronically in order to be replayed again in future, esp automatically over the phone
- rectus abdominis — a long flat muscle that extends along the whole length of both sides of the abdomen. It flexes the vertebral column, particularly the lumbar portion; it also tenses the anterior abdominal wall and assists in compressing the abdominal contents
- residence permit — permission allowing someone to legally reside in a country
- rhabdomyosarcoma — a malignant tumor made up of striated muscle tissue.
- richard stallman — (person) Richard M. Stallman. Founder of the GNU project. He resigned from the AI lab at MIT so he would be free to produce free software which he could then distribute on his own terms. He went on to establish the Free Software Foundation to support the production of free software and ensure its free distribution. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- richmond heights — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- sado-masochistic — Something that is sado-masochistic is connected with the practice of sado-masochism.
- same-day service — (humour, operating system) An ironic term used to describe long response time, particularly with respect to MS-DOS system calls (which ought to require only a tiny fraction of a second to execute). Such response time is a major incentive for programmers to write programs that are not well-behaved. See also PC-ism.
- schlieren method — a method for detecting regions of differing densities in a clear fluid by photographing a beam of light passed obliquely through it.
- second amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing the right to keep and bear arms as necessary to maintain a state militia.
- second messenger — any of various intracellular chemical substances, as cyclic AMP, that transmit and amplify the messages delivered by a first messenger to specific receptors on the cell surface.
- second-story man — a burglar who enters through an upstairs window.
- secondary market — the market that exists for an issue after large blocks of shares have been publicly distributed.
- secondary modern — Secondary moderns were schools which existed until recently in Britain for children aged between about eleven and sixteen, where more attention was paid to practical skills and less to academic study than in a grammar school.
- secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
- secondhand smoke — smoke from a cigarette, cigar, or pipe that is involuntarily inhaled, especially by nonsmokers.
- sedimentary rock — rock formed from compacted minerals
- self-advancement — an act of moving forward.
- self-discernment — the faculty of discerning; discrimination; acuteness of judgment and understanding.
- semidomesticated — living in a state of partial domestication.
- simply-connected — (of a set or domain) having a connected complement.
- situation comedy — a comedy drama, especially a television series made up of discrete episodes about the same group of characters, as members of a family.
- social darwinism — a 19th-century theory, inspired by Darwinism, by which the social order is accounted as the product of natural selection of those persons best suited to existing living conditions and in accord with which a position of laissez-faire is advocated.
- social democracy — a political ideology advocating a gradual transition to socialism or a modified form of socialism by and under democratic political processes.
- sodium carbonate — Also called soda ash. an anhydrous, grayish-white, odorless, water-soluble powder, Na 2 CO 3 , usually obtained by the Solvay process and containing about 1 percent of impurities consisting of sulfates, chlorides, and bicarbonates of sodium: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, soaps, paper, petroleum products, sodium salts, as a cleanser, for bleaching, and in water treatment.
- sodium cyclamate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, NaC 6 NH 1 2 SO 3 , that has been used as a sweetening agent: banned by the FDA in 1970.
- soft commodities — nonmetal commodities such as cocoa, sugar, and grains, bought and sold on a futures market
- sonata da camera — an instrumental musical form, common in the Baroque period, usually consisting of a series of dances.
- sounding machine — any of various machines for taking and recording soundings.
- spotted mackerel — a small mackerel, Scomberomorus queenslandicus, of northern Australian waters
- stick in the mud — someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.
- stick-in-the-mud — someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.
- synchronous dram — Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
- sysdeco mimer ab — (company) Part of the international software group Sysdeco Group AS. They developed the MIMER RDBMS. Address: Uppsala, Sweden.
- tandem computers — (company) A US computer manufacturer. Quarterly sales $544M, profits $49M (Aug 1994).
- ten commandments — Bible: instructions given to Moses
- through-composed — having different music for each verse: a through-composed song. Compare strophic (def 2).
- undercompensated — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
- underconsumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
- undiscriminating — differentiating; analytical.
- undiscriminatory — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.
- well-compensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.