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

  • sacred monster — a celebrity whose eccentricities or indiscretions are easily forgiven by admirers.
  • scaremongering — a person who creates or spreads alarming news.
  • 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 chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
  • secondary beam — a beam of particles of one kind selected from the group of particles produced when a beam of particles from an accelerator (primary beam) strikes a target.
  • segmental arch — a shallow arch not including a complete semicircle
  • semi-nocturnal — active at night (opposed to diurnal): nocturnal animals.
  • servomechanism — an electronic control system in which a hydraulic, pneumatic, or other type of controlling mechanism is actuated and controlled by a low-energy signal.
  • slum clearance — the removal for rehousing, by the state, of those people who previously lived in slum areas, to prepare the area for demolition and rebuilding
  • smear campaign — a campaign to tarnish the reputation of a public figure, especially by vilification or innuendo.
  • snake mackerel — an elongate, deep-sea fish, Gempylus serpens, inhabiting tropical and temperate seas, having jutting jaws and strong teeth.
  • somali current — a current of the Indian Ocean, flowing northward along the coast of Somalia in summer and southwestward the rest of the year.
  • south american — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
  • speed merchant — a person who habitually drives too fast in a motor vehicle
  • steam cracking — Steam cracking is the main method of breaking down large molecules of hydrocarbons, in which a gaseous or liquid hydrocarbon is diluted with steam and then heated.
  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • submetacentric — referring to chromosomes which have one long arm and one short arm
  • supermasculine — highly masculine
  • surinam cherry — a tropical American tree, Eugenia uniflora, of the myrtle family, having ovate leaves and fragrant, white flowers.
  • term insurance — an insurance policy that provides coverage for a limited period, the value payable only if a loss occurs within the term, with nothing payable upon its expiration.
  • terminological — the system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject; nomenclature: the terminology of botany.
  • the human race — mankind
  • the long march — a journey of about 10 000 km (6000 miles) undertaken (1934–35) by some 100 000 Chinese Communists when they were forced out of their base in Kiangsi in SE China. They made their way to Shensi in NW China; only about 8000 survived the rigours of the journey
  • 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.
  • thermomagnetic — of or relating to the effect of heat on the magnetic properties of a substance.
  • transempirical — beyond the range of experiential knowledge.
  • transmasculine — noting or relating to a person who was born female but whose gender identity is more male than female.
  • trichomonacide — an agent that destroys trichomonads
  • turbomachinery — machinery consisting of, incorporating, or constituting a turbine
  • turing machine — a hypothetical device with a set of logical rules of computation: the concept is used in mathematical studies of the computability of numbers and in the mathematical theories of automata and computers.
  • tymshare, inc. — (company)   The US company that created the TYMNET network.
  • ultracompetent — extremely competent
  • ultramasculine — extremely masculine
  • unarmed combat — the action of fighting without weapons
  • uncontemporary — outmoded
  • unmanufactured — (of a product, commodity, etc) not manufactured
  • unmatriculated — (of a student) not enrolled in a college, university, or similar institution
  • unmerchantable — (of goods) not suitable for trading
  • unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
  • unromanticized — not romantic
  • unsectarianism — the state or quality of being unsectarian
  • vacuum cleaner — an electrical appliance for cleaning carpets, floors, etc., by suction.
  • warm the bench — having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
  • water moccasin — the cottonmouth.
  • whipping cream — cream with enough butterfat to allow it to be made into whipped cream.
  • wing commander — British. an officer in the Royal Air Force equivalent in rank to a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force.
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