14-letter words containing m, e, n, s, h
- phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- phonochemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with the chemical effects of sound and ultrasonic waves
- photoluminesce — to produce photoluminescence
- pimento cheese — a processed cheese made from Neufchâtel, cream cheese, Cheddar, or other cheese, flavored with chopped pimientos.
- pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
- poison hemlock — hemlock (defs 1, 3).
- polysynthesism — the synthesis of various elements.
- posthumousness — the fact of being posthumous
- psychic income — the personal or subjective benefits, rewards, or satisfactions derived from a job or undertaking as separate from its objective or financial ones.
- pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
- reach-me-downs — trousers
- relinquishment — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
- rhythm section — band instruments, as drums or bass, that supply rhythm rather than harmony or melody.
- riemann sphere — a sphere used for a stereographic projection.
- rock mechanics — the study of the mechanical behaviour of rocks, esp their strength, elasticity, permeability, porosity, density, and reaction to stress
- saddam hussein — Also, Hosein, Husain. (al-Husayn) a.d. 629?–680, Arabian caliph, the son of Ali and Fatima and the brother of Hasan.
- schematization — to reduce to or arrange according to a scheme.
- schumann-heink — Ernestine, 1861–1936, U.S. contralto, born in Bohemia.
- 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.
- second chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
- segmental arch — a shallow arch not including a complete semicircle
- sense of humor — finding things funny
- 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.
- sewing machine — any of various foot-operated or electric machines for sewing or making stitches, ranging from machines with a shuttle for a spool of thread and a needle for sewing garments to industrial machines for sewing leather, book pages together, etc.
- shallow-minded — lacking intellectual or mental depth or subtlety; superficial
- shamefacedness — modest or bashful.
- shemoneh esreh — the Amidah, consisting of 19 blessings, recited on days other than the Sabbath and holy days.
- shortened form — an abbreviated form of a multisyllable word; clipped form.
- sidereal month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
- simple machine — machine (def 3b).
- smooth-tongued — fluent or convincing in speech; glib.
- soil mechanics — the branch of civil engineering that deals with the mechanical behavior of soil and similar materials when they are compressed or sheared or when liquids flow through them.
- something else — sth different
- something like — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
- something's up — something is amiss
- south american — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- south el monte — a town in SW California.
- southern yemen — a former name of Yemen (def 1).
- sowing machine — a machine that scatters seeds on land so that they may grow
- spanish omelet — an omelet served with a sauce of tomatoes, onions, and green peppers.
- spearfisherman — a person who engages in spearfishing.
- speed merchant — a person who habitually drives too fast in a motor vehicle
- sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
- stomachfulness — the quality of being stomachful
- submachine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
- sulphanilamide — a white odourless crystalline compound formerly used in medicine in the treatment of bacterial infections. Formula: NH2C6H4SO2NH2
- sulphonmethane — a colourless crystalline compound used medicinally as a hypnotic. Formula: C7H16O4S2
- summer kitchen — an extra kitchen, usually detached from a house, for use in warm weather.
- surinam cherry — a tropical American tree, Eugenia uniflora, of the myrtle family, having ovate leaves and fragrant, white flowers.