14-letter words containing m, i, s, a
- ramos gin fizz — a cocktail of gin, egg white, lime and lemon juice, sugar, and cream, shaken with ice and often topped with soda or seltzer.
- ramshorn snail — any of various freshwater snails
- random testing — (programming, testing) A black-box testing approach in which software is tested by choosing an arbitrary subset of all possible input values. Random testing helps to avoid the problem of only testing what you know will work.
- rastafarianism — a religious cult, originally of Jamaica, that regards Africa as the Promised Land, to which all true believers will someday return, and the late Haile Selassie I, former emperor of Ethiopia, as the messiah.
- reappraisement — an act or the process of appraising someone or something again
- reassimilating — to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
- reform judaism — Judaism as observed by Reform Jews.
- reformationist — someone who was part of the Reformation
- reminiscential — of or relating to reminiscence; reminiscent.
- remonstrations — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- removable disk — removable hard disk
- restorationism — belief in a future life in which human beings will be restored to a state of perfection and happiness
- retinoblastoma — Pathology. an inheritable tumor of the eye.
- retransmission — the act or process of transmitting.
- 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.
- rheumatologist — a specialist in rheumatology, especially a physician who specializes in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, as arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and scleroderma.
- 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
- roger williams — Ben Ames [eymz] /eɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1889–1953, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- rosicrucianism — the practices or principles of Rosicrucians.
- russian empire — Russia (def 1).
- sabermetrician — (used with a singular verb) the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
- 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.
- saddam hussein — Also, Hosein, Husain. (al-Husayn) a.d. 629?–680, Arabian caliph, the son of Ali and Fatima and the brother of Hasan.
- sado-masochism — Sado-masochism is the enjoyment of hurting people and being hurt.
- sagging moment — a bending moment that produces concave bending at the middle of a simple supported beam
- saigo takamori — 1828–77, Japanese samurai, who led (1868) the coup that restored imperial government. In 1877 he reluctantly led a samurai rebellion, committing suicide when it failed
- saint matthias — the disciple chosen by lot to replace Judas as one of the 12 apostles (Acts 1:15–26). Feast day: May 14 or Aug 9
- sales campaign — product promotion and publicity
- salmon fishing — the sport of angling for salmon
- 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.
- sample section — a section of sth, intended as representative of the whole
- sanitation man — a man who collects and disposes of refuse for the sanitation department of local government
- sarcocarcinoma — carcinosarcoma.
- saxe-meiningen — a former duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
- scandium oxide — a white infusible powder, Sc 2 O 3 , soluble in acids.
- scaremongering — a person who creates or spreads alarming news.
- sceuophylacium — a place where sacred vessels are kept
- 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.
- schleiermacher — Friedrich Ernst Daniel [free-drikh ernst dah-nee-el] /ˈfri drɪx ɛrnst ˈdɑ niˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1768–1834, German theologian and philosopher.
- schumann-heink — Ernestine, 1861–1936, U.S. contralto, born in Bohemia.
- 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.
- seine-et-marne — a department in N France. 2290 sq. mi. (5930 sq. km). Capital: Melun.
- seine-maritime — a department in NW France. 2449 sq. mi. (6340 sq. km). Capital: Rouen.