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14-letter words containing m, o, n, s, y

  • phonochemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with the chemical effects of sound and ultrasonic waves
  • plumbosolvency — the ability to dissolve lead
  • plymouth sound — an inlet of the English Channel in SW Devon, SW England
  • pneumodynamics — Physics. pneumatics.
  • polysynthesism — the synthesis of various elements.
  • pseudonymously — bearing a false or fictitious name.
  • psychic income — the personal or subjective benefits, rewards, or satisfactions derived from a job or undertaking as separate from its objective or financial ones.
  • psychodynamics — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
  • pyrenomycetous — of or relating to the former class Pyrenomycetes of fungi
  • pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
  • querimoniously — in a querimonious manner
  • rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
  • rhythm section — band instruments, as drums or bass, that supply rhythm rather than harmony or melody.
  • rna polymerase — an enzyme that synthesizes the formation of RNA from a DNA template during transcription.
  • 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.
  • savanna monkey — any of several common, closely allied long-tailed monkeys of African savannas ranging from Senegal to South Africa, including the green monkey, grivet, tantalus, and vervet, which are sometimes considered subspecies and classified together as Cercopithecus aethiops.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • self-enjoyment — the act of enjoying.
  • self-mockingly — in a self-mocking manner
  • ship's company — company (def 11).
  • simultaneously — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
  • sit-down money — social security benefits
  • slip your mind — If something slips your mind, you forget about it.
  • snowy mountain — of or relating to the Snowy Mountains of Australia or their inhabitants
  • sockeye salmon — an important food fish, Oncorhynchus nerka, inhabiting the North Pacific.
  • sodium cyanide — a white, crystalline, deliquescent, water-soluble, poisonous powder, NaCN, prepared by heating sodium amide with charcoal: used chiefly in casehardening alloys, in the leaching and flotation of ore, and in electroplating.
  • southern yemen — a former name of Yemen (def 1).
  • spending money — money for small personal expenses.
  • 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
  • styling mousse — a light foamy substance applied to the hair before styling in order to retain the shape of the style
  • sunday morning — a poem (1923) by Wallace Stevens.
  • symphonic poem — a form of tone poem, scored for a symphony orchestra, in which a literary or pictorial “plot” is treated with considerable program detail: originated by Franz Liszt in the mid-19th century and developed especially by Richard Strauss.
  • synaposematism — the display of common warning colours between different organisms inhabiting the same region
  • syntactic foam — any of several buoyant materials made up of tiny hollow spheres embedded in a surrounding plastic
  • thermoanalysis — thermal analysis.
  • 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.
  • thomas younger — Thomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
  • torrens system — (in Australia, England, Canada, certain states of the U.S., etc.) a system of registration of land titles in which the titles are settled consequent to establishment and validation by a legal proceeding, designed chiefly to make title insurance unnecessary and to facilitate transfers.
  • transpulmonary — of or relating to the lungs.
  • unaccustomedly — in an unaccustomed manner
  • unremorsefully — in an unremorseful or impenitent manner
  • yellow jasmine — Carolina jessamine.
  • yeoman service — excellent service
  • young marrieds — young married people
  • zygosporangium — a sporangium that bears a zygospore.
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