14-letter words containing m, y, i
- rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
- restiform body — a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum.
- retirement pay — a pension; the pay a retired person gets
- rhythm section — band instruments, as drums or bass, that supply rhythm rather than harmony or melody.
- rocking rhythm — a rhythmic pattern created by a succession of metrical feet each of which consists of one accented syllable between two unaccented ones.
- royal marriage — a meld of the king and queen of trumps, as in pinochle. Compare marriage (def 9).
- running myrtle — the periwinkle, Vinca minor.
- runoff primary — (especially in the southern U.S.) a second primary between the two leading candidates of the first primary to provide nomination by majority rather than by plurality.
- sacramentality — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
- 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.
- sceuophylacium — a place where sacred vessels are kept
- 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.
- schmidt system — a wide-angle optical system having a concave, spherical mirror whose aberration is neutralized by a correcting lens: often used in special, photographic reflecting telescopes to obtain clear pictures of large areas of the celestial sphere
- seismic survey — A seismic survey is a method of investigating underground properties and rock patterns using induced shock wave reflections.
- self-mockingly — in a self-mocking manner
- semi-legendary — somewhat legendary; having something of the nature of a legend; almost legendary
- semi-paralysis — Pathology. a loss or impairment of voluntary movement in a body part, caused by injury or disease of the nerves, brain, or spinal cord. a disease characterized by this, especially palsy.
- semi-paralyzed — to affect with paralysis.
- semiofficially — in a semiofficial manner
- semiologically — in a semiological manner; in a way that pertains to semiology
- sentimentality — the quality or state of being sentimental or excessively sentimental.
- ship's company — company (def 11).
- shirley temple — Shirley (Shirley Temple Black) 1928–2014, U.S. film actress, famous for child roles during the 1930s, and diplomat.
- simplistically — characterized by extreme simplism; oversimplified: a simplistic notion of good and bad.
- simultaneously — existing, occurring, or operating at the same time; concurrent: simultaneous movements; simultaneous translation.
- sit-down money — social security benefits
- skew-symmetric — noting a square matrix that is equal to the negative of its transpose.
- 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
- 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.
- solid geometry — the geometry of solid figures; geometry of three dimensions.
- spending money — money for small personal expenses.
- 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.
- supereminently — in a supereminent manner; to a supereminent degree
- supersymmetric — pertaining to supersymmetry
- supramaxillary — of or relating to the upper jaw
- surinam cherry — a tropical American tree, Eugenia uniflora, of the myrtle family, having ovate leaves and fragrant, white flowers.
- syllable-timed — having a rhythm in which syllables are approximately equal in duration and thus tend to follow each other at regular intervals of time.
- symbolic logic — a modern development of formal logic employing a special notation or symbolism capable of manipulation in accordance with precise rules.
- symmetric lisp — A parallel Lisp in which environments are first-class objects. It is implemented in Common LISP. E-mail: Suresh Jagannathan <[email protected]>.
- symmetrophobia — an avoidance of symmetry, esp in Japanese art and Egyptian temples
- 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
- syrian hamster — golden hamster.
- systematically — having, showing, or involving a system, method, or plan: a systematic course of reading; systematic efforts.
- systematicness — having, showing, or involving a system, method, or plan: a systematic course of reading; systematic efforts.
- tailor's dummy — a mannequin used to help tailor or fit clothes