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

  • 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.
  • read-only user — (jargon)   Describes a luser who uses computers almost exclusively for reading Usenet, bulletin boards, and/or electronic mail, rather than writing code or purveying useful information. See twink, terminal junkie, lurker.
  • recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
  • responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
  • rhynchophorous — of or relating to rhynchophores
  • 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.
  • royal highness — a title used prior to 1917 and designating a brother, sister, child, grandchild, aunt, or uncle belonging to the male line of the royal family. a title used since 1917 and designating a child or grandchild of the sovereign. any person given this title by the Crown.
  • royal standard — a flag bearing the arms of the British sovereign, flown only when she (or he) is present
  • rsa encryption — (cryptography, algorithm)   A public-key cryptosystem for both encryption and authentication, invented in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. Its name comes from their initials. The RSA algorithm works as follows. Take two large prime numbers, p and q, and find their product n = pq; n is called the modulus. Choose a number, e, less than n and relatively prime to (p-1)(q-1), and find its reciprocal mod (p-1)(q-1), and call this d. Thus ed = 1 mod (p-1)(q-1); e and d are called the public and private exponents, respectively. The public key is the pair (n, e); the private key is d. The factors p and q must be kept secret, or destroyed. It is difficult (presumably) to obtain the private key d from the public key (n, e). If one could factor n into p and q, however, then one could obtain the private key d. Thus the entire security of RSA depends on the difficulty of factoring; an easy method for factoring products of large prime numbers would break RSA.
  • 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.
  • sanitary towel — sanitary napkin.
  • sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
  • scoresby sound — a heavily indented arm of the Norwegian Sea in E Greenland.
  • 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.
  • screw conveyor — a device for moving loose materials, consisting of a shaft with a broad, helically wound blade rotating in a tube or trough.
  • 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.
  • secondary cell — storage cell.
  • secondary gain — any advantage, as increased attention, disability benefits, or release from unpleasant responsibilities, obtained as a result of having an illness (distinguished from primary gain).
  • secondary road — a road less important than a main road or highway.
  • secondary wall — the innermost part of a plant cell wall, deposited after the wall has ceased to increase in surface area.
  • secondary wave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
  • self-parodying — given to or involving self-parody
  • seniority rule — the custom in Congress providing for the assignment of a committee chairpersonship to that member of the majority party who has served on the committee the longest.
  • sensory cortex — the region of the cerebral cortex concerned with receiving and interpreting sensory information from various parts of the body.
  • sensory neuron — a nerve cell that conducts impulses from a sense organ to the central nervous system.
  • seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
  • seventy-fourth — next after the seventy-third; being the ordinal number for 74.
  • sheep-worrying — the act (of a dog, sheepdog, wolf, etc) of chasing a flock of sheep and biting or injuring the sheep
  • shooting party — a social gathering when people shoot game together
  • sinistrorsally — in a sinistrorsal manner
  • slip your mind — If something slips your mind, you forget about it.
  • socratic irony — pretended ignorance in discussion.
  • southern yemen — a former name of Yemen (def 1).
  • st. marylebone — former metropolitan borough of London: since 1965, part of Westminster
  • stagflationary — of, caused by, or relating to, stagflation
  • 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
  • state attorney — (in judicial proceedings) the legal representative of the state.
  • storming party — a group deployed to make the first assault on a position or building
  • strange to say — surprisingly
  • strong-eye dog — a dog trained to control sheep by its gaze
  • subcontrariety — the quality or state of being subcontrary
  • subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
  • sulfinpyrazone — a substance, C 2 3 H 2 0 N 2 O 3 S, used in the treatment of chronic gout.
  • sulfinyl group — the bivalent group >SO.
  • sunday morning — a poem (1923) by Wallace Stevens.
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