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14-letter words containing s, a, r, m, e, n

  • preliminaries' — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
  • premenstrually — in a premenstrual manner
  • presentimental — expressing a presentiment
  • printer's mark — a stamp or device, usually found on the copyright page, that identifies a book as the work of a particular printer.
  • printer's ream — a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
  • proletarianism — the practices, attitudes, or social status of a proletarian.
  • pseudomembrane — a tough outer layer found on the surface of the mucous membrane or skin
  • pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
  • quattrocentism — the 15th-century Italian style of art and literature
  • questionmaster — quizmaster.
  • raman-spectrum — the change in wavelength of light scattered while passing through a transparent medium, the collection of new wavelengths (Raman spectrum) being characteristic of the scattering medium and differing from the fluorescent spectrum in being much less intense and in being unrelated to an absorption band of the medium.
  • random numbers — a number chosen by a random sampling, as from a table (random number table) or generated by a computer.
  • 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.
  • re-measurement — the act of measuring.
  • reach-me-downs — trousers
  • 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.
  • recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
  • reformationist — someone who was part of the Reformation
  • remarkableness — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
  • reminiscential — of or relating to reminiscence; reminiscent.
  • remonstrations — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
  • 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.
  • revenue stream — method of income
  • riemann sphere — a sphere used for a stereographic projection.
  • rna polymerase — an enzyme that synthesizes the formation of RNA from a DNA template during transcription.
  • rock mechanics — the study of the mechanical behaviour of rocks, esp their strength, elasticity, permeability, porosity, density, and reaction to stress
  • roman numerals — one of the numerals in the ancient Roman system of notation, still used for certain limited purposes, as in some pagination, dates on buildings, etc. The common basic symbols are I, (=1), V, (=5), X, (=10), L, (=50), C, (=100), D, (=500), and M, (=1000). The Roman numerals for one to nine are: I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX. A bar over a letter multiplies it by 1000; thus, X̅ equals 10,000. Integers are written according to these two rules: If a letter is immediately followed by one of equal or lesser value, the two values are added; thus, XX equals 20, XV equals 15, VI equals 6. If a letter is immediately followed by one of greater value, the first is subtracted from the second; thus, IV equals 4, XL equals 40, CM equals 900. Examples: XLVII(=47), CXVI(=116), MCXX(=1120), MCMXIV(=1914). Roman numerals may be written in lowercase letters, though they appear more commonly in capitals.
  • 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.
  • sacred monster — a celebrity whose eccentricities or indiscretions are easily forgiven by admirers.
  • salle a manger — a dining room.
  • scaremongering — a person who creates or spreads alarming news.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • second chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
  • 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.
  • segmental arch — a shallow arch not including a complete semicircle
  • 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.
  • self-adornment — something that adds attractiveness; ornament; accessory: the adornments and furnishings of a room.
  • self-formation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
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