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14-letter words containing s, i, c, y, o

  • psychoneurosis — neurosis (def 1).
  • psychophysical — the branch of psychology that deals with the relationships between physical stimuli and resulting sensations and mental states.
  • psychosocially — from a psychosocial point of view
  • psychosomatics — the study of psychosomatic conditions
  • psychotechnics — the use of psychological techniques for controlling and modifying human behavior, especially for practical ends.
  • pyrophosphoric — as in pyrophosphoric acid, a type of acid
  • radiochemistry — the chemical study of radioactive elements, both natural and artificial, and their use in the study of chemical processes.
  • rambunctiously — difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous: a rambunctious child.
  • rhythm section — band instruments, as drums or bass, that supply rhythm rather than harmony or melody.
  • 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.
  • sacred history — history that is retold with the aim of instilling religious faith and which may or may not be founded on fact
  • sacrilegiously — pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices.
  • safety officer — The safety officer in a company or an organization is the person who is responsible for the safety of the people who work or visit there.
  • satisfactorily — giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements: a satisfactory solution.
  • sceuophylacium — a place where sacred vessels are kept
  • schizophyceous — belonging to the Schizophyceae, a group of unicellular bluish-green algae, occurring in both salt and fresh water and often causing pollution of drinking water.
  • scholastically — of or relating to schools, scholars, or education: scholastic attainments.
  • school library — a library within a school where teachers and students have access to books and other resources
  • schottky noise — shot effect.
  • 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).
  • secret history — a version of historical events which differs from the official or commonly accepted record and purports to be the true version
  • secret society — an organization, as a fraternal society, the members of which take secret initiation oaths, share secret passwords and rites, and are bound to assist each other.
  • security video — a video recording taken by a security camera
  • self-discovery — process of understanding oneself
  • self-mockingly — in a self-mocking manner
  • semiofficially — in a semiofficial manner
  • semiologically — in a semiological manner; in a way that pertains to semiology
  • ship's company — company (def 11).
  • silicon valley — the area in northern California, southwest of San Francisco in the Santa Clara valley region, where many of the high-technology design and manufacturing companies in the semiconductor industry are concentrated.
  • sobriety coach — a person who is employed to help another to refrain from drinking alcohol
  • social history — a view of historical events seen in terms of social trends
  • socratic irony — pretended ignorance in discussion.
  • 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.
  • solar activity — the sum of all variable and short-lived disturbances on the sun, as sunspots, prominences, and solar flares.
  • solids recycle — Solids recycle is the return of solids to a liquid-solid operation so that they can be processed or used again.
  • subconsciously — existing or operating in the mind beneath or beyond consciousness: the subconscious self. Compare preconscious, unconscious.
  • subcontrariety — the quality or state of being subcontrary
  • superciliously — haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression.
  • sycophantishly — in a sycophantish manner
  • symbolic logic — a modern development of formal logic employing a special notation or symbolism capable of manipulation in accordance with precise rules.
  • 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.
  • synchronically — having reference to the facts of a linguistic system as it exists at one point in time without reference to its history: synchronic analysis; synchronic dialectology.
  • synoptic chart — a chart showing the distribution of meteorological conditions over a wide region at a given moment.
  • syntactic foam — any of several buoyant materials made up of tiny hollow spheres embedded in a surrounding plastic
  • telescopically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a telescope.
  • 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.
  • thyrotoxicosis — Graves' disease.
  • trichophytosis — a skin infection caused by a trichophyton
  • unchivalrously — in an unchivalrous manner
  • unconscionably — not guided by conscience; unscrupulous.
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