14-letter words containing s, n, a, t, c, h
- nihilistically — of or believing in nihilism, or the total rejection of established laws and institutions: An exhibition of nihilistic art—now there's an oxymoron!
- non-historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- non-humanistic — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
- non-scholastic — of or relating to schools, scholars, or education: scholastic attainments.
- noncharismatic — a person or group not involved in the Christian charismatic movement
- nonmechanistic — Not mechanistic.
- nonpsychiatric — not psychiatric
- north cascades — a national park in NW Washington: site of glaciers and mountain lakes. 789 sq. mi. (2043 sq. km).
- north caucasus — a region in the S Russian Federation in Europe, E of the Black Sea.
- on the surface — to all appearances
- operating cash — the amount of cash or money that a business generates
- opisthobranchs — Plural form of opisthobranch.
- orchestrations — Plural form of orchestration.
- ornithischians — Plural form of ornithischian.
- orphans' court — a probate court in certain U.S. states.
- osteochondroma — (medicine) A benign tumor consisting of bone or cartilage.
- outside chance — a slight chance or likelihood
- parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- patheticalness — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- phantasmagoric — having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
- pitch invasion — If there is a pitch invasion during or after a football, rugby, or cricket match, fans run on to the pitch.
- pitch-and-toss — a game in which players toss coins at a mark, the person whose coin hits closest to the mark tossing all the coins in the air and winning all those that come down heads up.
- pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
- preanaesthetic — a drug administered prior to an anaesthetic
- psychoanalytic — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
- purse snatcher — wallet thief
- recent changes — Recent changes to FOLDOC.
- sachsen-anhalt — German name of Saxony-Anhalt.
- saint nicholas — Saint ("Nicholas the Great") died a.d. 867, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 858–867.
- scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.
- schematization — to reduce to or arrange according to a scheme.
- schiff reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
- schizognathous — (of birds) having a separation in the vomer and maxillo-palatine bones, having a cleft-palate
- schoolteaching — the profession of a schoolteacher.
- scotch furnace — ore hearth.
- 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.
- search warrant — a court order authorizing the examination of a dwelling or other private premises by police officials, as for stolen goods.
- segmental arch — a shallow arch not including a complete semicircle
- servant church — the attitude or practices of a church whose avowed purpose is to serve the world.
- shadow cabinet — (in the British Parliament) a group of prominent members of the opposition who are expected to hold positions in the cabinet when their party assumes power.
- shalach manoth — the practice of giving gifts to one another or to the needy on Purim.
- shooting match — a contest in marksmanship.
- shouting match — a loud, often abusive quarrel or argument.
- shower curtain — waterproof sheet around a shower
- sistine chapel — the chapel of the pope in the Vatican at Rome, built for Pope Sixtus IV and decorated with frescoes by Michelangelo and others.
- slanging match — A slanging match is an angry quarrel in which people insult each other.
- son of a bitch — a contemptible or thoroughly disagreeable person; scoundrel.
- sophisticating — a sophisticated person.