14-letter words containing s, t, e, m, c
- 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.
- sample section — a section of sth, intended as representative of the whole
- schafer method — a method of artificial respiration in which the patient is placed face downward, pressure then being rhythmically applied with the hands to the lower part of the thorax.
- schematization — to reduce to or arrange according to a scheme.
- schlockmeister — a person who deals in or sells inferior or worthless goods; junk dealer.
- 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
- scholar's mate — a simple mate by the queen on the f7 square, achievable by white's fourth move
- schoolmistress — a woman who presides over or teaches in a school.
- scintillometer — a device for detecting and measuring radioactivity, having a crystal scintillator, a photoelectric cell sensitive to the light from scintillations, and an amplifier.
- scout movement — the group of people who set up the Scout Association and those who currently are involved with it, considered with their organized action
- 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.
- seaman recruit — a noncommissioned enlisted person of the lowest rank. Abbreviation: SR.
- sedimentologic — of or relating to sedimentology
- segmental arch — a shallow arch not including a complete semicircle
- self-criticism — the act or fact of being self-critical.
- semantic field — an area of human experience or perception, as color, that is delimited and subcategorized by a set of interrelated vocabulary items in a language.
- semi-automatic — partly automatic.
- semi-nocturnal — active at night (opposed to diurnal): nocturnal animals.
- semi-objective — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
- semi-realistic — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.
- semicentennial — of or relating to a fiftieth anniversary.
- semiconducting — of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a semiconductor.
- semielliptical — a half ellipse, usually one containing both ends of the major axis.
- semito-hamitic — a former name for the Afro-Asiatic family of languages
- sequestrectomy — the removal of dead spicules or portions, especially of bone.
- settle a claim — If an insurer settles a claim it pays money to a policyholder for the occurrence of a loss or risk against which they were insured.
- sigma particle — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
- skew-symmetric — noting a square matrix that is equal to the negative of its transpose.
- slalom descent — a winding descent
- smoke detector — an electronic fire alarm that is activated by the presence of smoke.
- smoking jacket — a loose-fitting jacket for men, often of a heavy fabric and trimmed with braid, worn indoors, especially as a lounging jacket.
- socioeconomist — the study of the interrelation between economics and social behavior.
- sodium citrate — a white, crystalline or granular, water-soluble, odorless solid, Na 3 C 6 H 5 O 7 ⋅2H 2 O, having a cool, saline taste: used in photography, in soft drinks, and in medicine chiefly to prevent the coagulation of blood.
- sodium lactate — a water-soluble, hygroscopic salt, C 3 H 5 NaO 3 , used in solution in medicine to treat metabolic acidosis, usually by injection.
- soft ice-cream — a softer and lighter-textured ice cream that contains more air than standard ice-cream. It was developed in Britain in the 20th century.
- somali current — a current of the Indian Ocean, flowing northward along the coast of Somalia in summer and southwestward the rest of the year.
- south american — a continent in the S part of the Western Hemisphere. About 6,900,000 sq. mi. (17,871,000 sq. km).
- space platform — space station.
- spark spectrum — a spectrum formed from the light produced by an electric spark, characteristic of the gas or vapor through which the spark passes.
- specimen plant — a plant grown by itself for ornamental effect, rather than being massed with others in a bed or border.
- spectator pump — a woman's spectator shoe, closed at the front and back, usually having a medium or medium-high heel.
- speculum metal — any of several bronze alloys with a high tin content, often containing other materials, as silver, brass, lead, zinc, or arsenic, used for making mirrors and reflectors.
- speed merchant — a person who habitually drives too fast in a motor vehicle
- spermatic cord — the cord by which a testis is suspended in the scrotum, containing the vas deferens and the blood vessels and nerves of the testis.
- spermatothecae — a female reproductive organ in some insects
- sports complex — exercise facility, leisure centre
- stadium jacket — an insulated, parkalike jacket that reaches to the mid thigh or the knees and often has a drawstring around the bottom edge, worn outdoors in cold weather.
- state medicine — socialized medicine.