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14-letter words containing s, t, y, r, a, c

  • satisfactorily — giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements: a satisfactory solution.
  • scaly anteater — pangolin.
  • scarcity value — increased value due to the inadequate supply of something
  • 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.
  • secretary bird — a large, long-legged, raptorial bird, Sagittarius serpentarius, of Africa, that feeds on reptiles.
  • secure tenancy — the letting of a dwelling by a nonprivate landlord, usually a local council or housing association, under an agreement that allows security of tenure, subletting, improvements made to the property by the tenant without consequent rent increase, and the right to buy the dwelling at a discount after three years' occupancy
  • security guard — a uniformed guard employed by a bank, airport, office building, etc., to maintain security.
  • serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
  • slurry reactor — A slurry reactor is a reactor in which contact is achieved by suspending a solid in a liquid.
  • 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.
  • solar activity — the sum of all variable and short-lived disturbances on the sun, as sunspots, prominences, and solar flares.
  • spectacularity — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
  • spectra yellow — a vivid yellow color.
  • speech therapy — treatment for speaking disorders
  • sphaerocrystal — a spherical crystalline mass
  • stanley dancer — Stanley, 1927–2005, U.S. harness racer and trainer.
  • strait-lacedly — in a strait-laced manner
  • stretchability — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
  • subcontrariety — the quality or state of being subcontrary
  • superficiality — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
  • supply teacher — A supply teacher is a teacher whose job is to take the place of other teachers at different schools when they are unable to be there.
  • sync-generator — an electronic generator that supplies synchronizing pulses to television scanning and transmitting equipment.
  • synoptic chart — a chart showing the distribution of meteorological conditions over a wide region at a given moment.
  • tetradactylous — having four fingers or toes.
  • 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.
  • trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
  • trans-physical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
  • treasury bench — (in Britain) the front bench to the right of the Speaker in the House of Commons, traditionally reserved for members of the Government
  • treasury stock — outstanding shares of stock reacquired and held by the issuing corporation.
  • trysting place — a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.
  • tymshare, inc. — (company)   The US company that created the TYMNET network.
  • uncrystallized — lacking a final form
  • undersecretary — an official who is subordinate to a principal secretary, as in the U.S. cabinet: Under Secretary of the Treasury.
  • undistractedly — in an undistracted manner
  • unhysterically — in a way that does not show or suggest any hysteria; calmly; rationally
  • universal city — a city in S central Texas.
  • unsatisfactory — not satisfactory; not satisfying or meeting one's demands; inadequate.
  • unscripturally — in an unscriptural manner
  • urbanistically — of or relating to urbanism.
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