15-letter words containing s, y, t, e, m, n
- monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
- monospaced type — a typeface in which the width of all letters, including the space around them, is the same
- monospecificity — the condition of being specific for a sole antigen
- montgomeryshire — a historic county in Powys, in central Wales.
- moreton bay ash — an Australian eucalyptus tree, E. tessellaris, having drooping branches and grey bark
- noncompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
- nyquist theorem — (communications) A theorem stating that when an analogue waveform is digitised, only the frequencies in the waveform below half the sampling frequency will be recorded. In order to reconstruct (interpolate) a signal from a sequence of samples, sufficient samples must be recorded to capture the peaks and troughs of the original waveform. If a waveform is sampled at less than twice its frequency the reconstructed waveform will effectively contribute only noise. This phenomenon is called "aliasing" (the high frequencies are "under an alias"). This is why the best digital audio is sampled at 44,000 Hz - twice the average upper limit of human hearing. The Nyquist Theorem is not specific to digitised signals (represented by discrete amplitude levels) but applies to any sampled signal (represented by discrete time values), not just sound.
- pachymeningitis — inflammation of the dura mater of the brain and spinal cord
- platyhelminthes — a phylum of worms having bilateral symmetry and a soft, usually flattened body, comprising the flatworms.
- presbyterianism — church government by presbyters or elders, equal in rank and organized into graded administrative courts.
- promissory note — a written promise to pay a specified sum of money to a designated person or to his or her order, or to the bearer of the note, at a fixed time or on demand.
- proxy statement — a statement containing information, frequently exhaustive, about a corporation, its officers, and any propositions to be voted on, sent to stockholders when their proxies are being solicited for an annual or a special stockholders' meeting.
- remonstratingly — in an remonstrating or dissenting manner
- remonstratively — in a remonstrative or expostulatory manner
- run-time system — (programming) (RTS, run-time support, run-time) Library code and processes which support software written in a particular language running on a particular platform. The RTS typically deals with details of the interface between the program and the operating system such as system calls, program start-up and termination, and memory management.
- sarcenchymatous — relating to the connective tissue of some sponges
- secondary metal — metal derived wholly or in part from scrap.
- self-employment — the act or fact of being self-employed.
- semantic memory — the recollection of facts and concepts
- semi-analytical — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
- semicrystalline — partly or imperfectly crystalline.
- semidocumentary — a film or television programme that is fictional but includes many factual events or details
- siege mentality — a state of mind whereby one believes that one is being constantly attacked, oppressed, or isolated.
- silent majority — the U.S. citizens who supported President Nixon's policies but who were not politically vocal, outspoken, or active: considered by him to constitute a majority.
- simeon stylites — Saint, a.d. 390?–459, Syrian monk and stylite.
- stand-up comedy — telling jokes to an audience
- stony meteorite — any of various meteorites composed mainly of rock-forming silicates, especially olivine, plagioclase, and pyroxene, and classified as achondrites or chondrites.
- street ministry — the vocation of a church worker, clergyman, or the like who frequents public places in an attempt to help runaways, prostitutes, or others on the margins of society.
- sweating system — the practice of employing workers in sweatshops.
- sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
- symphony writer — a composer of an extended large-scale orchestral composition, usually with several movements, at least one of which is in sonata form
- system building — a method of building in which prefabricated components are used to speed the construction of buildings
- systematization — to arrange in or according to a system; reduce to a system; make systematic.
- systems analyst — A systems analyst is someone whose job is to decide what computer equipment and software a company needs, and to provide it.
- tammany society — a benevolent society founded in 1789, which later became Tammany Hall, the central organization of the Democratic Party in New York county
- tantalus monkey — a long-tailed African monkey, Cercopithecus tantalus (or C. aethiops tantalus), of central African grasslands, having a long face framed by upswept whiskers.
- the smart money — If you say that the smart money is on a particular person or thing, you mean that people who know a lot about it think that this person will be successful, or this thing will happen.
- thirtysomething — a person in her or his thirties
- tychonic system — a model for planetary motion devised by Tycho Brahe in which the earth is stationary and at the center of the planetary system, the sun and moon revolve around the earth, and the other planets revolve around the sun.
- x window system — (operating system, graphics) A specification for device-independent windowing operations on bitmap display devices, developed initially by MIT's Project Athena and now a de facto standard supported by the X Consortium. X was named after an earlier window system called "W". It is a window system called "X", not a system called "X Windows". X uses a client-server protocol, the X protocol. The server is the computer or X terminal with the screen, keyboard, mouse and server program and the clients are application programs. Clients may run on the same computer as the server or on a different computer, communicating over Ethernet via TCP/IP protocols. This is confusing because X clients often run on what people usually think of as their server (e.g. a file server) but in X, it is the screen and keyboard etc. which is being "served out" to the applications. X is used on many Unix systems. It has also been described as over-sized, over-featured, over-engineered and incredibly over-complicated. X11R6 (version 11, release 6) was released in May 1994. See also Andrew project, PEX, VNC, XFree86.