14-letter words containing n, a, c, h, o, s
- one-horse race — if a contest is described as a one-horse race, it is thought that one person or thing will definitely win it
- 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.
- orobanchaceous — belonging to the Orobanchaceae, the broomrape family of plants.
- orphan process — (operating system) A Unix process whose original parent has terminated and which has become a child of "init(1)". Compare zombie.
- 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.
- parish council — local administrative body
- personal chair — a professorship awarded in recognition of academic achievement
- 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.
- prosencephalon — the forebrain.
- psychoanalyses — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
- psychoanalysis — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
- psychoanalytic — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
- psychodynamics — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
- psychogalvanic — pertaining to or involving electric changes in the body resulting from reactions to mental or emotional stimuli.
- reach-me-downs — trousers
- rock mechanics — the study of the mechanical behaviour of rocks, esp their strength, elasticity, permeability, porosity, density, and reaction to stress
- saint nicholas — Saint ("Nicholas the Great") died a.d. 867, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 858–867.
- sandwich board — two connected posters or signboards that hang in front of and behind a person and usually bear some advertisement, notice, exhortation, or the like.
- schematization — to reduce to or arrange according to a scheme.
- schizognathous — (of birds) having a separation in the vomer and maxillo-palatine bones, having a cleft-palate
- schoolteaching — the profession of a schoolteacher.
- sconcheon arch — an archway that includes the sconcheons of a door or window.
- scotch furnace — ore hearth.
- 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.
- second chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
- servomechanism — an electronic control system in which a hydraulic, pneumatic, or other type of controlling mechanism is actuated and controlled by a low-energy signal.
- 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.
- shield volcano — a broad volcano built up from the repeated nonexplosive eruption of basalt to form a low dome or shield, usually having a large caldera at the summit
- ship's company — company (def 11).
- shooting match — a contest in marksmanship.
- shouting match — a loud, often abusive quarrel or argument.
- shower curtain — waterproof sheet around a shower
- social housing — Social housing is housing which is provided for rent or sale at a fairly low cost by housing associations and local councils.
- social sharing — the activity of sharing photos, videos, links, etc., on a social-media website, within an interactive application, or through other online channels.
- soil mechanics — the branch of civil engineering that deals with the mechanical behavior of soil and similar materials when they are compressed or sheared or when liquids flow through them.
- son of a bitch — a contemptible or thoroughly disagreeable person; scoundrel.
- sophisticating — a sophisticated person.
- sophistication — sophisticated character, ideas, tastes, or ways as the result of education, worldly experience, etc.: the sophistication of the wealthy.
- soul-searching — the act or process of close and penetrating analysis of oneself, to determine one's true motives and sentiments.