17-letter words containing a, x, i, l
- plastic explosive — a puttylike substance that contains an explosive charge, and is detonated by fuse or by remote control: used especially by terrorists and in guerrilla warfare.
- potassium oxalate — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, K 2 C 2 O 4 ⋅H 2 O, used chiefly as a bleaching agent and in medical tests as an anticoagulant.
- psychoprophylaxis — Lamaze method.
- quasiexperimental — (medicine) Describing a trial in which the assignment to a group is based upon an experimental condition.
- semi-experimental — pertaining to, derived from, or founded on experiment: an experimental science.
- sexual dimorphism — the condition in which the males and females in a species are morphologically different, as with many birds.
- sexual generation — the gametophyte generation in the alternation of generations in plants that produces a zygote from male and female gametes.
- socially excluded — suffering from social exclusion
- sparc xterminal 1 — (computer) Sun's lowest cost networked Unix desktop, it is board-upgradeable to a SPARC 4. It comes with a choice of frame buffers: 8-bit colour, Turbo GX, or Turbo GX plus. This product was expected to replace the SPARCclassic X. UK availability was planned for March 1995.
- stress relaxation — Stress relaxation is a gradual reduction in stress with time at constant strain.
- textual criticism — lower criticism.
- thermal expansion — expansion caused by heat
- triangular matrix — a square matrix in which either all the entries above the principal diagonal, or all the entries below the principal diagonal, are zero.
- urban exploration — a recreational activity in which people explore derelict urban structures such as abandoned sewers or underground railways or attempt to access areas which are closed to the public such as the roofs of skyscrapers
- varix lymphaticus — a similar condition affecting an artery or lymphatic vessel
- vitamin b complex — an important group of water-soluble vitamins containing vitamin B 1 , vitamin B 2 , etc.
- xiao hinggan ling — mountain range in NE China running parallel to the Amur River: highest peak, 4,665 ft (1,422 m)