17-letter words containing i, s, o, x
- moon and sixpence — a novel (1919) by W. Somerset Maugham.
- multiple exposure — the filming of more than one scene in a single frame
- neo-expressionism — an art movement, chiefly in painting, that developed in Germany, Italy, and the U.S. in the late 1970s, emphasized large heavy forms and thick impasto, and typically dealt with historical narrative in terms of symbolism, allegory, and myth.
- new expressionism — neo-expressionism.
- paradoxical sleep — REM sleep.
- 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.
- saint croix river — Also called Santa Cruz. a U.S. island in the N Lesser Antilles: the largest of the Virgin Islands. 82 sq. mi. (212 sq. km).
- 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.
- six o'clock swill — a period of heavy drinking, esp during the years when hotels had to close their bars at 6.00 p.m.
- six-speed gearbox — a gearbox containing a system of six gears
- sixth commandment — “Thou shalt not kill”: sixth of the Ten Commandments.
- sixty-fourth note — a note having one sixty-fourth of the time value of a whole note; hemidemisemiquaver.
- sixty-fourth rest — a rest equal in time value to a sixty-fourth note.
- socially excluded — suffering from social exclusion
- stay of execution — If you are given a stay of execution, you are legally allowed to delay obeying an order of a court of law.
- stochastic matrix — a square matrix with positive entries totaling 1 in each row.
- stress relaxation — Stress relaxation is a gradual reduction in stress with time at constant strain.
- thermal expansion — expansion caused by heat
- tungsten trioxide — a heavy, canary-yellow, water-insoluble powder, WO 3 , used in the manufacture of tungstates.
- x image extension — (XIE) Extensions to the X protocol to handle images.