17-letter words containing s, e, t, x
- sixty-fourth rest — a rest equal in time value to a sixty-fourth note.
- 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.
- standing expenses — fixed or flat expenses or charges
- 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.
- stress relaxation — Stress relaxation is a gradual reduction in stress with time at constant strain.
- texas instruments — (company) (TI) A US electronics company. A TI engineer, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958. Three TI employees left the company in 1982 to start Compaq. The COOL and OATH C++ class libraries were developed at TI, as were PDL2 and the ASC computer, PC-Scheme and Texas Instruments Pascal.
- textual criticism — lower criticism.
- thermal expansion — expansion caused by heat
- to go to extremes — to overdo things; act excessively
- 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.