16-letter words containing s, e, x, i, n
- no fixed address — Someone who is of no fixed address does not have a permanent place to live.
- open box testing — white box testing
- presentation box — a specially designed and attractive box to hold a product, and make it look more impressive
- recreational sex — sex for the purpose of pleasure rather than reproduction, without the commitment of a relationship
- rotation of axes — a process of replacing the axes in a Cartesian coordinate system with a new set of axes making a specified angle with and having the same origin as the original axes.
- self-examination — examination into one's own state, conduct, motives, etc.
- self-explication — the act of explicating.
- selling expenses — Selling expenses are expenses that are related to sales activities, such as delivery costs and salespeople's wages.
- senior executive — someone in a senior position in a business, who makes decisions and puts them into action
- sex-and-shopping — (of a novel) belonging to a genre of novel in which the central character, a woman, has a number of sexual encounters, and the author mentions the name of many up-market products
- sexual deviation — a type of mental disorder characterized by a preference for or obsession with unusual sexual practices, as pedophilia, sadomasochism, or exhibitionism.
- sexual relations — sexual intercourse; coitus.
- sexual selection — a special type of natural selection in which the sexes acquire distinct forms either because the members of one sex choose mates with particular features or because in the competition for mates among the members of one sex only those with certain traits succeed.
- shopping complex — a shopping centre
- simple extension — an extension field of a given field, obtained by forming all polynomials in a specified element with coefficients contained in the given field.
- social exclusion — Social exclusion is the act of making certain groups of people within a society feel isolated and unimportant.
- swinging sixties — the 1960s as a decade when social and sexual freedom increased
- texas revolution — a revolutionary movement, 1832–36, in which U.S. settlers asserted their independence from Mexico and established the republic of Texas.
- the sex industry — a commercial sector that employs sex workers in prostitution, pornography, etc.
- triple-expansion — noting a power source, especially a steam engine, using the same fluid at three successive stages of expansion to do work in three or more cylinders.
- twin-lens reflex — See under reflex camera. Abbreviation: TLR.
- world exposition — world's fair.