17-letter words containing s, e, x, i, n
- quasiexperimental — (medicine) Describing a trial in which the assignment to a group is based upon an experimental condition.
- 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).
- semi-experimental — pertaining to, derived from, or founded on experiment: an experimental science.
- sexual generation — the gametophyte generation in the alternation of generations in plants that produces a zygote from male and female gametes.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.