16-letter words containing s, e, x
- 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.
- sodium hydroxide — a white, deliquescent, water-soluble solid, NaOH, usually in the form of lumps, sticks, chips, or pellets, that upon solution in water generates heat: used chiefly in the manufacture of other chemicals, rayon, film, soap, as a laboratory reagent, and in medicine as a caustic.
- spherical excess — the difference between the sum of the angles of a spherical triangle and two right angles.
- sulfamethoxazole — an antimicrobial substance, C 1 0 H 1 1 N 3 O 3 S, used against a variety of susceptible Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms, as in the treatment of certain urinary tract infections and skin infections.
- sulphur trioxide — a white corrosive substance existing in three crystalline forms of which the stable (alpha-) form is usually obtained as silky needles. It is produced by the oxidation of sulphur dioxide, and is used in the sulphonation of organic compounds. Formula: SO3
- swinging sixties — the 1960s as a decade when social and sexual freedom increased
- symmetric matrix — a matrix with the lower-left half equal to the mirror image of the upper-right half; a matrix that is its own transpose.
- texas revolution — a revolutionary movement, 1832–36, in which U.S. settlers asserted their independence from Mexico and established the republic of Texas.
- the opposite sex — women in relation to men or men in relation to women
- the sex industry — a commercial sector that employs sex workers in prostitution, pornography, etc.
- the-little-foxes — a play (1939) by Lillian Hellman.
- 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.
- vauxhall gardens — a public garden at Vauxhall, laid out in 1661; a fashionable meeting place and site of lavish entertainments. Closed in 1859
- world exposition — world's fair.
- xenotransplanted — Transplanted by xenotransplantation.