17-letter words containing x, s, a
- mexican stand-off — A Mexican stand-off is a situation in which neither of the people or groups in a conflict or dispute can win and neither wants to give in first.
- monoamine oxidase — a copper-containing enzyme that catalyzes the breakdown of monoamines. Abbreviation: MAO.
- moon and sixpence — a novel (1919) by W. Somerset Maugham.
- nursing auxiliary — someone who performs duties such as washing and dressing patients, making beds, etc, in an establishment such as a hospital
- paradoxical sleep — REM sleep.
- physical exercise — movements and activities done to keep your body healthy or make it stronger
- 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.
- quasiexperimental — (medicine) Describing a trial in which the assignment to a group is based upon an experimental condition.
- russell's paradox — a paradox of set theory in which an object is defined in terms of a class of objects that contains the object being defined, resulting in a logical contradiction.
- 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).
- same-sex marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
- saxe-coburg-gotha — a member of the present British royal family, from the establishment of the house in 1901 until 1917 when the family name was changed to Windsor.
- semi-experimental — pertaining to, derived from, or founded on experiment: an experimental science.
- 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.
- sexual harassment — unwelcome sexual advances made by an employer or superior, especially when compliance is made a condition of continued employment or advancement.
- sexual preference — Someone's sexual preference is the same as their sexual orientation.
- six-speed gearbox — a gearbox containing a system of six gears
- sixth commandment — “Thou shalt not kill”: sixth of the Ten Commandments.
- socially excluded — suffering from social exclusion
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- varix lymphaticus — a similar condition affecting an artery or lymphatic vessel
- warm-up exercises — preparatory exercises done to warm up the muscles
- x image extension — (XIE) Extensions to the X protocol to handle images.