Meanings of polysyllabic words in English

Before RISC, he says, those architectures tended to be highly complex and full of the digital equivalent of polysyllabic words.

An analogous case to this distributed stress but with monosyllables instead of polysyllabic words is the familiar line in Lycidas-

Once her bastion of polysyllabic words and unquestioned articles of faith had been penetrated, Fräulein Württemberger had little left to throw into the battle.