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21-letter words containing a, d, o, l, p

  • stock list department — (in an American stock exchange) the department dealing with monitoring compliance with its listing requirements and rules
  • the antipodes islands — a group of small uninhabited islands in the South Pacific, southeast of and belonging to New Zealand. Area: 62 sq km (24 sq miles)
  • thermal decomposition — Thermal decomposition is the process in which a chemical species breaks down when its temperature is increased.
  • threshold wage policy — a policy whereby wages are increased in accordance with inflation
  • to play second fiddle — If you play second fiddle to someone, your position is less important than theirs in something that you are doing together.
  • to play the race card — if someone plays the race card they bring up the issue of race in a discussion, perhaps for sympathy or to seek popularity by appealing to racist sentiment
  • up close and personal — face to face, intimately
  • up hill and down dale — strenuously and persistently
  • wholesale price index — an indicator of price changes in the wholesale market
  • wildlife photographer — someone that specializes in taking photographs of wild animals, especially in their natural habitats, and plants
  • yellow lady's-slipper — a showy orchid, Cypripedium calceolus, of eastern North America, having purple-tinged yellow flowers with an inflated lip petal.
  • yellow-rumped warbler — a common North American wood warbler, Dendroica coronata, having yellow spots on the rump, crown, and sides, including a white-throated eastern subspecies (myrtle warbler) and a yellow-throated western subspecies (Audubon's warbler)
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