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21-letter words containing a, n, t, i, c, g

  • the acting profession — actors considered as a group
  • the icing on the cake — If you describe something as the icing on the cake, you mean that it makes a good thing even better, but it is not essential.
  • the shipping forecast — a radio broadcast made by the BBC of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the British Isles
  • tide-generating force — the difference between the force of gravity exerted by the moon or the sun on a particle of water in the ocean and that exerted on an equal mass of matter at the centre of the earth. The lunar tide-generating forces are about 2.2 times greater than are the solar ones
  • to kill a mockingbird — a novel (1960) by Harper Lee.
  • topological invariant — a property of a topological space that is a property of every space related to the given space by a homeomorphism.
  • trades union congress — The Trades Union Congress in Britain is the same as the TUC.
  • tubercular meningitis — an infection of the membranes of the central nervous system caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis; features can include fever, headache, and coma
  • vertically challenged — short in stature.
  • what price something? — what are the chances of something happening now?
  • youth training scheme — (formerly, in Britain) a scheme, run by the Training Agency, to provide vocational training for unemployed 16–17-year-olds
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