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21-letter words containing d, i, s, h, e, a

  • staffordshire terrier — former name of American Staffordshire terrier.
  • swim against the tide — to resist prevailing opinion
  • take sb at their word — If you take someone at their word, you believe what they say, when they did not really mean it or when they meant something slightly different.
  • 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)
  • the stars and stripes — the national flag of the United States of America, consisting of 50 white stars representing the present states on a blue field and seven red and six white horizontal stripes representing the original states
  • thermal decomposition — Thermal decomposition is the process in which a chemical species breaks down when its temperature is increased.
  • third-party insurance — insurance that compensates for a loss to a party other than the insured for which the insured is liable.
  • threshold wage policy — a policy whereby wages are increased in accordance with inflation
  • to hit the bookstands — (of a book) to be published
  • to rear its ugly head — If something unpleasant rears its head or rears its ugly head, it becomes visible or noticeable.
  • tsutsugamushi disease — scrub typhus.
  • undesirable discharge — a discharge under other than honorable conditions of a person from military service by administrative action.
  • whistling in the dark — If you say that someone is whistling in the dark, you mean that they are trying to remain brave and convince themselves that the situation is not as bad as it seems.
  • white-crowned sparrow — a North American sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys, having black and white stripes on the head.
  • wholesale price index — an indicator of price changes in the wholesale market
  • with one's bare hands — If someone does something with their bare hands, they do it without using any weapons or tools.
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