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21-letter words containing d, o, r, e, c

  • the household cavalry — a group of British soldiers on horseback who have the job of protecting the king or queen and their family
  • the yellow brick road — the road to success or happiness (in the film the Wizard of Oz the yellow brick road leads to Oz)
  • thermal decomposition — Thermal decomposition is the process in which a chemical species breaks down when its temperature is increased.
  • third party procedure — impleader.
  • three-toed woodpecker — either of two woodpeckers of the genus Picoides, of the Northern Hemisphere, having only three toes on each foot.
  • threshold wage policy — a policy whereby wages are increased in accordance with inflation
  • 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 be hard luck on sb — to be unfortunate or unlucky for someone
  • 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
  • trades union congress — The Trades Union Congress in Britain is the same as the TUC.
  • trichloroacetaldehyde — chloral (def 1).
  • universe of discourse — the totality of known or supposed objects and phenomena throughout space; the cosmos; macrocosm.
  • university of iceland — (body, education)   The Home of Fjolnir.
  • up close and personal — face to face, intimately
  • wet collodion process — a photographic process, in common use in the mid-19th century, employing a glass photographic plate coated with iodized collodion and dipped in a silver nitrate solution immediately before use.
  • 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
  • word association test — a technique for determining a subject's associative pattern by providing a verbal stimulus to which a verbal response is required.
  • word-association test — a psychological test in which the person being tested responds to a given word with the first word (or the first word in a specified category, such as an antonym) brought to mind
  • yellow mercuric oxide — a slightly crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous compound, HgO, occurring as a coarse, orange-red powder (red mercuric oxide) or as a fine, orange-yellow powder (yellow mercuric oxide) used chiefly as a pigment in paints and as an antiseptic in pharmaceuticals.
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