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21-letter words containing e, i, s, n, h

  • think outside the box — to think in a different, innovative, or original manner, esp with regard to business practices, products, systems, etc
  • third-party insurance — insurance that compensates for a loss to a party other than the insured for which the insured is liable.
  • throw one's hat at it — to give up all hope of getting or achieving something
  • to be mixed up in sth — if you are mixed up in something, usually something bad, you are involved in it
  • to blow sth wide open — to expose something
  • to dig one's heels in — If you dig your heels in or dig in your heels, you refuse to do something such as change your opinions or plans, especially when someone is trying very hard to make you do so.
  • to have green fingers — If someone has green fingers, they are very good at gardening and their plants grow well.
  • to hit the bookstands — (of a book) to be published
  • to lay something bare — If you lay something bare, you uncover it completely so that it can then be seen.
  • to put the wind up sb — If something or someone puts the wind up you, they frighten or worry you.
  • to sink without trace — If you say that someone or something sinks without trace or sinks without a trace, you mean that they stop existing or stop being successful very suddenly and completely.
  • twist the lion's tail — a large, usually tawny-yellow cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa and southern Asia, having a tufted tail and, in the male, a large mane.
  • undesirable discharge — a discharge under other than honorable conditions of a person from military service by administrative action.
  • vacation bible school — a religious school conducted by some churches during the summer for students on vacation.
  • weinberg-salam theory — electroweak theory.
  • west lothian question — the apparent inconsistency that members of parliament who represent Scottish constituencies are eligible to vote at Westminster on matters that relate only to England, whereas members of parliament from English constituencies are not eligible to vote on Scottish matters
  • what price something? — what are the chances of something happening now?
  • 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.
  • with sb's compliments — If you say that you are giving someone something with your compliments, you are saying in a polite and fairly formal way that you are giving it to them, especially as a gift or a favour.
  • worth someone's while — worth someone's time, consideration, etc.; profitable in some way
  • youth training scheme — (formerly, in Britain) a scheme, run by the Training Agency, to provide vocational training for unemployed 16–17-year-olds
  • zero-emission vehicle — a vehicle, as an automobile, that does not directly produce atmospheric pollutants. Abbreviation: ZEV.
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