21-letter words containing g, e, l, i, d
- sir roger de coverley — Sir Roger de, a literary figure representing the ideal of the early 18th-century squire in The Spectator, by Addison and Steele.
- sovereign wealth fund — an investment fund created using the financial assets of a national government
- stained glass ceiling — a situation in a church organization in which promotion for a female member of the clergy appears to be possible, but discrimination prevents it
- stem-and-leaf diagram — a histogram in which the data points falling within each class interval are listed in order
- submerged arc welding — a type of heavy electric-arc welding using mechanically fed bare wire with the arc submerged in powdered flux to keep out oxygen
- the moral high ground — If you say that someone has taken the moral high ground, you mean that they consider that their policies and actions are morally superior to the policies and actions of their rivals.
- threshold wage policy — a policy whereby wages are increased in accordance with inflation
- to be killed outright — If someone is killed outright, they die immediately, for example in an accident.
- 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 feel obliged to do — to feel obligated to do
- to rear its ugly head — If something unpleasant rears its head or rears its ugly head, it becomes visible or noticeable.
- undesirable discharge — a discharge under other than honorable conditions of a person from military service by administrative action.
- vertically challenged — short in stature.
- vladivostok agreement — a preliminary arms control accord concluded by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and U.S. President Gerald Ford in Vladivostok, U.S.S.R., in December 1974.
- watenstedt-salzgitter — former name of Salzgitter.
- well-ordering theorem — the theorem of set theory that every set can be made a well-ordered set.
- 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.
- wildlife photographer — someone that specializes in taking photographs of wild animals, especially in their natural habitats, and plants