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21-letter words containing g, u, i, d, e, t

  • sovereign wealth fund — an investment fund created using the financial assets of a national government
  • suction and curettage — a technique involving extraction of the fetus through a suction tube, used to perform abortions during the early stages of pregnancy.
  • surface friction drag — the part of the drag on a body moving through a fluid that is dependent on the nature of the surface of the body
  • 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.
  • three-quarter binding — a binding in which the material used for the back extends further over the covers than in half binding.
  • to be killed outright — If someone is killed outright, they die immediately, for example in an accident.
  • to rear its ugly head — If something unpleasant rears its head or rears its ugly head, it becomes visible or noticeable.
  • trades union congress — The Trades Union Congress in Britain is the same as the TUC.
  • tsutsugamushi disease — scrub typhus.
  • whip-and-tongue graft — a graft prepared by cutting both the scion and the stock in a sloping direction and inserting a tongue in the scion into a slit in the stock.
  • xeroderma pigmentosum — a rare inherited disease characterized by sensitivity to ultraviolet light, exposure resulting in lesions and tumors of the skin and eyes.
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