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21-letter words containing i, d, g

  • to be arrayed against — to be opposed to
  • 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 kill a mockingbird — a novel (1960) by Harper Lee.
  • to rear its ugly head — If something unpleasant rears its head or rears its ugly head, it becomes visible or noticeable.
  • to take the high road — to take the course of action which is safest and most familiar
  • trades union congress — The Trades Union Congress in Britain is the same as the TUC.
  • tsutsugamushi disease — scrub typhus.
  • 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.
  • washington's birthday — February 22, formerly observed as a legal holiday in most states of the U.S. in honor of the birth of George Washington.
  • watenstedt-salzgitter — former name of Salzgitter.
  • well-ordering theorem — the theorem of set theory that every set can be made a well-ordered set.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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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