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21-letter words containing l, a, s, h, e, d

  • old spanish practices — irregular practices among a group of workers to gain increased financial allowances, reduced working hours, etc
  • phenarsazine chloride — adamsite.
  • philadelphia scrapple — a superior variety of scrapple made with pork shoulder and other cuts of pork rather than with pork scraps.
  • physically challenged — See example at challenged (def 1).
  • pipelined burst cache — Pipeline Burst Cache
  • ploughman's spikenard — a European plant, Inula conyza, with tubular yellowish flower heads surrounded by purple bracts: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • populist shop steward — a shop steward who operates in a delegate role, putting the immediate interests of his members before union principles and policies
  • ralph roister doister — a play (1553?) by Nicholas Udall: the earliest known English comedy.
  • rayleigh distribution — (mathematics)   A curve that yields a good approximation to the actual labour curves on software projects.
  • redlegged grasshopper — a migratory grasshopper, Melanoplus femur-rubrum, of the southwestern and midwestern U.S., having reddish skin on the underside of the hind legs: an agricultural pest.
  • safe in the knowledge — If you do something safe in the knowledge that something else is the case, you do the first thing confidently because you are sure of the second thing.
  • sail against the wind — to sail a course that slants slightly away from the true direction of the wind; sail closehauled
  • satellite dish aerial — a parabolic aerial for reception from or transmission to an artificial satellite
  • scorched earth policy — a military practice of devastating the property and agriculture of an area before abandoning it to an advancing enemy.
  • scorched-earth policy — a military practice of devastating the property and agriculture of an area before abandoning it to an advancing enemy.
  • sealed-beam headlight — a headlight in which the reflector and lens are hermetically sealed together with the filament in a single unit.
  • share and share alike — with each having an equal share
  • silicon tetrachloride — a colorless, fuming liquid, SiCl 4 , used chiefly for making smoke screens and various derivatives of silicon.
  • slatwall merchandiser — A slatwall merchandiser is a three-dimensional display unit with grooves cut into its surface into which metal hanging rails can be fixed at various heights.
  • sodium metabisulphite — an inorganic compound with the chemical formula Na2S2O5 that is used as a preservative, antioxidant and disinfectant
  • sovereign wealth fund — an investment fund created using the financial assets of a national government
  • spherical coordinates — Usually, spherical coordinates. any of three coordinates used to locate a point in space by the length of its radius vector and the angles this vector makes with two perpendicular polar planes.
  • spotted alfalfa aphid — a pale yellowish aphid, Therioaphis maculata, of the southern U.S., especially west of the Mississippi River, that is marked with black spots and has fine spines on its back: a pest mainly of alfalfa and some other legumes, as clover.
  • sunday school teacher — someone who teaches at a Sunday school
  • the antipodes islands — a group of small uninhabited islands in the South Pacific, southeast of and belonging to New Zealand. Area: 62 sq km (24 sq miles)
  • the fall of the cards — the chance distribution of cards in a given deal
  • the household cavalry — a group of British soldiers on horseback who have the job of protecting the king or queen and their family
  • the san andreas fault — a geological fault in California
  • the women's land army — a unit of women recruited to do agricultural work in the United Kingdom during World War I and World War II
  • thermal decomposition — Thermal decomposition is the process in which a chemical species breaks down when its temperature is increased.
  • threshold wage policy — a policy whereby wages are increased in accordance with inflation
  • to be hard luck on sb — to be unfortunate or unlucky for someone
  • 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.
  • what the future holds — If you wonder what the future holds, you wonder what will happen in the future.
  • 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.
  • wholesale price index — an indicator of price changes in the wholesale market
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