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20-letter words containing l, e, t, r, i, p

  • television programme — a programme broadcast on television
  • the legal profession — the profession of law
  • to line your pockets — If you say that someone is lining their own or someone else's pockets, you disapprove of them because they are making money dishonestly or unfairly.
  • travel-sickness pill — a pill which is used to relieve the symptoms of travel or motion sickness, the condition of being nauseated from riding in a moving vehicle
  • triphenylmethane dye — any of a great number of dyes, as gentian violet, fuchsin, and rosaniline, produced from triphenylmethane by replacement of the ring hydrogen atoms with hydroxy, amino, sulfo, or other atoms or groups.
  • triple witching hour — the last hour of trading on the New York Stock Exchange on the four Fridays each year when stock options, stock index futures, and options on such futures simultaneously expire: regarded as a time of extreme volatility in trading.
  • tropical continental — a type of warm, dry air mass originating at low latitudes over land areas
  • tropical disturbance — a very weak, or incipient, tropical cyclone.
  • turnip-rooted celery — celeriac.
  • unemployment figures — statistics relating to the number of people who are out of work
  • united arab republic — a name given the union of Egypt and Syria from 1958 to 1961; after that, the official name of Egypt alone until 1971. Abbreviation: U.A.R.
  • upper yosemite falls — a section of Yosemite Falls in central California, in the Yosemite National Park that is 436 m (1430 ft) high
  • vertical envelopment — envelopment of an enemy accomplished by parachuting and landing airborne troops at the rear of the enemy's position.
  • white people problem — a fairly minor problem, complaint, etc., associated with a relatively high standard of living; a first world problem.
  • white-lipped peccary — a piglike artiodactyl mammal, Tayassu albirostris, of forests of southern North America, Central and South America: family Tayassuidae
  • winter olympic games — an international contest of winter sports, esp skiing, held every four years
  • with all due respect — despite my regard for you
  • working relationship — a relationship with a colleague, boss or employee
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