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20-letter words containing p, a, l, e, h

  • take up the gauntlet — to accept a challenge
  • the beautiful people — rich, fashionable people in international high society
  • the legal profession — the profession of law
  • theosophical society — a society founded by Madame Blavatsky and others, in New York in 1875, advocating a worldwide eclectic religion based largely on Brahmanic and Buddhistic teachings.
  • to scrape the barrel — If you say that someone is scraping the barrel, or scraping the bottom of the barrel, you disapprove of the fact that they are using or doing something of extremely poor quality.
  • 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.
  • trumpet call for sth — a signal for something
  • upset the apple cart — to disrupt a procedure, spoil someone's plans, etc.
  • visually handicapped — unable to carry out normal activities because of defects of vision, including blindness
  • white bush (scallop) — a variety of summer squash having a saucer-shaped white fruit, scalloped around the edges
  • white elephant stall — a stall, usually at a fete or fundraising event, where unwanted possessions are sold
  • white-lipped peccary — a piglike artiodactyl mammal, Tayassu albirostris, of forests of southern North America, Central and South America: family Tayassuidae
  • wipe the slate clean — begin afresh
  • with all due respect — despite my regard for you
  • working relationship — a relationship with a colleague, boss or employee
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