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20-letter words containing p, e, n, y, l

  • 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.
  • to pull your punches — If you say that someone does not pull their punches when they are criticizing a person or thing, you mean that they say exactly what they think, even though this might upset or offend people.
  • 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.
  • turnip-rooted celery — celeriac.
  • unemployment benefit — an allowance of money paid, usually weekly, to an unemployed worker by a state or federal agency or by the worker's labor union or former employer during all or part of the period of unemployment.
  • unemployment figures — statistics relating to the number of people who are out of work
  • visually handicapped — unable to carry out normal activities because of defects of vision, including blindness
  • winter olympic games — an international contest of winter sports, esp skiing, held every four years
  • woolly spider monkey — a rare related monkey, Brachyteles arachnoides, of SE Brazil
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