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21-letter words containing p, l, o, c

  • to play the race card — if someone plays the race card they bring up the issue of race in a discussion, perhaps for sympathy or to seek popularity by appealing to racist sentiment
  • to pull your socks up — If you tell someone to pull their socks up, you mean that they should start working or studying harder, because they have been lazy or careless.
  • topgallant forecastle — a partial weather deck on top of a forecastle superstructure; forecastle deck.
  • topological invariant — a property of a topological space that is a property of every space related to the given space by a homeomorphism.
  • up close and personal — face to face, intimately
  • wet collodion process — a photographic process, in common use in the mid-19th century, employing a glass photographic plate coated with iodized collodion and dipped in a silver nitrate solution immediately before use.
  • wholesale price index — an indicator of price changes in the wholesale market
  • with sb's compliments — If you say that you are giving someone something with your compliments, you are saying in a polite and fairly formal way that you are giving it to them, especially as a gift or a favour.
  • x-ray crystallography — the determination of the structure of a crystal by the use of x-ray diffraction.
  • zedillo ponce de leonErnesto, born 1951, president of Mexico 1994–2000.
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