21-letter words containing p, o, s, t, d, e
- student participation — the extent to which students participate or involve themselves in a class, course, etc
- 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 end of one's rope — the end of one's endurance, resources, etc.
- the oldest profession — prostitution
- the slough of despond — a state of extreme despondency, depression or degradation
- 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 mixed up in sth — if you are mixed up in something, usually something bad, you are involved in it
- to blow sth wide open — to expose something
- to play second fiddle — If you play second fiddle to someone, your position is less important than theirs in something that you are doing together.
- to put the wind up sb — If something or someone puts the wind up you, they frighten or worry you.
- 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.
- white-crowned sparrow — a North American sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys, having black and white stripes on the head.
- xeroderma pigmentosum — a rare inherited disease characterized by sensitivity to ultraviolet light, exposure resulting in lesions and tumors of the skin and eyes.