32-letter words containing p, u, r, e
- turn/beat swords into plowshares — If you say that swords have been turned into plowshares or beaten into plowshares, you mean that a state of conflict between two or more groups of people has ended and a period of peace has begun.
- united states employment service — the division of the Department of Labor that supervises and coordinates the activities of state employment agencies. Abbreviation: USES.
- wash one's dirty linen in public — fabric woven from flax yarns.
- win one's spurs/earn one's spurs — If you win your spurs or earn your spurs, you achieve a particular status by proving that you can do something skilfully.
- workmen's compensation insurance — workers' compensation insurance.