Term: glass ceiling: a ceiling based on attitudinal or organizational bias in the work force that prevents minorities and women from advancing to leadership positions
Broader: ceiling: an upper limit on what is allowed | Unrelated: prostaglandin: a potent substance that acts like a hormone and is found in many bodily tissues (and especially in semen); produced in response to trauma and may affect blood pressure and metabolism and smooth muscle activity
Broader: ceiling: an upper limit on what is allowed | Unrelated: emptiness: having an empty stomach
Broader: ceiling: an upper limit on what is allowed | Unrelated: hedge violet: common European violet that grows in woods and hedgerows
Broader: ceiling: an upper limit on what is allowed | Unrelated: angrecum: any of various spectacular orchids of the genus Angraecum having dark green leathery leaves and usually nocturnally scented white or ivory flowers
Broader: ceiling: an upper limit on what is allowed | Unrelated: bottle-tree: an Australian tree of the genus Brachychiton
Broader: ceiling: an upper limit on what is allowed | Unrelated: punch-up: a fistfight
Broader: ceiling: an upper limit on what is allowed | Unrelated: sweet four o'clock: leafy wildflower having fragrant slender white or pale pink trumpet-shaped flowers; southwestern United States and northern Mexico
Broader: ceiling: an upper limit on what is allowed | Unrelated: file server: (computer science) a digital computer that provides workstations on a network with controlled access to shared resources
Broader: ceiling: an upper limit on what is allowed | Unrelated: australian bonytongue: a species of large fish found in Australian rivers
Broader: ceiling: an upper limit on what is allowed | Unrelated: clouding: the process whereby water particles become visible in the sky