14-letter words containing a, g, e, s, i, l
- subgenerically — in a subgeneric manner; in a way relating to a subgenus
- sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
- swing the lead — to malinger or make up excuses
- swivel weaving — the process of weaving on a loom equipped with a swivel.
- tate galleries — two art galleries in London, the original Tate Gallery (1897), now Tate Britain, and Tate Modern, created in the former Bankside power station in 2000
- telangiectasis — chronic dilatation of the capillaries and other small blood vessels.
- thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
- tongue-lashing — severe scolding
- transit lounge — a waiting room at an international airport used mainly by passengers transferring from one flight to another without presenting themselves to customs or immigration officials
- trysting place — a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.
- unavailingness — the state or quality of being unavailing or useless
- undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
- unegoistically — pertaining to or of the nature of egoism.
- unhesitatingly — without hesitation; not delayed by uncertainty: an unhesitating decision.
- vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
- vegetable dish — a dish designed to serve vegetables from
- vegetable silk — a fine, glossy fiber, similar to silk cotton, from the seeds of a spiny Brazilian tree, Chorisia speciosa.
- venetian glass — ornamental glassware of the type made at Venice, especially that from the island of Murano.
- vestal virgins — (in ancient Rome) one of four, later six, virgins consecrated to Vesta and to the tending of the sacred fire on her altar.
- village school — a school in a village
- villein socage — land held by a tenant who rendered to a lord specified duties of a servile nature.
- walking papers — notice of dismissal
- weather signal — a visual signal, as a light or flag, indicating a weather forecast.
- webliographies — Plural form of webliography.
- welfare rights — legal entitlements to financial and other benefits
- white gasoline — unleaded and uncracked gasoline, designed especially for use in motorboats.
- wrangel island — an island in the Arctic Ocean, off the coast of the extreme NE of Russia: administratively part of Russia; mountainous and mostly tundra. Area: about 7300 sq km (2800 sq miles)