14-letter words containing a, n, e, p, i, g
- sleep-learning — the idea that people can learn things while they are asleep
- sleeping chair — a chair of the 17th century, having a high back, usually adjustable, with deep wings of the same height.
- sleeping giant — If you refer to someone or something as a sleeping giant, you mean that they are powerful but they have not yet shown the full extent of their power.
- smear campaign — a campaign to tarnish the reputation of a public figure, especially by vilification or innuendo.
- spanish dagger — a stemless or short-trunked plant, Yucca gloriosa, of the agave family, native to the southeastern U.S., having leaves nearly 2½ feet (75 cm) long, with a stiff, sharp point, and greenish-white or reddish flowers nearly 4 inches (10 cm) wide.
- spanish guinea — a republic in W equatorial Africa, comprising the mainland province of Río Muni and the island province of Bioko: formerly a Spanish colony. 10,824 sq. mi. (28,034 sq. km). Capital: Malabo.
- sparkling wine — a wine that is naturally carbonated by a second fermentation.
- speaking clock — a telephone service that gives a precise verbal statement of the correct time
- speaking terms — if you are on speaking terms with someone, you are quite friendly with them and often talk to them
- speaking voice — a person's normal voice in which they speak
- spear-phishing — the practice of sending fraudulent e-mails to extract financial data from computer users for purposes of identity theft, by mimicking a sender that the recipient knows
- speech-reading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
- spermatogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to spermatocytes.
- spinning frame — a machine for drawing, twisting, and winding yarn.
- spit and image — a person who bears a strong physical resemblance to another, esp to a relative
- spitting image — spit1 (def 13).
- sporangiophore — a structure bearing sporangia.
- sporangiospore — a spore that is produced within a sporangium.
- spread betting — Spread betting is a form of gambling that involves predicting a range of possible scores or results rather than one particular score or result.
- spring balance — a device in which an object to be weighed is attached to the end of a helical spring, the extension of which indicates the weight of the object on a calibrated scale
- starting price — gambling odds
- steeplechasing — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
- steganographic — of, or pertaining to, steganography
- stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
- sticking place — Also called sticking point. the place or point at which something stops and holds firm.
- stopping place — a place where vehicles may stop temporarily
- sunday opening — the act of allowing shops and businesses to open on a Sunday
- supererogation — to do more than duty requires.
- surpassingness — the fact of surpassing
- tape recording — sound reproduction on cassette
- thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
- topiary garden — a garden that features topiary work
- trading period — A trading period is a set length of time, usually a number of weeks, months, quarters, or years, in which sales are measured and compared to previous periods.
- training plane — a plane used for training pilots, esp in the military
- triple glazing — three layers of glass in windows or doors
- trysting place — a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.
- turnip cabbage — kohlrabi.
- unappetizingly — in an unappetizing manner
- unappreciating — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
- unaspiringness — the quality of being unaspiring or unambitious
- understrapping — subordinate or inferior
- undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
- vendor placing — a method of financing the purchase of one company by another in which the purchasing company pays for the target company in its own shares, on condition that the vendor places these shares with investors for cash payment
- waiting period — a specified delay, required by law, between officially stating an intention and acting on it, as between securing a marriage license and getting married.
- walking papers — notice of dismissal
- wappenschawing — a periodical muster or review of the men under arms in a particular lordship or district
- washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
- washington pie — a Boston cream pie with raspberry jam instead of custard between the layers.
- watering place — British. a seaside or lakeside vacation resort featuring bathing, boating, etc.
- wheel clamping — the practice of attaching wheel clamps to vehicles