14-letter words containing e, i, g, n, s
- tongue-twister — A tongue-twister is a sentence or expression which is very difficult to say properly, especially when you try to say it quickly. An example of a tongue-twister is 'Red leather, yellow leather'.
- trading estate — industrial area
- training shoes — running shoes for sports training, esp in contrast to studded or spiked shoes worn for the sport itself
- 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.
- turning chisel — a chisel used for shaping work on a lathe.
- unaspiringness — the quality of being unaspiring or unambitious
- unavailingness — the state or quality of being unavailing or useless
- unchangingness — the quality or state of not changing
- under-shooting — to shoot or launch a projectile that strikes under or short of (a target).
- underdiagnosed — to determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination: The doctor diagnosed the illness as influenza.
- understandings — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
- understrapping — subordinate or inferior
- undesignedness — the state of being undesigned
- undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
- unegoistically — pertaining to or of the nature of egoism.
- unenterprising — lacking in business initiative
- unextinguished — to put out (a fire, light, etc.); put out the flame of (something burning or lighted): to extinguish a candle.
- ungraciousness — the state of being ungracious
- unhesitatingly — without hesitation; not delayed by uncertainty: an unhesitating decision.
- unknightliness — the quality or condition of being unknightly
- unrightfulness — the quality of being unjust or unrightful
- unyieldingness — the quality or state of being unyielding
- uterogestation — gestation in the womb, i.e. normal pregnancy
- vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
- venetian glass — ornamental glassware of the type made at Venice, especially that from the island of Murano.
- venus's girdle — an iridescent blue-and-green comb jelly, Cestum veneris, having a ribbon-shaped, gelatinous body.
- venus's-girdle — an iridescent blue-and-green comb jelly, Cestum veneris, having a ribbon-shaped, gelatinous body.
- venus-figurine — Venus (def 3).
- 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.
- vienna sausage — a small frankfurter, often served as an hors d'oeuvre.
- villein socage — land held by a tenant who rendered to a lord specified duties of a servile nature.
- virgin's-bower — any of several American clematis plants, esp Clematis virginiana, of E North America, which has clusters of small white flowers
- visiting nurse — a registered nurse employed by a social service agency to give medical care to the sick in their homes or to implement other public health programs.
- visiting terms — a degree of acquaintance in which you know someone well enough to visit
- vitellogenesis — the process by which the yolk is formed and accumulated in the ovum.
- wage restraint — an agreement not to demand or pay large wage increases
- 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.
- watertightness — constructed or fitted so tightly as to be impervious to water: The ship had six watertight compartments.
- wearing course — the top layer of a road that carries the traffic; road surface
- weather signal — a visual signal, as a light or flag, indicating a weather forecast.
- web-publishing — a person or company that uploads, creates, or edits content on Web pages; one who maintains or manages a website.
- weight density — the weight per unit volume of a substance or object.
- weightlessness — being without apparent weight, as a freely falling body or a body acted upon by a force that neutralizes gravitation.
- west virginian — a state in the E United States. 24,181 sq. mi. (62,629 sq. km). Capital: Charleston. Abbreviation: WV (for use with zip code), W.Va.
- whistleblowing — The disclosure to the public or to authorities, usually by an employee, of wrongdoing in a company or government department.
- white gasoline — unleaded and uncracked gasoline, designed especially for use in motorboats.