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14-letter words containing e, u, l, o, g

  • telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
  • the guillotine — a device for beheading persons, consisting of a weighted blade set between two upright posts
  • theologoumenon — a theological assertion or statement not derived from divine revelation
  • thermoregulate — to maintain regular temperature, esp regular body temperature
  • thought police — a group of people with totalitarian views on a given subject, who constantly monitor others for any deviation from prescribed thinking
  • thoughtfulness — showing consideration for others; considerate.
  • to go belly-up — (of a company) to not have enough money to pay its debts
  • to sleep rough — When people sleep or live rough, they sleep out of doors, usually because they have no home.
  • tongue-lashing — severe scolding
  • torture flight — a flight used to carry out extraordinary rendition
  • 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
  • ultimogeniture — postremogeniture.
  • unacknowledged — widely recognized; generally accepted: an acknowledged authority on Chinese art.
  • uncongeniality — the condition of being uncongenial
  • unegoistically — pertaining to or of the nature of egoism.
  • uniflow engine — a double-acting steam engine exhausting from the middle of each cylinder at each stroke so that the motion of the steam from admission to exhaust is continuous in one direction.
  • union language — a form of a language, used in literature and for official and educational purposes, that combines vocabulary and grammatical features from a number of related dialects, thus representing a compromise between them.
  • unprogrammable — not able to be programmed
  • unrecognizable — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
  • unrecognizably — in an unrecognizable or unidentifiable manner
  • 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 soup — soup made with vegetables
  • wellingborough — a town in central England, in Northamptonshire. Pop: 46 959 (2001)
  • whole language — a method of teaching reading in which reading is combined with listening, speaking, and writing practice, and literature is used to decode words in context. Compare phonics (def 1).
  • world language — a language spoken and known in many countries, such as English
  • wriggle out of — evade: a duty
  • wrongful death — the death of a person wrongfully caused, as comprising the grounds of a damage suit.
  • zonal geranium — a widely cultivated plant, Pelargonium hortorum, having white, pink, or red flowers and rounded leaves that are sometimes banded or blotched with contrasting colors.
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