14-letter words containing g, e, n, a, l
- un-challenging — offering a challenge; testing one's ability, endurance, etc: a challenging course; a challenging game.
- un-get-at-able — very difficult to get hold of or get close to
- unacknowledged — widely recognized; generally accepted: an acknowledged authority on Chinese art.
- unappetizingly — in an unappetizing manner
- unavailingness — the state or quality of being unavailing or useless
- uncongeniality — the condition of being uncongenial
- underleveraged — (of a business organization) having an excessively low ratio of debt capital to equity capital
- undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
- unegoistically — pertaining to or of the nature of egoism.
- unflatteringly — in an unflattering manner
- ungracefulness — the state of being ungraceful
- unhesitatingly — without hesitation; not delayed by uncertainty: an unhesitating decision.
- 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.
- unmarriageable — suitable or attractive for marriage: The handsome and successful young man was considered eminently marriageable.
- 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
- vaginal tablet — A vaginal tablet is a tablet inserted into the vagina to treat infection.
- value judgment — an estimate, usually subjective, of the worth, quality, goodness, evil, etc., of something or someone.
- valuer general — a state official who values properties for rating purposes
- vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
- 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
- venereological — of or relating to the study of sexually transmitted diseases
- venetian glass — ornamental glassware of the type made at Venice, especially that from the island of Murano.
- venezia giulia — a former region of NE Italy, at the N end of the Adriatic: now mainly in Croatia and Slovenia. The larger part, including the area surrounding the Free Territory of Trieste, was ceded to Yugoslavia 1947; the part remaining in Italy merged with Udine to form Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
- vertical angle — one of two opposite and equal angles formed by the intersection of two lines.
- 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.
- villein socage — land held by a tenant who rendered to a lord specified duties of a servile nature.
- walking papers — notice of dismissal
- walking ticket — walking papers.
- warbling vireo — a grayish-green American vireo, Vireo gilvus, characterized by its melodious warble.
- watering place — British. a seaside or lakeside vacation resort featuring bathing, boating, etc.
- weather signal — a visual signal, as a light or flag, indicating a weather forecast.
- web - language — (language) Donald Knuth's self-documenting literate programming, with algorithms and documentation intermixed in one file. They can be separated using Weave and Tangle. Versions exist for Pascal and C. Spiderweb can be used to create versions for other languages. FunnelWeb is a production-quality literate-programming tool.
- well-organized — affiliated in an organization, especially a union: organized dockworkers.
- weltanschauung — a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity's relation to it.
- west glamorgan — a county in S Wales. 315 sq. mi. (815 sq. km).
- whale watching — the activity of observing whales in their natural surroundings
- wheel clamping — the practice of attaching wheel clamps to vehicles
- white gasoline — unleaded and uncracked gasoline, designed especially for use in motorboats.
- 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).
- wild hydrangea — a shrub, Hydrangea arborescens, of the saxifrage family, common throughout the eastern half of the U.S., having egg-shaped leaves and a rounded cluster of white flowers.
- world language — a language spoken and known in many countries, such as English
- 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)
- wrongful death — the death of a person wrongfully caused, as comprising the grounds of a damage suit.
- wyoming valley — a valley in NE Pennsylvania, along the Susquehanna River: Indian massacre 1778.
- xenobiological — Of or pertaining to xenobiology.
- yard-long bean — asparagus bean.
- yearly meeting — any of several associations of local Quaker congregations.
- yellow gentian — a plant, Gentiana lutea, of Europe and Asia Minor, having yellow flowers, the rootstock yielding a bitter tonic.