14-letter words containing l, e, a, g, u
- sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
- sugared almond — Sugared almonds are nuts which have been covered with a hard sweet coating.
- suprasegmental — above, beyond, or in addition to a segment.
- telegraph buoy — a buoy placed over an underwater telegraph cable.
- the blue angel — a legendary German expressionist film of 1930, the first major German sound film, starring Marlene Dietrich
- the ivy league — a group of eight universities (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth College, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale) that have similar academic and social prestige in the US to Oxford and Cambridge in Britain
- the last laugh — the final success in an argument, situation, etc, after previous defeat
- thermoregulate — to maintain regular temperature, esp regular body temperature
- tongue-lashing — severe scolding
- trade language — a lingua franca, especially one used primarily for trade and conducting business.
- 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
- ujamaa village — communally organized village in Tanzania
- ultraenergetic — (of particles) producing exceptional levels of energy
- 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
- upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
- 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.
- vegetable soup — soup made with vegetables
- 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.
- 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-regulated — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- weltanschauung — a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity's relation to it.
- 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
- 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.