14-letter words containing l, i, e, g, d
- spindle-legged — (used with a plural verb) long, thin legs.
- straight-laced — strait-laced (sense 2)
- sucking diesel — doing very well; successful
- swing the lead — to malinger or make up excuses
- teaching elder — a minister in a Presbyterian church.
- the wild geese — the Irish expatriates who served as professional soldiers with the Catholic powers of Europe, esp France, from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries
- thread rolling — the production of a screw thread by a rolling swaging process using hardened profiled rollers. Rolled threads are stronger than threads machined by a cutting tool
- to strike gold — If you strike gold, you find, do, or produce something that brings you a lot of money or success.
- under-building — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- underutilizing — to fail to utilize fully: to underutilize natural resources.
- undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
- unpretendingly — without pretence
- unyieldingness — the quality or state of being unyielding
- upgradeability — an incline going up in the direction of movement.
- vegetable dish — a dish designed to serve vegetables from
- 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
- 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.
- well-organized — affiliated in an organization, especially a union: organized dockworkers.
- 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.
- 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)
- wrestling hold — a way of holding someone in the sport of wrestling
- yield strength — the stress necessary to produce a given inelastic strain in a material.