14-letter words containing l, i, e, g, o
- thought police — a group of people with totalitarian views on a given subject, who constantly monitor others for any deviation from prescribed thinking
- 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 overflowing — If a place or container is filled to overflowing, it is so full of people or things that no more can fit in.
- to ring a bell — If you say that something rings a bell, you mean that it reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is.
- to strike gold — If you strike gold, you find, do, or produce something that brings you a lot of money or success.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- vexillographer — a person who designs or makes flags.
- village school — a school in a village
- villein socage — land held by a tenant who rendered to a lord specified duties of a servile nature.
- vitellogenesis — the process by which the yolk is formed and accumulated in the ovum.
- warbling vireo — a grayish-green American vireo, Vireo gilvus, characterized by its melodious warble.
- webliographies — Plural form of webliography.
- weeping willow — an Asian willow, Salix babylonica, characterized by the drooping habit of its branches.
- well-organized — affiliated in an organization, especially a union: organized dockworkers.
- wellingborough — a town in central England, in Northamptonshire. Pop: 46 959 (2001)
- 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.
- wrestling hold — a way of holding someone in the sport of wrestling
- wriggle out of — evade: a duty
- wyoming valley — a valley in NE Pennsylvania, along the Susquehanna River: Indian massacre 1778.
- xenobiological — Of or pertaining to xenobiology.
- yellow gentian — a plant, Gentiana lutea, of Europe and Asia Minor, having yellow flowers, the rootstock yielding a bitter tonic.
- yellow wagtail — Motacilla flava; a small passerine
- yellow yorling — a yellowhammer
- zero balancing — a therapy involving the manipulation of the patient's skeletal structure in order to restore the balance of energy, relieve pain, and maintain well-being
- 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.