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14-letter words containing n, e, g, o, c

  • sliding vector — a vector having specified magnitude and lying on a given line.
  • smoking jacket — a loose-fitting jacket for men, often of a heavy fabric and trimmed with braid, worn indoors, especially as a lounging jacket.
  • social evening — a social gathering for the purpose of promoting companionship, communal activities, etc
  • song and dance — a story or statement, especially an untrue or misleading one designed to evade the matter at hand: Every time he's late, he gives me a song and dance about oversleeping.
  • sorting office — postal
  • soul-searching — the act or process of close and penetrating analysis of oneself, to determine one's true motives and sentiments.
  • sowing machine — a machine that scatters seeds on land so that they may grow
  • speaking clock — a telephone service that gives a precise verbal statement of the correct time
  • speaking voice — a person's normal voice in which they speak
  • steganographic — of, or pertaining to, steganography
  • stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
  • stock exchange — a building or place where stocks and other securities are bought and sold.
  • stock watering — the creation of more new shares in a company than is justified by its assets
  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • stopping place — a place where vehicles may stop temporarily
  • sweeping score — a line at each end of the rink parallel to the foot score and extending through the center of the tee.
  • sync-generator — an electronic generator that supplies synchronizing pulses to television scanning and transmitting equipment.
  • tablet coating — A tablet coating is a covering over a tablet, used to mask the taste, make it easier to swallow, or protect the active medication inside.
  • tape recording — sound reproduction on cassette
  • tax-collecting — the collection of taxes owed by individuals
  • teleprocessing — computerized processing and transmission of data over the telephone or other long-distance communications systems.
  • teratogenicity — the production or induction of malformations or monstrosities, especially of a developing embryo or fetus.
  • terminological — the system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject; nomenclature: the terminology of botany.
  • terotechnology — a branch of technology that utilizes management, financial, and engineering expertise in the installation and efficient operation and maintenance of equipment and machinery
  • the long march — a journey of about 10 000 km (6000 miles) undertaken (1934–35) by some 100 000 Chinese Communists when they were forced out of their base in Kiangsi in SE China. They made their way to Shensi in NW China; only about 8000 survived the rigours of the journey
  • thermomagnetic — of or relating to the effect of heat on the magnetic properties of a substance.
  • time-consuming — (of an action) requiring or wasting much time.
  • to change tack — If you change tack or try a different tack, you try a different method for dealing with a situation.
  • to give notice — If an employer gives an employee notice, the employer tells the employee that he or she must leave his or her job within a fixed period of time.
  • tumorigenicity — (of cells or a substance) capable of producing tumors.
  • unacknowledged — widely recognized; generally accepted: an acknowledged authority on Chinese art.
  • uncongeniality — the condition of being uncongenial
  • uncrowned king — a man or woman of high status among a certain group
  • unegoistically — pertaining to or of the nature of egoism.
  • unequivocating — to use ambiguous or unclear expressions, usually to avoid commitment or in order to mislead; prevaricate or hedge: When asked directly for his position on disarmament, the candidate only equivocated.
  • ungraciousness — the state of being ungracious
  • 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
  • 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
  • victory garden — a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.
  • villein socage — land held by a tenant who rendered to a lord specified duties of a servile nature.
  • voice training — the process of training and improving vocal ability
  • voting machine — a mechanical apparatus used in a polling place to register and count the votes.
  • warning notice — official notification of a danger or threat
  • wearing course — the top layer of a road that carries the traffic; road surface
  • whooping crane — a white North American crane, Grus americana, having a loud, whooping call: an endangered species.
  • wine-producing — of or relating to a place where wine is produced
  • wing commander — British. an officer in the Royal Air Force equivalent in rank to a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force.
  • winnipeg couch — a couch with no arms or back, opening out into a double bed
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