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14-letter words containing o, r, g, i, e, s

  • supercargoship — a giant cargo ship
  • supererogation — to do more than duty requires.
  • sweeping score — a line at each end of the rink parallel to the foot score and extending through the center of the tee.
  • swinging voter — a person who does not vote consistently for any single political party
  • tayside region — a former local government region in E Scotland: formed in 1975 from Angus, Kinross-shire, and most of Perthshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Angus, City of Dundee, and Perth and Kinross
  • teleprocessing — computerized processing and transmission of data over the telephone or other long-distance communications systems.
  • tergiversation — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • tergiversatory — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • testing ground — place where sth is tested
  • thermostatting — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
  • throat seizing — cuckold's knot.
  • tiger mosquito — a large Asian mosquito, Aedes albopictus, introduced into the southern U.S., that is a vector of dengue and other infectious diseases.
  • to be bursting — to want desperately to urinate
  • to strike gold — If you strike gold, you find, do, or produce something that brings you a lot of money or success.
  • tongue twister — a word or sequence of words difficult to pronounce, especially rapidly, because of alliteration or a slight variation of consonant sounds, as “She sells seashells by the seashore.”.
  • tongue-twister — A tongue-twister is a sentence or expression which is very difficult to say properly, especially when you try to say it quickly. An example of a tongue-twister is 'Red leather, yellow leather'.
  • training shoes — running shoes for sports training, esp in contrast to studded or spiked shoes worn for the sport itself
  • 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
  • under-shooting — to shoot or launch a projectile that strikes under or short of (a target).
  • underdiagnosed — to determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination: The doctor diagnosed the illness as influenza.
  • ungraciousness — the state of being ungracious
  • uterogestation — gestation in the womb, i.e. normal pregnancy
  • vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
  • virgin's-bower — any of several American clematis plants, esp Clematis virginiana, of E North America, which has clusters of small white flowers
  • washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
  • wearing course — the top layer of a road that carries the traffic; road surface
  • webliographies — Plural form of webliography.
  • women's rights — the rights, claimed by and for women, of equal privileges and opportunities with men
  • working papers — documents permitting employment
  • wrestling hold — a way of holding someone in the sport of wrestling
  • young marrieds — young married people
  • zebra crossing — a street crossing marked with white stripes.
  • zingiberaceous — belonging to the Zingiberaceae, the ginger family of plants.
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