14-letter words containing p, l, a, n, i, g
- sleep learning — the act or process of learning during sleep by listening to recordings repeatedly.
- sleep-learning — the idea that people can learn things while they are asleep
- sleeping chair — a chair of the 17th century, having a high back, usually adjustable, with deep wings of the same height.
- sleeping giant — If you refer to someone or something as a sleeping giant, you mean that they are powerful but they have not yet shown the full extent of their power.
- social dumping — the practice of allowing employers to lower wages and reduce employees' benefits in order to attract and retain employment and investment
- sparkling wine — a wine that is naturally carbonated by a second fermentation.
- speaking clock — a telephone service that gives a precise verbal statement of the correct time
- spiral binding — a binding, as for a notebook or booklet, in which the pages are fastened together by a spiral of wire or plastic that coils through a series of holes punched along one side of each page and the front and back covers.
- spring balance — a device in which an object to be weighed is attached to the end of a helical spring, the extension of which indicates the weight of the object on a calibrated scale
- steeplechasing — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
- stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
- sticking place — Also called sticking point. the place or point at which something stops and holds firm.
- stopping place — a place where vehicles may stop temporarily
- strip planting — the growing of different crops on alternate strips of ground that usually follow the contour of the land, a recourse to minimize erosion.
- supplicatingly — in a pleading manner
- thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
- trailing phlox — a prostrate plant, Phlox nivalis, of the southeastern U.S., having pink or white flowers.
- training plane — a plane used for training pilots, esp in the military
- transportingly — in a way to be transported or to transport
- triple glazing — three layers of glass in windows or doors
- trysting place — a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.
- unappetizingly — in an unappetizing manner
- undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
- urban planning — the planning and design of urban areas
- 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
- walking papers — notice of dismissal
- walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
- watering place — British. a seaside or lakeside vacation resort featuring bathing, boating, etc.
- wheel clamping — the practice of attaching wheel clamps to vehicles