14-letter words containing s, a, n, g
- transfer agent — a person, bank, or trust company officially designated to act for a corporation in executing and recording the transfers of its stock from one legal owner to another.
- 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
- transmigration — the act of transmigrating.
- transportingly — in a way to be transported or to transport
- trysting place — a place for a meeting, especially a secret meeting of lovers; rendezvous.
- tunguska basin — large coal basin in central Siberia, between the Yenisei & Lena rivers: it is drained by three rivers, the Lower Tunguska, Stony Tunguska, & Upper Tunguska (usually called the Angara River), which flow west into the Yenisei
- turkish angora — a long-haired breed of cat, similar to the Persian
- un-distracting — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- unaspiringness — the quality of being unaspiring or unambitious
- unavailingness — the state or quality of being unavailing or useless
- unchangingness — the quality or state of not changing
- underdiagnosed — to determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination: The doctor diagnosed the illness as influenza.
- understandings — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
- understrapping — subordinate or inferior
- undespairingly — in an undespairing manner
- unegoistically — pertaining to or of the nature of egoism.
- ungracefulness — the state of being ungraceful
- ungraciousness — the state of being ungracious
- unhesitatingly — without hesitation; not delayed by uncertainty: an unhesitating decision.
- unsympathizing — not sympathizing; not offering sympathy; unsympathetic
- upper tunguska — any of three tributaries of the Yenisei River in the central Russian Federation in Asia: the (Lower Tunguska) 2000 miles (3220 km) long; the (Upper Tunguska) or the lower course of the Angara, 1151 miles (1855 km) long; and the (Stony Tunguska) about 975 miles (1570 km) long.
- uterogestation — gestation in the womb, i.e. normal pregnancy
- vacuum casting — the casting of metal within a vacuum.
- vaingloriously — in a vainglorious manner
- varnishing day — vernissage (def 1).
- vaulting horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, braced horizontally at an adjustable height, used for hand support and pushing off in vaulting.
- venetian glass — ornamental glassware of the type made at Venice, especially that from the island of Murano.
- vestal virgins — (in ancient Rome) one of four, later six, virgins consecrated to Vesta and to the tending of the sacred fire on her altar.
- vienna sausage — a small frankfurter, often served as an hors d'oeuvre.
- villein socage — land held by a tenant who rendered to a lord specified duties of a servile nature.
- virgin islands — group of islands in the Caribbean
- virginia stock — a plant, Malcolmia maritima, of the mustard family, native to the Mediterranean region, having oblong leaves on a weak, often reclining stem and reddish or white flowers.
- vistula lagoon — a shallow lagoon on the SW coast of the Baltic Sea, between Danzig and Kaliningrad, crossed by the border between Poland and Russia
- vital staining — the technique of treating living cells and tissues with dyes that do not immediately kill them, facilitating observation with a microscope
- volcanic glass — a natural glass produced when molten lava cools very rapidly; obsidian.
- vulvovaginitis — inflammation of the vulva and vagina.
- wage restraint — an agreement not to demand or pay large wage increases
- walking papers — notice of dismissal
- walking shorts — medium to long shorts, often cut fuller than Bermuda shorts and used for walking or leisure activity.
- walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
- wappenschawing — a periodical muster or review of the men under arms in a particular lordship or district
- washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
- washington pie — a Boston cream pie with raspberry jam instead of custard between the layers.
- watertightness — constructed or fitted so tightly as to be impervious to water: The ship had six watertight compartments.
- watling island — San Salvador (def 1).
- wearing course — the top layer of a road that carries the traffic; road surface
- weather signal — a visual signal, as a light or flag, indicating a weather forecast.
- weltanschauung — a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity's relation to it.
- west glamorgan — a county in S Wales. 315 sq. mi. (815 sq. km).
- west virginian — a state in the E United States. 24,181 sq. mi. (62,629 sq. km). Capital: Charleston. Abbreviation: WV (for use with zip code), W.Va.