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14-letter words containing s, o, g, n

  • testing ground — place where sth is tested
  • texas longhorn — one of a breed of long-horned beef cattle of the southwestern U.S., developed from cattle introduced into North America from Spain and valued for disease resistance, fecundity, and a historical association with the old West: now rare.
  • 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.
  • thomas younger — Thomas Coleman ("Cole") 1844–1916, U.S. outlaw, associated with Jesse James.
  • thoughtfulness — showing consideration for others; considerate.
  • throat seizing — cuckold's knot.
  • throwing stick — a short, straight or curved stick, flat or cylindrical in form, often having a hand grip, and used generally in preliterate societies as a hunting weapon to throw at birds and small game.
  • time-consuming — (of an action) requiring or wasting much time.
  • to be bursting — to want desperately to urinate
  • to sb's liking — If something is to your liking, it suits your interests, tastes, or wishes.
  • 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-lashing — severe scolding
  • 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'.
  • train-spotting — (of a train enthusiast) the activity of going to train stations and recording the numbers of trains
  • 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
  • transmigration — the act of transmigrating.
  • transportingly — in a way to be transported or to transport
  • trudgen stroke — a swimming stroke in which a double overarm motion and a scissors kick are used
  • turkish angora — a long-haired breed of cat, similar to the Persian
  • uncompromising — not admitting of compromise or adjustment of differences; making no concessions; inaccessible to flexible bargaining; unyielding: an uncompromising attitude.
  • 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.
  • unegoistically — pertaining to or of the nature of egoism.
  • ungraciousness — the state of being ungracious
  • ungroundedness — the state of being without basis
  • uterogestation — gestation in the womb, i.e. normal pregnancy
  • vaingloriously — in a vainglorious 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.
  • villein socage — land held by a tenant who rendered to a lord specified duties of a servile nature.
  • virgin's-bower — any of several American clematis plants, esp Clematis virginiana, of E North America, which has clusters of small white flowers
  • 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.
  • visiting hours — hospital, prison: period when visits are permitted
  • 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
  • vitellogenesis — the process by which the yolk is formed and accumulated in the ovum.
  • volcanic glass — a natural glass produced when molten lava cools very rapidly; obsidian.
  • vulvovaginitis — inflammation of the vulva and vagina.
  • walking shorts — medium to long shorts, often cut fuller than Bermuda shorts and used for walking or leisure activity.
  • 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.
  • wearing course — the top layer of a road that carries the traffic; road surface
  • west glamorgan — a county in S Wales. 315 sq. mi. (815 sq. km).
  • whistleblowing — The disclosure to the public or to authorities, usually by an employee, of wrongdoing in a company or government department.
  • whistling buoy — a buoy having a whistle operated by air trapped and compressed in an open-bottomed chamber by the rising and falling water level caused by natural wave action.
  • white gasoline — unleaded and uncracked gasoline, designed especially for use in motorboats.
  • william gibson — (person)   Author of cyberpunk novels such as Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986), Mona Lisa Overdrive, and Virtual Light (1993). Neuromancer, a novel about a computer hacker/criminal "cowboy" of the future helping to free an artificial intelligence from its programmed bounds, won the Hugo and Nebula science fiction awards and is credited as the seminal cyberpunk novel and the origin of the term "cyberspace". Gibson does not have a technical background and supposedly purchased his first computer in 1992.
  • woman suffrage — the right of women to vote; female suffrage.
  • women's refuge — a house where battered women and their children can go for protection from their oppressors
  • women's rights — the rights, claimed by and for women, of equal privileges and opportunities with men
  • working papers — documents permitting employment
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