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14-letter words containing w, a, n, g

  • newfangledness — of a new kind or fashion: newfangled ideas.
  • news gathering — the work of collecting news for publication or broadcast
  • night watchman — watchman.
  • old low german — the language of the German lowlands before c1100. Abbreviation: OLG.
  • owlet nightjar — any of several birds of the family Aegothelidae, of Australia and Papua New Guinea, related to the nightjars but resembling small owls.
  • packet writing — (storage)   A technique for writing CD-Rs and CD-RWs that is more efficient in both disk space used and the time it takes to write the CD.
  • phase-wrapping — (MIT) wrap around.
  • profit warning — a public announcement made by a company to shareholders and others warning that profits for a stated period will be much lower than had been expected
  • railway engine — a self-propelled engine used for drawing or pushing trains along railway tracks; locomotive
  • rainbow bridge — a natural stone bridge in S Utah: a national monument. 290 feet (88 meters) high; 275 feet (84 meters) span.
  • retaining wall — a wall for holding in place a mass of earth or the like, as at the edge of a terrace or excavation.
  • rowing machine — an exercise machine having a mechanism with two oarlike handles, foot braces, and a sliding seat, allowing the user to go through the motions of rowing in a racing shell.
  • rude awakening — If you have a rude awakening, you are suddenly made aware of an unpleasant fact.
  • sandwich glass — any of various forms of glassware manufactured at Sandwich, Mass., from 1825 to c1890.
  • sewing machine — any of various foot-operated or electric machines for sewing or making stitches, ranging from machines with a shuttle for a spool of thread and a needle for sewing garments to industrial machines for sewing leather, book pages together, etc.
  • sewing pattern — a guide or diagram that you follow to make clothes or other things using a needle and thread
  • shawinigan-sud — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, S of Shawinigan.
  • snowball fight — game: throwing balls of snow
  • sowing machine — a machine that scatters seeds on land so that they may grow
  • sparkling wine — a wine that is naturally carbonated by a second fermentation.
  • standing water — still water that has stagnated
  • stock watering — the creation of more new shares in a company than is justified by its assets
  • strong forward — power forward
  • sturgeon's law — "Ninety percent of everything is crap". Derived from a quote by science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon, who once said, "Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud." Oddly, when Sturgeon's Law is cited, the final word is almost invariably changed to "crap". Compare Ninety-Ninety Rule. Though this maxim originated in SF fandom, most hackers recognise it and are all too aware of its truth.
  • swimming baths — an indoor swimming pool
  • swing the lead — to malinger or make up excuses
  • swivel weaving — the process of weaving on a loom equipped with a swivel.
  • tangata whenua — the indigenous Māori people of a particular area of New Zealand or of the country as a whole
  • tunbridge ware — decorative wooden ware, including tables, trays, boxes, and ornamental objects, produced especially in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Tunbridge Wells, England, with mosaiclike marquetry sawed from square-sectioned wooden rods of different natural colors.
  • unacknowledged — widely recognized; generally accepted: an acknowledged authority on Chinese art.
  • url forwarding — URL redirection
  • wage incentive — additional wage payments intended to stimulate improved work performance
  • wage restraint — an agreement not to demand or pay large wage increases
  • wagner-jauregg — Julius [yoo-lee-oo s] /ˈyu liˌʊs/ (Show IPA), 1857–1940, Austrian psychiatrist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1927.
  • waiting period — a specified delay, required by law, between officially stating an intention and acting on it, as between securing a marriage license and getting married.
  • walking papers — notice of dismissal
  • walking shorts — medium to long shorts, often cut fuller than Bermuda shorts and used for walking or leisure activity.
  • walking ticket — walking papers.
  • walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
  • wang ching-wei — 1883–1944, Chinese political leader.
  • wang yang-ming — (Wang Shou-jen; Wang Shouren) 1472–1529, Chinese scholar and philosopher.
  • wappenschawing — a periodical muster or review of the men under arms in a particular lordship or district
  • warbling vireo — a grayish-green American vireo, Vireo gilvus, characterized by its melodious warble.
  • ward cunnigham — (person)   The creator of the first wiki.
  • warning device — alarm or danger signal
  • warning notice — official notification of a danger or threat
  • 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.
  • water divining — the location of water with a divining rod
  • watering place — British. a seaside or lakeside vacation resort featuring bathing, boating, etc.
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