14-letter words containing w, e, l, n, g, i
- steering wheel — a wheel used by a driver, pilot, or the like, to steer an automobile, ship, etc.
- swing the lead — to malinger or make up excuses
- switch selling — a system of selling, now illegal in Britain, whereby potential customers are attracted by a special offer on some goods but the salesman's real aim is to sell other more expensive goods instead
- swivel weaving — the process of weaving on a loom equipped with a swivel.
- tenpin bowling — Tenpin bowling is a game in which you roll a heavy ball down a narrow track toward a group of wooden objects and try to knock down as many of them as possible.
- to overflowing — If a place or container is filled to overflowing, it is so full of people or things that no more can fit in.
- uniflow engine — a double-acting steam engine exhausting from the middle of each cylinder at each stroke so that the motion of the steam from admission to exhaust is continuous in one direction.
- viewing public — people who watch television, considered collectively
- walking papers — notice of dismissal
- walking ticket — walking papers.
- warbling vireo — a grayish-green American vireo, Vireo gilvus, characterized by its melodious warble.
- watering place — British. a seaside or lakeside vacation resort featuring bathing, boating, etc.
- weather signal — a visual signal, as a light or flag, indicating a weather forecast.
- web-publishing — a person or company that uploads, creates, or edits content on Web pages; one who maintains or manages a website.
- weeping willow — an Asian willow, Salix babylonica, characterized by the drooping habit of its branches.
- weight lifting — sport: competition to lift barbells
- weightlessness — being without apparent weight, as a freely falling body or a body acted upon by a force that neutralizes gravitation.
- well-organized — affiliated in an organization, especially a union: organized dockworkers.
- wellingborough — a town in central England, in Northamptonshire. Pop: 46 959 (2001)
- whale watching — the activity of observing whales in their natural surroundings
- wheel clamping — the practice of attaching wheel clamps to vehicles
- whistleblowing — The disclosure to the public or to authorities, usually by an employee, of wrongdoing in a company or government department.
- white gasoline — unleaded and uncracked gasoline, designed especially for use in motorboats.
- wild hydrangea — a shrub, Hydrangea arborescens, of the saxifrage family, common throughout the eastern half of the U.S., having egg-shaped leaves and a rounded cluster of white flowers.
- wrangel island — an island in the Arctic Ocean, off the coast of the extreme NE of Russia: administratively part of Russia; mountainous and mostly tundra. Area: about 7300 sq km (2800 sq miles)
- wrestling hold — a way of holding someone in the sport of wrestling
- wyoming valley — a valley in NE Pennsylvania, along the Susquehanna River: Indian massacre 1778.
- yellow gentian — a plant, Gentiana lutea, of Europe and Asia Minor, having yellow flowers, the rootstock yielding a bitter tonic.
- yellow yorling — a yellowhammer