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

  • fellowshipping — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
  • fighting words — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
  • finnegans wake — a novel (1922–39) by James Joyce.
  • flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
  • flowering flax — a plant, Linum grandiflorum, of northern Africa, having quickly fading, red or pink flowers.
  • flowering moss — pyxie.
  • flying gangway — monkey bridge (def 2).
  • following wind — a wind that is moving in the same direction as the course of a vessel etc
  • forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
  • freewheelingly — In a freewheeling manner; without constraint.
  • freezing works — a slaughterhouse at which animal carcasses are frozen for export
  • get funny with — to be impudent to
  • get in the way — be an obstacle
  • gewurztraminer — a type of white grape used in winemaking.
  • global warming — an increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect.
  • go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
  • golden wedding — the fiftieth anniversary of a wedding.
  • googlewhacking — The action of searching for googlewhacks.
  • granary weevil — a reddish-brown weevil, Sitophilus granarius, that infests stored grain.
  • greenwich time — the time as measured on the prime meridian running through Greenwich, England: used in England and as a standard of calculation elsewhere.
  • gridwall panel — A gridwall panel is a metal grid that can be hung on a wall and used for displaying goods.
  • grinding wheel — a wheel composed of abrasive material, used for grinding.
  • growing season — The growing season in a particular country or area is the period in each year when the weather and temperature is right for plants and crops to grow.
  • guided writing — In language teaching, when students do guided writing activities, they are given an outline in words or pictures to help them write.
  • gull-wing door — a car door that opens upwards
  • hawaiian goose — nene.
  • healing powers — beneficial qualities
  • health warning — a message indicating the dangers to the consumer's health of consuming a particular product printed on the packaging for the product
  • heartwarmingly — In a heartwarming manner.
  • heartwrenching — Having a painful emotional impact; causing grief or distress.
  • hemingwayesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ernest Hemingway or his works.
  • highs and lows — If you refer to the highs and lows of someone's life or career, you are referring to both the successful or happy times, and the unsuccessful or bad times.
  • hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
  • hungry viewkit — (operating system, library)   A C++ class library for developing Motif application programs (although this restriction will be lifted once LessTif is finished). It follows the API of the Iris(tm) ViewKit, put out by SGI. The Hungry ViewKit is a superset of the Iris ViewKit, so any code developed for the Iris version will work with the Hungry version, but possibly not vice versa.
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • in league with — along with, plotting with
  • interwreathing — Present participle of interwreathe.
  • inward-looking — person
  • itching powder — a powder that causes itching when applied to human skin. usually used as a practical joke on an unsuspecting victim
  • jugurthine war — an unsuccessful war waged against the Romans (112–105 bc) by Jugurtha, king of Numidia (died 104)
  • king's highway — a highway built by the national government.
  • king's weather — fine weather; weather fit for a king.
  • kwangsi chuang — Guangxi Zhuang.
  • lake winnebago — a lake in E Wisconsin, fed and drained by the Fox river: the largest lake in the state. Area: 557 sq km (215 sq miles)
  • landing wheels — wheels that a plane lowers when it is going to land
  • landing-waiter — landwaiter.
  • lappet weaving — weaving into which an embroidered pattern produced by additional warp threads has been introduced with the aid of a lappet.
  • licensing laws — In Britain, the licensing laws are the laws which control the selling of alcoholic drinks.
  • lower michigan — the southern part of Michigan, S of the Strait of Mackinac.
  • measuring worm — the larva of any geometrid moth, which progresses by bringing the rear end of the body forward and then advancing the front end.
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