14-letter words containing w, i, n, g
- swimming baths — an indoor swimming pool
- swing the lead — to malinger or make up excuses
- swinging voter — a person who does not vote consistently for any single political party
- 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.
- throw light on — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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-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'.
- 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.
- ulrich zwingli — Ulrich [oo l-rikh] /ˈʊl rɪx/ (Show IPA), or Huldreich [hoo l-drahykh] /ˈhʊl draɪx/ (Show IPA), 1484–1531, Swiss Protestant reformer.
- uncrowned king — a man or woman of high status among a certain group
- 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.
- url forwarding — URL redirection
- viewing public — people who watch television, considered collectively
- virgin's-bower — any of several American clematis plants, esp Clematis virginiana, of E North America, which has clusters of small white flowers
- wage incentive — additional wage payments intended to stimulate improved work performance
- wage restraint — an agreement not to demand or pay large wage increases
- 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.
- watertightness — constructed or fitted so tightly as to be impervious to water: The ship had six watertight compartments.
- watling island — San Salvador (def 1).
- wayfaring tree — a Eurasian shrub, Viburnum lantana, of the honeysuckle family, having finely toothed, ovate leaves and branching clusters of white flowers, growing along roadsides and cultivated as an ornamental in North America.
- 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.
- 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 density — the weight per unit volume of a substance or object.
- 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)
- 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.
- whale watching — the activity of observing whales in their natural surroundings