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14-letter words containing w, s, g

  • absorbing well — a well for draining off surface water and conducting it to absorbent earth underground.
  • alaska highway — a road extending from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, to Fairbanks, Alaska: built by the US Army (1942). Length: 2452 km (1523 miles)
  • as good as new — If you say that something or someone is as good as new, you mean that they are in a very good condition or state, especially after they have been damaged or ill.
  • aswan high dam — a dam on the Nile forming a reservoir (Lake Nasser) extending 480 km (300 miles) from the First to the Third Cataracts: opened in 1971, it was built 6 km (4 miles) upstream from the old Aswan Dam (built in 1902 and twice raised). Height of dam: 109 m (365 ft)
  • avogadro's law — the principle that equal volumes of all gases contain the same number of molecules at the same temperature and pressure
  • batwing sleeve — a sleeve of a garment with a deep armhole and a tight wrist
  • big red switch — (jargon)   (BRS) IBM jargon for the power switch on a computer, especially the "Emergency Pull" switch on an IBM mainframe or the power switch on an IBM PC where it really is large and red. "This [email protected]%$% bitty box is hung again; time to hit the Big Red Switch." It is alleged that the emergency pull switch on an IBM 360/91 actually fired a non-conducting bolt into the main power feed; the BRSes on more recent mainframes physically drop a block into place so that they can't be pushed back in. People get fired for pulling them, especially inappropriately (see also molly-guard). Compare power cycle, three-finger salute, 120 reset; see also scram switch.
  • bowling crease — a line marked at the wicket, over which a bowler must not advance fully before delivering the ball
  • bowstring hemp — a hemplike fibre obtained from the sansevieria
  • braunschweiger — a smoked liver sausage, named after the city of Braunschweig
  • brewer's grain — an exhausted malt occurring as a by-product of brewing and used as a feedstuff for cattle, pigs, and sheep
  • building works — construction projects
  • charles wrightCharles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
  • coasting wagon — a toy wagon for children, often used for coasting down hills.
  • code-switching — Linguistics. the alternating or mixed use of two or more languages, especially within the same discourse: My grandma’s code-switching when we cook together reminds me of my family's origins. Bilingual students are discouraged from code-switching during class.
  • cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
  • counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
  • cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
  • cruiserweights — Plural form of cruiserweight.
  • crystal growth — Crystal growth is the process of making a crystal grow by continuing to remove a component from a solution.
  • disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
  • disembowelling — (chiefly, British) present participle of disembowel.
  • dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
  • downing street — a street in W central London, England: cabinet office; residence of the prime minister.
  • drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
  • drinking straw — thin plastic tube for sucking up liquids
  • dusting powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • dusting-powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • dwelling house — a house occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a residence.
  • east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
  • eggshell white — a yellowish white colour
  • english walnut — an Asiatic walnut tree (Juglans regia) now grown in Europe and North America
  • farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
  • featherweights — Plural form of featherweight.
  • 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 moss — pyxie.
  • freezing works — a slaughterhouse at which animal carcasses are frozen for export
  • gallows humour — sinister and ironic humour
  • game show host — a broadcaster who reads the questions or conducts a game show
  • george hw bushBarbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
  • glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
  • go on the swag — to become a tramp
  • golfer's elbow — a painful inflammation of the muscles on the inside of the forearm caused by exertion in playing golf
  • goodfellowship — cheerful company
  • grassman's law — an observation, made by H. G. Grassman, that when aspirated consonants occurred in successive syllables in Sanskrit and classical Greek, one, usually the first, was unaspirated, becoming a voiced stop in Sanskrit and a voiceless stop in Greek.
  • graveyard stew — milk toast.
  • great unwashed — the general public; the populace or masses.
  • 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.

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