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14-letter words containing w, u, g

  • mangold-wurzel — mangel-wurzel.
  • 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.
  • mount wrangell — a mountain in S Alaska, in the W Wrangell Mountains. Height: 4269 m (14 005 ft)
  • mouth-watering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
  • mulching mower — a lawn mower that shreds blades of grass into very small pieces that are left on the lawn to decay and return moisture and nutrients to the soil
  • powdered sugar — a sugar produced by pulverizing granulated sugar, especially a coarser variety used for fruits or cold beverages. Symbol: XX.
  • power struggle — fight to take control
  • rude awakening — If you have a rude awakening, you are suddenly made aware of an unpleasant fact.
  • shawinigan-sud — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, S of Shawinigan.
  • 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.
  • tangata whenua — the indigenous Māori people of a particular area of New Zealand or of the country as a whole
  • thought shower — brainstorm
  • 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.
  • twilight hours — the period in which there occurs soft diffused light due to the sun being just below the horizon, esp following sunset
  • ulrich zwingli — Ulrich [oo l-rikh] /ˈʊl rɪx/ (Show IPA), or Huldreich [hoo l-drahykh] /ˈhʊl draɪx/ (Show IPA), 1484–1531, Swiss Protestant reformer.
  • unacknowledged — widely recognized; generally accepted: an acknowledged authority on Chinese art.
  • 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
  • wagner-jauregg — Julius [yoo-lee-oo s] /ˈyu liˌʊs/ (Show IPA), 1857–1940, Austrian psychiatrist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1927.
  • walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
  • ward cunnigham — (person)   The creator of the first wiki.
  • wearing course — the top layer of a road that carries the traffic; road surface
  • web - language — (language)   Donald Knuth's self-documenting literate programming, with algorithms and documentation intermixed in one file. They can be separated using Weave and Tangle. Versions exist for Pascal and C. Spiderweb can be used to create versions for other languages. FunnelWeb is a production-quality literate-programming tool.
  • web-publishing — a person or company that uploads, creates, or edits content on Web pages; one who maintains or manages a website.
  • well-regulated — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
  • wellingborough — a town in central England, in Northamptonshire. Pop: 46 959 (2001)
  • weltanschauung — a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity's relation to it.
  • whistling buoy — a buoy having a whistle operated by air trapped and compressed in an open-bottomed chamber by the rising and falling water level caused by natural wave action.
  • whistling duck — any of several long-legged, chiefly tropical ducks of the genus Dendrocygna, most of which have whistling cries.
  • whole language — a method of teaching reading in which reading is combined with listening, speaking, and writing practice, and literature is used to decode words in context. Compare phonics (def 1).
  • whooping cough — an infectious disease of the respiratory mucous membrane, caused by Bordetella pertussis, characterized by a series of short, convulsive coughs followed by a deep inspiration accompanied by a whooping sound.
  • win through to — If you win through to a particular position or stage of a competition, you achieve it after a great effort or by defeating opponents.
  • winding number — the number of times a closed curve winds around a point not on the curve.
  • wine-producing — of or relating to a place where wine is produced
  • winnipeg couch — a couch with no arms or back, opening out into a double bed
  • witchetty grub — the large white larva of any of several species of moth and beetle of Australia, especially of the moth genus Cossus, occurring in decaying wood and traditionally used as food by Aborigines.
  • woman suffrage — the right of women to vote; female suffrage.
  • women's refuge — a house where battered women and their children can go for protection from their oppressors
  • world language — a language spoken and known in many countries, such as English
  • wriggle out of — evade: a duty
  • wrongful death — the death of a person wrongfully caused, as comprising the grounds of a damage suit.
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