13-letter words that end in g
- volute spring — a coil spring, conical in shape, extending in the direction of the axis of the coil.
- von sternberg — Josef [joh-zuh f,, -suh f] /ˈdʒoʊ zəf,, -səf/ (Show IPA), or Joseph (Josef Stern) 1894–1969, U.S. film director and screenwriter, born in Austria.
- vote-catching — relating to a means of securing votes
- wall lighting — a system of lighting that is fixed onto a wall
- wall painting — mural painting executed by any of various techniques, as encaustic, tempera, fresco, or oil paint on canvas, often as an enhancement of the architecture of which the recipient wall is a part.
- wappenshawing — (formerly) the reviewing of the men under arms in a Scottish lordship or district
- warp knitting — a knitting process in which the yarn is knitted vertically in a flat form.
- watch meeting — a religious meeting or service on watch night, terminating on the arrival of the new year.
- water parting — a watershed or divide.
- water-soaking — to soak or saturate with water.
- waterboarding — a harsh interrogation technique in which water is poured onto the face and head of the immobilized victim so as to induce a fear of drowning.
- waterflooding — (in oil, gas, or petroleum production) the practice of injecting water to maintain pressure in a reservoir and to drive the oil, etc towards the production wells
- waterproofing — Chiefly British. a raincoat or other outer coat impervious to water.
- weightlifting — the act, art, or sport of lifting barbells of given poundages in a prescribed manner, as a competitive event or conditioning exercise.
- well dressing — (in parts of rural Britain) a traditional ceremony of decorating wells with flowers in thanks for the blessing of an abundant supply of pure water.
- well-dressing — (in parts of rural Britain) a traditional ceremony of decorating wells with flowers in thanks for the blessing of an abundant supply of pure water.
- well-ordering — an ordering in which every nonempty subset has a least member under the relation
- well-speaking — the act, utterance, or discourse of a person who speaks.
- western swing — a 1930s jazz-influenced style of country music
- whipstitching — Present participle of whipstitch.
- white pudding — (in Britain) a kind of sausage made like black pudding but without pigs' blood
- white wedding — A white wedding is a wedding where the bride wears white and the ceremony takes place in a church.
- white-slaving — traffic in white slaves.
- whitesmithing — The trade of a whitesmith.
- wife swapping — sexual activity in which two or more married couples exchange partners.
- wine-bottling — the process of transferring wine from a large container to individual bottles
- wing and wing — with a sail extended on each side, as with the foresail out on one side and the mainsail out on the other.
- wing shooting — the act or practice of shooting at birds in flight.
- winterkilling — Present participle of winterkill.
- won't be long — If you say that someone won't be long, you mean that you think they will arrive or be back soon. If you say that it won't be long before something happens, you mean that you think it will happen soon.
- wood hedgehog — a pale buff basidiomycetous fungus, Hydnum repandum, found in broad-leaved woodlands having a spiny underside to the cap
- wool classing — the grading and grouping together of similar types of wool
- woolgathering — indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness: His woolgathering was a handicap in school.
- word painting — an effective verbal description.
- word wrapping — In computing, word wrapping is a process by which a word which comes at the end of a line is automatically moved onto a new line in order to keep the text within the margins.
- world-shaking — of sufficient size or importance to affect the entire world: the world-shaking effects of an international clash.
- yekaterinburg — Ekaterinburg.
- yesterevening — yesterday evening.
- yestermorning — yesterday morning.
- yo-yo dieting — a repeated cycle of weight loss followed by weight gain.
- yorkshire fog — a common tufted grass, Holcus lanatus, having downy leaves and flower heads that are white or pink and branched, with spikelets carrying the flowers
- young-looking — having the appearance of youth
- zip fastening — a fastener in the form of a zip
- zone refining — a process of purifying any of various metals and other materials, as germanium or silicon, by passing it in bar form through an induction coil.
- zone-leaching — A horizon.