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13-letter words containing n, u, g

  • that's enough — You say 'that's enough' to tell someone, especially a child, to stop behaving in a silly, noisy, or unpleasant way.
  • the unco guid — narrow-minded, excessively religious, or self-righteous people
  • think through — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
  • thoroughgoing — doing things thoroughly.
  • through stone — perpend1 .
  • thumb-sucking — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
  • thyroglobulin — a protein which is found in the thyroid gland and which contains iodine
  • tissue typing — identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation.
  • to the ground — completely; absolutely
  • tone language — a language, as Swedish, Chinese, Yoruba, or Serbo-Croatian, in which words that are otherwise phonologically identical are distinguished by having different pitches or pitch contour.
  • toothbrushing — the act or method of cleaning the teeth with a toothbrush.
  • torsion group — a group in which every element has finite order.
  • touch-in-goal — the area at each end of the field outside of a touch-in-goal line.
  • tramping club — an organization of people who walk for recreation, esp in the bush
  • triangularity — pertaining to or having the form of a triangle; three-cornered.
  • triangulation — a technique for establishing the distance between any two points, or the relative position of two or more points, by using such points as vertices of a triangle or series of triangles, such that each triangle has a side of known or measurable length (base or base line) that permits the size of the angles of the triangle and the length of its other two sides to be established by observations taken either upon or from the two ends of the base line.
  • tribune group — (in Britain) a group made up of left-wing Labour Members of Parliament: founded 1966
  • trig function — Also called circular function. a function of an angle, as sine or cosine, expressed as the ratio of the sides of a right triangle.
  • triple-tongue — to interrupt the wind flow by moving the tongue as if pronouncing t and t and k successively, especially in playing rapid passages or staccato notes on a brass instrument.
  • troublemaking — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
  • trout fishing — angling to catch trout
  • tseng kuo-fan — 1811–72, Chinese general and statesman.
  • tubing hanger — A tubing hanger is a device which is attached to the top tubing joint and supports the tubing.
  • tumbling mill — A tumbling mill is a machine for reducing the particle size of a solid, with a drum which turns to lift and drop the feed mixed with a grinding medium.
  • tumorgenicity — the state of being tumorgenic, giving rise to tumours
  • tumorigenesis — the production or development of tumors.
  • tung-oil tree — tung tree.
  • tungsten lamp — an incandescent electric lamp in which the filament is made of tungsten.
  • tungstic acid — a hydrate of tungsten trioxide, H 2 WO 4 ⋅H 2 O, used in the manufacture of tungsten-lamp filaments.
  • turangawaewae — the area that is a person's home
  • turbocharging — the process or action of supplying an internal combustion engine or a motor vehicle with a turbocharger
  • turning piece — a wooden pattern for an arch built without centering.
  • turning point — a point at which a decisive change takes place; critical point; crisis.
  • ugly american — An Ugly American is an American who travels to a foreign country and gives the United States a bad reputation by acting in an offensive way.
  • ugly duckling — an unattractive or unpromising child who becomes a beautiful or much-admired adult.
  • ujung pandang — a seaport on SW Sulawesi (Celebes), in central Indonesia.
  • un-contingent — dependent for existence, occurrence, character, etc., on something not yet certain; conditional (often followed by on or upon): Our plans are contingent on the weather.
  • un-negotiated — to deal or bargain with another or others, as in the preparation of a treaty or contract or in preliminaries to a business deal.
  • unambiguously — plainly, clearly
  • unapologizing — not apologetic; not willing to apologize or to make an apology
  • unappealingly — in an unappealing manner
  • unapprovingly — in an unapproving manner
  • unassuageable — not able to be assuaged or relieved
  • unbelligerent — not belligerent or hostile
  • unbenignantly — kind, especially to inferiors; gracious: a benignant sovereign.
  • unbeseemingly — in an unbeseeming or unbefitting manner
  • uncalculating — not calculating or scheming; guileless
  • uncamouflaged — the act, means, or result of obscuring things to deceive an enemy, as by painting or screening objects so that they are lost to view in the background, or by making up objects that from a distance have the appearance of fortifications, guns, roads, etc.: Was camouflage used extensively on fighter aircraft during World War I?
  • uncaptivating — to attract and hold the attention or interest of, as by beauty or excellence; enchant: Her blue eyes and red hair captivated him.
  • uncategorical — without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional: a categorical denial.
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