15-letter words containing t, h, u, g, e
- school-gate mum — a young family-oriented working mother, considered by political parties as forming a significant part of the electorate
- second thoughts — Often, second thoughts. reservation about a previous action, position, decision, judgment, or the like: He had second thoughts about his decision.
- shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
- shoulder-length — Shoulder-length hair is long enough to reach your shoulders.
- shunting engine — switch engine.
- southern blight — a disease of peanuts, tomatoes, and other plants, caused by a fungus, Sclerotium rolfsii, affecting the roots and resulting in rapid wilting.
- southern gothic — a literary genre depicting life in the southern US and featuring grotesque themes and imagery
- southern lights — aurora australis.
- squeeze through — to press forcibly together; compress.
- staggered hours — a system of working in which the employees of an organization do not all arrive and leave at the same time, but have large periods of overlap
- subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
- take the plunge — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
- the high ground — a position of moral or ethical superiority in a dispute
- the magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- the underground — an electric passenger railway operated in underground tunnels
- the undersigned — the person or persons who have signed at the foot of a document, statement, etc
- thought pattern — habitual way of thinking
- thought process — thinking, train of thought
- thought reading — mind reading.
- thoughtlessness — lacking in consideration for others; inconsiderate; tactless: a thoughtless remark.
- tissue-matching — identification of specific genetically linked antigens in tissue in order to minimize antigenic differences between donor and recipient tissue in organ transplantation.
- to jump the gun — If you jump the gun, you do something before everyone else or before the proper or right time.
- tongue in cheek — Anatomy. the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting, and, in humans, in speaking.
- tongue-in-cheek — Anatomy. the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting, and, in humans, in speaking.
- toughened glass — glass that has been made stronger using chemical or thermal treatments so that it will not break easily
- troubleshooting — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
- truth-value gap — the possibility in certain semantic systems of a statement being neither true nor false while also not being determinately of any third truth-value, as all my children are asleep uttered by a childless person
- turkish delight — a candy made of fruit juice and gelatin, cubed and dusted with sugar.
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- undistinguished — having no distinguishing marks or features.
- unrighteousness — not righteous; not upright or virtuous; wicked; sinful; evil: an unrighteous king.
- upright freezer — a freezer that is tall rather than wide
- weather through — to pass or go safely through a storm, peril, difficulty, etc.
- well-brought-up — If you say that someone, especially a child, is well-brought-up, you mean that they are very polite because they have been taught good manners.
- well-thought-of — highly esteemed; of good reputation: a well-thought-of scholar; This new book is well-thought-of.