12-letter words containing ug
- leaf through — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
- left luggage — baggage stored temporarily
- live through — experience or endure
- look through — the opacity and texture of paper when inspected by transmitted light.
- look-through — the opacity and texture of paper when inspected by transmitted light.
- loop through — loop
- loughborough — a town in central England, in N Leicestershire: university (1966). Pop: 55 258 (2001)
- lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
- luggage rack — shelf for baggage on a train
- lugubriosity — mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
- lugubriously — In a lugubrious manner.
- manslaughter — Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought.
- mcleod gauge — a device for determining very low gas pressures by manometrically measuring the pressure of a sample after its compression to a known fraction of its original volume.
- merrythought — the wishbone or furcula of a fowl.
- milkweed bug — any of several red and black lygaeid bugs, as Oncopeltus fasciatus, that feed on the juice of the milkweed.
- miracle drug — wonder drug.
- misconjugate — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
- moulin rouge — a dance hall in the Montmartre section of Paris, France, opened in 1889 and famous for its cancan dancers and the drawings of its performers and customers made there by Toulouse-Lautrec.
- narrow gauge — a standard of measure or measurement.
- naughty bits — genitals
- naughty step — a place where a child is made to stand as a punishment for bad behaviour
- naughty word — a word that is considered to be rude
- non-conjugal — of, relating to, or characteristic of marriage: conjugal vows.
- nonconjugate — Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: One conjugates the present tense of the verb “be” as “I am, you are, he is, we are, you are, they are.”.
- northborough — a town in central Massachusetts.
- nugatoriness — Quality of being nugatory.
- oriental rug — a rug or carpet woven usually in Asia and characterized by hand-knotted pile.
- over-fraught — Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
- paring gouge — a woodworker's gouge having the bezel on the concave face.
- pass through — an act of passing.
- pass-through — a windowlike opening, as one for passing food or dishes between a kitchen and a dining area.
- peterborough — a city in Cambridgeshire, in central England.
- petrol gauge — a gauge that indicates the amount of petrol left in the tank of a vehicle
- play through — to pass another foursome or group with their permission, while playing a round of golf
- plough horse — a horse used for pulling a plough
- ploughwright — a person who makes ploughs
- plug casting — bait casting in which a plug is used as the lure.
- popping plug — a fishing lure that makes a popping sound when pulled along the surface of the water
- poughkeepsie — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
- preinaugural — occurring before an inauguration
- preslaughter — of the period before slaughter (of animals)
- propugnation — defence
- pugnaciously — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- pull through — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
- push through — force to accept
- pyjama rugby — an uncomplimentary term for the Super 12 Rugby Union competition that involves teams from South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, and which is noted for its free-flowing nature and lack of attritional play between the forwards
- read-through — reading (def 1).
- recentrifuge — to subject (a liquid) to the action of a centrifuge again
- refugee camp — a camp for sheltering and protecting people who have fled from some danger or problem, esp political persecution
- romp through — If you romp through something, you do it or deal with it quickly and easily.