15-letter words containing ug
- rough-and-ready — rough, rude, or crude, but good enough for the purpose: a rough-and-ready estimate of future expenses.
- saint augustine — Saint, a.d. 354–430, one of the Latin fathers in the early Christian Church; author; bishop of Hippo in N Africa.
- second thoughts — Often, second thoughts. reservation about a previous action, position, decision, judgment, or the like: He had second thoughts about his decision.
- self-suggestion — the act of suggesting.
- squeeze through — to press forcibly together; compress.
- sugarcane borer — the larva of the pyralid moth, Diatraea saccharalis, a serious pest of sugarcane, corn, rice, and sorghums.
- 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.
- through traffic — traffic which continues on a road or highway rather than crossing onto a different road
- toughened glass — glass that has been made stronger using chemical or thermal treatments so that it will not break easily
- ultracentrifuge — a high-speed centrifuge for subjecting sols or solutions to forces many times that of gravity and producing concentration differences depending on the weight of the micelle or molecule.
- viper's bugloss — the blueweed.
- 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.