13-letter words containing ag
- cartilaginous — of or like cartilage; gristly
- cattle plague — rinderpest.
- cerynean stag — a stag living in Arcadia, captured by Hercules as one of his labors.
- chandernagore — a port in E India, in S West Bengal on the Hooghly River: a former French settlement (1686–1950). Pop: 162 166 (2001)
- chicago ridge — a town in NE Illinois.
- chicago steak — a strip steak or, sometimes, a shell steak.
- chicago style — a style of jazz flourishing in Chicago especially in the early 1920s, constituting a direct offshoot of New Orleans style, and differing from its predecessor chiefly in the diminished influence of native folk sources, the greater tension of its group improvisation, the increased emphasis on solos, and the regular use of the tenor saxophone as part of the ensemble.
- chthonophagia — (disease) A disease characterized by the impulsive consumption of dirt, observed in some parts of the southern United States as well as the West Indies.
- circumagitate — (transitive) To agitate on all sides.
- circumambages — round-about methods
- claddagh ring — any of various elaborately designed rings, esp one in the shape of two hands embracing a heart, given as a token of lasting affection
- clinodiagonal — the diagonal axis of a monoclinic crystal
- co-management — the practice of managing something jointly
- coagulability — The ability to coagulate, of being coagulable.
- coco language — (language) (Cocol) A language for writing left-attributed LL1 grammars, used as the input language for the Coco LL1 parser generator, which produces Modula-2 table-driven parsers as output. Cocol-2 is a version for the Coco-2 generator. Cocol/R is an improvement over the original Cocol and Cocol-2.
- colleagueship — workplace companionship
- colostomy bag — a bag that is attached to the surgical opening from the colon onto the surface of the body and into which faecal matter passes
- coming of age — When something reaches an important stage of development and is accepted by a large number of people, you can refer to this as its coming of age.
- compagination — a union or act of joining
- conflagration — A conflagration is a fire that burns over a large area and destroys property.
- conflagrative — That produces conflagration.
- contents page — the page in a book that shows the table of contents
- contrafagotto — a contrabassoon
- contragestion — a form of contraception that can be used after fertilization of the ovum, preventing gestation
- contragestive — able to prevent gestation
- contragravity — (scifi) antigravity.
- coronagraphic — Of, pertaining to, or employing a coronagraph.
- cottage fries — potatoes that have been thinly sliced and then fried
- cottage grove — a town in E Minnesota.
- cottage piano — a small upright piano
- cottage tulip — a late-flowering type of tulip, usually having pointed or elongated flowers.
- count against — If something counts against you, it may cause you to be rejected or punished, or cause people to have a lower opinion of you.
- counter image — the point or set of points in the domain of a function corresponding to a given point or set of points in the range of the function.
- covered wagon — A covered wagon is a wagon that has an arched canvas roof and is pulled by horses. Covered wagons were used by the early American settlers as they travelled across the country.
- credit agency — an agency that checks whether people are able to pay for goods and services they wish to buy on credit, and provides them with a credit rating
- crepe bandage — a bandage made of light cotton crepe
- cytodiagnosis — the diagnosis of disease through the study of cells in the body
- daguerreotype — one of the earliest photographic processes, in which the image was produced on iodine-sensitized silver and developed in mercury vapour
- daguerreotypy — The art or technique of producing daguerreotypes.
- daguerrotypes — Plural form of daguerrotype, a misspelling of daguerreotype.
- damage survey — an inspection by an insurance company of something that has been damaged and for which an insurance claim has been made, in order to determine the extent and cause of damage
- damaged goods — a person considered to be less than perfect psychologically, as a result of a traumatic experience
- dating agency — an agency that provides introductions to people seeking a companion with similar interests
- defragmenting — Present participle of defragment.
- delian league — an alliance of ancient Greek states formed in 478–77 bc to fight Persia
- demagnetizing — Present participle of demagnetize.
- demagogically — of, relating to, or characteristic of a demagogue.
- demand paging — (memory management) A kind of virtual memory where a page of memory will be paged in if an attempt is made to access it and it is not already present in main memory. This normally involves a memory management unit which looks up the virtual address in a page map to see if it is paged in. If it is not then the operating system will page it in, update the page map and restart the failed access. This implies that the processor must be able to recover from and restart a failed memory access or must be suspended while some other mechanism is used to perform the paging. Paging in a page may first require some other page to be moved from main memory to disk ("paged out") to make room. If this page has not been modified since it was paged in, it can simply be reused without writing it back to disk. This is determined from the "modified" or "dirty" flag bit in the page map. A replacement algorithm or policy is used to select the page to be paged out, often this is the least recently used (LRU) algorithm.
- dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
- deuteragonist — (in ancient Greek drama) the character next in importance to the protagonist, esp the antagonist