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13-letter words containing ag

  • ferrimagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as a ferrite, in which the magnetic moments of some neighboring atoms point in opposite directions, with a net magnetization still resulting because of differences in magnitudes of the opposite moments.
  • ferromagnetic — noting or pertaining to a substance, as iron, that below a certain temperature, the Curie point, can possess magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field; noting or pertaining to a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned.
  • finagle's law — (humour)   The generalised or "folk" version of Murphy's Law, fully named "Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives" and usually rendered "Anything that can go wrong, will". One variant favoured among hackers is "The perversity of the Universe tends toward a maximum". The label "Finagle's Law" was popularised by SF author Larry Niven in several stories depicting a frontier culture of asteroid miners; this "Belter" culture professed a religion and/or running joke involving the worship of the dread god Finagle and his mad prophet Murphy.
  • flag football — a form of touch football in which the ball-carrier's progress is stopped when an opponent pulls a flag from the ball-carrier's pocket or belt.
  • flag of truce — a white flag displayed as an invitation to the enemy to confer, or carried as a sign of peaceful intention by one sent to deal with the enemy.
  • flagellomania — enthusiasm for whipping or being whipped
  • floor manager — a person assigned to direct the proceedings on the floor of an assembly, as at a political convention.
  • flow cleavage — cleavage resulting from the parallel alignment of the mineral constituents of a rock when in a plastic condition.
  • flying dragon — any of several arboreal lizards of the genus Draco, having an extensible membrane between the limbs along each side by means of which it makes long, gliding leaps.
  • foliage plant — any plant grown chiefly for its attractive leaves.
  • foot-dragging — reluctance or failure to proceed or act promptly.
  • foreign agent — a spy for a foreign country
  • fragmentarily — consisting of or reduced to fragments; broken; disconnected; incomplete: fragmentary evidence; fragmentary remains.
  • fragmentation — the act or process of fragmenting; state of being fragmented.
  • freight agent — a representative of a common carrier who manages the freight business in a local district.
  • fridge magnet — a small flat decorative object with a magnet on its back which is used to attach it to the front door of a fridge or other domestic appliance
  • fromage frais — Fromage frais is a thick, creamy dessert that is made from milk and often flavoured with fruit. A fromage frais is a small pot of fromage frais.
  • frontage road — a local road that runs parallel to an expressway, providing access to roadside stores and businesses; a service road.
  • gagging order — an official order against certain information being made public or discussed (by the press, etc)
  • galactagogues — Plural form of galactagogue.
  • garbage chute — sloped channel for rubbish disposal
  • garbage truck — lorry that collects refuse
  • gastrorrhagia — (medical) A hemorrhage from the stomach, also known as a gastric hemorrhage.
  • general magic — A software company based in Mountain View, California. Products released in 1994 after four years in development include: Telescript - a communications-oriented programming language; Magic Cap - an OOPS designed for PDAs; and a new, third generation GUI. Motorola's Envoy, due for release in the third quarter of 1994, will use Magic Cap as its OS. What PostScript did for cross-platform, device-independent documents, Telescript aims to do for cross-platform, network-independent messaging. Telescript protects programmers from many of the complexities of network protocols. Competitors for Magic Cap include Microsoft's Windows for Pens/Winpad, PenPoint, Apple Computer's Newton Intelligence and GEOS by GeoWorks.
  • giant ragweed — any of the composite plants of the genus Ambrosia, the airborne pollen of which is the most prevalent cause of autumnal hay fever, as the common North American species, A. trifida (great ragweed or giant ragweed) and A. artemisiifolia.
  • gladstone bag — a small rectangular suitcase hinged to open into two compartments of equal size.
  • glazing agent — substance used to varnish
  • glue language — (language)   Any language, usually a scripting language, used to write glue to integrate tools and other programs to solve some problem.
  • gog and magog — two nations led by Satan in a climactic battle at Armageddon against the kingdom of God. Rev. 20:8.
  • graecia magna — Magna Graecia.
  • great ragweed — any of the composite plants of the genus Ambrosia, the airborne pollen of which is the most prevalent cause of autumnal hay fever, as the common North American species, A. trifida (great ragweed or giant ragweed) and A. artemisiifolia.
  • greek tragedy — (in ancient Greek theatre) a play in which the protagonist, usually a man of importance and outstanding personal qualities, falls to disaster through the combination of a personal failing and circumstances with which he cannot deal
  • gross tonnage — the total volume of a vessel, expressed in units of 100 cubic feet (gross ton) with certain open structures, deckhouses, tanks, etc., exempted.
  • guard against — prevent
  • gyromagnetism — the condition or state of being gyromagnetic
  • haemorrhaging — Present participle of haemorrhage.
  • hagiographers — Plural form of hagiographer.
  • hagiographies — Plural form of hagiography.
  • heart massage — rhythmic manual compression of the sternum or heart to restore normal heartbeat, as after cardiac arrest.
  • hemagglutinin — A substance, such as a viral protein, that causes hemagglutination.
  • hematophagous — feeding on blood, as the vampire bat.
  • hemp agrimony — a European composite plant, Eupatorium cannabinum, having dull purplish flowers.
  • heritage site — a historical site, a building, or an area of the unspoilt natural environment, considered to be important to a country or area's heritage
  • herod agrippa — (Julius Agrippa) c10 b.c.–a.d. 44, king of Judea 41–44 (grandson of Herod the Great).
  • hidden agenda — an often duplicitously undisclosed plan or motive.
  • hot-water bag — a bag, usually of rubber, for holding hot water to apply warmth to some part of the body, as the feet.
  • hotel manager — sb who runs a hotel
  • house manager — a business manager responsible for managing a theater and its staff.
  • hypermagnetic — (physics) Extremely magnetic.
  • image formats — (graphics, file format)   There are many formats used to store images in files. GIF, TIFF and JPEG are very common. Others are BIFF, bmp, Clear, FITS, IFF, NFF, OFF, PCX, PNG, TGA, XBM. Some of these are documented on-line at the following sites:
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