14-letter words containing ag
- planning stage — the stage of a project when it is still being planned
- player-manager — In football and some other sports, a player-manager is a person who plays for a team and also manages the team.
- plea agreement — an agreement between the prosecution and defence, sometimes including the judge, in which the accused agrees to plead guilty to a lesser charge in return for more serious charges being dropped
- police village — a village lacking corporate status as a municipality, its affairs being administered by an elected board of trustees.
- pragmatization — the action of putting theory into practice, the process of rendering something more pragmatic
- pre-teenager's — Also called preteenager [pree-teen-ey-jer] /priˈtinˌeɪ dʒər/ (Show IPA), preteener. a boy or girl under the age of 13, especially one between the ages of 9 and 12.
- premier league — a professional football or soccer league consisting of the top teams in England and Wales
- pro-management — the act or manner of managing; handling, direction, or control.
- propagandistic — a person involved in producing or spreading propaganda.
- proxy marriage — a marriage performed between one of the two contracting parties and a proxy who has been authorized to represent the other.
- pumped storage — a system for generating hydroelectric power for peak periods by pumping water from a lower to a higher reservoir during low-demand periods and then releasing it during peak periods.
- pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
- quadragenarian — 40 years of age.
- query language — the instructions and procedures used to retrieve information from a database
- quinquagesimal — of, relating to, or consisting of a set of 50
- radiodiagnosis — diagnosis by means of radiography or radioscopy.
- ragnar lodbrok — a possibly historical Danish king of the 9th century, the subject of an Old Icelandic saga and of accounts in the Danish history by Saxo Grammaticus: also associated with the story of Sigurd and the Volsungs.
- rags to riches — You use rags to riches to describe the way in which someone quickly becomes very rich after they have been quite poor.
- reducing agent — a substance that causes another substance to undergo reduction and that is oxidized in the process.
- relay language — a language, usually an internationally dominant one, which acts as a medium to translate other usually little-spoken languages
- retirement age — law: age sb stops working
- roller bandage — a long bandage rolled into a cylinder
- royal marriage — a meld of the king and queen of trumps, as in pinochle. Compare marriage (def 9).
- run up against — If you run up against problems, you suddenly begin to experience them.
- sagging moment — a bending moment that produces concave bending at the middle of a simple supported beam
- salvage vessel — a ship that is used in salvaging goods or property from a shipwreck
- salvageability — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
- saxifragaceous — belonging to the plant family Saxifragaceae.
- schiff reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
- scrimmage line — line of scrimmage.
- self-diagnosis — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
- send a message — to convey or communicate one's feelings, desires, etc. in a subtle or indirect manner
- send a message — to convey or communicate one's feelings, desires, etc. in a subtle or indirect manner
- septuagenarian — of the age of 70 years or between 70 and 80 years old.
- shipping agent — a person or company whose business is to prepare shipping documents, arrange shipping space and insurance, and deal with customs requirements
- slide magazine — a piece of equipment that holds slides and pushes them into a projector
- social tagging — the practice of generating electronic tags or keywords by users rather than specialists as a way to classify and describe online content: Social tagging can enhance students' access to online collections of art.
- spanish dagger — a stemless or short-trunked plant, Yucca gloriosa, of the agave family, native to the southeastern U.S., having leaves nearly 2½ feet (75 cm) long, with a stiff, sharp point, and greenish-white or reddish flowers nearly 4 inches (10 cm) wide.
- spit and image — a person who bears a strong physical resemblance to another, esp to a relative
- spitting image — spit1 (def 13).
- stage business — business (def 10).
- stage designer — someone who designs the physical appearance of the stage, using backdrops, props, etc
- stage director — a person who directs a theatrical production.
- stagflationary — of, caused by, or relating to, stagflation
- staggering bob — a newborn calf.
- staghorn coral — staghorn coral.
- staghorn sumac — a sumac, Rhus typhina, of eastern North America, having leaves that turn scarlet, orange, and purple in the autumn.
- stockbrokerage — a stockbroker's work or business
- storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
- storage heater — an electrical device capable of accumulating and radiating heat generated by off-peak electricity