15-letter words containing ag
- galvanomagnetic — of or relating to the creation of an electromagnetic field within a conductor, as a metal, or a semiconductor through which an electric current is passed.
- garage mechanic — sb employed to repair vehicles
- garbage collect — garbage collection
- general average — Insurance. any damage or loss to a ship or its cargo voluntarily sustained, as freight jettisoned in a storm, by all parties to a voyage (distinguished from particular average). Abbreviation: G.A.
- general manager — supervisor
- geomagnetically — In a geomagnetic way; through geomagnetism.
- get the message — a communication containing some information, news, advice, request, or the like, sent by messenger, telephone, email, or other means.
- girlie magazine — soft porn magazine
- glass menagerie — a play (1945) by Tennessee Williams.
- great synagogue — (according to Jewish tradition) a council of 120 members, established by Ezra, that directed the Jews chiefly in religious matters, c450–c200 b.c., and made significant contributions to the Jewish liturgy and Bible.
- grey propaganda — propaganda that does not identify its source
- haemagglutinate — to cause the clumping of red blood cells in (a blood sample)
- haemoflagellate — a flagellate protozoan, such as a trypanosome, that is parasitic in the blood
- haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
- hedonic damages — compensation based on what the victim of a crime might have earned in the future
- heritage centre — a museum that houses exhibits describing the culture and history of a particular place and its inhabitants
- herod agrippa i — 10 bc–44 ad, king of Judaea (41–44), grandson of Herod (the Great). A friend of Caligula and Claudius, he imprisoned Saint Peter and executed Saint James
- holiday cottage — a cottage used for accommodation for a family, couple, etc, on holiday
- holiday village — a park with villas where holidaymakers stay and which has a central area with a shop, entertainment, etc
- hump one's swag — (of a tramp) to carry one's belongings from place to place on one's back
- hyperaggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
- hypercoagulable — related to excessive coagulation of the blood or blood clots
- hypomagnesaemia — the condition of having too little magnesium in the blood, particularly in cattle, in which it is also known as lactation tetany
- idealized image — a personal standard of perfection against which one's actual thinking, behavior, and appearance are compared.
- image converter — a device for producing a visual image formed by other electromagnetic radiation such as infrared or ultraviolet radiation or X-rays
- image-conscious — concerned about the way one comes across to other people and the impression one creates
- imitative magic — magic that attempts to control the universe through the mimicking of a desired event, as by stabbing an image of an enemy in an effort to destroy him or her or by performing a ritual dance imitative of the growth of food in an effort to secure an abundant supply; a branch of sympathetic magic based on the belief that similar actions produce similar results.
- immunodiagnosis — serodiagnosis.
- imperfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which either no spores or asexual spores, as conidia, are produced.
- information age — a period beginning about 1975 and characterized by the gathering and almost instantaneous transmission of vast amounts of information and by the rise of information-based industries.
- instant message — an electronic message sent in real time via the Internet and therefore immediately available for display on the recipient's screen. Compare text message.
- insurance agent — sb who sells insurance policies
- irrefragability — How irrefragable something is.
- italian sausage — salami
- joint agreement — a formal decision about future action which is made by two or more countries, groups, or people
- juvenal plumage — the first plumage of birds, composed of contour feathers, which in certain species follows the naked nestling stage and in other species follows the molt of natal down.
- juxtaglomerular — (anatomy) Near, or adjoining a renal glomerulus.
- labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
- language lawyer — A person, usually an experienced or senior software engineer, who is intimately familiar with many or most of the numerous restrictions and features (both useful and esoteric) applicable to one or more computer programming languages. A language lawyer is distinguished by the ability to show you the five sentences scattered through a 200-page manual that together imply the answer to your question "if only you had thought to look there". Compare wizard, legal, legalese.
- language school — A language school is a private school where a foreign language is taught.
- language skills — the ability to use language
- law of averages — a statistical principle formulated by Jakob Bernoulli to show a more or less predictable ratio between the number of random trials of an event and its occurrences.
- league football — rugby league football
- leakage current — A leakage current is an electric current in an unwanted conductive path under normal operating conditions.
- leakage-current — an act of leaking; leak.
- lift-drag ratio — the ratio of the lift to the drag of an airfoil.
- line management — those managers in an organization who are responsible for the main activity or product of the organization, as distinct from those, such as transport, accounting, or personnel, who provide services to the line management
- little magazine — a magazine, usually small in format and of limited circulation, that publishes literary works.
- look daggers at — to look at with anger or hatred
- low archipelago — a group of French islands in the S Pacific. 332 sq. mi. (860 sq. km).