17-letter words containing ag
- circle the wagons — to take defensive action; prepare for an attack: from arranging a wagon train in a circular formation
- collateral damage — Collateral damage is accidental injury to non-military people or damage to non-military buildings which occurs during a military operation.
- collection agency — A collection agency is an organization that obtains payments from people who owe money to others.
- commercial agency — a concern that investigates for the benefit of its subscribers the financial standing, reputation, and credit rating of individuals, firms, corporations, or others.
- communal marriage — group marriage.
- commuter marriage — a marriage in which the partners live some distance apart most of the time, usually because of separate work commitments
- computer language — programming language
- controlling image — a literary device employing repetition so as to stress the theme of a work or a particular symbol.
- corporate village — an area close to the workplace where many everyday facilities are provided for a company's workers
- counter-espionage — Counter-espionage is the same as counter-intelligence.
- counterpropaganda — propaganda to offset or nullify unfriendly or enemy propaganda.
- crisis management — People use crisis management to refer to a management style that concentrates on solving the immediate problems occurring in a business rather than looking for long-term solutions.
- customs brokerage — the work of a customs broker
- dagestan republic — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: annexed from Persia in 1813; rich mineral resources. Capital: Makhachkala. Pop: 2 584 200 (2002). Area: 50 278 sq km (19 416 sq miles)
- damage limitation — Damage limitation is action that is taken to make the bad results of something as small as possible, when it is impossible to avoid bad results completely.
- data flow diagram — (programming) A graphical notation used to describe how data flows between processes in a system. Data flow diagrams are an important tool of most structured analysis techniques.
- daughter language — a language that has evolved from another specified language.
- debrett's peerage — a list of the British aristocracy
- demand management — the regulation of total spending in an economy to required levels, attempted by a government esp in order to avoid unemployment or inflation: a measure advocated by Keynesian economists
- diaphragm pessary — a device for inserting into the vagina to deliver a drug, such as a contraceptive
- diaphragm shutter — a camera shutter having a group of overlapping blades that open and close at the center when exposing film.
- diaphragmatically — By use of the diaphragm; in a diaphragmatic way.
- disadvantagedness — The quality of being disadvantaged.
- disadvantageously — In a disadvantageous manner.
- dow jones average — The Dow Jones Average is a daily measurement of stock-exchange prices, based on the average price of a selected number of securities.
- emotional baggage — burden of personal experience
- employment agency — company: finds jobs
- empty element tag — tag
- exemplary damages — law: fine imposed as a deterrent
- ferrimagnetically — In a ferrimagnetic manner.
- financial manager — a person responsible for the supervision and handling of the financial affairs of an organization
- flagrante delicto — Law. in the very act of committing the offense.
- free-body diagram — A free-body diagram is a diagram of a structure in which all supports are replaced by forces.
- galapagos islands — a group of 15 islands in the Pacific west of Ecuador, of which they form a province: discovered (1535) by the Spanish; main settlement on San Cristóbal. Pop: 18 640 (2001). Area: 7844 sq km (3028 sq miles)
- garage proprietor — a person who owns a commercial establishment in which motor vehicles are repaired, serviced, bought, and sold
- garbage collector — refuse collector, dustman
- geomagnetic storm — magnetic storm.
- go on the rampage — If people go on the rampage, they rush about in a wild or violent way, causing damage or destruction.
- grapefruit league — a series of training games played by major-league teams before the opening of the season (so named because they take place in the citrus-growing South, as in Florida).
- greenwich village — a section of New York City, in lower Manhattan: inhabited and frequented by artists, writers, and students.
- haemagglutinating — That agglutinates red blood cells.
- haemagglutination — Alternative form of hemagglutination.
- hemorrhagic fever — any of several arbovirus infections, as dengue, characterized by fever, chills, and malaise followed by hemorrhages of capillaries, sometimes leading to kidney failure and death.
- heritage industry — an industry that manages the historical sites, buildings, and museums in a particular place, with the aim of encouraging tourism
- homeopathic 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.
- hope against hope — the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best: to give up hope.
- hyaline cartilage — the typical, translucent form of cartilage, containing little fibrous tissue.
- i can't be fagged — I can't be bothered
- i will/can manage — You say 'I can manage' or 'I'll manage' as a way of refusing someone's offer of help and insisting on doing something by yourself.
- image enhancement — a method of improving the definition of a video picture by a computer program, which reduces the lowest grey values to black and the highest to white: used for pictures from microscopes, surveillance cameras, and scanners