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17-letter words containing ag

  • montagu's harrier — a brownish European bird of prey, Circus pygargus, with long narrow wings and a long tail: family Accipitridae (hawks, harriers, etc)
  • motoring magazine — a magazine about cars
  • national heritage — country's cultural legacy
  • nessler's reagent — an aqueous solution of potassium iodide, mercuric chloride, and potassium hydroxide, used as a test for the presence of ammonia.
  • new age traveller — New Age travellers are people who live in tents and vehicles and travel from place to place, and who reject many of the values of modern society.
  • northeast passage — a ship route along the N coast of Europe and Asia, between the North Sea and the Pacific.
  • northwest passage — a ship route along the Arctic coast of Canada and Alaska, joining the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
  • old age pensioner — An old age pensioner is a person who is old enough to receive an pension from their employer or the government.
  • open-end mortgage — a mortgage agreement against which new sums of money may be borrowed under certain conditions.
  • outline agreement — a contract, etc, setting out the preliminary terms or guidelines for an agreement; a preliminary agreement
  • packaging company — a company that packages goods on behalf of the producer
  • paralysis agitans — Parkinson's disease
  • personnel manager — head of Human Resources department
  • picture messaging — Picture messaging is the sending of photographs or pictures from one mobile phone to another.
  • pile on the agony — to exaggerate one's distress for sympathy or greater effect
  • portfolio manager — a person employed by others to make investments for them
  • postage due stamp — a stamp that is affixed to mail at a post office when prepayment of postage is insufficient, to indicate the amount that must be collected from the addressee.
  • postural drainage — a therapy for clearing congested lungs by placing the patient in a position for drainage by gravity, often accompanied by percussion with hollowed hands.
  • proof of coverage — A policyholder's proof of coverage is a document from an insurer stating that they have insurance coverage.
  • pseudo-aggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
  • psychodiagnostics — the study and evaluation of character or personality in terms of behavioral and anatomical traits, as gesture, posture and physiognomy.
  • putative marriage — a marriage contracted in violation of an impediment, but in good faith on the part of one or both of the contracting persons.
  • pythagorean scale — the major scale as derived acoustically by Pythagoras from the perfect fifth.
  • rat-tailed maggot — the aquatic larva of any of several syrphid flies of the genus Eristalis, that breathes through a long, thin tube at the posterior end of its body.
  • rattle one's dags — to hurry up
  • real-estate agent — a person who sells houses, buildings, and land
  • saint agnes's eve — the night of January 20, superstitiously regarded as a time when a young woman who performs certain rites is likely to dream of her future husband.
  • same-sex marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
  • schiff-s--reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
  • self-aggrandizing — increase of one's own power, wealth, etc., usually aggressively.
  • self-flagellation — the act or process of flagellating.
  • senior management — the most senior staff of an organization or business, including the heads of various divisions or departments led by the chief executive
  • sentence fragment — a phrase or clause written as a sentence but lacking an element, as a subject or verb, that would enable it to function as an independent sentence in normative written English.
  • septicemic plague — an especially dangerous form of plague in which the infecting organisms invade the bloodstream. Compare plague (def 2).
  • severance package — an amount of compensation paid by an organization to an employee who leaves because, through no fault of their own, the job to which they were appointed ceases to exist, as during rationalization, and no comparable job is available to them
  • shopping bag lady — bag lady (def 1).
  • shopping-bag lady — bag lady (def 1).
  • spaghetti western — a low-budget western movie shot in Italy or Spain, usually with Italian actors and an American star.
  • spaghettification — the theoretical stretching of an object as it encounters extreme differences in gravitational forces, especially those associated with a black hole.
  • stag's-horn coral — staghorn coral.
  • stage-door johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
  • stress management — coping with psychological pressure
  • supply management — business purchasing
  • symbolic language — a specialized language dependent upon the use of symbols for communication and created for the purpose of achieving greater exactitude, as in symbolic logic or mathematics.
  • sympathetic magic — magic predicated on the belief that one thing or event can affect another at a distance as a consequence of a sympathetic connection between them.
  • take advantage of — any state, circumstance, opportunity, or means specially favorable to success, interest, or any desired end: the advantage of a good education.
  • telephone message — a message that is transmitted by telephone
  • tenancy agreement — property rental contract
  • the age of reason — the 18th century in W Europe
  • the bag of tricks — every device; everything
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