12-letter words that end in age
- metalanguage — any language or symbolic system used to discuss, describe, or analyze another language or symbolic system.
- minimum wage — lowest hourly earnings permitted by law
- minimum-wage — of or relating to a minimum wage: minimum-wage demands.
- mirror image — an image of an object, plan, person, etc., as it would appear if viewed in a mirror, with right and left reversed.
- mona passage — a strait between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. 80 miles (129 km) wide.
- mosaic image — the collective image produced by the ommatidia of a compound eye
- mother image — a person substituted in one's mind for one's mother and often the object of emotions felt toward the mother
- myrmecophage — (biology) Anteaters, and other animals chiefly feeding on ants.
- ncr language — Software Writer's Language
- noble savage — primitive indigenous person
- non-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.
- out-marriage — a marriage to someone outside one's ethnic group
- palm cabbage — cabbage palm.
- paralanguage — vocal features that accompany speech and contribute to communication but are not generally considered to be part of the language system, as vocal quality, loudness, and tempo: sometimes also including facial expressions and gestures.
- patrilineage — lineal descent traced through the male line.
- photomontage — a combination of several photographs joined together for artistic effect or to show more of the subject than can be shown in a single photograph.
- pork sausage — a sausage made with pork
- pre-language — a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French language; the Yiddish language.
- pre-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.
- pro-suffrage — the right to vote, especially in a political election.
- problem page — a feature in a newspaper, magazine, etc in which readers' problems are published and answers supplied
- real storage — (in a virtual storage system) the portion of addressable memory that consists of main storage.
- reassemblage — a new or further gathering or collection
- report stage — the stage preceding the third reading in the passage of a bill through Parliament, at which the bill, as amended in committee, is reported back to the chamber considering it
- ripe old age — advanced age
- road haulage — transport of goods by road
- safe passage — journey completed without danger
- sauk village — a town in NE Illinois.
- scarlet sage — a tender shrub, Salvia splendens, of Brazil, having ovate leaves and bell-shaped scarlet flowers.
- self-storage — noting or pertaining to a warehouse or other facility that rents units to people for storing personal possessions.
- sov language — a type of language that has basic subject-object-verb order, as Turkish, Japanese, or Tamil.
- stage-manage — to work as a stage manager for: When he wasn't acting, he stage-managed a repertory theater.
- sub-mortgage — a conveyance of an interest in property as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
- svo language — a type of language that has basic subject-verb-object word order, as English, Chinese, or Spanish.
- take umbrage — If you say that a person takes umbrage, you mean that they are upset or offended by something that someone says or does to them, often without much reason.
- text message — an electronic message sent over a cellular network from one cell phone to another by typing words, often in shortened form, as “l8t” for “late,” on the phone's numeric or QWERTY keypad.
- the jazz age — (esp in the US) the period between the end of World War I and the beginning of the Depression during which jazz became popular
- thrust stage — a stage that extends beyond the proscenium arch and is usually surrounded on three sides by seats.
- to advantage — any state, circumstance, opportunity, or means specially favorable to success, interest, or any desired end: the advantage of a good education.
- under-manage — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
- veto-message — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
- vso language — a type of language that has basic verb-subject-object word order, as Welsh, classical Arabic, or Tagalog.
- wild cabbage — a European plant, Brassica oleracea, with broad leaves and a long spike of yellow flowers: the plant from which the cabbages, cauliflower, broccoli, and Brussels sprout have been bred
- zero tillage — no-tillage.