16-letter words that end in ge
- geographic range — the distance at which a certain light, as that of a lighthouse, is visible to the eye at a given elevation, assuming that the weather is clear and that the light is sufficiently powerful to be visible from any point at which it appears above the horizon.
- graphic language — For specifying graphic operations.
- heralds' college — a royal corporation in England, instituted in 1483, concerned chiefly with armorial bearings, genealogies, honors, and precedence.
- high court judge — a judge who sits in the High Court
- honeymoon bridge — any of several varieties of bridge for two players.
- housing shortage — a deficiency or lack in the number of houses needed to accommodate the population of an area
- hypnagogic image — an image experienced by a person just before falling asleep, which often resembles a hallucination
- import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
- indecency charge — an accusation of committing indecency
- interlaced image — progressive coding
- ironbridge gorge — a gorge formed by the river Severn in Shropshire; named after the Iron Bridge (1779), the first iron bridge of its kind in the world, now a monument to the Industrial Revolution
- jeweller's rouge — a finely powdered form of ferric oxide used as a metal polish
- kentucky windage — a method of correcting for windage, gravity, etc., by aiming a weapon to one side of the target instead of by adjusting the sights.
- lettre de change — bill of exchange.
- live on the edge — take risks
- lost river range — a mountain range in E central Idaho. Highest peak, Borah Peak (also highest in the state), 12,662 feet (3862 meters).
- machine language — machine code
- malicious damage — Malicious damage is damage caused on purpose to the property of another person.
- manhood suffrage — the right of adult male citizens to vote
- marmalade orange — a bitter variety of orange suitable for making marmalade
- middle stone age — the Mesolithic period.
- missionary ridge — a ridge in NW Georgia and SE Tennessee: Civil War battle 1863.
- modular language — (language) (Modula) Wirth's 1977 predecessor of Modula-2. The original Modula was, more oriented toward concurrent programming, but otherwise quite similar.
- molybdate orange — a pigment consisting of a solid solution of sulfate, molybdate, and chromate compounds of lead.
- narcotics charge — a criminal charge or accusation concerning the use or dealing of illegal drugs
- natural language — a language used as a native tongue by a group of speakers.
- of a certain age — of an unspecified age, but no longer young
- of human bondage — a novel (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham.
- on (the) average — as an average quantity, rate, etc.
- on the same page — one side of a leaf of something printed or written, as a book, manuscript, or letter.
- parliament hinge — a butt hinge the knuckle of which protrudes from the door so that the door when fully opened stands away from the wall.
- pension mortgage — an arrangement whereby a person takes out a mortgage and pays the capital repayment instalments into a pension fund and the interest to the mortgagee. The loan is repaid out of the tax-free lump sum proceeds of the pension plan on the borrower's retirement
- potemkin village — a pretentiously showy or imposing façade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition.
- private language — a language that is not merely secret or accidentally limited to one user, but that cannot in principle be communicated to another
- proof of postage — a document, such as a receipt, etc, that proves that you have posted or mailed something
- queen maud range — a mountain range in Antarctica, in Ross Dependency, S of the Ross Sea.
- railway carriage — a railway coach for passengers
- rate of exchange — exchange rate.
- rattle so's cage — If someone rattles your cage, they do something which is intended to make you feel nervous.
- recorded message — words spoken by someone and recorded electronically in order to be replayed again in future, esp automatically over the phone
- register tonnage — the volume of a vessel, especially the net tonnage as measured officially and registered for purposes of taxation.
- reverse a charge — If you reverse a charge on a credit card, you put the amount you have charged back into the credit card account.
- reverse mortgage — a type of home mortgage under which an elderly homeowner is allowed a long-term loan in the form of monthly payments against his or her paid-off equity as collateral, repayable when the home is eventually sold. Abbreviation: RAM.
- shopping village — a shopping centre that designed to look like a village
- shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
- slugging average — a measure of the effectiveness of a batter in making base hits, obtained by dividing the total bases reached by hitting by the number of official times at bat and carrying out the result to three decimal places. A batter making 275 total bases in 500 times at bat has a slugging average of .550.
- software package — bundle of files to execute computer program
- sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
- static discharge — Static discharge is the release of static electricity when two objects touch each other.
- statutory change — a change in the law