13-letter words that end in ge
- dutch courage — courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor.
- dynamic range — the range of signal amplitudes over which an electronic communications channel can operate within acceptable limits of distortion. The range is determined by system noise at the lower end and by the onset of overload at the upper end
- error message — a message displayed on a visual display unit, printout, etc, indicating that an incorrect instruction has been given to the computer
- flow cleavage — cleavage resulting from the parallel alignment of the mineral constituents of a rock when in a plastic condition.
- flying bridge — Also called flybridge, fly bridge, monkey bridge. Nautical. a small, often open deck or platform above the pilothouse or main cabin, having duplicate controls and navigational equipment.
- foreknowledge — knowledge of something before it exists or happens; prescience: Did you have any foreknowledge of the scheme?
- foxtail wedge — a wedge in the split end of a tenon, bolt, or the like, for spreading and securing it when driven into a blind mortise or hole.
- genital ridge — the area in the vertebrate embryo that develops into ovaries in the female and testes in the male.
- glue language — (language) Any language, usually a scripting language, used to write glue to integrate tools and other programs to solve some problem.
- gottlob frege — (person, history, philosophy, mathematics, logic, theory) (1848-1925) A mathematician who put mathematics on a new and more solid foundation. He purged mathematics of mistaken, sloppy reasoning and the influence of Pythagoras. Mathematics was shown to be a subdivision of formal logic.
- gravity hinge — a hinge closing automatically by means of gravity.
- gross tonnage — the total volume of a vessel, expressed in units of 100 cubic feet (gross ton) with certain open structures, deckhouses, tanks, etc., exempted.
- gunnery range — place used for rifle practice
- h and l hinge — a surface-mounted hinge that when applied resembles H and L combined.
- hanging judge — sb who sentences criminals to execution
- heart massage — rhythmic manual compression of the sternum or heart to restore normal heartbeat, as after cardiac arrest.
- hold a grudge — be resentful
- hopper dredge — a self-propelled dredge having compartments in which the dredged material can be carried and dumped through hoppers.
- hunting lodge — a house or hut in the country or in the mountains where people stay on holiday when they want to go hunting
- interlanguage — a language created or used for international communication.
- intermarriage — marriage between people of different religions, tribes, castes, ethnicities, or racial groups, as between a white person and a black person or between a Christian and a Muslim.
- ipecac spurge — a spurge, Euphorbia ipecacuanhae, of the eastern U.S.
- kitchen range — cooker with oven and hob
- landing stage — a floating platform used as a wharf.
- laramie range — a mountain range in N Colorado and SE Wyoming. Highest peak, Laramie Peak, 9020 feet (2749 meters).
- liver sausage — liverwurst.
- london bridge — a bridge over the Thames between the City of London on the north side, and Southwark on the south side.
- maiden voyage — the first voyage of a ship after its acceptance by the owners from the builders.
- midriff bulge — a roll of fat around your midriff
- millau bridge — a road bridge, the highest in the world, crossing the River Tarn in the Massif Central in SW France; designed by Sir Norman Foster and opened in 2004
- monkey bridge — flying bridge.
- mordant rouge — a solution of aluminum acetate in acetic acid, used in dyeing and calico printing.
- naval college — training institution for the navy
- new stone age — the Neolithic period.
- not a sausage — nothing at all
- oceanic ridge — any section of the narrow, largely continuous range of submarine mountains that extends into all the major oceans and at which new oceanic lithosphere is created by the rise of magma from the earth's interior
- old stone age — the Paleolithic period.
- olduvai gorge — a gorge in Tanzania in which is located a site containing Australopithecine and human skeletal and cultural remains.
- open marriage — a marriage in which the partners agree that each is free to have sexual relationships with other partners.
- optical wedge — a wedge-shaped filter whose transmittance decreases from one end to the other: used as an exposure control device in sensitometry.
- overencourage — to encourage too much
- pager message — a message received by a pager
- part exchange — If you give an old item in part exchange for something you are buying, the seller accepts the old item as part of the payment, so you do not have to give them as much money.
- pastel orange — suntan (def 3).
- perfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which sexual spores are formed, as the asci in the sexual stage of the ascomycete.
- port language — ["Communicating Parallel Processes", J. Kerridge et al, Soft Prac & Exp 16(1):63-86 (Jan 1986)].
- post exchange — a retail store on an army installation that sells goods and services to military personnel and their dependents and to certain authorized civilian personnel. Abbreviation: PX.
- post-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.
- powder charge — propellant (def 2).
- pride's purge — the forceful exclusion from the House of Commons, carried out by Col. Thomas Pride in December 1648, of about 100 members who favored compromise with the Royalist party.