16-letter words containing ag
- 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
- percentage point — difference: one per cent
- permanent magnet — a magnet that retains its magnetism after being removed from an external magnetic field.
- personnel agency — an agency for placing employable persons in jobs; employment agency.
- phagocytic index — the average number of bacteria ingested per phagocyte in an incubated mixture of bacteria, phagocytes, and blood serum: used in determining the opsonic index.
- phantasmagorical — having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
- philip r. bagley — (person) A pioneer of computer document retrieval. See metadata.
- photocoagulation — a surgical technique using an intense beam of light from a laser or a xenon-arc bulb to seal blood vessels or coagulate tissue, used primarily in ophthalmology to repair detached retinas or to treat certain kinds of retinopathy.
- play off against — If you play people off against each other, you make them compete or argue, so that you gain some advantage.
- pneumonic plague — a form of plague characterized by lung involvement.
- potemkin village — a pretentiously showy or imposing façade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition.
- practice manager — the manager of a business such as a medical practice, dental practice, or legal practice
- pragmatic theory — the theory of truth that the truth of a statement consists in its practical consequences, especially in its agreement with subsequent experience.
- 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
- publicity agency — an advertising agency; a firm that gets publicity for people or products
- punitive damages — law: penalty payment
- purchasing agent — a person who buys materials, supplies, equipment, etc., for a company.
- quasi-managerial — pertaining to management or a manager: managerial functions; the managerial class of society.
- quinquagenarians — Plural form of quinquagenarian.
- rag-and-bone man — a peddler who buys and sells used clothes, rags, etc.; junkman.
- railway carriage — a railway coach for passengers
- ranelagh gardens — a public garden in Chelsea opened in 1742: a centre for members of fashionable society to meet and promenade. The gardens were closed in 1804
- rattle so's cage — If someone rattles your cage, they do something which is intended to make you feel nervous.
- rattlesnake flag — any of a number of U.S. flags that bear a picture of a rattlesnake and the motto “Don't Tread on Me,” especially those used during the French and Indian War and the American Revolution.
- 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 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.
- riau archipelago — a group of islands belonging to Indonesia, off the SE coast of the Malay Peninsula, at the entrance to the Strait of Malacca. 36,510 sq. mi. (94,561 sq. km).
- santiago de cuba — a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
- savage's station — a locality in E Virginia, near Richmond: Civil War battle in 1862.
- saxifrage family — the plant family Saxifragaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and small trees having alternate or opposite leaves, clustered or solitary flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including the astilbe, currant, deutzia, gooseberry, hydrangea, mock orange, piggy-back plant, saxifrage, and strawberry geranium.
- schiff's reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
- school-age child — a child who is old enough to go to school
- security manager — The security manager of a store is the person responsible for organizing all security in the store and to whom security guards report.
- self-disparaging — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
- self-propagating — to cause (an organism) to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock.
- semiagricultural — partly engaged in or given over to agriculture
- settlement agent — A settlement agent is a person who arranges the transfer of securities or real property in a sale.
- shag pile carpet — a large piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor
- shaggy dog story — a funny story, traditionally about a talking dog, that, after an often long and involved narration of unimportant incidents, has an absurd or irrelevant punch line.
- shaggy-dog story — a funny story, traditionally about a talking dog, that, after an often long and involved narration of unimportant incidents, has an absurd or irrelevant punch line.
- 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
- spaghetti squash — a variety of a widely cultivated squash, Cucurbita pepo, having edible flesh in the form of spaghettilike strands.
- sparking voltage — the minimum voltage required to produce a spark across a given spark gap.
- stage production — a play or show which is performed on stage
- stagedoor johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.