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15-letter words containing age

  • general manager — supervisor
  • get the message — a communication containing some information, news, advice, request, or the like, sent by messenger, telephone, email, or other means.
  • glass menagerie — a play (1945) by Tennessee Williams.
  • haemoflagellate — a flagellate protozoan, such as a trypanosome, that is parasitic in the blood
  • haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
  • hedonic damages — compensation based on what the victim of a crime might have earned in the future
  • heritage centre — a museum that houses exhibits describing the culture and history of a particular place and its inhabitants
  • holiday cottage — a cottage used for accommodation for a family, couple, etc, on holiday
  • holiday village — a park with villas where holidaymakers stay and which has a central area with a shop, entertainment, etc
  • idealized image — a personal standard of perfection against which one's actual thinking, behavior, and appearance are compared.
  • image converter — a device for producing a visual image formed by other electromagnetic radiation such as infrared or ultraviolet radiation or X-rays
  • image-conscious — concerned about the way one comes across to other people and the impression one creates
  • imperfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which either no spores or asexual spores, as conidia, are produced.
  • information age — a period beginning about 1975 and characterized by the gathering and almost instantaneous transmission of vast amounts of information and by the rise of information-based industries.
  • instant message — an electronic message sent in real time via the Internet and therefore immediately available for display on the recipient's screen. Compare text message.
  • insurance agent — sb who sells insurance policies
  • italian sausage — salami
  • juvenal plumage — the first plumage of birds, composed of contour feathers, which in certain species follows the naked nestling stage and in other species follows the molt of natal down.
  • labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
  • language lawyer — A person, usually an experienced or senior software engineer, who is intimately familiar with many or most of the numerous restrictions and features (both useful and esoteric) applicable to one or more computer programming languages. A language lawyer is distinguished by the ability to show you the five sentences scattered through a 200-page manual that together imply the answer to your question "if only you had thought to look there". Compare wizard, legal, legalese.
  • language school — A language school is a private school where a foreign language is taught.
  • language skills — the ability to use language
  • law of averages — a statistical principle formulated by Jakob Bernoulli to show a more or less predictable ratio between the number of random trials of an event and its occurrences.
  • leakage current — A leakage current is an electric current in an unwanted conductive path under normal operating conditions.
  • leakage-current — an act of leaking; leak.
  • line management — those managers in an organization who are responsible for the main activity or product of the organization, as distinct from those, such as transport, accounting, or personnel, who provide services to the line management
  • luggage carrier — car accessory
  • luggage handler — someone whose job is to handle and direct luggage, esp at an airport
  • mail user agent — (messaging)   (MUA) The program that allows the user to compose and read electronic mail messages. The MUA provides the interface between the user and the Message Transfer Agent. Outgoing mail is eventually handed over to an MTA for delivery while the incoming messages are picked up from where the MTA left it (although MUA's running on single-user machines may pick up mail using POP). Popular MUAs for Unix include elm, mush, pine, and RMAIL.
  • managed economy — an economy in which the government allocates prices of goods and resources
  • management team — group of supervisors
  • markup language — a set of standards, as HTML or SGML, used to create an appropriate markup scheme for an electronic document, as to indicate its structure or format.
  • marriage broker — a person who arranges marriages, usually between strangers, for a fee.
  • marriage bureau — an agency that provides introductions to single people seeking a marriage partner
  • marriageability — The condition of being marriageable.
  • massage parlour — A massage parlour is a place where people go and pay for a massage. Some places that are called massage parlours are in fact places where people pay to have sex.
  • mess of pottage — a material gain involving the sacrifice of a higher value
  • message passing — One of the two techniques for communicating between parallel processes (the other being shared memory). A common use of message passing is for communication in a parallel computer. A process running on one processor may send a message to a process running on the same processor or another. The actual transmission of the message is usually handled by the run-time support of the language in which the processes are written, or by the operating system. Message passing scales better than shared memory, which is generally used in computers with relatively few processors. This is because the total communications bandwidth usually increases with the number of processors. A message passing system provides primitives for sending and receiving messages. These primitives may by either synchronous or asynchronous or both. A synchronous send will not complete (will not allow the sender to proceed) until the receiving process has received the message. This allows the sender to know whether the message was received successfully or not (like when you speak to someone on the telephone). An asynchronous send simply queues the message for transmission without waiting for it to be received (like posting a letter). A synchronous receive primitive will wait until there is a message to read whereas an asynchronous receive will return immediately, either with a message or to say that no message has arrived. Messages may be sent to a named process or to a named mailbox which may be readable by one or many processes. Transmission involves determining the location of the recipient and then choosing a route to reach that location. The message may be transmitted in one go or may be split into packets which are transmitted independently (e.g. using wormhole routing) and reassembled at the receiver. The message passing system must ensure that sufficient memory is available to buffer the message at its destination and at intermediate nodes. Messages may be typed or untyped at the programming language level. They may have a priority, allowing the receiver to read the highest priority messages first. Some message passing computers are the MIT J-Machine, the Illinois Concert Project and transputer-based systems.
  • micromanagement — The direct management of a project etc to an excessive degree, with too much attention to detail and insufficient delegation.
  • minimum tillage — no-tillage.
  • modern language — one of the literary languages currently in use in Europe, as French, Spanish, or German, treated as a departmental course of study in a school, college, or university.
  • mortgage broker — agent who matches house buyer with mortgage lender
  • mortgage lender — a financial institution which provides money to borrowers for mortgages
  • mortgage relief — (formerly) a reduction of tax on income being used to pay off a mortgage
  • mother language — a language from which another language is descended; parent language.
  • narcotics agent — an undercover agent who provides information to the police about illegal drugs, illegal drug trafficking, and users of illegal drugs
  • native language — first language, mother tongue
  • natural wastage — Natural wastage is the process of employees leaving their jobs because they want to retire or move to other jobs, rather than because their employer makes them leave.
  • non-salvageable — the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
  • object language — the language to which a metalanguage refers.
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