12-letter words that end in ge
- 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.
- mischallenge — an improper challenge
- misknowledge — a misunderstanding or misconception
- 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
- moulin rouge — a dance hall in the Montmartre section of Paris, France, opened in 1889 and famous for its cancan dancers and the drawings of its performers and customers made there by Toulouse-Lautrec.
- myrmecophage — (biology) Anteaters, and other animals chiefly feeding on ants.
- narrow gauge — a standard of measure or measurement.
- natal orange — a spiny shrub, Strychnos spinosa, of the logania family, of central and southern Africa, having yellowish-white flowers and edible, berrylike, yellow fruit.
- navel orange — a seedless variety of orange having at the apex a navellike formation containing a small secondary fruit.
- 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.
- on the cadge — engaged in cadging
- orange lodge — a Protestant fraternal organization based mainly in Northern Ireland and Scotland with lodges throughout the English-speaking world where there are significant Irish populations
- osage orange — Also called bois d'arc, bowwood. a tree, Maclura pomifera, of the mulberry family, native to the south-central U.S., having hard, yellowish wood and often cultivated for hedges.
- out-marriage — a marriage to someone outside one's ethnic group
- paint bridge — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- 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.
- paring gouge — a woodworker's gouge having the bezel on the concave face.
- patrilineage — lineal descent traced through the male line.
- petrol gauge — a gauge that indicates the amount of petrol left in the tank of a vehicle
- 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.
- point charge — an electric charge considered to exist at a single point, and thus having neither area nor volume.
- 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.
- predischarge — of or pertaining to the period prior to discharge, esp prior to discharge from hospital or from employment
- 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
- rating badge — a badge that indicates the rank and specialty of a petty officer: worn on the upper left sleeve.
- re-challenge — to challenge (someone or something) again
- 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
- recentrifuge — to subject (a liquid) to the action of a centrifuge again
- 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
- rising hinge — a gravity hinge causing a door, shutter, etc., to rise slightly when opened.
- road haulage — transport of goods by road
- rocket range — a firing range for rockets
- safe passage — journey completed without danger
- salary range — pay scale
- sauk village — a town in NE Illinois.
- scarlet sage — a tender shrub, Salvia splendens, of Brazil, having ovate leaves and bell-shaped scarlet flowers.
- scene change — a change of scene in a theatre, where one set is dismantled and another is erected
- self-storage — noting or pertaining to a warehouse or other facility that rents units to people for storing personal possessions.