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13-letter words containing a, c, o, r, d, s

  • documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
  • dodecahedrons — Plural form of dodecahedron.
  • dolichosaurus — any of various extinct Cretaceous aquatic reptiles that had long necks and bodies and well-developed limbs
  • domiciliaries — of or relating to a domicile, or place of residence.
  • drop a stitch — to allow a loop of wool to fall off a knitting needle accidentally while knitting
  • dual controls — If a vehicle used by a driving instructor has dual controls, it has pedals on the passenger's side as well as on the driver's side to allow the driving instructor to brake should the learner try to move off when it is dangerous to do so
  • endoparasitic — Of or pertaining to endoparasites.
  • glucuronidase — an enzyme that catalyzes glucuronide hydrolysis
  • good gracious — Some people say good gracious or goodness gracious in order to express surprise or annoyance.
  • hand controls — a set of controls in some cars, operated by hand, that have the same function as the accelerator, brake, and clutch pedals
  • hemichordates — Plural form of hemichordate.
  • henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
  • hero sandwich — a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
  • hydroaerobics — aerobic exercises performed in water, as in a swimming pool.
  • hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
  • hydrodynamics — the branch of fluid dynamics that deals with liquids, including hydrostatics and hydrokinetics.
  • hydrostatical — Alternative form of hydrostatic.
  • ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
  • idiosyncratic — pertaining to the nature of idiosyncrasy, or something peculiar to an individual: The best minds are idiosyncratic and unpredictable as they follow the course of scientific discovery.
  • inconsiderate — without due regard for the rights or feelings of others: It was inconsiderate of him to keep us waiting.
  • indoctrinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of indoctrinate.
  • isocarboxazid — a potent monoamine oxidase inhibitor, C 12 H 13 N 3 O 2 , used to treat severe depression.
  • macrodynamics — Large-scale dynamics.
  • meat products — foods that consist of or contain meat
  • melodramatics — Melodramatic behavior, action, or writing.
  • miscoordinate — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
  • morris dancer — A morris dancer is a person who takes part in morris dancing.
  • no-score draw — A no-score draw is the result of a football match in which neither team scores any goals.
  • nondecreasing — not decreasing.
  • orchard grass — a weedy grass, Dactylis glomerata, often grown for pastures.
  • ordinal scale — a scale on which data is shown simply in order of magnitude since there is no standard of measurement of differences: for instance, a squash ladder is an ordinal scale since one can say only that one person is better than another, but not by how much
  • orsellic acid — an acid found in lichens
  • periodicalist — a writer of articles for periodicals
  • perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
  • plasmodiocarp — a fruiting body of certain myxomycetes.
  • postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
  • preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
  • prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • pros and cons — The pros and cons of something are its advantages and disadvantages, which you consider carefully so that you can make a sensible decision.
  • quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
  • quadriphonics — quadraphony.
  • radio compass — a radio receiver with a directional antenna for determining the bearing of the receiver from a radio transmitter.
  • radio silence — the absence, usually deliberately maintained, of radio transmissions
  • radiopacities — opaque to radiation; visible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiotransparent).
  • radius vector — Mathematics. the length of the line segment joining a fixed point or origin to a given point.
  • ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
  • random access — designating or of a volatile memory that allows data to be accessed directly and does not require following a sequence of storage locations
  • random-access — direct-access.
  • reconsecrated — to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity: to consecrate a new church building.
  • reconsolidate — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
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