13-letter words containing a, d, c, o, r
- pao de acucar — Portuguese name of Sugarloaf Mountain.
- paradoxically — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
- parti-colored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
- particleboard — a boardlike building material made by compressing sawdust or wood particles with a resin binder
- partly cloudy — sky: not constantly clear
- party-colored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
- pedantocratic — of or relating to pedantocracy
- perboric acid — a hypothetical acid, HBO 3 , known only in the form of its salts.
- periodic acid — any of a series of acids derived from I 2 O 7 by the addition of water molecules, as HIO 4 or H 5 IO 6 .
- periodic rate — The periodic rate is the interest rate charged for each period, such as monthly or quarterly.
- periodicalist — a writer of articles for periodicals
- perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
- pick-and-roll — an offensive maneuver in which a player interposes himself or herself between a teammate with the ball and a defender, then cuts quickly toward the basket for a pass from the same teammate.
- 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.
- powder charge — propellant (def 2).
- pre-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
- pre-education — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
- preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
- prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- prejudication — the act of judging beforehand
- premedication — any drugs administered to sedate and otherwise prepare a patient for general anaesthesia
- preponderance — the fact or quality of being preponderant; superiority in weight, power, numbers, etc.: The preponderance of votes is against the proposal.
- pro-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
- product range — variety of merchandise within a brand
- 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.
- protochordate — any of the nonvertebrate chordates, as the tunicates, cephalochordates, and hemichordates.
- quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadrilocular — having four compartments
- quadriphonics — quadraphony.
- quartodeciman — one of a group of early Christians who observed Easter on the day of the Jewish Passover regardless of whether or not it was Sunday
- radio compass — a radio receiver with a directional antenna for determining the bearing of the receiver from a radio transmitter.
- radio contact — communication or contact by means of radio waves
- radio control — remote control by means of radio signals from a transmitter
- radio silence — the absence, usually deliberately maintained, of radio transmissions
- radioactinium — the radioactive isotope of thorium having a mass number 227 and a half-life of 18.8 days. Symbol: RdAc, Th 227.
- radioactivate — to make (a substance) radioactive.
- radioactivity — the phenomenon, exhibited by and being a property of certain elements, of spontaneously emitting radiation resulting from changes in the nuclei of atoms of the element.
- radiochemical — pertaining to or involving radiochemistry.
- radiolocation — the method or process of determining the position and velocity of an object by radar.
- 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.
- reach-me-down — a garment that is cheaply ready-made or second-hand
- recommendable — to present as worthy of confidence, acceptance, use, etc.; commend; mention favorably: to recommend an applicant for a job; to recommend a book.
- recommendably — in a way that is recommendable
- 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.