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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.
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