13-letter words containing a, d, r, e
- aerodontalgia — a toothache caused by lowered barometric pressure, as in high-altitude flight.
- aerodynamical — relating to aerodynamics
- aeromodelling — the making and flying of model planes
- aformentioned — Misspelling of aforementioned.
- age hardening — the hardening of metals by spontaneous structural changes over a period of time
- air commodore — a senior officer of the Royal Air Force and certain other air forces, of equivalent rank to brigadier in the Army
- air discharge — Air discharge is a method for testing ESD-protection structures in which the ESD generator is discharged through an air gap between the generator and the device under test.
- air hardening — a process of hardening high-alloy steels by heating and cooling in a current of air
- air-hardening — noting any metal, especially alloy steel, that can be hardened from above its transformation point by cooling in air.
- airheadedness — The quality of being airheaded.
- airplane mode — a setting on a phone or other mobile device that turns off Wi-Fi, cellular, and other wireless connections.
- albert edward — a mountain in SE New Guinea, in the Owen Stanley Range. Height: 3993 m (13 100 ft)
- aldosteronism — high blood pressure caused by excess aldosterone in the blood and urine
- aleksandropol — a former name of Gumri.
- aleksandrovsk — a city in SE Ukraine, on the Dnieper River.
- alexander iii — 1241–86, king of Scotland (1249–86), son of Alexander II
- alexander vii — (Fabio Chigi) 1599–1667, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1655–67.
- alfred austin — Alfred, 1835–1913, English poet: poet laureate 1896–1913.
- all-pervading — spreading through or into everything
- alpha eridani — Achernar
- alpine garden — a rock garden.
- alpine tundra — a tundra that is treeless because of high elevation rather than high latitude.
- altered chord — a chord in which one or more notes are chromatically changed by the introduction of accidentals
- ambidexterity — ambidextrous ease, skill, or facility.
- ambidexterous — ambidextrous
- ambrette seed — the seed of the abelmosk.
- american bond — a brickwork bond having a course of headers between five or six courses of stretchers.
- amor asteroid — one of a small group of asteroids whose orbits approach but do not cross that of the earth: named after the first such asteroid discovered (1932).
- anadama bread — a kneaded yeast bread containing cornmeal and, usually, molasses
- andean condor — either of two large, New World vultures of the family Cathartidae, Gymnogyps californianus (California condor) or Vultur gryphus (Andean condor) the largest flying birds in the Western Hemisphere: the California condor is almost extinct; the Andean condor is greatly reduced in number and rare in many areas.
- andersen nexo — Nexö, Martin Andersen.
- andersonville — town in SW central Ga.: site of a Confederate prison in the Civil War
- andrei markov — (person) 1856-1922. The Russian mathematician, after who Markov chains were named.
- androcentrism — centered on, emphasizing, or dominated by males or masculine interests: an androcentric society; an androcentric religion.
- androdioecism — the state of being androdioecious
- angle grinder — a handheld power tool with a rotating abrasive disc, used for cutting, grinding and polishing
- animadversion — criticism or censure
- animadverting — Present participle of animadvert.
- animal warden — dogcatcher.
- ante meridiem — before noon
- ante-meridian — occurring before noon.
- anti-androgen — any of a class of drugs that oppose the action of androgens; used in the treatment of prostate cancer and various male sexual disorders
- anti-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- antiapartheid — (in the Republic of South Africa) a rigid former policy of segregating and economically and politically oppressing the nonwhite population.
- antidiarrheal — An antidiarrheal is a substance used to prevent or treat diarrhea.
- antidiuretics — Plural form of antidiuretic.
- antimodernism — modern character, tendencies, or values; adherence to or sympathy with what is modern.
- antimodernist — opposed to modernism
- aperiodically — In an aperiodic way.
- aperture card — a punched-card mounting for microfilmed pages.