13-letter words containing a, d, r, e
- apostrophized — Simple past tense and past participle of apostrophize.
- apparent wind — (wind), the velocity of air as measured from a moving object, as a ship.
- apple orchard — an orchard planted with apple trees
- apprehendable — That can be apprehended.
- approval code — An approval code is a PIN or other verification code needed to authorize a payment going through the cash register.
- archduchesses — Plural form of archduchess.
- archimandrite — the head of a monastery or a group of monasteries
- architectured — Designed (according to a form of architecture, or as if by an architect).
- argand burner — a gas or oil burner designed to let air flow inside and outside a cylindrical wick
- aridity index — a number indicating how much more precipitation could be lost by evapotranspiration if it were available than is actually lost at a given location.
- arm and a leg — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- armed robbery — a robbery that is carried out by people carrying guns
- armistice day — the anniversary of the signing of the armistice that ended World War I, on Nov 11, 1918, now kept on Remembrance Sunday
- armored cable — an electric cable having a metal protective covering
- armored scale — any of a family (Diaspididae) of scale insects characterized by a hard, waxy secretion that covers the body: many armored scales are serious pests of trees and shrubs
- armour-plated — An armour-plated vehicle or building has a hard metal covering in order to protect it from gunfire and other missiles.
- armstand dive — a dive starting from a handstand at the end of a springboard or a platform with the diver's back to the water.
- arriere-garde — rear guard.
- arroyo grande — a town in SW California.
- arseniuretted — combined with arsenic so as to form an arsenide.
- arsenous acid — a toxic white powder, As2O3, used to make other arsenic compounds, insecticides, and preservatives; white arsenic
- arundinaceous — resembling a reed
- asses' bridge — pons asinorum
- assigned risk — a risk that, under state law, is assigned to an insurer from a pool of insurers who would not otherwise accept it.
- asteroid belt — the concentrations of asteroids that move around the sun mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
- aten asteroid — one of a small group of asteroids whose orbits cross that of the earth and whose semimajor axes are smaller than that of the earth.
- attested form — a linguistic form that can be shown to be in use or in written records
- attested herd — a herd of cattle, etc that has been certified as being free from a disease, esp from tuberculosis
- attitudinizer — One who attitudinizes, or practises poses.
- audience room — a room for holding formal interviews or hearings.
- auto-destruct — self-destruct.
- autoresponder — A program that automatically generates a set response to all messages sent to a particular e-mail address.
- average speed — a scalar measure of the rate of movement of a body expressed as the distance travelled divided by the time taken
- ayurvedically — As a practitioner of Ayurveda; in an Ayurvedic way.
- baal merodach — Marduk.
- backgrounders — Plural form of backgrounder.
- bacteriocidal — Alternative spelling of bactericidal.
- bad godesberg — official name of Godesberg.
- baedeker raid — one of the German air raids in 1942 on places of cultural and historical importance in England
- bailey bridge — a temporary bridge made of prefabricated steel panels that can be rapidly assembled
- baker's dozen — thirteen
- baking powder — Baking powder is an ingredient used in cake making. It causes cakes to rise when they are in the oven.
- balanced tree — (algorithm) An optimisation of a tree which aims to keep equal numbers of items on each subtree of each node so as to minimise the maximum path from the root to any leaf node. As items are inserted and deleted, the tree is restructured to keep the nodes balanced and the search paths uniform. Such an algorithm is appropriate where the overheads of the reorganisation on update are outweighed by the benefits of faster search. A B-tree is a kind of balanced tree that can have more than two subtrees at each node (i.e. one that is not restricted to being a binary tree).
- ballet dancer — a man or woman who takes part in ballet dancing, usually professionally
- banana bender — a native or inhabitant of Queensland
- banana spider — a large, yellowish, tropical crab spider (Heteropoda venatoria) occasionally found in bunches of bananas shipped to the Temperate Zones
- band spectrum — a spectrum consisting of a number of bands of closely spaced lines that are associated with emission or absorption of radiation by molecules
- band together — If people band together, they meet and act as a group in order to try and achieve something.
- banded purple — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
- banderilleros — Plural form of banderillero.