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13-letter words containing a, d, u, r

  • quadratically — square.
  • quadrennially — Every four years.
  • quadricipital — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the quadriceps.
  • quadrifarious — having four parts
  • quadrifoliate — (botany) Having four leaves or leaflets.
  • quadrigeminal — Having four parts, or two pairs.
  • quadrilateral — having four sides.
  • quadrilingual — using or involving four languages: a quadrilingual person; a quadrilingual translation of the Bible.
  • quadriliteral — using or consisting of four letters.
  • quadrillionth — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 15 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 24 zeros.
  • quadrilocular — having four compartments
  • quadringenary — a 400th anniversary
  • quadripartite — divided into or consisting of four parts.
  • quadriphonics — quadraphony.
  • quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
  • quadrumvirate — a governing or managing group, coalition, or the like, of four persons.
  • quadrupedally — In the manner of an animal that walks on four feet or four legs.
  • quadruple run — a set of five cards consisting of a three-card run plus two other cards that duplicate different denominations in the run, as 5,5,6,6,7, worth 16 points.
  • quadruplicate — one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
  • quadruplicity — the state or fact of being quadruple or fourfold.
  • quaker-ladies — bluet (def 1).
  • quandary peak — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Park Range, in the Rocky Mountains, NE of Leadville. 14,265 feet (4348 meters).
  • quarter pound — a unit of weight equal to a quarter of a pound or 4 ounces avoirdupois
  • quarter round — a molding, as on an ovolo, whose section is a quarter circle.
  • quarter-bound — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
  • quarter-breed — a contemptuous term used to refer to a person with one white grandparent, especially a person of American Indian ancestry.
  • quarterbacked — Simple past tense and past participle of quarterback.
  • quarterdecker — an officer who serves on the quarterdeck; a gun situated on the quarterdeck
  • 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
  • quasi-federal — pertaining to or of the nature of a union of states under a central government distinct from the individual governments of the separate states, as in federal government; federal system.
  • quasi-retired — withdrawn from or no longer occupied with one's business or profession: a retired banker.
  • queen dowager — the widow of a king.
  • queen's award — either of two awards instituted by royal warrant (1976) for a sustained increase in export earnings by a British firm (Queen's Award for Export Achievement) or for an advance in technology (Queen's Award for Technological Achievement)
  • radioactinium — the radioactive isotope of thorium having a mass number 227 and a half-life of 18.8 days. Symbol: RdAc, Th 227.
  • radius vector — Mathematics. the length of the line segment joining a fixed point or origin to a given point.
  • railway guide — a publication containing routes and timetables for train journeys
  • random number — pseudorandom number
  • random rubble — masonry in which untooled stones are set without coursing
  • rattle around — If you say that someone rattles around in a room or other space, you mean that the space is too large for them.
  • reaccumulated — to gather or collect, often in gradual degrees; heap up: to accumulate wealth.
  • reading group — a group of people who meet regularly to discuss a book that they have all read
  • readjudicated — to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence.
  • redcloud peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,034 feet (4278 meters).
  • redial button — a button on a telephone, allowing the user to dial a number again
  • reduce a risk — If you reduce a risk, you lessen the potential damage that could be caused by a hazard or danger.
  • reduplication — the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
  • reduplicative — tending to reduplicate.
  • refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
  • refuse a card — If you refuse a card, you do not allow someone's credit card to be used to pay a bill.
  • residual heat — heat that remains or lingers after something has been hot or heated up
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