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13-letter words containing a, i, r, d, s, e

  • quasi-retired — withdrawn from or no longer occupied with one's business or profession: a retired banker.
  • radiationless — not emitting or producing radiation
  • radiesthesist — a practitioner of radiesthesia
  • radio silence — the absence, usually deliberately maintained, of radio transmissions
  • 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.
  • raison d'etat — a purely political reason for governmental action, based on the national interest and often violating principles of justice.
  • raison d'etre — reason or justification for being or existence: Art is the artist's raison d'être.
  • rayleigh disc — a small light disc suspended in the path of a sound wave, used to measure the intensity of the sound by analysing the resulting deflection of the disc
  • rayleigh disk — a small circular disk, usually of mica, that is suspended from a fiber and tends to be deflected at right angles to a stream of air, indicating by its deflection the intensity of a sound wave.
  • reading glass — a magnifying glass that people use to enlarge text to make it easier to read
  • reading speed — the rate at which something is read, often expressed in terms of words per minute. Reading speed is usually determined by the purpose of reading (for comprehension, learning, memorization, etc)
  • reality-based — (especially of television) portraying or alleging to portray events as they actually happened.
  • reconsolidate — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
  • redesignation — an act of designating.
  • reduce a risk — If you reduce a risk, you lessen the potential damage that could be caused by a hazard or danger.
  • reestablished — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
  • refried beans — fried mashed beans
  • released time — time or a period allotted to a teacher apart from normal duties for a special activity, as personal research.
  • repristinated — to restore to the first or original state or condition.
  • resident head — someone who is charge of running and supervising a student residence
  • residentially — of or relating to residence or to residences: a residential requirement for a doctorate.
  • residual heat — heat that remains or lingers after something has been hot or heated up
  • restandardize — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.
  • retransmitted — to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey.
  • rhodesian man — an extinct Pleistocene human whose cranial remains were found at Kabwe, in Zambia: formerly in some classifications Homo rhodesiensis but now considered archaic Homo sapiens.
  • riding master — a person who teaches equitation.
  • riding stable — a place where horses are kept for people to ride
  • ring-streaked — having streaks or bands of color around the body.
  • robben island — a small island in South Africa, 11 km (7 miles) off the Cape Peninsula: formerly used by the South African government to house political prisoners
  • rose mandarin — (in the Chinese Empire) a member of any of the nine ranks of public officials, each distinguished by a particular kind of button worn on the cap.
  • sacerdotalism — the system, spirit, or methods of the priesthood.
  • sacerdotalize — to submit (something) to sacerdotalism
  • saint andrews — a seaport in the Fife region, in E Scotland: resort; golf courses.
  • saint bernard — Great, a mountain pass between SW Switzerland and NW Italy, in the Pennine Alps: Napoleon led his army through it in 1800; location of a hospice. 8108 feet (2470 meters) high.
  • saint leonard — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Montreal.
  • salad spinner — a utensil used for drying washed salad or vegetables that consists of a plastic basket inside a plastic bowl. The salad is placed in the basket and the outer bowl is then spun using a device such as a gear-operated handle or pull cord, and this spinning then separates water from the salad.
  • sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
  • scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
  • scarfed joint — a lapped joint between two pieces of timber made by notching or grooving the ends and strapping, bolting, or gluing the two pieces together
  • scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
  • script reader — playreader.
  • scullery maid — a maid whose duties include washing up and vegetable preparation
  • sedentariness — characterized by or requiring a sitting posture: a sedentary occupation.
  • self-ordained — to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
  • semi-darkness — partial darkness
  • semicarbazide — an organic nitrogen compound derived from urea
  • semilegendary — having some historical basis, but legendary in part
  • semisedentary — partially or somewhat sedentary
  • senza sordino — a musical direction to remove or play without the mute or (on the piano) with the sustaining pedal pressed down
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