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13-letter words containing a, n, d, i, r, o

  • orchidomaniac — a person who is obsessed with or has a passion for orchids
  • order a drink — When a customer orders a drink, they ask for it to be brought to them.
  • ordinal scale — a scale on which data is shown simply in order of magnitude since there is no standard of measurement of differences: for instance, a squash ladder is an ordinal scale since one can say only that one person is better than another, but not by how much
  • ordinary gain — An ordinary gain is a gain in the course of normal business.
  • ordinary loss — An ordinary loss is a loss in the course of normal business.
  • ordinary wave — Radio. (of the two waves into which a radio wave is divided in the ionosphere under the influence of the earth's magnetic field) the wave with characteristics more nearly resembling those that the undivided wave would have exhibited in the absence of the magnetic field.
  • organ grinder — an itinerant street musician who earns a living by playing a hand organ or hurdy-gurdy.
  • organ-builder — a maker of organs
  • organ-grinder — an itinerant street musician who earns a living by playing a hand organ or hurdy-gurdy.
  • orthodiagonal — the axis in a crystal
  • orthopinakoid — a crystalline plane
  • outrecuidance — (archaic) Presumption, arrogance, self-conceit.
  • over-standing — overreach (def 13).
  • overdemanding — excessively demanding
  • overdiagnosed — Simple past tense and past participle of overdiagnose.
  • overdiagnosis — excessive diagnosis of a disease
  • overdominance — excessive dominance
  • overeducation — 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.
  • overland mail — a government mail service, started in 1848, for sending mail from the Mississippi to the Far West.
  • overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
  • painted horse — paint (def 6).
  • panradiometer — an instrument used for measuring radiant heat independently of wavelength
  • parotid gland — Also called parotid gland. a salivary gland situated at the base of each ear.
  • pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
  • pedantocratic — of or relating to pedantocracy
  • perditionable — deserving perdition or damnation
  • periodization — an act or instance of dividing a subject into historical eras for purposes of analysis and study.
  • periodontally — with respect to periodontal tissue
  • phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
  • 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.
  • pinar del rio — a city in W Cuba.
  • post-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.
  • post-prandial — after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
  • potty trained — Potty trained means the same as toilet trained.
  • power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • 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.
  • pre-organized — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
  • preadaptation — a structure or property that developed in an ancestral stock and was useful in a descendant in a changed environment.
  • preadmonition — a forewarning, premonition; the act of admonishing in advance
  • predestinator — a person or thing that predestinates something.
  • prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • predominantly — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
  • predominately — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
  • predominating — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
  • prejudication — the act of judging beforehand
  • premedication — any drugs administered to sedate and otherwise prepare a patient for general anaesthesia
  • premeditation — an act or instance of premeditating.
  • pride and joy — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
  • prison warder — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
  • promised land — Heaven.
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