13-letter words containing c, r, a, d, l
- major medical — insurance designed to compensate for particularly large medical expenses due to a severe or prolonged illness, usually by paying a high percentage of medical bills above a certain amount.
- many-coloured — having many colours
- marmalade cat — a cat that is streaked orange or yellow and brown in colour
- medical board — a group of people qualified to give opinions on medical matters
- melodramatics — Melodramatic behavior, action, or writing.
- mercer island — a city in W central Washington, on Mercer Island in Lake Washington, east of Seattle.
- mercurialized — Simple past tense and past participle of mercurialize.
- miscalibrated — Simple past tense and past participle of miscalibrate.
- mitochondrial — (cytology) Of, or relating to mitochondria.
- mixed crystal — a crystal consisting of a solid solution of two or more distinct compounds
- much-traveled — A much-traveled person has traveled a lot in foreign countries.
- multibranched — Having more than one branch.
- natural child — Law. an illegitimate child; one born of illicit intercourse. (especially in Louisiana) an illegitimate child who has been lawfully acknowledged by its father.
- nitrolic acid — any of several weak acids formed when nitrous acid reacts with a nitroparaffin
- non-juridical — of or relating to the administration of justice.
- nonperiodical — a magazine or other journal that is issued at regularly recurring intervals.
- nonrecordable — Not recordable.
- old provencal — the Provençal language as found in documents from the 11th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OPr.
- optical drive — optical disk drive
- orchard valve — an alfalfa valve of lesser diameter than the pipe it closes.
- orchid family — the plant family Orchidaceae, characterized by terrestrial or epiphytic herbaceous plants having simple, parallel-veined, usually alternate leaves, complex and often large and showy flowers pollinated primarily by insects, and fruit in the form of a capsule containing numerous minute seeds, and including calypso, fringed orchis, lady's-slipper, pogonia, rattlesnake plantain, vanilla, as well as numerous tropical orchids such as those of the genera Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, and Vanda.
- 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
- orsellic acid — an acid found in lichens
- orthopaedical — Pertaining to orthopaedics; characteristic of orthopaedia.
- overallocated — Allocated in excess.
- paper-clipped — to fasten together with one or more paper clips: Paper-clip these letters and file them.
- paradoxically — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
- parti-colored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
- particleboard — a boardlike building material made by compressing sawdust or wood particles with a resin binder
- partly cloudy — sky: not constantly clear
- party-colored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
- pedicellariae — one of the minute pincerlike structures common to starfish and sea urchins, used for cleaning and to capture tiny prey.
- periodicalist — a writer of articles for periodicals
- perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
- perpendicular — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
- 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.
- plasmodiocarp — a fruiting body of certain myxomycetes.
- playing cards — cards used in playing various games, arranged in decks of four suits (spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs): a standard deck has 52 cards
- preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
- predicamental — of or relating to a predicament or situation
- prejudicially — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
- quadratically — square.
- quadricipital — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the quadriceps.
- quadrilocular — having four compartments
- quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
- quadruplicate — one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
- quadruplicity — the state or fact of being quadruple or fourfold.
- radical right — the faction representing extreme right-wing political views; ultraconservatives; reactionaries.
- radio control — remote control by means of radio signals from a transmitter
- radio silence — the absence, usually deliberately maintained, of radio transmissions