13-letter words containing c, r, a, d
- perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
- perpendicular — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
- picardy third — a major third in the final tonic chord of a composition written in a minor key.
- 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.
- picramic acid — a red, crystalline substance, C 6 H 5 N 3 O 5 , soluble in alcohol, used chiefly in the manufacture of azo dyes.
- 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
- postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
- powder charge — propellant (def 2).
- pre-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
- 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.
- preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
- prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- predicamental — of or relating to a predicament or situation
- prefabricated — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
- prejudication — the act of judging beforehand
- prejudicative — tending to prejudge
- prejudicially — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
- premedication — any drugs administered to sedate and otherwise prepare a patient for general anaesthesia
- preponderance — the fact or quality of being preponderant; superiority in weight, power, numbers, etc.: The preponderance of votes is against the proposal.
- presanctified — (of the Eucharistic elements) consecrated at a previous Mass.
- pro-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
- product range — variety of merchandise within a brand
- pros and cons — The pros and cons of something are its advantages and disadvantages, which you consider carefully so that you can make a sensible decision.
- protochordate — any of the nonvertebrate chordates, as the tunicates, cephalochordates, and hemichordates.
- quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadratically — square.
- quadricipital — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the quadriceps.
- quadrilocular — having four compartments
- quadriphonics — quadraphony.
- 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.
- 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
- racing driver — someone who drives a racing car in motor car races
- radical right — the faction representing extreme right-wing political views; ultraconservatives; reactionaries.
- radio compass — a radio receiver with a directional antenna for determining the bearing of the receiver from a radio transmitter.
- radio contact — communication or contact by means of radio waves
- radio control — remote control by means of radio signals from a transmitter
- radio silence — the absence, usually deliberately maintained, of radio transmissions
- radioactinium — the radioactive isotope of thorium having a mass number 227 and a half-life of 18.8 days. Symbol: RdAc, Th 227.
- radioactivate — to make (a substance) radioactive.
- radioactivity — the phenomenon, exhibited by and being a property of certain elements, of spontaneously emitting radiation resulting from changes in the nuclei of atoms of the element.
- radiochemical — pertaining to or involving radiochemistry.
- radiolocation — the method or process of determining the position and velocity of an object by radar.
- 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.
- ragged jacket — a young seal that, having lost parts of its initially white fur, presents a parti-colored or piebald appearance.