13-letter words containing d, e, n, s
- 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)
- reconsecrated — to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity: to consecrate a new church building.
- reconsolidate — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- reconstituted — constituted again, especially of a liquid product made by adding water to dry solids from which the water has been evaporated: reconstituted orange juice.
- recrudescence — breaking out afresh or into renewed activity; revival or reappearance in active existence.
- rectitudinous — characterized by or given to rectitude.
- redemonstrate — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
- redescription — the act of redescribing
- redesignation — an act of designating.
- redisposition — the withdrawal and redistribution of armed forces with the aim of more effective use
- redissolution — the act of redissolving
- redistricting — to divide anew into districts, as for administrative or electoral purposes.
- reducibleness — the extent, state or quality of being reducible
- reductiveness — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
- refried beans — fried mashed beans
- reindeer moss — any of several lichens of the genus Cladonia, especially the gray, many-branched C. rangiferina, of arctic and subarctic regions, eaten by reindeer and caribou.
- rendezvousing — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- 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.
- 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 d'anvers — a gem having a rose cut of 12 or fewer facets.
- 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.
- run sb ragged — If someone runs you ragged, they make you do so much that you become exhausted.
- rupert's land — (formerly, in Canada) the territories granted by Charles II to the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670 and ceded to the Canadian Government in 1870, comprising all the land watered by rivers flowing into Hudson Bay
- rushed behind — a situation when the ball passes through the goalposts but was last touched by a defending player, causing the attacking team to win a point
- sacred baboon — hamadryas baboon.
- sadie hawkins — Also called Sadie, Sadies. a party, dance, or other social event, especially one held annually among high school or college students, to which each girl escorts the boy of her choice, or invites him to escort her.
- safety island — an area provided for the safety of pedestrians from vehicular traffic, as between lanes on a busy street or highway.
- 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.
- saint-gaudens — Augustus, 1848–1907, U.S. sculptor, born in Ireland.
- 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.
- salmon ladder — a series of steps in a river designed to enable salmon to bypass a dam and move upstream to their breeding grounds
- san ildefonso — a town in central Spain, near Segovia: termed the “Spanish Versailles” for its 18th-century palace (La Granja) treaty 1800.
- sand bluestem — a grass, Andropogon hallii, native to the Great Plains, used as a cover crop for sand dunes.
- sandfly fever — a usually mild viral disease occurring in hot, dry areas, characterized by fever, eye pain, and sometimes a rash, transmitted by sandflies of the genus Phlebotomus.
- sandwich beam — flitch beam.
- sandwich cake — a cake that is made up of two or more layers with a jam or other filling
- 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
- scalenohedral — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
- scalenohedron — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.