13-letter words containing d, e, r, l, i, c
- pelvic girdle — (in vertebrates) a bony or cartilaginous arch supporting the hind limbs or analogous parts.
- 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.
- police record — an official file, held by the police, containing details of any criminal offences committed by an individual
- polished rice — white rice polished or buffed by leather-covered cylinders during processing.
- pre-disclosed — to make known; reveal or uncover: to disclose a secret.
- predicamental — of or relating to a predicament or situation
- prejudicially — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
- quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
- quadruplicate — one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
- radio silence — the absence, usually deliberately maintained, of radio transmissions
- radiochemical — pertaining to or involving radiochemistry.
- 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
- reconsolidate — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- red delicious — a deep-red type of Delicious apple.
- reducibleness — the extent, state or quality of being reducible
- reduplication — the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
- reduplicative — tending to reduplicate.
- reminder call — an automated service which you can set up in advance to make a telephone call to you at a fixed time for the purpose of reminding you of something important
- romantic lead — a person who plays the main character in a romantic film or play
- sacerdotalism — the system, spirit, or methods of the priesthood.
- sacerdotalize — to submit (something) to sacerdotalism
- scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
- school dinner — meal served at educational institution
- school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
- sclerodermite — the hard covering of a section or segment of the body of an insect
- scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
- scullery maid — a maid whose duties include washing up and vegetable preparation
- self-directed — guided, regulated, or managed: a carefully directed program.
- self-incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
- self-ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
- ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
- silver doctor — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
- single-decker — A single-decker or a single-decker bus is a bus with only one deck.
- slide changer — a device for changing the slide displayed in a projector
- slippery dick — a wrasse, Halichoeres bivittatus, inhabiting tropical regions of the Atlantic Ocean.
- social credit — the doctrine that under capitalism there is an inadequate distribution of purchasing power, for which the remedy lies in governmental control of retail prices and the distribution of national dividends to consumers.
- special order — A special order is an extra order or an order for an item specially requested by a customer.
- special-order — to obtain by specific individual order: to special-order a dining-room chandelier.
- supercollider — a very large colliding-beam machine in which superconducting magnets create millions of megavolts of energy.
- telerecording — the recording of television signals on tape or, more usually, on film
- telluric acid — a white, toxic, crystalline compound, H 6 TeO 6 , slightly soluble in cold water, soluble in hot water and alkalis: used as an analytical agent.
- tetrachloride — a chloride containing four atoms of chlorine.
- ticket holder — a person who has a valid ticket for an event or for a journey on public transport
- trade council — a central council composed of local trade unions.
- triglycerides — an ester obtained from glycerol by the esterification of three hydroxyl groups with fatty acids, naturally occurring in animal and vegetable tissues: an important energy source forming much of the fat stored by the body.
- trinucleotide — three linked nucleotides; triplet.
- triple-decker — three-decker (defs 3, 4).
- twin-cylinder — (of an engine) having twin cylinders