13-letter words containing d, i, p, r, o
- loop diuretic — any of a group of diuretics, including frusemide, that act by inhibiting resorption of salts from Henle's loop of the kidney tubule
- macropinacoid — a crystalline pinacoid which runs parallel to the longer horizontal axis
- madeira topaz — citrine (def 2).
- mail exploder — (messaging) Part of an electronic mail delivery system which allows a message to be delivered to a list of addresses. Mail exploders are used to implement mailing lists. Users send messages to a single address and the mail exploder takes care of delivery to the individual mailboxes in the list.
- milk products — dairy produce, items made with milk
- miscomprehend — Misunderstand.
- mispronounced — Said wrongly.
- misredemption — illegal or fraudulent traffic in consumer product coupons, including mail theft and counterfeiting.
- mock whipbird — an Australian bird, Pachycephala rufiventris, which is not of the whipbird family
- moderatorship — The position or office of a moderator.
- monoterpenoid — (chemistry) a terpenoid having a C10 skeleton.
- monte perdido — a mountain in NE Spain, in the central Pyrenees. Height: 3352 m (10 997 ft)
- multi-product — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
- name-dropping — the introduction into one's conversation, letters, etc., of the names of famous or important people as alleged friends or associates in order to impress others.
- nephridiopore — The external opening of a nephridium.
- neuropeptides — Plural form of neuropeptide.
- niche product — sth of specific or limited consumer interest
- nitroprusside — (inorganic chemistry) Any salt, of the hypothetical nitroprussic acid, that contains a pentacyanonitrosylferrate anion.
- nonadsorptive — Not adsorptive.
- nondescriptly — in a nondescript manner
- nondispersive — not dispersive
- nondisruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- nonperiodical — a magazine or other journal that is issued at regularly recurring intervals.
- nonprejudiced — Not prejudiced.
- nonprescribed — Not prescribed.
- nonproduction — Absence of production.
- nonproductive — not productive; unproductive.
- onus probandi — the burden of proof.
- open-timbered — constructed so that the timbers are exposed.
- optical drive — optical disk drive
- orthopaedical — Pertaining to orthopaedics; characteristic of orthopaedia.
- orthopinakoid — a crystalline plane
- over-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- over-promised — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- overamplified — amplified too much, causing distortion or discomfort, etc
- overimpressed — very impressed
- overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
- paedomorphism — the continuation of juvenile characteristics in the adult stage
- painted horse — paint (def 6).
- panradiometer — an instrument used for measuring radiant heat independently of wavelength
- paradise lost — an epic poem (1667) by John Milton.
- paradoxically — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
- parasitoidism — the feeding by certain insect larvae on host tissues such that the host remains alive until larval development is complete and then usually dies.
- parotid gland — Also called parotid gland. a salivary gland situated at the base of each ear.
- 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
- patriot's day — the third Monday in April, a legal holiday in Me. and Mass. commemorating the battles of Lexington and Concord (April 19, 1775)
- patriots' day — the anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord (1775), celebrated the third Monday in April: a legal holiday in Massachusetts and Maine.
- pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
- pecking order — Animal Behavior. a dominance hierarchy, seen especially in domestic poultry, that is maintained by one bird pecking another of lower status.