13-letter words containing d, i, r, e, c, t
- richard petty — Richard, born 1937, U.S. racing-car driver.
- riding jacket — coat worn for horse-riding
- road accident — a traffic accident involving vehicles, pedestrians or cyclists
- romantic lead — a person who plays the main character in a romantic film or play
- ruth benedict — Ruth (Fulton) 1887–1948, U.S. writer and anthropologist.
- sacerdotalism — the system, spirit, or methods of the priesthood.
- sacerdotalize — to submit (something) to sacerdotalism
- 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
- scarfed joint — a lapped joint between two pieces of timber made by notching or grooving the ends and strapping, bolting, or gluing the two pieces together
- sclerodermite — the hard covering of a section or segment of the body of an insect
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- script kiddie — a child or teenager who gains illegal access to computer systems, often by using hacking programs downloaded from the internet
- script reader — playreader.
- second string — Sports. the squad of players available either individually or as a team to replace or relieve those who start a game.
- second-strike — noting, pertaining to, or using nuclear forces capable of withstanding attack and retaliating after an adversary has launched a first strike.
- self-directed — guided, regulated, or managed: a carefully directed program.
- semiconductor — a substance, as silicon or germanium, with electrical conductivity intermediate between that of an insulator and a conductor: a basic component of various kinds of electronic circuit element (semiconductor device) used in communications, control, and detection technology and in computers.
- ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
- side entrance — an entrance at the side of a building
- silver doctor — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
- 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.
- spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
- spot reducing — the usually futile effort to exercise one part of the body, as the thighs, in hopes of reducing the amount of fat stored in that area.
- stare decisis — the doctrine that rules or principles of law on which a court rested a previous decision are authoritative in all future cases in which the facts are substantially the same.
- steroidogenic — of or pertaining to steroidogenesis
- stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
- switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
- 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.
- the archfiend — the chief of fiends or devils; Satan
- the ediacaran — the Ediacaran period or rock system
- thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
- thiocarbamide — thiourea.
- thirty-second — next after the thirty-first; being the ordinal number for 32.
- thyroidectomy — excision of all or a part of the thyroid gland.
- ticket holder — a person who has a valid ticket for an event or for a journey on public transport
- tractor drive — a mechanism that feeds paper through a printer, using studs on a rotating wheel that engage with holes along the side of the paper
- trade council — a central council composed of local trade unions.
- trade deficit — A trade deficit is a situation in which a country imports goods worth more than the value of the goods that it exports.
- transactinide — any element having an atomic number higher than 103, the last of the actinide series. These superheavy, radioactive elements are extremely short-lived, and can only be created in the laboratory.
- tricorporated — having three bodies and one head
- 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).
- trisaccharide — a carbohydrate composed of three monosaccharide units, and hydrolyzable to a monosaccharide or a mixture of monosaccharides.
- turbidimetric — from, using, or relating to a turbidimeter or turbidimetry
- twin-cylinder — (of an engine) having twin cylinders
- un-cloistered — secluded from the world; sheltered: a cloistered life.
- unappreciated — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.