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13-letter words containing d, i, r, t

  • ritual murder — a human sacrifice made to appease a deity.
  • road accident — a traffic accident involving vehicles, pedestrians or cyclists
  • robot dancing — a dance of the 1980s characterized by jerky mechanical movements
  • rogation days — Usually, rogations. Ecclesiastical. solemn supplication, especially as chanted during procession on the three days (Rogation Days) before Ascension Day.
  • romantic lead — a person who plays the main character in a romantic film or play
  • root division — the act or process of reproducing plants by a division of roots or crowns.
  • round-tripper — a home run.
  • roundtripping — a form of trading in which a company borrows a sum of money from one source and takes advantage of a short-term rise in interest rates to make a profit by lending it to another
  • rudimentarily — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
  • ruggedization — the act or process of making something rugged
  • run batted in — a runner advanced to home for a score by a particular player at bat, as when he or she gets a hit or a walk with the bases loaded: a category important in individual offensive statistics. Abbreviation: R.B.I.
  • ruth benedict — Ruth (Fulton) 1887–1948, U.S. writer and anthropologist.
  • rutherfordium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Rf; atomic number: 104.
  • sacerdotalism — the system, spirit, or methods of the priesthood.
  • sacerdotalize — to submit (something) to sacerdotalism
  • 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.
  • 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
  • sawdust trail — the road to conversion or rehabilitation, as for a sinner or criminal.
  • 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
  • scratchpad ii — See Scratchpad I, AXIOM.
  • script doctor — one who revises or alters a script to improve it.
  • 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.
  • sedentariness — characterized by or requiring a sitting posture: a sedentary occupation.
  • self-directed — guided, regulated, or managed: a carefully directed program.
  • self-distrust — lack of confidence in oneself, in one's abilities, etc.
  • self-oriented — the Orient, the countries of Asia, especially East Asia. (formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
  • 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.
  • semisedentary — partially or somewhat sedentary
  • senior editor — chief publishing manager
  • serendipitist — an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
  • serendipitous — come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.
  • seventy-third — next after the seventy-second; being the ordinal number for 73.
  • sharp-sighted — having keen sight.
  • ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
  • short-sighted — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
  • short-waisted — of less than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a high waistline.
  • shunting yard — a place where railway coaches are manoeuvred
  • side entrance — an entrance at the side of a building
  • sidereal time — time measured by the diurnal motion of stars. A sidereal day is about four minutes shorter than a solar day, with hours, minutes, and seconds all proportionally shorter.
  • sight reading — the act or skill of performing unfamiliar written music, or of translating something written in a foreign language, readily on sight, without previous study
  • silk industry — the industry that is involved with the breeding of silkworms and the manufacture of the silk they produce into thread and fabric
  • silver doctor — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
  • silver iodate — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, AgIO 3 , used in medicine chiefly as an antiseptic and as an astringent.
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