11-letter words containing d, r, e, a, l
- plateholder — a lightproof container for a photographic plate, loaded into the camera with the plate and having a slide that is removed before exposing.
- pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
- pneudraulic — of or relating to a mechanism involving both pneumatic and hydraulic action.
- powder flag — red flag (def 4).
- praecordial — of or pertaining to a part of the body near or in front of the heart; located near to or in front of the heart
- pre-diploma — a document given by an educational institution conferring a degree on a person or certifying that the person has satisfactorily completed a course of study.
- pre-holiday — a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
- predictable — able to be foretold or declared in advance: New technology allows predictable weather forecasting.
- predictably — able to be foretold or declared in advance: New technology allows predictable weather forecasting.
- predisposal — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
- predoctoral — of or relating to study undertaken in preparation for a doctoral degree.
- preen gland — uropygial gland.
- prejudicial — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
- premedieval — prior to the Middle Ages.
- preprandial — before a meal, especially before dinner; anteprandial: a preprandial apéritif.
- prime ideal — an ideal in a ring with a multiplicative identity, having the property that when the product of two elements of the ring results in an element of the ideal, at least one of the elements is an element of the ideal.
- prodigalize — to spend lavishly
- produceable — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- prolongated — to prolong.
- promulgated — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
- pterodactyl — any of a number of genera of flying reptiles of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a highly reduced tail and teeth and a birdlike beak.
- pulse radar — a radar system using pulse modulation
- quadrangles — Plural form of quadrangle.
- quadrennial — occurring every four years: a quadrennial festival.
- quadricycle — a vehicle similar to the bicycle and tricycle but having four wheels.
- quadripedal — Four-footed.
- quadrupedal — four-footed.
- quadruplets — Plural form of quadruplet.
- quark model — a scheme that explains the quantum numbers of all the baryons and mesons by assuming that baryons are composed of three quarks and mesons of a quark and an antiquark, with different combinations of quark and antiquark flavors giving different sets of quantum numbers.
- radial tire — a motor-vehicle tire in which the plies or cords run from one bead to the other at right angles to both beads.
- radial tyre — a motor-vehicle tyre having a radial-ply casing
- radicalised — to make radical or more radical, as in politics: young people who are being radicalized by extremist philosophies.
- radicalness — of or going to the root or origin; fundamental: a radical difference.
- radicellose — having small roots or rhizoids
- radiolucent — almost entirely transparent to radiation; almost entirely invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy.
- rallentando — slackening; becoming slower (used as a musical direction).
- ralph nader — Ralph, born 1934, U.S. lawyer, author, political reformer, and consumer advocate.
- random line — a trial survey line run from a station toward a predetermined point that cannot be seen from the station.
- razor blade — a sharp-edged metal blade for use in a razor.
- readability — Also, readableness. the state or quality of being readable.
- readme file — (convention, documentation) A text file traditionally included in the top-level directory of a software distribution, containing pointers to documentation, credits, revision history, notes, etc. Originally found in Unix source distributions, the convention has spread to many other products. The file may be named README, READ.ME, ReadMe or readme.txt or some other variant. In the Macintosh and IBM PC worlds, software is not usually distributed in source form, and the README is more likely to contain user-oriented material like last-minute documentation changes, error workarounds, and restrictions. The README convention probably follows the famous scene in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" in which Alice confronts magic munchies labeled "Eat Me" and "Drink Me".
- rebuildable — to repair, especially to dismantle and reassemble with new parts: to rebuild an old car.
- red admiral — the commander in chief of a fleet.
- red channel — in an airport, the route taken by passengers wishing to declare goods, such as large quantities of tobacco or alcohol
- redactional — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- redoubtable — that is to be feared; formidable.
- redressable — the setting right of what is wrong: redress of abuses.
- reductional — of, characterized by, or relating to reduction
- redundantly — characterized by verbosity or unnecessary repetition in expressing ideas; prolix: a redundant style.
- reduplicate — to double; repeat.