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13-letter words containing e, d, r, y

  • perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
  • phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
  • postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
  • potty trained — Potty trained means the same as toilet trained.
  • powder monkey — (formerly) a boy employed on warships to carry gunpowder from the magazine to the guns.
  • pre-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
  • predominantly — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
  • predominately — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
  • prejudicially — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
  • pride and joy — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
  • private study — the act or process of studying outwith classes
  • pro-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
  • property bond — a bond issued by a life-assurance company, the premiums for which are invested in a property-owning fund
  • prudentiality — prudential nature or practice
  • pycnidiospore — the fruiting body of certain fungi, which contains spore-bearing cells
  • quadrennially — Every four years.
  • quadringenary — a 400th anniversary
  • quadrupedally — In the manner of an animal that walks on four feet or four legs.
  • quandary peak — a mountain in central Colorado, in the Park Range, in the Rocky Mountains, NE of Leadville. 14,265 feet (4348 meters).
  • r-methodology — any statistical methodology in psychology that is contrasted with Q-methodology
  • radioteletype — Also called radioteletypewriter [rey-dee-oh-tel-i-tahyp-rahy-ter, -tel-i-tahyp-rahy-] /ˌreɪ di oʊˌtɛl ɪˈtaɪpˌraɪ tər, -ˈtɛl ɪ taɪpˌraɪ-/ (Show IPA). a teletypewriter equipped for transmitting or receiving messages by radio instead of wire.
  • railway guide — a publication containing routes and timetables for train journeys
  • 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
  • rayleigh disk — a small circular disk, usually of mica, that is suspended from a fiber and tends to be deflected at right angles to a stream of air, indicating by its deflection the intensity of a sound wave.
  • ready-to-wear — clothing made in standard sizes; ready-made clothing.
  • reality-based — (especially of television) portraying or alleging to portray events as they actually happened.
  • recollectedly — in a recollected manner
  • recommendably — in a way that is recommendable
  • record player — phonograph.
  • red-eye gravy — a gravy made from the pan juices of fried country ham, thickened with flour and sometimes containing coffee for color and flavor.
  • redbelly dace — any of the small, brightly colored North American freshwater cyprinids, especially Phoxinus oreas (northern redbelly dace) and P. erythrogaster (southern redbelly dace)
  • refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
  • remediability — the state of being able to be remedied
  • residentially — of or relating to residence or to residences: a residential requirement for a doctorate.
  • rhythm method — a method of birth control in which the couple abstain from sexual intercourse during the period when ovulation is most likely to occur.
  • richard petty — Richard, born 1937, U.S. racing-car driver.
  • road surveyor — a person who does surveying work for road building
  • royal academy — a society founded in 1768 by George III of England for the establishment of a school of design and the holding of an annual exhibition of the works of living artists.
  • rudimentarily — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
  • sandfly fever — a usually mild viral disease occurring in hot, dry areas, characterized by fever, eye pain, and sometimes a rash, transmitted by sandflies of the genus Phlebotomus.
  • scullery maid — a maid whose duties include washing up and vegetable preparation
  • secondary era — the period from the beginning of the Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous
  • semilegendary — having some historical basis, but legendary in part
  • semisedentary — partially or somewhat sedentary
  • send away for — order by post
  • seventy-third — next after the seventy-second; being the ordinal number for 73.
  • shrove monday — the Monday before Ash Wednesday.
  • shrove sunday — the Sunday before Ash Wednesday; Quinquagesima.
  • sidereal year — year (def 4c).
  • six-yard line — the line marking the limits of the goal area
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