11-letter words containing n, a, d, i, r
- prejudicant — judging beforehand
- preordained — to ordain beforehand; foreordain.
- preprandial — before a meal, especially before dinner; anteprandial: a preprandial apéritif.
- prima donna — a first or principal female singer of an opera company.
- print media — the industry that is engaged in the printing and dissemination of news through newspapers and magazines
- prison yard — a piece of enclosed ground attached to a prison, where prisoners may take exercise at certain times
- promenading — a stroll or walk, especially in a public place, as for pleasure or display.
- pyrovanadic — of or relating to an acid of vanadium
- quadrantids — a collection of meteors comprising a meteor shower (Quadran·tid me·teor show·er) visible around January 31 and having its apparent origin in the constellation Boötes.
- quadrasonic — of, noting, or pertaining to the recording and reproduction of sound over four separate transmission or direct reproduction channels instead of the customary two of the stereo system: a quadraphonic recording.
- quadrennial — occurring every four years: a quadrennial festival.
- quadrennium — a period of four years.
- quadrillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 15 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 24 zeros.
- quadripoint — A point at which four borders meet.
- quadrupling — Present participle of quadruple.
- quarantined — a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
- radicalness — of or going to the root or origin; fundamental: a radical difference.
- radio knife — an electrical instrument for cutting tissue that by searing severed blood vessels seals them and prevents bleeding.
- radiocarbon — Also called carbon 14. a radioactive isotope of carbon with mass number 14 and a half-life of about 5730 years: widely used in the dating of organic materials.
- radioiodine — any of nine radioisotopes of iodine, especially iodine 131 and iodine 125, used as radioactive tracers in research and clinical diagnosis and treatment.
- radiolarian — any minute, marine protozoan of the class Radiolaria, or, in some classification schemes, the superclass Actinopoda, having an amebalike body with radiating, filamentous pseudopodia and a usually elaborate outer skeleton.
- radiolucent — almost entirely transparent to radiation; almost entirely invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy.
- radiophonic — a radiotelephone.
- radiovision — television.
- radix point — a point, such as the decimal point in the decimal system, separating the integral part of a number from the fractional part
- radnorshire — a historic county in Powys, in E Wales.
- railroading — a permanent road laid with rails, commonly in one or more pairs of continuous lines forming a track or tracks, on which locomotives and cars are run for the transportation of passengers, freight, and mail.
- rain shadow — a region in the lee of mountains that receives less rainfall than the region windward of the mountains.
- raking bond — a brickwork bond in which concealed courses of diagonally laid bricks are used to bond exposed brickwork to the wall structure.
- random line — a trial survey line run from a station toward a predetermined point that cannot be seen from the station.
- rangefinder — any of various instruments for determining the distance from the observer to a particular object, as for sighting a gun or adjusting the focus of a camera.
- rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
- rat islands — a group of islands in SW Alaska, in the W Aleutian Islands.
- ration card — a card showing an individual's entitlement to certain rationed goods
- reading age — the level of reading ability that a person has in comparison to an average child of a particular age
- readmission — the act of allowing to enter; entrance granted by permission, by provision or existence of pecuniary means, or by the removal of obstacles: the admission of aliens into a country.
- reappointed — to name or assign to a position, an office, or the like; designate: to appoint a new treasurer; to appoint a judge to the bench.
- rear window — the window at the back of a motor vehicle
- recordation — the act or process of recording: the recordation of documents pertaining to copyright ownership.
- red jasmine — a fragrant shrub with fragrant flowers, also known as frangipani
- redactional — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- redesignate — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- reductional — of, characterized by, or relating to reduction
- reeducation — to educate again, as for new purposes.
- reexplained — to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: to explain an obscure point. Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
- rehydration — to restore moisture or fluid to (something dehydrated).
- reid, brian — Brian Reid
- reinitiated — to begin, set going, or originate: to initiate major social reforms.
- remaindered — something that remains or is left: the remainder of the day.
- remand wing — a special area within a prison for prisoners who are awaiting trial