12-letter words containing r, a, d, i, o, l
- off-islander — a temporary or seasonal resident of an island; island visitor or tourist.
- oilseed rape — Oilseed rape is a plant with yellow flowers which is grown as a crop. Its seeds are crushed to make cooking oil.
- old favorite — If you refer to something as an old favorite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
- old guardism — political conservatism.
- old prussian — a Baltic language extinct since the 17th century. Abbreviation: OPruss.
- olivary body — one of two oval bodies or prominences composed of nerve tissue, one on each side of the anterior surface of the medulla oblongata.
- olla podrida — a spicy Spanish stew of sausage and other meat, chickpeas, and often tomatoes and other vegetables.
- orbital road — a highway that circles a metropolitan area; ring road
- ordinary lay — the form of lay found in a cable-laid rope
- orthopedical — (American spelling) Alternative form of orthopaedical.
- overdelicate — extremely or excessively delicate: an overdelicate digestive system.
- overidealize — to idealize excessively
- palindromist — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- particolored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
- periodic law — the law that the properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers.
- periodically — recurring at intervals of time: periodic revivals of an interest in handicrafts.
- personalised — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- personalized — customized
- pilot ladder — Jacob's ladder (def 2a).
- plagiohedral — (of a crystal) having faces arranged obliquely in a helix.
- postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
- postprandial — after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
- pot marigold — calendula (def 1).
- primordially — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
- prodigal son — a figure in a parable of Jesus (Luke 15:11–32); a wayward son who squanders his inheritance but returns home to find that his father forgives him.
- productional — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.
- profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
- prolog-linda — 1. Prolog extended with Linda-style parallelism. Proc 4th Australian Conf on Artif Intell. 2. Neil MacDonald, U Edinburgh 1989. Another Prolog extended with Linda, implemented on a Computing Surface.
- prosodically — in a prosodic manner
- providential — of, relating to, or resulting from divine providence: providential care.
- pyramidology — a belief system based on the supposed occult significance of the Egyptian pyramids
- pyritohedral — of or relating to a pyritohedron
- quadrillions — Plural form of quadrillion.
- quadrinomial — consisting of four terms.
- radicicolous — living on the roots of plants
- radio galaxy — a galaxy that emits much more strongly in the radio part of the spectrum than does a typical galaxy.
- radio-collar — to attach a radio collar to (an animal).
- radiobiology — the branch of biology dealing with the effects of radiation on living matter.
- radioecology — the branch of ecology concerned with the effects of radioactivity on the environment
- radioelement — a radioactive element.
- radiolocator — radar.
- radiological — of or relating to radiology.
- radiolucency — almost entirely transparent to radiation; almost entirely invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy.
- radionuclide — a radioactive nuclide.
- railroad car — a railway carriage or van
- railroad pen — a ruling pen for drawing two parallel lines.
- rapeseed oil — a brownish-yellow oil obtained by expression from rapeseed and used chiefly as a lubricant, an illuminant, and in the manufacture of rubber substitutes.
- ravioli code — (jargon, humour) Object-oriented code consisting of a number of small and loosely-coupled software components. Presumably, the term is a compliment, contrasting the code with spaghetti code.
- redelegation — a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
- revalidation — to make valid; substantiate; confirm: Time validated our suspicions.