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17-letter words containing r, e, d, l, i

  • phenylformic acid — benzoic acid.
  • pied-billed grebe — an American grebe, Podilymbus podiceps, having a whitish bill with a black band around it.
  • pillar-and-breast — room-and-pillar.
  • platinic chloride — chloroplatinic acid.
  • polar coordinates — Usually, polar coordinates. one of two coordinates used to locate a point in a plane by the length of its radius vector and the angle this vector makes with the polar axis (polar angle)
  • police department — A police department is an official organization which is responsible for making sure that people obey the law.
  • police procedural — a mystery novel, film, or television drama that deals realistically with police work.
  • post-and-rail tea — (in the 19th century) a coarse tea in which floating particles resembled a post-and-rail fence
  • postural drainage — a therapy for clearing congested lungs by placing the patient in a position for drainage by gravity, often accompanied by percussion with hollowed hands.
  • potential divider — a resistor or series of resistors connected to a voltage source and used to provide voltages that are fractions of that of the source.
  • prelingually deaf — deaf from birth or having acquired deafness before learning to speak
  • pressure altitude — the altitude for a given pressure in a standard atmosphere, such as that registered by a pressure altimeter.
  • production values — the quality of a media production (such as a film) in regards to elements such as colours, quality, style, etc
  • pseudepigraphical — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
  • pseudo-historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • pseudo-moralistic — a person who teaches or inculcates morality.
  • pull your head in — be quiet!
  • purely and simply — You use purely and simply to emphasize that the thing you are mentioning is the only thing involved.
  • purple granadilla — the edible fruit of any of several species of passionflower, especially Passiflora edulis (purple granadilla) or P. quadrangularis (giant granadilla)
  • pyroligneous acid — a yellowish, acidic, water-soluble liquid, containing about 10 percent acetic acid, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood: used for smoking meats.
  • quattuordecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 45 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 84 zeros.
  • radial (ply) tire — a motor vehicle tire having a foundation of plies of rubberized cords running at right angles to the center line of the tread: it provides better handling, etc. than a bias ply tire
  • radial keratotomy — a surgical technique for correcting nearsightedness by making a series of spokelike incisions in the cornea to change its shape and focusing properties.
  • radio in the loop — Wireless Local Loop
  • radioluminescence — luminescence induced by nuclear radiation.
  • rail detector car — a car equipped with special instruments and used to locate defects in rails.
  • rat-tailed maggot — the aquatic larva of any of several syrphid flies of the genus Eristalis, that breathes through a long, thin tube at the posterior end of its body.
  • reading knowledge — the ability to read a language, but not speak it
  • receding hairline — hair that is thinning at the front
  • recorded delivery — If you send a letter or parcel recorded delivery, you send it using a Post Office service which gives you an official record of the fact that it has been posted and delivered.
  • recreational drug — drug taken for pleasure
  • recurring decimal — Mathematics. repeating decimal.
  • red-billed quelea — any of several African weaverbirds of the genus Quelea, especially Q. quelea (red-billed quelea) noted for its vast flocks that destroy grain crops.
  • reduce to silence — If someone or something reduces you to silence, they make you feel so upset or confused that you cannot speak.
  • reduction formula — a formula, such as sin (90° ± A) = cos A, expressing the values of a trigonometric function of any angle greater than 90° in terms of a function of an acute angle
  • reformed spelling — a revised orthography intended to simplify the spelling of English words, especially to eliminate unpronounced letters, as by substituting thru for through, tho for though, slo for slow, etc.
  • relative humidity — the amount of water vapor in the air, expressed as a percentage of the maximum amount that the air could hold at the given temperature; the ratio of the actual water vapor pressure to the saturation vapor pressure. Abbreviation: RH, rh.
  • repeating decimal — a decimal numeral that, after a certain point, consists of a group of one or more digits repeated ad infinitum, as 2.33333 …. or 23.0218181818 ….
  • reproductive cell — gamete.
  • revealed religion — religion based chiefly on the revelations of God to humans, especially as described in Scripture.
  • rhode island bent — a European pasture grass, Agrostis tenuis, naturalized in North America, having red flower clusters.
  • ring-tailed lemur — a Madagascan prosimian primate, Lemur catta, with a long black and white ringed tail
  • rio grande do sul — a state in S Brazil. 107,923 sq. mi. (279,520 sq. km). Capital: Pôrto Alegre.
  • road-fund licence — a licence showing that the tax payable in respect of a motor vehicle has been paid
  • sacrificial anode — Chemistry. an anode that is attached to a metal object subject to electrolysis and is decomposed instead of the object.
  • salt-rising bread — a kind of bread leavened with a fermented mixture of salted milk, cornmeal, flour, sugar, and soda.
  • sandro botticelli — Sandro [san-droh,, sahn-;; Italian sahn-draw] /ˈsæn droʊ,, ˈsɑn-;; Italian ˈsɑn drɔ/ (Show IPA), (Alessandro di Mariano dei Filipepi) 1444?–1510, Italian painter.
  • secondary glazing — insulation by means of a second pane of glass, or a sheet of plastic: a simple form of double glazing
  • secondary quality — one of the qualities attributed by the mind to an object perceived, such as color, temperature, or taste.
  • secondary sealing — Secondary sealing is a system of wiper seals used in floating roof tanks.
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