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13-letter words containing r, e, d, p, l

  • disapparelled — undressed; naked
  • disrespectful — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
  • diving petrel — any of several small seabirds of the family Pelecanoididae, of Southern Hemisphere seas, having compact bodies, tubelike processes near the nostrils, and usually drab plumage.
  • dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
  • dole cupboard — a livery cupboard formerly used in churches for holding bread to be distributed to the poor.
  • doppelgangers — Plural form of doppelganger.
  • doppler laser — a technique for measuring the shift in frequency between the source and reflected radiation of a laser.
  • doppler radar — a radar tracking system that determines the velocity of a moving object by measuring the Doppler shift of the frequency of a radar signal reflected by the object.
  • doppler shift — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
  • double spread — any pair of facing pages in a completed book, magazine, etc.
  • double-dipper — Informal. to earn a salary from one position while collecting a pension from the same employer or organization, especially to be a wage earner on the federal payroll while receiving a military retiree's pension.
  • double-ripper — bobsled (def 2).
  • doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
  • drink problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
  • drop the ball — a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
  • drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
  • dry ski slope — A dry ski slope is a slope made of an artificial substance on which you can practise skiing.
  • durable press — permanent press.
  • early adopter — a person who uses a new product or technology before it becomes widely known or used.
  • electroplated — Simple past tense and past participle of electroplate.
  • elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
  • epidermolysis — Loosening of the epidermis, with extensive blistering of the skin and mucous membranes, occurring either after injury, or as a spontaneous and potentially dangerous condition, particularly in children.
  • epitrochoidal — Being or relating to an epitrochoid.
  • exasperatedly — In an exasperated manner.
  • fanfold paper — continuous paper perforated at regular intervals, as used in a dot-matrix printer
  • field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
  • fieldstripped — Simple past tense and past participle of fieldstrip.
  • flatbed press — a printing machine on which the type forme is carried on a flat bed under a revolving paper-bearing cylinder
  • flesh peddler — a prostitute.
  • flesh-peddler — an employment agent or agency, especially one that recruits executives.
  • folding press — a fall in wrestling won by folding one's opponent's legs up to his head and pressing his shoulders to the floor
  • foul-tempered — frequently and unnecessarily sullen or angry
  • freudian slip — (in Freudian psychology) an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes.
  • gelandesprung — a jump, usually over an obstacle, in which one plants both poles in the snow in advance of the skis, bends close to the ground, and propels oneself chiefly by the use of the poles.
  • gödel's proof — a proof that in a formal axiomatic system such as logic or mathematics it is impossible to prove consistency without using methods from outside the system, demonstrated by Kurt Gödel (1906–78)
  • golden plover — either of two plovers of the genus Pluvialis, having the back marked with golden-yellow spots, P. apricaria, of Europe, or P. dominica, of America.
  • grandparental — Of or relating to a grandparent.
  • hydroairplane — a hydroplane.
  • hydrocephalic — of or relating to hydrocephalus.
  • hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
  • hydrosulphate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
  • hydrosulphide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
  • hydrosulphite — hyposulfite (def 1).
  • hyperboloidal — Having the shape or form of a hyperboloid.
  • hyperdactylia — the presence of extra fingers or toes.
  • hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
  • hyperlordosis — Particularly severe lordosis.
  • ideographical — Alternative form of ideographic.
  • imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
  • impredictable — (nonstandard) unpredictable.
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