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

  • improvidently — In an improvident manner.
  • indiscerpible — (obsolete) Not discerpible; inseparable.
  • inland empire — a region in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, E of the Cascade Mountains, in E Washington, NE Oregon, N Idaho, and NW Montana.
  • interpellated — Simple past tense and past participle of interpellate.
  • interpleaders — Plural form of interpleader.
  • interpleading — to litigate with each other in order to determine which of two parties is the rightful claimant against a third party.
  • interruptedly — In an interrupted manner.
  • jet-propelled — propelled by a jet engine or engines.
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • latent period — Also, latency period. Pathology. the interval between exposure to a carcinogen, toxin, or disease-causing organism and development of a consequent disease.
  • leaded petrol — petrol containing tetraethyl lead in order to improve combustion
  • leopard shark — a small, inshore shark, Triakis semifasciata, having distinctive black markings across the back, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters from Oregon through California.
  • lepidocrocite — a ruby-red to reddish-brown orthorhombic mineral, iron oxyhydroxide, FeO(OH), dimorphous with goethite: an ore of iron, used as a pigment.
  • lepidopterans — Plural form of lepidopteran.
  • lepidopterist — the branch of zoology dealing with butterflies and moths.
  • lepidopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Lepidoptera, an order of insects comprising the butterflies, moths, and skippers, that in the adult state have four membranous wings more or less covered with small scales.
  • lipid bilayer — a two-layered arrangement of phosphate and lipid molecules that form a cell membrane, the hydrophobic lipid ends facing inward and the hydrophilic phosphate ends facing outward.
  • little dipper — the group of seven bright stars in Ursa Minor resembling a dipper in outline.
  • loop diuretic — any of a group of diuretics, including frusemide, that act by inhibiting resorption of salts from Henle's loop of the kidney tubule
  • lord temporal — a member of the House of Lords who is not a member of the clergy.
  • lord's prayer — the, the prayer given by Jesus to His disciples, and beginning with the words Our Father. Matt. 6:9–13; Luke 11:2–4.
  • lord's supper — the, the sacrament in commemoration of the Last Supper; communion; Mass; Eucharist.
  • mail exploder — (messaging)   Part of an electronic mail delivery system which allows a message to be delivered to a list of addresses. Mail exploders are used to implement mailing lists. Users send messages to a single address and the mail exploder takes care of delivery to the individual mailboxes in the list.
  • mar del plata — a city in E Argentina: seaside resort.
  • nondescriptly — in a nondescript manner
  • nonperiodical — a magazine or other journal that is issued at regularly recurring intervals.
  • old pretender — a member of the royal family that ruled in Scotland from 1371 to 1714 and in England from 1603 to 1714.
  • old provencal — the Provençal language as found in documents from the 11th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OPr.
  • openheartedly — Alt form open-heartedly.
  • optical drive — optical disk drive
  • orthopaedical — Pertaining to orthopaedics; characteristic of orthopaedia.
  • overamplified — amplified too much, causing distortion or discomfort, etc
  • overdeveloped — Simple past tense and past participle of overdevelop.
  • overland park — a town in E Kansas, near Kansas City.
  • overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
  • overpopulated — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
  • pallet loader — A device employing a vertical lift platform for the mechanical loading or unloading of pallets of freight
  • pandora shell — any marine bivalve of the genus Pandora, having a scimitar-shaped shell with a pronounced ridge along the hinge.
  • pantie girdle — a girdle with a crotch.
  • paper-clipped — to fasten together with one or more paper clips: Paper-clip these letters and file them.
  • paper-shelled — having a thin, easily broken shell: paper-shelled nuts.
  • paradise lost — an epic poem (1667) by John Milton.
  • parti-colored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
  • particleboard — a boardlike building material made by compressing sawdust or wood particles with a resin binder
  • party-colored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
  • patent holder — a person or company that holds a patent
  • patrol leader — the leader of a division of a troop of Scouts or Guides
  • pattern-drill — (in foreign-language learning) a technique for practicing a linguistic structure in which students repeat a sentence or other structure, each time substituting a new element, such as a new verb, as directed by the teacher, or transforming the original structure, as in changing a statement to a question.
  • payday lender — a person or group that offers short-term loans, in advance of payday, at high rates of interest
  • pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
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