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13-letter words containing r, i, d, o

  • indoor soccer — a form of soccer played indoors by two teams of six players each, usually on a hockey rink covered with a temporary floor with walls to keep the ball in play, in which a player who commits a foul is penalized by suspension from play for a certain amount of time, as in hockey.
  • inductothermy — the production of fever by means of electromagnetic induction.
  • industriously — working energetically and devotedly; hard-working; diligent: an industrious person.
  • infomediaries — Plural form of infomediary.
  • infrigidation — (obsolete) The act of chilling or making cold; congelation.
  • inner product — Also called dot product, scalar product. the quantity obtained by multiplying the corresponding coordinates of each of two vectors and adding the products, equal to the product of the magnitudes of the vectors and the cosine of the angle between them.
  • inodorousness — the quality of being inodorous
  • insect powder — a powdered chemical that kills insects; insecticide
  • insubordinate — not submitting to authority; disobedient: an insubordinate soldier.
  • interchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
  • intercondylar — Anatomy. the smooth surface area at the end of a bone, forming part of a joint.
  • interdominion — occurring between sovereign states of the Commonwealth
  • intermediator — to act as an intermediary; intervene; mediate.
  • intermodalism — pertaining to or suitable for transportation involving more than one form of carrier, as truck and rail, or truck, ship, and rail.
  • introducement — (obsolete) introduction.
  • introductions — Plural form of introduction.
  • introvertedly — In an introverted manner.
  • inverted snob — a person who scorns the conventions or attitudes of his own class or social group by attempting to identify with people of a supposedly lower class
  • iridocyclitis — (medicine) A type of anterior uveitis.
  • ironing board — a flat, cloth-covered board or other surface, often foldable and having legs, on which clothing, linens, or similar articles are ironed.
  • isocarboxazid — a potent monoamine oxidase inhibitor, C 12 H 13 N 3 O 2 , used to treat severe depression.
  • isodimorphism — isomorphism between the forms of two dimorphous substances.
  • isodrosotherm — a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having an equal dew point.
  • jimmy woodser — a man who drinks by himself
  • jodhpuri coat — a coat worn by men in India, similar to but shorter than a sherwani
  • joie de vivre — a delight in being alive; keen, carefree enjoyment of living.
  • jordan engine — a machine for beating and refining pulp, used in manufacturing certain grades of paper.
  • junior doctor — a doctor in postgraduate training
  • jurisdictions — Plural form of jurisdiction.
  • kolding fjord — an inlet of the Little Belt at the head of which is Kolding
  • korf, richard — Richard Korf
  • ladino clover — a giant variety of white clover, Trifolium repens lodigense, used for pasture and hay.
  • landing force — the ground forces of an amphibious task force that effect the assault landing in an amphibious operation.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
  • levelling rod — a graduated rod that is used to determine differences in elevation
  • lexical order — the arrangement of a set of items in accordance with a recursive algorithm, such as the entries in a dictionary whose order depends on their first letter unless these are the same in which case it is the second which decides, and so on
  • life-or-death — life-and-death.
  • lightning rod — a rodlike conductor installed to divert lightning away from a structure by providing a direct path to the ground.
  • lipodystrophy — A disorder characterized by abnormal or degenerative conditions of the body's adipose tissue.
  • liquid storax — a solid resin with a vanillalike odor, obtained from a small tree, Styrax officinalis: formerly used in medicine and perfumery.
  • lizard orchid — a European orchid, Himantoglossum hircinum, rare in Britain, having a spike of grey-green flowers smelling of goats
  • london bridge — a bridge over the Thames between the City of London on the north side, and Southwark on the south side.
  • 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
  • losing hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
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