13-letter words containing r, i, d, o
- preadmonition — a forewarning, premonition; the act of admonishing in advance
- preconfigured — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- predefinition — the process or action of defining in advance; an advance definition
- predestinator — a person or thing that predestinates something.
- prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- prediscussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
- predistortion — preemphasis.
- predominantly — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
- predominately — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
- predominating — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
- prejudication — the act of judging beforehand
- premedication — any drugs administered to sedate and otherwise prepare a patient for general anaesthesia
- premeditation — an act or instance of premeditating.
- premium bonds — (in Britain) bonds issued by the Treasury since 1956 for purchase by the public. No interest is paid but there is a monthly draw for cash prizes of various sums
- prepositioned — to position in advance or beforehand: to preposition troops in anticipated trouble spots.
- preproduction — Movies. the steps necessary to prepare a film for production, as casting, choosing locations, and designing sets and costumes.
- pride and joy — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- primordiality — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
- prism diopter — a unit of prismatic deviation, in which the number one represents a prism that deflects a beam of light a distance of one centimeter on a plane placed normal to the initial direction of the beam and one meter away from the prism.
- prison warder — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- producibility — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- promised land — Heaven.
- propagandizer — a person who engages in, or subjects others to, propaganda
- propositioned — the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.
- prostaglandin — Biochemistry. any of a class of unsaturated fatty acids that are involved in the contraction of smooth muscle, the control of inflammation and body temperature, and many other physiological functions.
- prosthodontia — the branch of dentistry that deals with the restoration and maintenance of oral function by the replacement of missing teeth and other oral structures by artificial devices.
- pseudo-heroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- pycnidiospore — the fruiting body of certain fungi, which contains spore-bearing cells
- quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadrifarious — having four parts
- quadrifoliate — (botany) Having four leaves or leaflets.
- quadrillionth — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 15 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 24 zeros.
- quadrilocular — having four compartments
- quadriphonics — quadraphony.
- quartodeciman — one of a group of early Christians who observed Easter on the day of the Jewish Passover regardless of whether or not it was Sunday
- radial motion — the component of the motion of a star away from or toward the earth along its line of sight, expressed in miles or kilometers per second and determined by the shift in the wavelength of light emitted by the star.
- radialization — the act of forming or arranging in a radial pattern
- radiation fog — fog produced by the nocturnal cooling of the surface boundary layer to a temperature at which its content of water vapor condenses.
- radiationless — not emitting or producing radiation
- radio compass — a radio receiver with a directional antenna for determining the bearing of the receiver from a radio transmitter.
- radio contact — communication or contact by means of radio waves
- radio control — remote control by means of radio signals from a transmitter
- radio horizon — the locus of points on the earth's surface where rays from a transmitting antenna are tangent to the surface. The radio horizon for a fixed antenna varies with refraction by the atmosphere of radio waves.
- radio silence — the absence, usually deliberately maintained, of radio transmissions
- radio station — station (def 8).
- radioactinium — the radioactive isotope of thorium having a mass number 227 and a half-life of 18.8 days. Symbol: RdAc, Th 227.
- radioactivate — to make (a substance) radioactive.
- radioactivity — the phenomenon, exhibited by and being a property of certain elements, of spontaneously emitting radiation resulting from changes in the nuclei of atoms of the element.
- radiochemical — pertaining to or involving radiochemistry.
- radiolocation — the method or process of determining the position and velocity of an object by radar.