13-letter words containing r, i, d, o
- rollerblading — skating on rollerblades
- roman holiday — a public spectacle or controversy marked by barbarism, vindictiveness, or scandal.
- romantic lead — a person who plays the main character in a romantic film or play
- root division — the act or process of reproducing plants by a division of roots or crowns.
- rose mandarin — (in the Chinese Empire) a member of any of the nine ranks of public officials, each distinguished by a particular kind of button worn on the cap.
- rough diamond — gemstone: uncut diamond
- round herring — any of several herringlike fishes of the family Dussumieriidae having a rounded abdomen, living chiefly in tropical marine waters.
- round-tripper — a home run.
- roundtripping — a form of trading in which a company borrows a sum of money from one source and takes advantage of a short-term rise in interest rates to make a profit by lending it to another
- ruggedization — the act or process of making something rugged
- running board — a small ledge, step, or footboard, formerly beneath the doors of an automobile, to assist passengers entering or leaving the car.
- running order — The running order of the items in a broadcast, concert, or show is the order in which the items will come.
- rutherfordium — a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Rf; atomic number: 104.
- sacerdotalism — the system, spirit, or methods of the priesthood.
- sacerdotalize — to submit (something) to sacerdotalism
- saint leonard — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Montreal.
- sarcodinians' — belonging or pertaining to the protist phylum Sarcodina, comprising protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia.
- scarfed joint — a lapped joint between two pieces of timber made by notching or grooving the ends and strapping, bolting, or gluing the two pieces together
- school dinner — meal served at educational institution
- school friend — A school friend is a friend of yours who is at the same school as you, or who used to be at the same school when you were children.
- scissors hold — a wrestling hold in which one contestant clasps the other with the legs
- sclerodermite — the hard covering of a section or segment of the body of an insect
- scratch video — the technique or practice of recycling images from films or television to make collages
- scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
- script doctor — one who revises or alters a script to improve it.
- second empire — the empire established in France (1852–70) by Louis Napoleon: the successor to the Second Republic.
- second string — Sports. the squad of players available either individually or as a team to replace or relieve those who start a game.
- second-strike — noting, pertaining to, or using nuclear forces capable of withstanding attack and retaliating after an adversary has launched a first strike.
- self-ordained — to invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; confer holy orders upon.
- self-oriented — the Orient, the countries of Asia, especially East Asia. (formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- semiconductor — a substance, as silicon or germanium, with electrical conductivity intermediate between that of an insulator and a conductor: a basic component of various kinds of electronic circuit element (semiconductor device) used in communications, control, and detection technology and in computers.
- senior editor — chief publishing manager
- senza sordino — a musical direction to remove or play without the mute or (on the piano) with the sustaining pedal pressed down
- serendipitous — come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.
- serodiagnosis — a diagnosis involving tests on blood serum or other serous fluid of the body.
- short-sighted — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
- short-waisted — of less than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a high waistline.
- shoulder-high — A shoulder-high object is as high as your shoulders.
- sidereal hour — a 24th part of a sidereal day
- silver doctor — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
- silver dollar — A silver dollar is an American coin, worth one dollar, that is made of silver.
- silver iodate — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, AgIO 3 , used in medicine chiefly as an antiseptic and as an astringent.
- silver iodide — a pale-yellow, water-insoluble solid, AgI, which darkens on exposure to light: used chiefly in medicine, photography, and artificial rainmaking.
- skateboarding — a device for riding upon, usually while standing, consisting of a short, oblong piece of wood, plastic, or aluminum mounted on large roller-skate wheels, used on smooth surfaces and requiring better balance of the rider than the ordinary roller skate does.
- skilled labor — labor that requires special training for its satisfactory performance.
- slender loris — loris (def 1).
- slieve donard — a mountain in SE Northern Ireland, in the Mourne Mountains: highest peak in Northern Ireland. Height: 853 m (2798 ft)
- social credit — the doctrine that under capitalism there is an inadequate distribution of purchasing power, for which the remedy lies in governmental control of retail prices and the distribution of national dividends to consumers.
- sociodramatic — a method of group psychotherapy in which each patient assumes and dramatizes a variety of roles, usually focusing on problems and conflicts arising in group situations.
- sodium borate — borax1 .