13-letter words containing r, o, d, c
- underclothing — clothing worn next to the skin under outer clothes.
- underoccupied — not having enough to do or to engage one's attention
- underreaction — to react with less than the expected or appropriate emotion.
- understocking — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
- undirectional — of, relating to, or indicating direction in space.
- undiscouraged — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- undoctrinaire — a person who does not subscribe to a particular doctrine or theory; a free thinker
- unencountered — to come upon or meet with, especially unexpectedly: to encounter a new situation.
- unpreoccupied — not preoccupied
- unrecollected — not remembered or recalled
- unrecommended — to present as worthy of confidence, acceptance, use, etc.; commend; mention favorably: to recommend an applicant for a job; to recommend a book.
- unrecompensed — to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc.
- unstercorated — not stercorated or covered in dung
- valedictorian — a student, usually the one ranking highest academically in a school graduating class, who delivers the valedictory at the commencement exercises.
- valproic acid — a carboxylic acid, C 8 H 16 O 2 , used for its antiepileptic properties in the treatment of various seizures including petit mal.
- versicoloured — of variable or various colours
- victoria land — a region in Antarctica, bordering on the Ross Sea, mainly in Ross Dependency.
- victory medal — a round bronze medal awarded to all those who served in the armed forces of the U.S. during World War I.
- videorecorded — to record (programs, broadcasts, or the like) on videotape or videodisk.
- videorecorder — an electronic device for recording video signals on magnetic tape or on videodisks.
- vindicatorily — in a vindicatory manner
- wall cupboard — a cupboard that is fixed to a wall
- ward of court — a person, esp a minor or one legally incapable of managing his own affairs, placed under the control or protection of a guardian or of a court
- waste product — material discarded as useless in the process of producing something.
- weathercocked — Simple past tense and past participle of weathercock.
- web directory — a database of selected websites, ordered in such a way as to facilitate browsing
- welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
- well-anchored — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
- werecrocodile — (fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a crocodile.
- widow's cruse — an inexhaustible supply of something: in allusion to the miracle of the cruse of oil in I Kings 17:10–16 and II Kings 4:1–7.
- wind scorpion — sun spider.
- windsor bench — a bench similar in construction to a Windsor chair.
- windsor chair — a wooden chair of many varieties, having a spindle back and legs slanting outward: common in 18th-century England and in the American colonies.
- windsor locks — a town in N Connecticut.
- wine-coloured — of a dark red colour, sometimes with a purplish tinge
- wire recorder — a forerunner of the tape recorder that recorded sound on a steel wire by magnetizing the wire as it passed an electromagnet.
- wonder-struck — struck or affected with wonder.
- woodcraftsman — a person who is skilled in woodcraft.
- world process — change within time, regarded as meaningful in relation to a transcendent principle or plan.
- world service — a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which transmits programmes in many languages around the world
- yourdon, inc. — (company) The company founded in 1974 by Edward Yourdon to provide educational, publishing, and consulting services in state-of-the-art software engineering technology. Over the next 12 years, the company grew to a staff of over 150 people, with offices throughout North America and Europe. As CEO of the company, Yourdon oversaw an operation that trained over 250,000 people around the world; the company was sold in 1986 and eventually became part of CGI, the French software company that is now part of IBM. The publishing division, Yourdon Press (now part of Prentice Hall), has produced over 150 technical computer books on a wide range of software engineering topics; many of these "classics" are used as standard university computer science textbooks.
- zinc chloride — a white, crystalline, deliquescent, water-soluble, poisonous solid, ZnCl 2 , used chiefly as a wood preservative, as a disinfectant and antiseptic, and in the manufacture of vulcanized fiber, parchment paper, and soldering fluxes.