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

  • 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.
  • 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
  • isodrosotherm — a line on a weather map or chart connecting points having an equal dew point.
  • jefferson day — April 13, Thomas Jefferson's birthday, a legal holiday in Alabama, sometimes celebrated by the Democratic Party by the holding of fund-raising dinners.
  • jet condenser — a steam condenser in which a jet of water is sprayed into the condenser chamber.
  • jet-propelled — propelled by a jet engine or engines.
  • jimmy woodser — a man who drinks by himself
  • johann herder — Johann Gottfried von [yoh-hahn gawt-freet fuh n] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈgɔt frit fən/ (Show IPA), 1744–1803, German philosopher and poet.
  • 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.
  • kangaroo code — spaghetti code
  • l-d converter — a vessel in which steel is made from pig iron by blowing oxygen into the molten metal through a water-cooled tube
  • ladino clover — a giant variety of white clover, Trifolium repens lodigense, used for pasture and hay.
  • lady mayoress — the wife of a lord mayor
  • 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.
  • law and order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
  • law-and-order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
  • lead chromate — a yellow crystalline compound, PbCrO 4 , toxic, insoluble in water: used as an industrial paint pigment.
  • leaded petrol — petrol containing tetraethyl lead in order to improve combustion
  • leather goods — products made of animal skin
  • 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.
  • leucitohedron — a trapezohedron
  • levant dollar — a silver coin, either a Maria Theresa thaler or an imitation of one, formerly used for trade with Abyssinia, Eritrea, Aden, etc. Imitations bear the date 1780 regardless of the year of minting.
  • 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.
  • london bridge — a bridge over the Thames between the City of London on the north side, and Southwark on the south side.
  • london rocket — the plant Sisymbrium irio
  • look ahead lr — Look Ahead Left-to-right parse, Rightmost-derivation
  • 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
  • loose forward — one of a number of forwards who play at the back or sides of the scrum and who are not bound wholly into it
  • lord advocate — (in Scotland) the chief law officer of the Crown who acts as public prosecutor and is in charge of the administration of criminal justice
  • 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.
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