13-letter words containing r, o, d, e
- ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
- railroad line — railway route
- raison d'etat — a purely political reason for governmental action, based on the national interest and often violating principles of justice.
- raison d'etre — reason or justification for being or existence: Art is the artist's raison d'être.
- random access — designating or of a volatile memory that allows data to be accessed directly and does not require following a sequence of storage locations
- random number — pseudorandom number
- random rubble — masonry in which untooled stones are set without coursing
- random sample — a statistical sample that is devised to avoid interference so that its distribution is affected only by, and so can be held to represent, that of the whole population
- random-access — direct-access.
- rattle around — If you say that someone rattles around in a room or other space, you mean that the space is too large for them.
- re-forwarding — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- reach-me-down — a garment that is cheaply ready-made or second-hand
- read a lesson — to censure or reprimand, esp in a long-winded manner
- reading group — a group of people who meet regularly to discuss a book that they have all read
- ready-to-wear — clothing made in standard sizes; ready-made clothing.
- recollectedly — in a recollected manner
- recommendable — to present as worthy of confidence, acceptance, use, etc.; commend; mention favorably: to recommend an applicant for a job; to recommend a book.
- recommendably — in a way that is recommendable
- reconsecrated — to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity: to consecrate a new church building.
- reconsolidate — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- reconstituted — constituted again, especially of a liquid product made by adding water to dry solids from which the water has been evaporated: reconstituted orange juice.
- record button — the button that you press on a device or remote control to begin recording sound, images, etc
- record dealer — a person who buys and sells vinyl records
- record holder — sb officially recorded as best at sth
- record player — phonograph.
- record sleeve — the outer covering of a phonograph record
- recording van — a van containing sound and image recording equipment, used as a mobile recording studio
- recordkeeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
- rectitudinous — characterized by or given to rectitude.
- red corpuscle — a red blood cell.
- red delicious — a deep-red type of Delicious apple.
- red-hot poker — tritoma.
- redcloud peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,034 feet (4278 meters).
- redemonstrate — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
- redescription — the act of redescribing
- redesignation — an act of designating.
- redevelopment — the act or process of redeveloping.
- redial button — a button on a telephone, allowing the user to dial a number again
- redisposition — the withdrawal and redistribution of armed forces with the aim of more effective use
- redissolution — the act of redissolving
- redondo beach — a city in SW California.
- reduplication — the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
- regardless of — in spite of
- reindeer moss — any of several lichens of the genus Cladonia, especially the gray, many-branched C. rangiferina, of arctic and subarctic regions, eaten by reindeer and caribou.
- reinvigorated — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
- rendezvousing — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- reserved word — a word in a programming language or computer system that has a fixed meaning and therefore cannot be redefined by a programmer
- retinoic acid — a vitamin A derivative, C20H28O2, used in the treatment of acne, skin wrinkles, etc.
- return-cocked — (of a cock bead) situated at an angle or arris.
- reupholstered — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.