13-letter words containing s, a, r, d
- quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quadrifarious — having four parts
- quadriphonics — quadraphony.
- quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
- quaker-ladies — bluet (def 1).
- quasi-federal — pertaining to or of the nature of a union of states under a central government distinct from the individual governments of the separate states, as in federal government; federal system.
- quasi-retired — withdrawn from or no longer occupied with one's business or profession: a retired banker.
- queen's award — either of two awards instituted by royal warrant (1976) for a sustained increase in export earnings by a British firm (Queen's Award for Export Achievement) or for an advance in technology (Queen's Award for Technological Achievement)
- radhakrishnan — Sir Sarvepalli [suhr-vuh-puhl-ee] /ˌsʌr vəˈpʌl i/ (Show IPA), 1888–1975, president of India 1962–67.
- radiationless — not emitting or producing radiation
- radiesthesist — a practitioner of radiesthesia
- radio compass — a radio receiver with a directional antenna for determining the bearing of the receiver from a radio transmitter.
- radio silence — the absence, usually deliberately maintained, of radio transmissions
- radio station — station (def 8).
- radiopacities — opaque to radiation; visible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiotransparent).
- radius vector — Mathematics. the length of the line segment joining a fixed point or origin to a given point.
- ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
- 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 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.
- rapid transit — a system of public transportation in a metropolitan area, usually a subway or elevated train system.
- rayleigh disc — a small light disc suspended in the path of a sound wave, used to measure the intensity of the sound by analysing the resulting deflection of the disc
- rayleigh disk — a small circular disk, usually of mica, that is suspended from a fiber and tends to be deflected at right angles to a stream of air, indicating by its deflection the intensity of a sound wave.
- read a lesson — to censure or reprimand, esp in a long-winded manner
- reading glass — a magnifying glass that people use to enlarge text to make it easier to read
- reading speed — the rate at which something is read, often expressed in terms of words per minute. Reading speed is usually determined by the purpose of reading (for comprehension, learning, memorization, etc)
- reality-based — (especially of television) portraying or alleging to portray events as they actually happened.
- 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.
- red sea bream — either of two fish of the family Sparidae, Pagrus major and Pagellus bogaraveo. Pagrus major is a popular food fish in Japan, Taiwan and Spain
- redemonstrate — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
- redesignation — an act of designating.
- reduce a risk — If you reduce a risk, you lessen the potential damage that could be caused by a hazard or danger.
- reestablished — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
- refried beans — fried mashed beans
- refuse a card — If you refuse a card, you do not allow someone's credit card to be used to pay a bill.
- regardless of — in spite of
- released time — time or a period allotted to a teacher apart from normal duties for a special activity, as personal research.
- repristinated — to restore to the first or original state or condition.
- reserve-grade — denoting a sporting team of the second rank in a club
- resident head — someone who is charge of running and supervising a student residence
- residentially — of or relating to residence or to residences: a residential requirement for a doctorate.
- residual heat — heat that remains or lingers after something has been hot or heated up
- restandardize — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.
- retransmitted — to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey.
- rhodesian man — an extinct Pleistocene human whose cranial remains were found at Kabwe, in Zambia: formerly in some classifications Homo rhodesiensis but now considered archaic Homo sapiens.
- riding master — a person who teaches equitation.
- riding stable — a place where horses are kept for people to ride