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13-letter words containing s, r, d

  • over-standing — overreach (def 13).
  • overcredulous — willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible.
  • overdiagnosed — Simple past tense and past participle of overdiagnose.
  • overdiagnosis — excessive diagnosis of a disease
  • overdiversity — excessive diversity
  • overdramatise — Alternative spelling of overdramatize.
  • overestimated — Simple past tense and past participle of overestimate.
  • overhead-shot — over one's head; aloft; up in the air or sky, especially near the zenith: There was a cloud overhead.
  • overimpressed — very impressed
  • overnourished — to sustain with food or nutriment; supply with what is necessary for life, health, and growth.
  • overprocessed — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
  • oversaturated — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
  • overstretched — to stretch excessively.
  • paedomorphism — the continuation of juvenile characteristics in the adult stage
  • painted horse — paint (def 6).
  • pandora shell — any marine bivalve of the genus Pandora, having a scimitar-shaped shell with a pronounced ridge along the hinge.
  • pandora's box — a source of extensive but unforeseen troubles or problems: The senate investigation turned out to be a Pandora's box for the administration.
  • paper-shelled — having a thin, easily broken shell: paper-shelled nuts.
  • paradigm plus — A configurable object-oriented CASE tool from Proto Soft.
  • paradise duck — a large duck, Casarca variegata, of New Zealand, having a brightly coloured plumage
  • paradise fish — any small freshwater fish of the genus Macropodus, of southeastern Asia, often kept in aquariums.
  • paradise lost — an epic poem (1667) by John Milton.
  • parameterised — to describe (a phenomenon, problem, curve, surface, etc.) by the use of parameters.
  • parasite drag — the component of drag caused by skin friction and the shape of the surfaces not contributing to lift.
  • parasitoidism — the feeding by certain insect larvae on host tissues such that the host remains alive until larval development is complete and then usually dies.
  • parenthesized — to insert (a word, phrase, etc.) as a parenthesis.
  • parris island — a U.S. Marine Corps base, recruit depot, and training station in SE South Carolina, SW of Beaufort and S of Port Royal Island.
  • parry islands — former name of the Queen Elizabeth Islands.
  • pass the word — If you pass the word, you tell someone something that another person has told you.
  • patriot's day — the third Monday in April, a legal holiday in Me. and Mass. commemorating the battles of Lexington and Concord (April 19, 1775)
  • patriots' day — the anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord (1775), celebrated the third Monday in April: a legal holiday in Massachusetts and Maine.
  • peak district — a region of N central England, mainly in N Derbyshire at the S end of the Pennines: consists of moors in the north and a central limestone plateau; many caves. Highest point: 727 m (2088 ft)
  • pedal pushers — women's short trousers
  • pedestrianism — the exercise or practice of walking.
  • pedestrianize — to go on foot; walk.
  • pedro santana — Pedro [pey-droh;; Spanish pe-th raw] /ˈpeɪ droʊ;; Spanish ˈpɛ ðrɔ/ (Show IPA), 1801–64, Dominican revolutionary and political leader: president 1844–48, 1853–56, 1858–61.
  • periodicalist — a writer of articles for periodicals
  • periodontitis — inflammation of the periodontium caused by bacteria that infect the roots of teeth and the surrounding gum crevices, producing bleeding, pus formation, and gradual loss of bone and the tissues that support the teeth. Compare pyorrhea (def 2).
  • periodontosis — rapidly advancing juvenile periodontitis.
  • perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
  • perpend stone — a large stone that passes through a wall from one side to the other
  • perplexedness — the quality or state of being perplexed
  • phase diagram — a graph, usually using temperature, pressure, and composition as coordinates, indicating the regions of stability of the various phases of a system.
  • phosphoretted — combined with phosphorus, especially in its lowest valence state.
  • phosphuretted — treated or combined with phosphorus
  • pise-de-terre — a mixture of sand, loam, clay, and other ingredients rammed hard within forms as a building material.
  • plasmodiocarp — a fruiting body of certain myxomycetes.
  • play on words — a pun or the act of punning.
  • playing cards — cards used in playing various games, arranged in decks of four suits (spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs): a standard deck has 52 cards
  • pleasure dome — a large building, facility, or place used for recreation.
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