13-letter words containing s, r, d
- reduce a risk — If you reduce a risk, you lessen the potential damage that could be caused by a hazard or danger.
- reducibleness — the extent, state or quality of being reducible
- reductiveness — of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge: an urgent need for reductive measures.
- 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
- 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.
- released time — time or a period allotted to a teacher apart from normal duties for a special activity, as personal research.
- rendezvousing — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- repristinated — to restore to the first or original state or condition.
- reserve-grade — denoting a sporting team of the second rank in a club
- reserved list — a list of retired naval, army, or air-force officers available for recall to active service in an emergency
- reserved word — a word in a programming language or computer system that has a fixed meaning and therefore cannot be redefined by a programmer
- 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.
- reupholstered — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- reverse video — a mode on the display screen of a computer in which the colors normally used for characters and background are reversed.
- 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.
- rhodochrosite — a mineral, manganese carbonate, MnCO 3 , commonly containing some iron and calcium, and usually rose-red in color: a minor ore of manganese; manganese spar.
- ride the rods — to steal a ride on a freight train
- riding master — a person who teaches equitation.
- riding school — a place where equitation is taught.
- riding stable — a place where horses are kept for people to ride
- ring-streaked — having streaks or bands of color around the body.
- road surveyor — a person who does surveying work for road building
- robben island — a small island in South Africa, 11 km (7 miles) off the Cape Peninsula: formerly used by the South African government to house political prisoners
- rogation days — Usually, rogations. Ecclesiastical. solemn supplication, especially as chanted during procession on the three days (Rogation Days) before Ascension Day.
- roger-ducasse — Jean Jules Amable [zhahn zhyl a-ma-bluh] /ʒɑ̃ ʒül aˈma blə/ (Show IPA), 1873–1954, French composer.
- roll-top desk — a flexible, sliding cover for the working area of a desk, opening by rising upward and back in quadrantal grooves and rolling up beneath the top.
- roosevelt dam — a dam on the Salt River, in central Arizona. 284 feet (87 meters) high; 1080 feet (329 meters) long.
- root division — the act or process of reproducing plants by a division of roots or crowns.
- rose d'anvers — a gem having a rose cut of 12 or fewer facets.
- rose mandarin — (in the Chinese Empire) a member of any of the nine ranks of public officials, each distinguished by a particular kind of button worn on the cap.
- rose-coloured — of the colour rose; rosy
- rosebud mouth — a mouth that resembles the unopened flower of a rose in shape
- ruffed grouse — a North American grouse, Bonasa umbellus, having a tuft of black feathers on each side of the neck.
- ruled surface — a surface that can be generated by a straight line, as a cylinder or cone.
- run sb ragged — If someone runs you ragged, they make you do so much that you become exhausted.
- rupert's land — (formerly, in Canada) the territories granted by Charles II to the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670 and ceded to the Canadian Government in 1870, comprising all the land watered by rivers flowing into Hudson Bay
- rushed behind — a situation when the ball passes through the goalposts but was last touched by a defending player, causing the attacking team to win a point
- russian salad — a salad of cold diced cooked vegetables mixed with Russian dressing
- saber-toothed — having long, saberlike upper canine teeth, sometimes extending below the margin of the lower jaw.
- sacerdotalism — the system, spirit, or methods of the priesthood.
- sacerdotalize — to submit (something) to sacerdotalism
- sachet-powder — a small bag, case, or pad containing perfuming powder or the like, placed among handkerchiefs, lingerie, etc., to impart a pleasant scent.
- sacred baboon — hamadryas baboon.