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13-letter words containing rid

  • national grid — a network of high-voltage power lines connecting major power stations
  • nephridiopore — The external opening of a nephridium.
  • non-juridical — of or relating to the administration of justice.
  • oceanic ridge — any section of the narrow, largely continuous range of submarine mountains that extends into all the major oceans and at which new oceanic lithosphere is created by the rise of magma from the earth's interior
  • park and ride — a municipal system that provides free parking for suburban commuters at an outlying terminus of a bus or rail line.
  • park-and-ride — a municipal system that provides free parking for suburban commuters at an outlying terminus of a bus or rail line.
  • partridge pea — a North American plant, Cassia fasciculata, of the legume family, having yellow flowers and feathery compound leaves that fold shut when touched.
  • plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
  • platiniridium — a natural alloy composed chiefly of platinum and iridium.
  • post meridiem — p.m.
  • pride and joy — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
  • pride's purge — the forceful exclusion from the House of Commons, carried out by Col. Thomas Pride in December 1648, of about 100 members who favored compromise with the Royalist party.
  • priest-ridden — dominated or governed by or excessively under the influence of priests
  • rialto bridge — a bridge over the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy, liking Rialto Island with San Marco Island
  • ride the rods — to steal a ride on a freight train
  • ride the wave — to enjoy a period of success and good fortune
  • riding jacket — coat worn for horse-riding
  • 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
  • rubber bridge — a form of contract bridge in which deals are not replayed and in which scores are settled after each rubber.
  • self-ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
  • starting grid — area marked as start of a race
  • sulfapyridine — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 1 1 H 1 1 N 3 O 2 S, formerly used for infections caused by pneumococci, now used primarily for a particular dermatitis.
  • take pride in — be proud
  • tetrachloride — a chloride containing four atoms of chlorine.
  • tetrafluoride — a fluoride containing four fluorine atoms.
  • triglycerides — an ester obtained from glycerol by the esterification of three hydroxyl groups with fatty acids, naturally occurring in animal and vegetable tissues: an important energy source forming much of the fat stored by the body.
  • trisaccharide — a carbohydrate composed of three monosaccharide units, and hydrolyzable to a monosaccharide or a mixture of monosaccharides.
  • uridylic acid — nucleotide consisting of uracil, ribose, and a phosphate group. It is a constituent of RNA
  • water strider — any of several aquatic bugs of the family Gerridae, having long, slender legs fringed with hairs, enabling the insects to dart about on the surface of the water.
  • zinc chloride — a white, crystalline, deliquescent, water-soluble, poisonous solid, ZnCl 2 , used chiefly as a wood preservative, as a disinfectant and antiseptic, and in the manufacture of vulcanized fiber, parchment paper, and soldering fluxes.
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