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12-letter words containing rid

  • light bridge — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
  • london pride — a saxifragaceous plant, a hybrid between Saxifraga spathularis and S. umbrosa, having a basal rosette of leaves and pinkish-white flowers
  • meridianally — Along lines of meridian, longitudinally.
  • meridionally — In a meridional manner.
  • mithridatism — the production of immunity against the action of a poison by taking the poison in gradually increased doses.
  • mithridatize — to induce a state of mithridatism in (a person).
  • monochloride — a chloride containing one atom of chlorine with one atom of another element or a group.
  • monofluoride — (chemistry) any fluoride containing a single fluorine atom in each molecule.
  • musical ride — a display by riders on horseback of manoeuvres to music, esp by members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
  • new hebrides — former name of Vanuatu.
  • north riding — a former administrative division of Yorkshire, in N England, now part of North Yorkshire, Cleveland, and Durham.
  • off the grid — not using any of the services, such as bank accounts, public utilites, etc, that allow a person's activities to be monitored by the authorities
  • olla podrida — a spicy Spanish stew of sausage and other meat, chickpeas, and often tomatoes and other vegetables.
  • overidealize — to idealize excessively
  • overidentify — to identify with someone else to an excessive degree
  • paint bridge — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
  • postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
  • pridefulness — 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.
  • pteridomania — an excessive enthusiasm for ferns
  • pteridophyte — any plant of the division Pteridophyta, characterized by vascular tissue and differentiation into root, stem, and leaves, comprising the ferns, horsetails, and club mosses.
  • pteridosperm — seed fern.
  • pyridoxamine — a metabolic form of pyridoxine
  • quinacridone — Any of a group of synthetic organic compounds whose molecules contain three benzene and two pyridine rings arranged alternately. They include a number of red to violet pigments.
  • ride a hobby — to be excessively devoted to one's favorite pastime or subject
  • ride herd on — a number of animals kept, feeding, or traveling together; drove; flock: a herd of cattle; a herd of sheep; a herd of zebras.
  • ride shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
  • rideau canal — a waterway in SE Ontario, Canada, connecting the Ottawa Riverin Ottawa to Lake Ontario in Kingston. 125 miles (202 km) long.
  • ridiculously — causing or worthy of ridicule or derision; absurd; preposterous; laughable: a ridiculous plan.
  • riding boots — long boots worn for horse-riding
  • riding habit — habit1 (def 11).
  • scolopendrid — any myriapod of the order Scolopendrida, including many large, poisonous centipedes.
  • sinus iridum — (Bay of Rainbows) a semicircular dark plain in the second quadrant of the face of the moon.
  • stride piano — a style of jazz piano playing in which the right hand plays the melody while the left hand plays a single bass note or octave on the strong beat and a chord on the weak beat, developed in Harlem during the 1920s, partly from ragtime piano playing.
  • swing bridge — a bridge that can open by pivoting on a central pier to let vessels pass.
  • the hebrides — a group of over 500 islands off the W coast of Scotland: separated by the North Minch, Little Minch, and the Sea of the Hebrides: the chief islands are Skye, Raasay, Rum, Eigg, Coll, Tiree, Mull, Jura, Colonsay, and Islay (Inner Hebrides), and Lewis with Harris, North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist, and Barra (Outer Hebrides)
  • thioridazine — a phenothiazine, C 21 H 26 N 2 S 2 , used as an antipsychotic chiefly in the treatment of acute psychoses and schizophrenia.
  • tin-fluoride — stannous fluoride.
  • trick riding — the performance of tricks on horseback
  • triglyceride — 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.
  • truss bridge — a bridge in which the loads are supported by trusses.
  • unbridgeable — a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
  • unriddleable — (of a puzzle) not decipherable
  • weighbridges — Plural form of weighbridge.
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