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.