13-letter words containing ro
- aphanipterous — of or relating to the wingless insects of the order Aphaniptera
- apheliotropic — growing in a direction away from the sunlight
- aphrodisiacal — having an aphrodisiac quality
- apogeotropism — negative geotropism, as shown by plant stems
- apostrophized — Simple past tense and past participle of apostrophize.
- apostrophizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of apostrophize.
- approach path — the course followed by an aircraft preparing for landing
- approach road — an access road to a house, station, airport, village etc
- approach shot — a shot made to or towards the green after a tee shot
- appropinquate — to approach
- appropinquity — nearness
- appropriately — suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc.: an appropriate example; an appropriate dress.
- appropriating — Present participle of appropriate.
- appropriation — An appropriation is an amount of money that a government or organization reserves for a particular purpose.
- appropriative — suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc.: an appropriate example; an appropriate dress.
- appropriators — Plural form of appropriator.
- approval code — An approval code is a PIN or other verification code needed to authorize a payment going through the cash register.
- approximately — close to; around; roughly or in the region of
- approximating — Present participle of approximate.
- approximation — An approximation is a fact, object, or description which is similar to something else, but which is not exactly the same.
- approximative — (of a method, description, etc.) giving only an approximation to something.
- apron strings — If you say that someone is tied to another person's apron strings, you mean that they are controlled or influenced too much by the other person.
- arachnivorous — Spider-eating.
- argentiferous — containing or bearing silver
- argilliferous — containing or yielding clay
- armed robbery — a robbery that is carried out by people carrying guns
- aromatization — the conversion of aliphatic or alicyclic compounds to aromatic hydrocarbons.
- arroyo grande — a town in SW California.
- arthroconidia — Plural form of arthroconidium.
- arthroscopies — Plural form of arthroscopy.
- assembly room — a room used as a public place of entertainment, usually dating from the eighteenth or nineteenth century
- asteroid belt — the concentrations of asteroids that move around the sun mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
- astrodynamics — the study of the motion of natural and artificial bodies in space
- astronautical — of or relating to astronautics or astronauts.
- astroparticle — (astrophysics) A subatomic particle of cosmic origin.
- astrophysical — Of or pertaining to astrophysics.
- aten asteroid — one of a small group of asteroids whose orbits cross that of the earth and whose semimajor axes are smaller than that of the earth.
- atherogenesis — (medicine) The formation of atheromas, especially on the walls of the arteries.
- atroceruleous — a deep blue-black color.
- atrociousness — The state of being atrocious.
- audience room — a room for holding formal interviews or hearings.
- austroasiatic — a family of languages spoken in SE Asia and the landsaround the Bay of Bengal and consisting principally of Vietnamese, Khmer, Mon, Khasi, Nicobarese, and the Munda languages.
- autoeroticism — the arousal and use of one's own body as a sexual object, as through masturbation
- autoprojector — (theory) A self-applicable partial evaluator.
- autumn crocus — a liliaceous plant, Colchicum autumnale, of Europe and N Africa having pink or purplish autumn flowers
- baal merodach — Marduk.
- baby primrose — a tender primrose, Primula forbesii, native to China and Burma, having white, hairy leaves and rose- or lilac-colored flowers with a yellow center.
- back to front — If you are wearing something back to front, you are wearing it with the back of it at the front of your body. If you do something back to front, you do it the wrong way around, starting with the part that should come last.
- backgrounders — Plural form of backgrounder.
- backgrounding — Present participle of background.