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13-letter words containing d, o, p, e, r

  • grand opening — celebratory first-day event
  • groundkeepers — Plural form of groundkeeper.
  • groundskeeper — a person who is responsible for the care and maintenance of a particular tract of land, as an estate, a park, or a cemetery.
  • gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
  • hardware shop — a shop that sells metal tools and implements and mechanical equipment and components, etc
  • hedge sparrow — the dunnock.
  • hemiterpenoid — (chemistry) a terpenoid having a C5 skeleton.
  • hermaphrodism — the condition of being a hermaphrodite.
  • hermaphrodite — an individual in which reproductive organs of both sexes are present. Compare pseudohermaphrodite.
  • hermaphrodyte — (archaic) alternative spelling of hermaphrodite.
  • herod agrippa — (Julius Agrippa) c10 b.c.–a.d. 44, king of Judea 41–44 (grandson of Herod the Great).
  • herod antipas — died after a.d. 39, ruler of Galilee, a.d. 4–39: ordered the execution of John the Baptist and participated in the trial of Jesus.
  • hopper dredge — a self-propelled dredge having compartments in which the dredged material can be carried and dumped through hoppers.
  • hydroairplane — a hydroplane.
  • hydrocephalic — of or relating to hydrocephalus.
  • hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
  • hydromorphone — A synthetic narcotic analgesic, (4,5 alpha-epoxy-3-hydroxy-17-methyl morphinan-6-one), similar to morphine and heroin. It is used for moderate to severe pain under the trade name Dilaudid.
  • hydroperoxide — any chemical compound having the general formula, ROOH, where R is an element or an organic group.
  • hydrosulphate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
  • hydrosulphide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
  • hydrosulphite — hyposulfite (def 1).
  • hyperadenosis — abnormal enlargement of the glands, especially of the lymph nodes.
  • hyperboloidal — Having the shape or form of a hyperboloid.
  • hyperdicrotic — having or pertaining to a double beat of the pulse for each beat of the heart.
  • hyperhidrosis — abnormally excessive sweating.
  • hyperlordosis — Particularly severe lordosis.
  • hyperproducer — an increased or rapid producer
  • hypertrophied — abnormal enlargement of a part or organ; excessive growth.
  • ideographical — Alternative form of ideographic.
  • imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
  • improvidently — In an improvident manner.
  • indo-european — a large, widespread family of languages, the surviving branches of which include Italic, Slavic, Baltic, Hellenic, Celtic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian, spoken by about half the world's population: English, Spanish, German, Latin, Greek, Russian, Albanian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Persian, Hindi, and Hittite are all Indo-European languages. Compare family (def 14).
  • inner product — Also called dot product, scalar product. the quantity obtained by multiplying the corresponding coordinates of each of two vectors and adding the products, equal to the product of the magnitudes of the vectors and the cosine of the angle between them.
  • insect powder — a powdered chemical that kills insects; insecticide
  • jet-propelled — propelled by a jet engine or engines.
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • latent period — Also, latency period. Pathology. the interval between exposure to a carcinogen, toxin, or disease-causing organism and development of a consequent disease.
  • leaded petrol — petrol containing tetraethyl lead in order to improve combustion
  • leopard shark — a small, inshore shark, Triakis semifasciata, having distinctive black markings across the back, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters from Oregon through California.
  • lepidocrocite — a ruby-red to reddish-brown orthorhombic mineral, iron oxyhydroxide, FeO(OH), dimorphous with goethite: an ore of iron, used as a pigment.
  • lepidopterans — Plural form of lepidopteran.
  • lepidopterist — the branch of zoology dealing with butterflies and moths.
  • lepidopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Lepidoptera, an order of insects comprising the butterflies, moths, and skippers, that in the adult state have four membranous wings more or less covered with small scales.
  • loop diuretic — any of a group of diuretics, including frusemide, that act by inhibiting resorption of salts from Henle's loop of the kidney tubule
  • lord temporal — a member of the House of Lords who is not a member of the clergy.
  • lord's prayer — the, the prayer given by Jesus to His disciples, and beginning with the words Our Father. Matt. 6:9–13; Luke 11:2–4.
  • lord's supper — the, the sacrament in commemoration of the Last Supper; communion; Mass; Eucharist.
  • madeira topaz — citrine (def 2).
  • mail exploder — (messaging)   Part of an electronic mail delivery system which allows a message to be delivered to a list of addresses. Mail exploders are used to implement mailing lists. Users send messages to a single address and the mail exploder takes care of delivery to the individual mailboxes in the list.
  • meat products — foods that consist of or contain meat
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