15-letter words containing rad
- alpha radiation — alpha particles emitted from a radioactive isotope
- andrada e silva — José Bonifacio de [zhaw-ze baw-nee-fah-syoo di] /ʒɔˈzɛ ˌbɔ niˈfɑ syʊ dɪ/ (Show IPA), 1763–1838, Brazilian statesman and scientist: architect of Brazilian independence.
- anti-radicalism — the holding or following of radical or extreme views or principles.
- antitraditional — opposed to or acting with disregard for tradition
- autoradiographs — Plural form of autoradiograph.
- autoradiography — the technique or process of making autoradiographs.
- bilateral trade — a system of trading between two countries in which each country attempts to balance its trade with that of the other
- building trades — the trades and professions concerned with the creation and finishing of buildings, such as carpenters, plasterers, masons, electricians, etc.
- cascara sagrada — the dried bark of the cascara buckthorn, used as a stimulant and laxative
- cineradiography — the filming of motion pictures through a fluoroscope or x-ray machine.
- cognitive radio — a radio that can automatically alter frequency, power, modulation, etc, according to where it is located
- colorado beetle — a black-and-yellow beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata, that is a serious pest of potatoes, feeding on the leaves: family Chrysomelidae
- colorado desert — an arid region of SE California and NW Mexico, west of the Colorado River. Area: over 5000 sq km (2000 sq miles)
- commodity trade — trade in raw materials and food
- comrade in arms — a fellow soldier.
- comrade-in-arms — A comrade-in-arms is someone who has worked for the same cause or purpose as you and has shared the same difficulties and dangers.
- contradictively — tending or inclined to contradict; involving contradiction; contradictory.
- contradictorily — asserting the contrary or opposite; contradicting; inconsistent; logically opposite: contradictory statements.
- cradle snatcher — someone who marries or has an affair with a much younger person
- cradle-to-grave — extending throughout one's life, from birth to death: a cradle-to-grave system of health care.
- cruising radius — the greatest distance that an aircraft or ship can cruise, away from and back to a certain point without refueling
- currency trader — a person whose work is to trade currencies and profit from exchange rate differentials
- electra paradox — the supposed paradox that one may know something to be true of an object under one description but not another, as when Electra knew that Orestes was her brother but not that the man before her was her brother although he was Orestes. This shows the predicate "knows" to be intensional, that Electra's knowledge here is de dicto, and that the statement of it yields an opaque context
- eleventh-grader — a student in the eleventh grade of high school
- extradictionary — (obsolete) Consisting not of words but of realities.
- fool's paradise — a state of enjoyment based on false beliefs or hopes; a state of illusory happiness.
- free-trade zone — foreign-trade zone. free port (def 1). Abbreviation: FTZ.
- gamma radiation — a photon of penetrating electromagnetic radiation (gamma radiation) emitted from an atomic nucleus.
- grade inflation — the awarding of higher grades than students deserve either to maintain a school's academic reputation or as a result of diminished teacher expectations.
- graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
- hyperadrenalism — a glandular disorder caused by the overactivity of the adrenal glands and often resulting in obesity
- identity parade — law: police lineup
- ineradicability — the quality of being ineradicable
- insider trading — the illegal buying and selling of securities by persons acting on privileged information.
- little colorado — a river flowing NW from E Arizona to the E edge of the Grand Canyon, where it flows into the Colorado River. 315 miles (507 km) long.
- michael faraday — Michael, 1791–1867, English physicist and chemist: discoverer of electromagnetic induction.
- micromicrofarad — picofarad. Symbol: μμF.
- microradiograph — an enlarged version of an image obtained by a form of radiography that reveals minute details
- newton's cradle — an ornamental puzzle consisting of a frame in which five metal balls are suspended in such a way that when one is moved it sets all the others in motion in turn
- non-traditional — of or relating to tradition.
- olbers' paradox — the paradox that if the universe consisted of an infinite number of stars equally distributed through space, then every line of sight would come from a star and the night sky would glow uniformly, which is observationally not true.
- paradise flower — a prickly vine, Solanum wendlandii, of the nightshade family, native to Costa Rica, having branched clusters of showy lilac-blue flowers.
- paradise valley — a town in SW Arizona.
- photodegradable — (of a substance) capable of being broken down by light.
- postirradiation — occurring after or due to irradiation
- program trading — trading on international stock exchanges using a computer program to exploit differences between stock index futures and actual share prices on world equity markets
- radar astronomy — the branch of astronomy that uses radar to map the surfaces of planetary bodies, as the moon and Venus, and to determine periods of rotation.
- radar telescope — (in radar astronomy) a very large radar antenna used to study planetary bodies in the solar system.
- radial symmetry — a basic body plan in which the organism can be divided into similar halves by passing a plane at any angle along a central axis, characteristic of sessile and bottom-dwelling animals, as the sea anemone and starfish.
- radial velocity — the component of the motion of a star away from or toward the earth along its line of sight, expressed in miles or kilometers per second and determined by the shift in the wavelength of light emitted by the star.
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