9-letter words containing rad
- low-grade — of an inferior quality, worth, value, etc.: The mine yields low-grade silver ore.
- mascarade — Alternative form of masquerade.
- megafarad — a unit of electric capacitance equal to one million farads
- moradabad — a city in N Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
- nagyvarad — Hungarian name of Oradea.
- newstrade — newspaper retail as a whole
- non-trade — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- nongraded — without grade levels: a nongraded school.
- on parade — on display
- overgrade — to grade too highly
- overtrade — to trade in excess of one's capital or the requirements of the market.
- paradisal — paradisiacal.
- paradoxal — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
- paradoxer — a proposer of a paradox
- pavlograd — a city in E Ukraine, E of Dnepropetrovsk.
- pay grade — the grade of a member of the armed services established according to a scale of increasing amounts of base pay and related to but not identical with official rank.
- perradial — relating to the main rays of a member of the Radiata group
- perradius — any of the main rays of a member of the Radiata group
- petrograd — former name (1914–24) of St. Petersburg (def 2).
- picofarad — one trillionth of a farad. Abbreviation: pF.
- posigrade — of, relating to, or designating motion in the same direction as the current or normal motion
- pro-trade — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- radar gun — a small, handheld Doppler radar device used to measure the speed of vehicles or other moving objects.
- radcliffe — Ann (Ward) 1764–1823, English writer of Gothic romances.
- raddleman — ruddleman.
- radectomy — excision of part or all of the root of a tooth.
- radiality — the state of being radial in form or structure
- radialize — to arrange in or form a radial pattern
- radiantly — emitting rays of light; shining; bright: the radiant sun; radiant colors.
- radiately — In a radiate manner; with radiation or divergence from a centre.
- radiating — to extend, spread, or move like rays or radii from a center.
- radiation — Physics. the process in which energy is emitted as particles or waves. the complete process in which energy is emitted by one body, transmitted through an intervening medium or space, and absorbed by another body. the energy transferred by these processes.
- radiative — giving off radiation.
- radically — with regard to origin or root.
- radicchio — a variety of chicory originating in Italy, having a compact head of reddish, white-streaked leaves: leaves and roots may be cooked or used raw in salads.
- radicular — Botany. of or relating to a radicle or root.
- radio cab — a taxi or cab equipped with a radio for communication
- radio car — an automobile, especially a police car or taxi, equipped with a two-way radio for communication.
- radio set — an apparatus that receives radio signals
- radio van — a van containing equipment for transmitting and receiving radio signals
- radiocast — a radiobroadcast.
- radiogold — a radioactive isotope of gold, used in the medical treatment of certain conditions
- radiogram — a combination radio and record player.
- radioiron — the radioactive isotope of iron, with atomic weight 59 and a half-life of 46 days: used chiefly as a tracer in biochemistry.
- radioland — the aggregate of listeners within the reach of a radio station's transmission.
- radiology — the science dealing with x-rays or nuclear radiation, especially for medical uses.
- radionics — a dowsing technique using a pendulum to detect the energy fields that are emitted by all forms of matter
- radiosity — (graphics) A method for rendering a view of a three-dimensional scene that provides realistic lighting effects, such as interobject reflections and color bleeding. Radiosity methods are computationally intense, due to the use of linear systems of equations and the spatial complexity of large scenes.
- radiothon — an on-the-air radio campaign, often lasting 24 hours or more, designed to raise money for a radio station, charity, the arts, etc., as from listeners phoning in and pledging specific donations, sometimes in exchange for gifts or premiums.
- rag trade — The rag trade is the business and industry of making and selling clothes, especially women's clothes.