8-letter words containing a, c, i, d
- anticked — Simple past tense and past participle of antic.
- anticold — preventing or treating the common cold
- aphicide — any substance used to kill aphids
- arachnid — any terrestrial chelicerate arthropod of the class Arachnida, characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs. The group includes the spiders, scorpions, ticks, mites, and harvestmen
- arcadian — of or relating to Arcadia or its inhabitants, esp the idealized Arcadia of pastoral poetry
- arcading — An arrangement of arcades.
- archived — Simple past tense and past participle of archive.
- arctiids — Plural form of arctiid.
- articled — In Britain, someone who is articled to a firm of lawyers or accountants is employed by the firm and is training to become qualified.
- ascarids — Plural form of ascarid.
- ascidian — any minute marine invertebrate animal of the class Ascidiacea, such as the sea squirt, the adults of which are degenerate and sedentary: subphylum Tunicata (tunicates)
- ascidium — part of a plant that is shaped like a pitcher, such as the modified leaf of the pitcher plant
- asconoid — pertaining to or resembling an ascon.
- ascribed — Simple past tense and past participle of ascribe.
- audacity — Audacity is audacious behaviour.
- audience — The audience at a play, concert, film, or public meeting is the group of people watching or listening to it.
- auricled — (botany) auriculate.
- autacoid — any natural internal secretion, esp one that exerts an effect similar to a drug
- autocide — suicide by crashing the vehicle one is driving.
- autocoid — Alternative form of autacoid.
- backside — Your backside is the part of your body that you sit on.
- backslid — Simple past tense and past participle of backslide.
- backwind — to divert wind against the lee side of (a sail) from another sail.
- baldrick — a belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn diagonally from shoulder to hip, supporting a sword, horn, etc.
- baldrics — Plural form of baldric.
- balladic — relating to ballads
- bedchair — an adjustable chair to support an invalid sitting up in bed
- bicaudal — having two tails
- bin card — an index card in or affixed to a bin identifying its contents
- biocidal — destructive of living organisms
- birdcage — A birdcage is a cage in which birds are kept.
- birdcall — the characteristic call or song of a bird
- blindcat — any of several catfishes, as Satan eurystomus (widemouth blindcat) of Texas, that inhabit underground streams and have undeveloped eyes and unpigmented skin.
- boadicea — Boudicca
- boudicca — died 62 ad, a queen of the Iceni, who led a revolt against Roman rule in Britain; after being defeated she poisoned herself
- braconid — any member of the Braconidae, a family of parasitoid wasps
- c++linda — (language)
- caddised — trimmed with caddis
- caddying — Present participle of caddy.
- cadherin — (protein) Any of a class of transmembrane proteins important in maintaining tissue structure.
- cadillac — something that is the most luxurious or highest quality of its kind
- cadinene — (organic compound) Any of a group of isomeric sesquiterpenes found in juniper essential oil.
- caducity — perishableness
- cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
- caladium — any of various tropical plants of the aroid genus Caladium, which are widely cultivated as potted plants for their colourful variegated foliage
- calcined — to convert into calx by heating or burning.
- caldaria — Plural form of caldarium.
- calicoed — dressed in calico.
- calidity — warmth
- caliduct — a pipe or duct for conveying a heating medium, as hot air or steam.