8-letter words containing a, d, e, r, i
- gradient — the degree of inclination, or the rate of ascent or descent, in a highway, railroad, etc.
- gravidae — a woman's status regarding pregnancy; usually followed by a roman numeral designating the number of times the woman has been pregnant.
- grievand — One who is the object of a formal grievance.
- grillade — a dish or serving of broiled or grilled meat.
- grimaced — a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
- griselda — a woman of exemplary meekness and patience.
- hagrider — a person or thing that causes distressing anxiety or apprehension
- hagrides — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hagride.
- hardiest — capable of enduring fatigue, hardship, exposure, etc.; sturdy; strong: hardy explorers of northern Canada.
- hardinge — Henry, 1st Viscount Hardinge of Lahore. 1785–1856, British politician, soldier, and colonial administrator; governor general of India (1844–48)
- hardline — an uncompromising or unyielding stand, especially in politics.
- hardwire — Alternative spelling of hard-wire.
- hayrides — Plural form of hayride.
- headrail — a railing on a sailing vessel, extending forward from abaft the bow to the back of the figurehead.
- headring — an African head decoration and symbol of maturity
- heraclid — a person claiming descent from Hercules, especially one of the Dorian aristocracy of Sparta.
- heraldic — of, relating to, or characteristic of heralds or heraldry: heraldic form; heraldic images; heraldic history; a heraldic device.
- herodian — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- herodias — the second wife of Herod Antipas and the mother of Salome: she told Salome to ask Herod for the head of John the Baptist.
- hiveward — (of a bee's movement) towards the hive
- hreidmar — (in the Volsunga Saga) the father of Fafnir, Otter, and Regin. He demanded wergild from the gods for killing Otter, and was killed by Fafnir when he got it.
- hydremia — the state of having an excess of water in the blood.
- ice road — a temporary winter road built across ice or frozen ground
- ideogram — a written symbol that represents an idea or object directly rather than a particular word or speech sound, as a Chinese character.
- idocrase — vesuvianite.
- idolater — Also, idolist [ahyd-l-ist] /ˈaɪd l ɪst/ (Show IPA). a worshiper of idols.
- impaired — weakened, diminished, or damaged: impaired hearing; to rebuild an impaired bridge.
- imparted — Simple past tense and past participle of impart.
- inarched — Simple past tense and past participle of inarch.
- indeavor — Obsolete form of endeavor.
- indurate — to make hard; harden, as rock, tissue, etc.: Cold indurates the soil.
- infrared — the part of the invisible spectrum that is contiguous to the red end of the visible spectrum and that comprises electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths from 800 nm to 1 mm.
- inlander — a person living inland.
- inlarged — Simple past tense and past participle of inlarge.
- inroaded — Simple past tense and past participle of inroad.
- invaders — Plural form of invader.
- islander — a native or inhabitant of an island.
- iterated — to utter again or repeatedly.
- jaredite — (in Mormon belief) a member of a tribe of people who settled America after the dispersal at Babel.
- jeremiad — a prolonged lamentation or mournful complaint.
- judicare — a federally funded program providing free or low-cost legal services to the poor.
- keratoid — resembling horn; horny.
- kidnaper — Alternative spelling of kidnapper.
- lacertid — any of numerous Old World lizards of the family Lacertidae.
- lariated — Simple past tense and past participle of lariat.
- leafbird — any of several greenish, passerine birds of the genus Chloropsis, of Asia, related to the bulbuls, and often kept as pets.
- leopardi — Count Giacomo [jah-kuh-moh;; Italian jah-kaw-maw] /ˈdʒɑ kəˌmoʊ;; Italian ˈdʒɑ kɔ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1798–1837, Italian poet.
- librated — Simple past tense and past participle of librate.
- lip-read — to understand spoken words by interpreting the movements of a speaker's lips without hearing the sounds made.
- macbride — Seán [shawn] /ʃɔn/ (Show IPA), 1904–88, Irish politician and diplomat, born in France: Nobel Peace Prize 1974.