8-letter words containing a, d, e, s
- bedwards — towards bed
- bermudas — a group of islands in the Atlantic, 580 miles (935 km) E of North Carolina: a British colony; resort. 19 sq. mi. (49 sq. km). Capital: Hamilton.
- beshadow — to darken with shadow
- bespread — to cover (a surface) with something
- bethesda — a pool in Jerusalem reputed to have healing powers, where a paralysed man was healed by Jesus (John 5:2)
- biasedly — in a biased manner
- blandest — pleasantly gentle or agreeable: a bland, affable manner.
- boardies — a pair of board shorts
- bondages — slavery or involuntary servitude; serfdom.
- brandeis — ˈLouis Demˌbitz (ˈdɛmˌbɪts ) ; demˈbitsˌ) 1856-1941; U.S. jurist: associate justice, Supreme Court (1916-39)
- brandise — a trivet
- breasted — having a breast.
- broadest — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- bud vase — a relatively tall, slender vase, usually footed, for holding a single, stemmed flower, usually a rosebud
- budapest — the capital of Hungary, on the River Danube: formed in 1873 from the towns of Buda and Pest. Traditionally Buda, the old Magyar capital, was the administrative and Pest the trade centre: suffered severely in the Russian siege of 1945 and in the unsuccessful revolt against the Communist regime (1956). Pop: 1 719 342 (2003 est)
- bypassed — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
- caboshed — (of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
- cadaster — an official register showing details of ownership, boundaries, and value of real property in a district, made for taxation purposes
- cadastre — public record of the extent, value, and ownership of land within a district for purposes of taxation
- cadavers — Plural form of cadaver.
- caddised — trimmed with caddis
- cadences — Plural form of cadence.
- cadenzas — Plural form of cadenza.
- caduceus — a staff entwined with two serpents and bearing a pair of wings at the top, carried by Hermes (Mercury) as messenger of the gods
- calderas — Plural form of caldera.
- callused — Pathology, Physiology. a hardened or thickened part of the skin; a callosity. a new growth of osseous matter at the ends of a fractured bone, serving to unite them.
- camelids — Plural form of camelid.
- campshed — to line (the bank of a river) with campshot.
- candelas — Plural form of candela.
- canvased — Simple past tense and past participle of canvas.
- capsized — Simple past tense and past participle of capsize.
- capsuled — Enclosed within a capsule.
- cardcase — a small case for holding business cards
- cardenas — Lázaro (ˈlaθaro). 1895–1970, Mexican statesman and general; president of Mexico (1934–40)
- caressed — an act or gesture expressing affection, as an embrace or kiss, especially a light stroking or touching.
- caroused — Simple past tense and past participle of carouse.
- cascaded — a waterfall descending over a steep, rocky surface.
- cascades — a mountain range extending from N California to W Canada: highest peak, Mt. Rainier, 14,408 feet (4322 meters).
- caseated — Simple past tense and past participle of caseate.
- caseload — The caseload of someone such as a doctor, social worker, or lawyer is the number of cases that they have to deal with.
- castered — a person or thing that casts.
- catheads — Plural form of cathead.
- cathodes — Plural form of cathode.
- catslide — (in early American architecture) a steep roof ending close to the ground, as on a saltbox.
- caucused — U.S. Politics. a meeting of party leaders to select candidates, elect convention delegates, etc. a meeting of party members within a legislative body to select leaders and determine strategy. (often initial capital letter) a faction within a legislative body that pursues its interests through the legislative process: the Women's Caucus; the Black Caucus.
- cedillas — Plural form of cedilla.
- chadless — (of a keypunch) not producing chads
- charades — a parlour game in which one team acts out each syllable of a word, the other team having to guess the word
- cheddars — Plural form of cheddar.
- chresard — the amount of water present in the soil that is available to plants