8-letter words containing a, d, h, r
- chondria — a profusely branched red alga, Chondria tenuissima, of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North America.
- chordata — the phylum comprising the chordates.
- chordate — any animal of the phylum Chordata, including the vertebrates and protochordates, characterized by a notochord, dorsal tubular nerve cord, and pharyngeal gill slits
- chresard — the amount of water present in the soil that is available to plants
- clochard — a tramp
- crashpad — a place to sleep or live temporarily
- dahlgren — John Adelphus Bernard, 1809–70, U.S. naval officer and inventor.
- damanhur — a city in NE Egypt, in the Nile delta. Pop: 229 000 (2005 est)
- damrosch — Walter (Johannes)1862-1950; U.S. conductor & composer, born in Germany
- darshana — any of the six principal systems of philosophy.
- dassehra — an annual Hindu festival celebrated on the 10th lunar day of Navaratri; images of the goddess Durga are immersed in water
- daughter — Someone's daughter is their female child.
- demarche — move, step, or manoeuvre, esp in diplomatic affairs
- detacher — One who or that which detaches.
- diagraph — a device for enlarging or reducing maps, plans, etc
- diarchal — Relating to, or pertaining to, diarchy or a diarchy system.
- diarrhea — If someone has diarrhea, a lot of liquid feces comes out of their body because they are ill.
- didrachm — (in ancient Greece) a silver coin worth two drachmas
- die hard — If you say that habits or attitudes die hard, you mean that they take a very long time to disappear or change, so that it may not be possible to get rid of them completely.
- die-hard — a person who vigorously maintains or defends a seemingly hopeless position, outdated attitude, lost cause, or the like.
- diehards — Plural form of diehard.
- digraphs — Plural form of digraph.
- dihedral — having or formed by two planes.
- dinarchy — duarchy.
- disheart — Obsolete form of dishearten.
- dishoard — to put previously withheld (money) into circulation
- dishrags — Plural form of dishrag.
- dishware — dishes used for food; tableware.
- dorothea — a female given name: from a Greek word meaning “gift of God.”.
- dpsather — Data-parallel Sather. deterministic fine-grained parallelism. E-mail: <[email protected]>. ftp://lynx.csis.dit.csiro.au/p/pub/ather/dpsather.papers.
- drabbish — Somewhat drab in colour.
- drachmas — Plural form of drachma.
- draffish — resembling draff
- drammach — an uncooked mixture of meal, usually oatmeal, and cold water.
- dramshop — bar; barroom; saloon.
- draughts — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- draughty — characterized by or admitting currents of air, usually uncomfortable.
- drawhole — a funnel-shaped vertical opening cut at the bottom of a stope, which permits the loading of ore into conveyances in the passageways below.
- drogheda — a seaport in the NE Republic of Ireland, near the mouth of the Boyne River: the town was captured by Cromwell in 1649 and its garrisons as well as many male inhabitants put to the sword.
- drophead — (British) Shortened form of 'drophead coupé'.
- drumhead — the membrane stretched upon a drum.
- dry wash — clothes, curtains, etc., washed and dried but not yet ironed. Compare wet wash.
- dwarfish — like a dwarf, especially in being abnormally small; diminutive.
- dwarvish — Synonym of dwarfish.
- dyschroa — an alteration of colour on the skin
- eberhard — Johann August (joˈhan ˈaʊɡʊst). 1739–1809, German philosopher and lexicographer, best known for his German dictionary (1795–1802)
- endarchy — a central government
- farmhand — a person who works on a farm, especially a hired worker; hired hand.
- fathered — a male parent.
- fauchard — a shafted weapon having a knifelike blade with a convex cutting edge and a beak on the back for catching the blade of an aggressor's weapon.