8-letter words containing a, d, l
- ponderal — relating to weight
- portland — a seaport in NW Oregon, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers.
- pplambda — (language) essentially the first-order predicate calculus superposed upon the simply-typed polymorphic lambda-calculus. PPLambda is the object language for LCF.
- praedial — of, relating to, or consisting of land or its products; real; landed.
- prandial — of or relating to a meal, especially dinner.
- preadult — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
- predella — the base of an altarpiece, often decorated with small paintings or reliefs.
- prodigal — wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
- psalmody — the act, practice, or art of setting psalms to music.
- qalandar — (in Islamic countries) one of an order of mendicant dervishes founded in the 14th century.
- quaalude — methaqualone
- quadplex — fourfold; quadruple.
- radcliff — a city in central Kentucky.
- raddling — Present participle of raddle.
- radiable — to extend, spread, or move like rays or radii from a center.
- radially — arranged like radii or rays.
- rag doll — a stuffed doll, especially of cloth.
- rag-doll — a stuffed doll, especially of cloth.
- raggedly — clothed in tattered garments: a ragged old man.
- railbird — a horse-racing fan who watches races or workouts from the railing along the track.
- railcard — pre-paid pass for train travel
- railhead — the farthest point to which the rails of a railroad have been laid.
- railroad — a permanent road laid with rails, commonly in one or more pairs of continuous lines forming a track or tracks, on which locomotives and cars are run for the transportation of passengers, freight, and mail.
- rancidly — in a rancid manner
- randlord — a mining magnate during the 19th-century gold boom in Johannesburg
- randolph — A(sa) Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader: president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925–68.
- randomly — proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern: the random selection of numbers.
- ravelled — to disentangle or unravel the threads or fibers of (a woven or knitted fabric, rope, etc.).
- raw deal — unjust treatment
- read law — to study to become a lawyer
- readable — easy or interesting to read.
- readably — easy or interesting to read.
- readerly — pertaining to or suitable for a reader
- realised — to grasp or understand clearly.
- realized — to grasp or understand clearly.
- red clay — a brown to red, widely distributed deep-sea deposit consisting chiefly of microscopic particles and tinted red by iron oxides and manganese.
- red flag — communist symbol
- red lead — an orange to red, heavy, earthy, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, Pb 3 O 4 , obtained by heating litharge in the presence of air: used chiefly as a paint pigment, in the manufacture of glass and glazes, and in storage batteries.
- red-flag — to mark or draw attention to for a particular purpose: The department has red-flagged the most urgent repair work to be done.
- redlands — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- reginald — a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “counsel and rule.”.
- rehandle — to handle again
- rehauled — to pull or draw with force; move by drawing; drag: They hauled the boat up onto the beach.
- released — to free from confinement, bondage, obligation, pain, etc.; let go: to release a prisoner; to release someone from a debt.
- reloaded — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
- reloader — a person or thing that reloads something such as cargo or ammunition
- remedial — affording remedy; tending to remedy something.
- remolade — rémoulade.
- replaced — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- resaddle — to saddle (a horse etc) again