8-letter words containing a, d, r, e
- archduke — a chief duke, esp (since 1453) a prince of the Austrian imperial dynasty
- archived — Simple past tense and past participle of archive.
- arcuated — Alternative form of arcuate.
- ardennes — a department of NE France, in Champagne-Ardenne region. Capital: Mézières. Pop: 288 806 (2003 est). Area: 5253 sq km (2049 sq miles)
- ardently — having, expressive of, or characterized by intense feeling; passionate; fervent: an ardent vow; ardent love.
- arguedas — Alcides [ahl-see-th es] /ɑlˈsi ðɛs/ (Show IPA), 1879–1946, Bolivian author, sociologist, and statesman.
- arguendo — (legal) for the sake of argument.
- argufied — Simple past tense and past participle of argufy.
- aridness — The state or quality of being arid.
- arillode — a false aril, developing from an opening in the covering of the ovule instead of from its stalk
- aristide — Jean-Bertrand, born 1953, Haitian priest and political leader: first democratically elected president, 1991, 1994–96, 2001–04.
- armidale — a town in Australia, in NE New South Wales: a centre for tourism. Pop: 20 271 (2001)
- armoured — Armoured vehicles are fitted with a hard metal covering in order to protect them from gunfire and other missiles.
- arointed — Simple past tense and past participle of aroint.
- arranged — If you say how things are arranged, you are talking about their position in relation to each other or to something else.
- arrested — to seize (a person) by legal authority or warrant; take into custody: The police arrested the burglar.
- arsenide — a compound in which arsenic is the most electronegative element
- art deco — Art Deco is a style of decoration and architecture that was common in the 1920s and 30s. It uses simple, bold designs on materials such as plastic and glass.
- arteveld — Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˈyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1290?–1345, Flemish statesman.
- 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.
- ascender — the part of certain lower-case letters, such as b or h, that extends above the body of the letter
- ascribed — Simple past tense and past participle of ascribe.
- aspersed — Simple past tense and past participle of asperse.
- asserted — resting on a statement or claim unsupported by evidence or proof; alleged: The asserted value of the property was twice the amount anyone offered.
- assorted — A group of assorted things is a group of similar things that are of different sizes or colours or have different qualities.
- asteroid — An asteroid is one of the very small planets that move around the sun between Mars and Jupiter.
- at grade — on the same level
- attender — The attenders at a particular place or event are the people who go there.
- attrited — worn down by friction or attrition
- auricled — (botany) auriculate.
- authored — a person who writes a novel, poem, essay, etc.; the composer of a literary work, as distinguished from a compiler, translator, editor, or copyist.
- averaged — Simple past tense and past participle of average.
- avoiders — Plural form of avoider.
- awardees — the recipient of an award.
- awarders — Plural form of awarder.
- ayurveda — an ancient medical treatise on the art of healing and prolonging life, sometimes regarded as a fifth Veda
- backread — (Internet, slang, especially in IRC) To catch up on an ongoing conversation, by reading previous portions one was not present for.
- badgered — any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
- badgerer — One who badgers.
- badgerly — resembling a badger
- baedeker — any of a series of travel guidebooks issued by the German publisher Karl Baedeker (1801–59) or his firm
- ballader — A writer of ballads.
- bandager — someone who bandages
- bandeira — an expedition in search of gold or slaves
- banderol — Alternative form of banderole.
- bandores — Plural form of bandore.
- bandster — a person who goes behind a reaper and binds sheaves of wheat
- bannered — Decorated with a banner or banners.
- bantered — Simple past tense and past participle of banter.
- bar code — A bar code is an arrangement of numbers and parallel lines that is printed on products to be sold in shops. The bar code can be read by computers.