8-letter words containing a, d, r, i
- badarian — designating or of a Neolithic culture of Egypt, characterized by cattle-breeding, fine pottery, and a large range of ornaments
- baidarka — a type of narrow hunting boat, similar to a kayak, made of sealskin and used by inhabitants of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands
- baldrick — a belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn diagonally from shoulder to hip, supporting a sword, horn, etc.
- baldrics — Plural form of baldric.
- bandeira — an expedition in search of gold or slaves
- banditry — Banditry is used to refer to acts of robbery and violence in areas where the rule of law has broken down.
- bardling — an inexperienced, and thus usually inferior, poet
- bardship — the office or state of being a bard
- barred i — a high central vowel with phonetic quality approximating that of the vowels in pit, put, putt, or pet, and considered by most phonologists as a phonetic variant of one of these vowels, depending on the context, but by some as an autonomous phoneme in some varieties of English.
- barriada — a shantytown section on the outskirts of a large city in Latin America.
- basilard — a medieval dagger having a tapering blade with straight transverse quillons and a T -shaped pommel.
- bearding — the growth of hair on the face of an adult man, often including a mustache.
- bedchair — an adjustable chair to support an invalid sitting up in bed
- bediaper — to put a nappy on
- bedrails — Plural form of bedrail.
- bid fair — to seem probable
- big road — a main road or highway.
- bigarade — a Seville orange
- bilander — a small two-masted cargo ship
- billiard — of or relating to billiards
- bin card — an index card in or affixed to a bin identifying its contents
- biodrama — a drama based on the life of an actual person or persons.
- biradial — showing both bilateral and radial symmetry, as certain sea anemones
- birdbath — a small basin or trough for birds to bathe in, usually in a garden
- birdcage — A birdcage is a cage in which birds are kept.
- birdcall — the characteristic call or song of a bird
- birdfarm — a place where birds are kept
- birthday — Your birthday is the anniversary of the date on which you were born.
- blinkard — an idiot or stupid person
- blizzard — A blizzard is a very heavy snowstorm with strong winds.
- boardies — a pair of board shorts
- boarding — Boarding is an arrangement by which children live at school during the school term.
- braconid — any member of the Braconidae, a family of parasitoid wasps
- braeheid — the summit of a hill or slope
- braiding — braids collectively
- brainerd — a city in central Minnesota.
- brandeis — ˈLouis Demˌbitz (ˈdɛmˌbɪts ) ; demˈbitsˌ) 1856-1941; U.S. jurist: associate justice, Supreme Court (1916-39)
- brandied — flavored or blended with brandy
- branding — The branding of a product is the presentation of it to the public in a way that makes it easy for people to recognize or identify.
- brandise — a trivet
- brandish — If you brandish something, especially a weapon, you hold it in a threatening way.
- breadbin — a household container for bread, usually quite small
- breading — a kind of food made of flour or meal that has been mixed with milk or water, made into a dough or batter, with or without yeast or other leavening agent, and baked.
- bridally — in a manner appropriate for a bride
- brideman — a male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding
- bridgman — Percy Williams. 1882–1961, US physicist: Nobel prize for physics (1946) for his work on high-pressure physics and thermodynamics
- brigaded — a military unit having its own headquarters and consisting of two or more regiments, squadrons, groups, or battalions.
- brigands — a bandit, especially one of a band of robbers in mountain or forest regions.
- broadish — fairly broad
- brodiaea — any of several plants belonging to the genus Brodiaea, of the amaryllis family, native to western North America, having grasslike basal leaves and clusters of usually purplish flowers.