8-letter words containing a, d, s, o, r
- sideroad — (esp in Ontario) a road, usually north-south, going at right angles to concession roads
- skyboard — a sport that is similar to skydiving but uses a special lightweight board (skyboard) attached to the feet and usually equipped with a parachute.
- solander — a case for maps, plates, etc., made to resemble a book and having the front cover and fore edge hinged.
- solidare — an old coin
- solidary — characterized by or involving community of responsibilities and interests.
- soredial — pertaining to or resembling a soredium.
- sorehead — a disgruntled or vindictive person, especially an unsportsmanlike loser: Don't be such a sorehead, they won fair and square.
- sowbread — any of several species of cyclamen, especially Cyclamen hederifolium, a low-growing Old World plant having mottled leaves and pink or white flowers.
- spadroon — a type of sword
- sporades — two groups of Greek islands in the Aegean: the Northern Sporades, lying northeast of Euboea, and the Southern Sporades, which include the Dodecanese and lie off the SW coast of Turkey
- sporadic — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- squadron — a portion of a naval fleet or a detachment of warships; a subdivision of a fleet.
- stafford — Jean, 1915–79, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- stamford — a city in SW Connecticut.
- stanford — (Amasa) Leland, 1824–93, U.S. railroad developer, politician, and philanthropist: governor of California 1861–63; senator 1885–93.
- stoppard — Tom (Thomas Straussler) born 1937, British playwright, born in the Czech Republic.
- stradiot — a soldier, usually of Greek or Albanian origin, who fought on horseback for the Venetian republic in the 15th and 16th centuries
- sudatory — pertaining to or causing sweating.
- swordman — swordsman.
- tarsioid — a fossil of the suborder Tarsioidea
- toadrush — an annual rush growing in damp lowlands
- warlords — Plural form of warlord.
- wordages — Plural form of wordage.
- workdays — Plural form of workday.