8-letter words containing a, d, s
- assorted — A group of assorted things is a group of similar things that are of different sizes or colours or have different qualities.
- assuaged — to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.
- astatide — a binary compound of astatine with a more electropositive element
- asteroid — An asteroid is one of the very small planets that move around the sun between Mars and Jupiter.
- astonied — stunned; dazed
- astounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of astound.
- astroids — Plural form of astroid.
- asyndeta — Plural form of asyndeton.
- at speed — quickly
- athodyds — Plural form of athodyd.
- atomised — to reduce to atoms.
- attested — (of cattle, etc) certified to be free from a disease, esp from tuberculosis
- audibles — Plural form of audible.
- audients — Plural form of audient.
- auditees — Plural form of auditee.
- auditors — Plural form of auditor.
- avidness — a desire to advance; eagerness
- avocados — Plural form of avocado.
- avoiders — Plural form of avoider.
- awardees — the recipient of an award.
- awarders — Plural form of awarder.
- backends — Plural form of backend.
- backside — Your backside is the part of your body that you sit on.
- backslid — Simple past tense and past participle of backslide.
- bad news — someone or something regarded as undesirable
- bad seed — a person who is seen as being congenitally disposed to wrongdoing and likely to be a bad influence on others
- badlands — any deeply eroded barren area
- baldness — having little or no hair on the scalp: a bald head; a bald person.
- baldrics — Plural form of baldric.
- ballades — Plural form of ballade.
- band saw — a power-operated saw consisting of an endless toothed metal band running over and driven by two wheels
- bandages — Plural form of bandage.
- bandanas — Plural form of bandana.
- bandfish — a Mediterranean fish with an elongated body
- bandores — Plural form of bandore.
- bandpass — (of a filter) transmitting only a set range of frequencies.
- bandsman — Bandsmen are musicians in a band, especially a military or brass band.
- bandsmen — Plural form of bandsman.
- bandster — a person who goes behind a reaper and binds sheaves of wheat
- banished — Simple past tense and past participle of banish.
- bankside — the sloping side of any bank
- banstead — a town in S England, in NE Surrey. Pop: 19 332 (2001)
- baptised — to immerse in water or sprinkle or pour water on in the Christian rite of baptism: They baptized the new baby.
- barbados — an island in the Caribbean, in the E Lesser Antilles: a British colony from 1628 to 1966, now an independent state within the Commonwealth. Language: English. Currency: Barbados dollar. Capital: Bridgetown. Pop: 288 725 (2013 est). Area: 430 sq km (166 sq miles)
- bardship — the office or state of being a bard
- baseband — a transmission technique using a narrow range of frequencies that allows only one message to be telecommunicated at a time
- baselard — a historical (predominantly 13th–17th century) short Swiss sword with a distinctive crescent-shaped pommel and crossguard
- baseload — The minimum load on a power station over a standard period.
- baseword — (linguistics) The word used a base and upon whose stem affixes are added, forming new words.
- basidium — the structure, produced by basidiomycetous fungi after sexual reproduction, in which spores are formed at the tips of projecting slender stalks