8-letter words containing a, d
- agendums — matters to be attended to, as at a meeting of a committee
- agenized — to bleach (flour) with nitrogen trichloride.
- aggraded — Simple past tense and past participle of aggrade.
- agitated — If someone is agitated, they are very worried or upset, and show this in their behaviour, movements, or voice.
- agonised — Simple past tense and past participle of agonise.
- agonized — Agonized describes something that you say or do when you are in great physical or mental pain.
- agueweed — a North American gentianaceous plant, Gentiana quinquefolia, that has clusters of pale blue-violet or white flowers
- ahead of — If someone is ahead of you, they are directly in front of you. If someone is moving ahead of you, they are in front of you and moving in the same direction.
- ahmadiya — a modern sect, divided into an older group (Qadianis) and a newer group (Lahore party)
- aidoneus — a king of Thesprotia.
- air date — the date of a broadcast or scheduled broadcast.
- air drop — An air drop is a delivery of supplies by aircraft to an area that is hard to get to. The supplies are dropped from the aircraft on parachutes.
- air duct — a pipe or channel permitting air to travel through a system, building, or other structure, such as a mine
- air raid — An air raid is an attack by military aircraft in which bombs are dropped. This expression is usually used by the country or group that is suffering the attack.
- air wood — timber dried naturally by contact with the open air.
- airboard — an inflatable board resembling a bodyboard that is used in the sport of airboarding
- airbound — supported by air
- airdates — Plural form of airdate.
- airdrawn — having its outline traced in air
- airdried — Simple past tense and past participle of airdry.
- airdries — a city in central Scotland, near Glasgow.
- airdrome — An airdrome is a place or area where small aircraft can land and take off.
- airdrops — Plural form of airdrop.
- airedale — a large rough-haired tan-coloured breed of terrier characterized by a black saddle-shaped patch covering most of the back
- airfield — An airfield is an area of ground where aircraft take off and land. It is smaller than an airport.
- airheads — Plural form of airhead.
- airspeed — An aircraft's airspeed is the speed at which it travels through the air.
- akeldama — Aceldama.
- akkadian — a member of an ancient Semitic people who lived in central Mesopotamia in the third millennium bc
- al dente — If you cook pasta or a vegetable until it is al dente, you cook it just long enough so that it is neither hard nor soft but is firm and slightly chewy.
- al desko — (of a meal, esp lunch) at one's desk at one's place of work
- al fayed — Mohamed. born 1933, Egyptian-born businessman; owner of the Harrods department store (1985–2010) and of the Ritz Hotel, Paris, from 1979: his son Dodi Fayed (1956–97) died in the same Paris car crash as Diana, Princess of Wales
- al qaeda — a radical Sunni Muslim organization dedicated to the elimination of a Western presence in Arab countries and militantly opposed to Western foreign policy: founded by Osama bin Laden in 1988.
- al qaida — a radical Sunni Muslim organization dedicated to the elimination of a Western presence in Arab countries and militantly opposed to Western foreign policy: founded by Osama bin Laden in 1988.
- al-obeid — El Obeid
- al-qaeda — a loosely-knit militant Islamic organization led and funded by Osama bin Laden, by whom it was established in the late 1980s from Arab volunteers who had fought the Soviet troops previously based in Afghanistan; known or believed to be behind a number of operations against Western, esp US, interests, including bomb attacks on two US embassies in Africa in 1998 and the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York in 2001
- al-qaida — a radical Sunni Muslim organization dedicated to the elimination of a Western presence in Arab countries and militantly opposed to Western foreign policy: founded by Osama bin Laden in 1988.
- ala dagh — a mountain range in S Turkey: highest peak, about 11,000 feet (3350 meters).
- albinoid — Of or pertaining to an animal or person with albinism.
- alcaides — Plural form of alcaide.
- alcandre — the wife of Polybus who received Helen and Menelaus on their way home from Troy.
- alcidine — of, relating to, or belonging to the Alcidae, a family of sea birds including the auks, guillemots, puffins, and related forms
- alcimede — the mother of Jason.
- alcindor — (Ferdinand) Lew(is, Jr.) original name of Abdul-Jabbar.
- aldehyde — any organic compound containing the group -CHO. Aldehydes are oxidized to carboxylic acids and take part in many addition reactions
- alderfly — any of various neuropterous insects of the widely distributed group Sialoidea, such as Sialis lutaria, that have large broad-based hind wings, produce aquatic larvae, and occur near water
- alderman — In some parts of the United States and Canada, an alderman is a member of the governing body of a city.
- aldermen — Plural form of alderman.
- alderney — one of the Channel Islands, in the English Channel: separated from the French coast by a dangerous tidal channel (the Race of Alderney). Pop: 2294 (2001). Area: 8 sq km (3 sq miles)
- aldicarb — a crystalline compound, C7H14N2O2S, used as a pesticide against insects, mites and nematodes