8-letter words containing a, e, r, i, d
- dragline — a rope dragging from something; dragrope.
- drainage — the act or process of draining.
- drainers — Plural form of drainer.
- draisine — an early form of bicycle designed in Germany, nick-named the hobby horse or dandy horse
- drambuie — a liqueur based on Scotch whisky and made exclusively in Scotland from a recipe dating from the 18th century
- dreading — to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of: to dread death.
- dreamier — Comparative form of dreamy.
- dreamily — of the nature of or characteristic of dreams; visionary.
- dreaming — (often initial capital letter) the ancient time of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors, whose spirits continue into the present, as conceived in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines.
- drearier — Comparative form of dreary.
- drearily — causing sadness or gloom.
- drearing — sorrow; grief
- drepanid — any moth of the superfamily Drepanoidae (family Drepanidae): it comprises the hook-tip moths
- driftage — the action or an amount of drifting.
- drippage — a dripping, as of water from a faucet.
- drivable — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- drive at — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- driveway — a road, especially a private one, leading from a street or other thoroughfare to a building, house, garage, etc.
- durative — noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing incomplete or continued action. Beat and walk are durative in contrast to strike and step.
- duvalier — François [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/ (Show IPA), ("Papa Doc") 1907–71, Haitian physician and dictator: president 1957–71.
- eat dirt — any foul or filthy substance, as mud, grime, dust, or excrement.
- edward i — ("Edward Longshanks") 1239–1307, king of England 1272–1307 (son of Henry III).
- elaterid — any of the beetles constituting the widely distributed family Elateridae (click beetles). The group includes the wireworms and certain fireflies
- empaired — Simple past tense and past participle of empair.
- endbrain — (neuroanatomy) The anterior part of the forebrain; the telencephalon.
- epidural — On or around the dura mater, in particular (of an anesthetic) introduced into the space around the dura mater of the spinal cord.
- eradiate — (botany) Said of several types of capitulum that do not have petal-like florets.
- ergatoid — a wingless, worker-like ant with sexual capability
- eridanus — a long twisting constellation in the S hemisphere extending from Orion to Hydrus and containing the first magnitude star Achernar
- eupatrid — One well born, or of noble birth.
- exordial — Of or relating to an exordium, beginning or introduction.
- fairlead — a pulley, thimble, etc., used to guide a rope forming part of the rigging of a ship, crane, etc., in such a way as to prevent chafing.
- faradise — /far'*-di:z/ [US Geological Survey] To start any hyper-addictive process or trend, or to continue adding current to such a trend. Telling one user about a new octo-tetris game you compiled would be a faradising act - in two weeks you might find your entire department playing the faradic game.
- faradize — to stimulate or treat (muscles or nerves) with induced alternating electric current (distinguished from galvanize).
- filander — a former name for the pademelon, a small wallaby of the genus Thylogale
- filecard — a card of a size suitable for filing, typically 3 × 5 inches (7.62 × 12.7 cm) or 4 × 6 inches (10.16 × 15.24 cm).
- finedraw — (transitive) To sew up so finely that the seam is not visible; to renter.
- fireband — A band or bond forged by fire.
- firedamp — a combustible gas consisting chiefly of methane, formed especially in coal mines, and dangerously explosive when mixed with certain proportions of atmospheric air.
- fireward — (obsolete) a fire chief.
- foresaid — aforementioned; aforesaid.
- fredaine — a prank; a practical joke
- fredonia — a town in W New York.
- freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- friedman — Bruce Jay, born 1930, U.S. novelist.
- gaitered — wearing gaiters
- gardenia — any evergreen tree or shrub belonging to the genus Gardenia, of the madder family, native to the warmer parts of the Eastern Hemisphere, cultivated for its usually large, fragrant white flowers.
- gardiner — Samuel Rawson [raw-suh n] /ˈrɔ sən/ (Show IPA), 1829–1902, English historian.
- garfield — James Abram, 1831–81, 20th president of the U.S., 1881.
- gerardia — any plant of the genus Gerardia