8-letter words containing a, n, d, e, r, s
- nearside — (British) the left side of a road vehicle when facing in the same direction as the vehicle.
- nerdgasm — a feeling of intense excitement felt by someone considered to be a nerd, esp. when caused by something relating to his or her leisure interests such as a new piece of technology, computer game, science fiction film, etc.
- operands — Plural form of operand.
- ransomed — the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- readings — Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquis of, 1860–1935, Lord Chief Justice of England 1913–21; viceroy of India 1921–26.
- reascend — to ascend again
- reasoned — based on reason: a carefully reasoned decision.
- redlands — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- redshank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
- sandiver — a whitish, saline scum formed on the surface of molten glass.
- sardegna — a large island in the Mediterranean, W of Italy: with small nearby islands it comprises a department of Italy. 9301 sq. mi. (24,090 sq. km).
- sarpedon — a Lycian prince, son of Zeus, killed by Patroclus in the Trojan War.
- saunders — Dame Cicely. 1918–2005, British philanthropist: founded St Christopher's Hospice in 1967 for the care of the terminally ill, upon which the modern hospice movement is modelled. Her books include Living with Dying (1983)
- serenade — a complimentary performance of vocal or instrumental music in the open air at night, as by a lover under the window of his lady.
- serranid — any of numerous percoid fishes of the family Serranidae, living chiefly in warm seas, including the sea basses and groupers.
- sheridan — Philip Henry, 1831–88, Union general in the Civil War.
- solander — a case for maps, plates, etc., made to resemble a book and having the front cover and fore edge hinged.
- spandrel — Architecture. an area between the extradoses of two adjoining arches, or between the extrados of an arch and a perpendicular through the extrados at the springing line.
- sprained — (of a joint) having been injured by a sudden twisting or wrenching of its ligaments
- squander — to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully (often followed by away).
- strained — affected or produced by effort; not natural or spontaneous; forced: strained hospitality.
- stranded — composed of a specified number or kind of strands (usually used in combination): a five-stranded rope.
- strander — a person who strands
- swanherd — a person who tends swans.
- transude — to pass or ooze through pores or interstices, as a fluid.
- undersay — to state in the form of an answer
- undersea — located, carried on, or used under the surface of the sea: undersea life.
- unerased — to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
- unparsed — to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
- unraised — fashioned or made as a surface design in relief.
- unscared — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
- unseared — to burn or char the surface of: She seared the steak to seal in the juices.
- unshared — not shared
- unspared — to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.