8-letter words containing a, n, d, r, e
- gardener — a person who is employed to cultivate or care for a garden, lawn, etc.
- 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.
- garnered — to gather or deposit in or as if in a granary or other storage place.
- gazunder — (of a buyer) lower the amount of an offer made on a property and accepted by (a seller) at the time of final negotiations.
- gendarme — a police officer in any of several European countries, especially a French police officer.
- glanders — a contagious disease chiefly of horses and mules but communicable to humans, caused by the bacterium Pseudomonas mallei and characterized by swellings beneath the jaw and a profuse mucous discharge from the nostrils.
- glendora — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- gradient — the degree of inclination, or the rate of ascent or descent, in a highway, railroad, etc.
- grandame — a grandmother.
- grandees — Plural form of grandee.
- grandest — impressive in size, appearance, or general effect: grand mountain scenery.
- grandeur — the quality or state of being impressive or awesome: the grandeur of the Rocky Mountains.
- grenaded — a small shell containing an explosive and thrown by hand or fired from a rifle or launching device.
- grenades — Plural form of grenade.
- grievand — One who is the object of a formal grievance.
- handlers — Plural form of handler.
- handover — the act of relinquishing property, authority, etc.: a handover of occupied territory.
- hangared — a shed or shelter.
- hankered — to have a restless or incessant longing (often followed by after, for, or an infinitive).
- hardened — made or become hard or harder.
- hardener — a person or thing that hardens.
- hardinge — Henry, 1st Viscount Hardinge of Lahore. 1785–1856, British politician, soldier, and colonial administrator; governor general of India (1844–48)
- hardline — an uncompromising or unyielding stand, especially in politics.
- hardness — the state or quality of being hard: the hardness of ice.
- hardnose — a person who is tough and uncompromising
- harkened — Simple past tense and past participle of harken.
- headring — an African head decoration and symbol of maturity
- herdsman — a herder; the keeper of a herd, especially of cattle or sheep.
- herodian — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- inarched — Simple past tense and past participle of inarch.
- indeavor — Obsolete form of endeavor.
- indurate — to make hard; harden, as rock, tissue, etc.: Cold indurates the soil.
- infrared — the part of the invisible spectrum that is contiguous to the red end of the visible spectrum and that comprises electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths from 800 nm to 1 mm.
- inlander — a person living inland.
- inlarged — Simple past tense and past participle of inlarge.
- inroaded — Simple past tense and past participle of inroad.
- invaders — Plural form of invader.
- islander — a native or inhabitant of an island.
- jargoned — Simple past tense and past participle of jargon.
- jordaens — Jacob [yah-kawp] /ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1593–1678, Flemish painter.
- kalendar — a calendar, especially of a church: the Anglican kalendar.
- kidnaper — Alternative spelling of kidnapper.
- ladrones — a group of 15 small islands in the Pacific, E of the Philippines: divided into Guam, a possession of the U.S., and the North Marianas, formally under U.S. trusteeship. 453 sq. mi. (1127 sq. km).
- landrace — one of several widely distributed strains of large, white, lop-eared swine of northern European origin.
- landseer — Sir Edwin Henry, 1802–73, English painter, especially of animals.
- landwehr — (in Germany, Austria, etc.) the part of the organized military forces of a nation that has completed a certain amount of compulsory training, and whose continuous service is required only in time of war.
- langered — (slang, Ireland) extremely drunk.
- largened — Simple past tense and past participle of largen.
- launders — Plural form of launder.