8-letter words containing a, r, d, e
- foreward — (obsolete) An advance group; the vanguard.
- foreyard — a yard on the lower mast of a square-rigged foremast of a ship used to support the foresail.
- forkhead — the head of an arrow
- formated — Misspelling of formatted.
- frazzled — worn-out; fatigued: a party that left us frazzled.
- fredaine — a prank; a practical joke
- fredonia — a town in W New York.
- freedman — a man who has been freed from slavery.
- freehand — drawn or executed by hand without guiding instruments, measurements, or other aids: a freehand map.
- freeload — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- frescade — a shaded walkway
- 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.
- frondage — (collectively) the fronds (of a plant)
- frybread — a Native American fried bread made with wheat or corn flour, often served on special occasions
- furcated — Forked or branched.
- furnaced — (in combinations) having a particular type or number of furnaces.
- gadarene — relating to or engaged in a headlong rush
- gadgetry — mechanical or electronic contrivances; gadgets: the gadgetry of the well-equipped modern kitchen.
- gaitered — wearing gaiters
- garbaged — Simple past tense and past participle of garbage.
- gardened — Simple past tense and past participle of garden.
- 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.
- garfield — James Abram, 1831–81, 20th president of the U.S., 1881.
- garnered — to gather or deposit in or as if in a granary or other storage place.
- garotted — to execute by the garrote.
- garreted — having a garret or garrets
- garroted — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- gartered — Also called, British, sock suspender, suspender. an article of clothing for holding up a stocking or sock, usually an elastic band around the leg or an elastic strap hanging from a girdle or other undergarment.
- gathered — Simple past tense and past participle of gather.
- gatorade — A fruit-flavored drink especially for athletes, designed to supply the body with carbohydrates and to replace fluids and sodium lost during exercise.
- 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.
- gearhead — A mechanical device used to increase the torque of gears.
- gendarme — a police officer in any of several European countries, especially a French police officer.
- gerardia — any plant of the genus Gerardia
- gheraoed — Simple past tense and past participle of gherao.
- gladvert — an advertisement that can be tailored to match the emotional state of the viewer
- 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.
- goadster — a goadsman
- goatherd — a person who tends goats.
- goodyear — Charles, 1800–60, U.S. inventor: developer of the process of vulcanizing rubber.
- grabbled — Simple past tense and past participle of grabble.
- gradable — capable of being graded.
- gradated — to pass by gradual or imperceptible degrees, as one color into another.
- gradient — the degree of inclination, or the rate of ascent or descent, in a highway, railroad, etc.
- graduate — a person who has received a degree or diploma on completing a course of study, as in a university, college, or school.
- graduses — Plural form of gradus.