8-letter words containing a, r, d, e
- 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.
- grappled — to hold or make fast to something, as with a grapple.
- graveled — Simple past tense and past participle of gravel.
- gravidae — a woman's status regarding pregnancy; usually followed by a roman numeral designating the number of times the woman has been pregnant.
- grenaded — a small shell containing an explosive and thrown by hand or fired from a rifle or launching device.
- grenades — Plural form of grenade.
- greyhead — a person with grey hair
- grievand — One who is the object of a formal grievance.
- grillade — a dish or serving of broiled or grilled meat.
- grimaced — a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
- griselda — a woman of exemplary meekness and patience.
- guardage — the state of being in the care of a guardian
- hachured — one of a series of short parallel lines drawn on a map to indicate topographic relief.
- hagrider — a person or thing that causes distressing anxiety or apprehension
- hagrides — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hagride.
- halberds — Plural form of halberd.
- haltered — Simple past tense and past participle of halter.
- hammered — shaped, formed, or ornamented by a metalworker's hammer: a hammered bowl of brass; hammered gold.
- hampered — Hinder or impede the movement or progress of.
- 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).
- harassed — stressed, tormented
- harbored — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- hard-set — firmly or rigidly set; fixed: a hard-set smile.
- hardbake — almond toffee
- hardcase — a container that has a rigid structure
- hardcore — unswervingly committed; uncompromising; dedicated: a hard-core segregationist.
- hardened — made or become hard or harder.
- hardener — a person or thing that hardens.
- hardface — an uncompromising person
- hardhead — an alloyed silver coin of Scotland, issued in the 16th and 17th centuries, equal to one and one-half pence and later to twopence.
- hardiest — capable of enduring fatigue, hardship, exposure, etc.; sturdy; strong: hardy explorers of northern Canada.
- 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
- hardware — metalware, as tools, locks, hinges, or cutlery.
- hardwire — Alternative spelling of hard-wire.
- harewood — the greenish-gray wood of the sycamore maple, used for making furniture.
- harkened — Simple past tense and past participle of harken.
- harrowed — an agricultural implement with spikelike teeth or upright disks, drawn chiefly over plowed land to level it, break up clods, root up weeds, etc.
- hayrides — Plural form of hayride.
- hazarded — Simple past tense and past participle of hazard.
- hazarder — a person who plays a gambling game with two dice
- head for — go towards, go to