8-letter words containing a, r, d, e
- pre-dawn — the period immediately preceding dawn.
- pre-draw — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- preadapt — to undergo pre-adaptation.
- preadmit — to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
- preadopt — to choose or take as one's own; make one's own by selection or assent: to adopt a nickname.
- preadult — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
- preaudit — an examination of vouchers, contracts, etc., in order to substantiate a transaction or a series of transactions before they are paid for and recorded.
- preboard — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
- predated — to date before the actual time; antedate: He predated the check by three days.
- predates — to date before the actual time; antedate: He predated the check by three days.
- predator — Zoology. any organism that exists by preying upon other organisms.
- predeath — occurring before or in the lead-up to death; of or pertaining to the period immediately prior to death
- predella — the base of an altarpiece, often decorated with small paintings or reliefs.
- predraft — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- predrawn — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- prefaced — a preliminary statement in a book by the book's author or editor, setting forth its purpose and scope, expressing acknowledgment of assistance from others, etc.
- prefaded — given a faded or worn look beforehand (as of jeans, etc)
- pregrade — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
- prepared — properly expectant, organized, or equipped; ready: prepared for a hurricane.
- preradio — before the invention of radio
- profaned — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- prograde — to (cause to) advance towards the sea by progradation
- prorated — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- protrade — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- pthreads — POSIX Threads
- pyoderma — any skin eruption characterized by pustules or the formation of pus
- qadarite — a member of the Qadariyah.
- quadcore — (computing, of a microprocessor) Composed of four cores.
- quadrate — square or rectangular.
- quarried — an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
- quavered — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.
- quebrada — Southwestern U.S. a ravine.
- rabbeted — Simple past tense and past participle of rabbet.
- rabbited — Simple past tense and past participle of rabbit.
- racecard — a usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, thin pasteboard, or plastic for various uses, as to write information on or printed as a means of identifying the holder: a 3″ × 5″ file card; a membership card.
- racemoid — racemic
- radetzky — Count Joseph [yoh-zef] /ˈyoʊ zɛf/ (Show IPA), 1766–1858, Austrian field marshal.
- radiable — to extend, spread, or move like rays or radii from a center.
- radiance — radiant brightness or light: the radiance of the tropical sun.
- radiated — to extend, spread, or move like rays or radii from a center.
- radiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of radiate.
- radicate — to (cause to) take root
- radiguet — Raymond (rɛmɔ̃). 1903–23, French novelist; the author of The Devil in the Flesh (1923) and Count d'Orgel (1924)
- radiuses — a straight line extending from the center of a circle or sphere to the circumference or surface: The radius of a circle is half the diameter.
- radwaste — radioactive waste.
- raggedly — clothed in tattered garments: a ragged old man.
- railhead — the farthest point to which the rails of a railroad have been laid.
- raindate — an alternative date proposed in case of rain
- randomer — an unspecified person of no importance
- ransomed — the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.