8-letter words containing a, r, d, e
- cardenal — Ernesto (ˈɜːnɛstaʊ). born 1925, Nicaraguan poet, revolutionary, and Roman Catholic priest; an influential figure in the Sandinista movement
- cardenas — Lázaro (ˈlaθaro). 1895–1970, Mexican statesman and general; president of Mexico (1934–40)
- careened — Simple past tense and past participle of careen.
- careered — an occupation or profession, especially one requiring special training, followed as one's lifework: He sought a career as a lawyer.
- caressed — an act or gesture expressing affection, as an embrace or kiss, especially a light stroking or touching.
- carolled — Simple past tense and past participle of carol.
- caroused — Simple past tense and past participle of carouse.
- carpeted — Simple past tense and past participle of carpet.
- castered — a person or thing that casts.
- cathedra — a bishop's throne
- caverned — (poetic) Pitted or hollowed out with caverns.
- cavorted — Simple past tense and past participle of cavort.
- cellared — Simple past tense and past participle of cellar.
- ceramide — any of a class of biologically important compounds used as moisturizers in skin-care preparations
- ceratoid — having the shape or texture of animal horn
- chandler — a dealer in a specified trade or merchandise
- charades — a parlour game in which one team acts out each syllable of a word, the other team having to guess the word
- charidee — a jocular spelling of charity, as pronounced in a mid-Atlantic accent
- cheddars — Plural form of cheddar.
- cheddary — resembling or pertaining to cheddar cheese
- chordate — any animal of the phylum Chordata, including the vertebrates and protochordates, characterized by a notochord, dorsal tubular nerve cord, and pharyngeal gill slits
- chresard — the amount of water present in the soil that is available to plants
- citrated — treated with a citrate
- clamored — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- coadmire — to admire together
- colander — A colander is a container in the shape of a bowl with holes in it which you wash or drain food in.
- coleader — a fellow leader
- collared — the part of a shirt, coat, dress, blouse, etc., that encompasses the neckline of the garment and is sewn permanently to it, often so as to fold or roll over.
- compadre — a male friend
- compared — to examine (two or more objects, ideas, people, etc.) in order to note similarities and differences: to compare two pieces of cloth; to compare the governments of two nations.
- comrades — A companion who shares one's activities or is a fellow member of an organization.
- conelrad — a US defence and information system used between 1951 and 1963 in the event of air attack
- copyread — to subedit
- cordelia — a feminine name
- corraded — Simple past tense and past participle of corrade.
- corrades — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of corrade.
- couraged — Having a specified form or amount of courage.
- crackled — Simple past tense and past participle of crackle.
- crannied — full of crannies or chinks
- cratered — If the surface of something is cratered, it has many craters in it.
- cravened — Simple past tense and past participle of craven.
- crayoned — Simple past tense and past participle of crayon.
- credenda — doctrines to be believed; matters of faith
- credenza — a type of buffet or sideboard
- cremated — Simple past tense and past participle of cremate.
- crenated — Crenate.
- cressida — (in medieval adaptations of the story of Troy) a woman who deserts her Trojan lover Troilus for the Greek Diomedes
- croupade — a type of horse leap in which the hind legs are drawn towards the belly
- crudware — /kruhd'weir/ Pejorative term for the hundreds of megabytes of low-quality freeware circulated by user's groups and BBSs in the micro-hobbyist world.
- crusaded — (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.