8-letter words containing a, r, d
- barbados — an island in the Caribbean, in the E Lesser Antilles: a British colony from 1628 to 1966, now an independent state within the Commonwealth. Language: English. Currency: Barbados dollar. Capital: Bridgetown. Pop: 288 725 (2013 est). Area: 430 sq km (166 sq miles)
- barbered — Simple past tense and past participle of barber.
- barcoded — having a barcode
- bardling — an inexperienced, and thus usually inferior, poet
- bardship — the office or state of being a bard
- barehand — to field (the ball) with one's bare hands rather than one's glove
- bareland — (of a croft) having no house attached
- barleduc — a French preserve made of whitecurrants, redcurrants, or gooseberries
- barnardo — Dr Thomas John. 1845–1905, British philanthropist, who founded homes for destitute children
- barndoor — The large door of a barn.
- barnwood — aged and weathered boards, especially those salvaged from dismantled barns: The den was paneled in barnwood.
- barnyard — On a farm, the barnyard is the area in front of or next to a barn.
- barraged — Simple past tense and past participle of barrage.
- barred i — a high central vowel with phonetic quality approximating that of the vowels in pit, put, putt, or pet, and considered by most phonologists as a phonetic variant of one of these vowels, depending on the context, but by some as an autonomous phoneme in some varieties of English.
- barreled — Having the specified number of barrels.
- barriada — a shantytown section on the outskirts of a large city in Latin America.
- bartered — to trade by exchange of commodities rather than by the use of money.
- baselard — a historical (predominantly 13th–17th century) short Swiss sword with a distinctive crescent-shaped pommel and crossguard
- baseword — (linguistics) The word used a base and upon whose stem affixes are added, forming new words.
- basilard — a medieval dagger having a tapering blade with straight transverse quillons and a T -shaped pommel.
- bastards — Plural form of bastard.
- bastardy — the condition of being a bastard; illegitimacy
- battered — Something that is battered is old and in poor condition because it has been used a lot.
- baudrons — a cat
- bayadere — a dancing girl, esp one serving in a Hindu temple
- be arsed — to be willing, inclined, or prepared (esp in the phrase can't be arsed)
- beadroll — a list of persons for whom prayers are to be offered
- beadwork — a narrow strip of some material used for edging or ornamentation
- beancurd — Alternative spelling of bean curd.
- bearding — the growth of hair on the face of an adult man, often including a mustache.
- bearward — a bear keeper
- bearwood — cascara (sense 1)
- beavered — Covered with, or wearing, a beaver or hat.
- becoward — to make cowardly, to make into a coward
- bed tray — a meal tray with legs or supports at each end to fit across the lap of a person who is sitting up in bed.
- bedarken — to make dark, to cover in darkness
- bedboard — a piece of wood placed under a mattress to make a bed firmer
- bedchair — an adjustable chair to support an invalid sitting up in bed
- bedeguar — a moss-like growth found on rosebushes, caused by a reaction by the bush to the egg-laying process of the gall wasp or gallfly
- bedframe — the framework of a bed
- bediaper — to put a nappy on
- bedlamer — a harp seal, beyond the beater stage but not yet mature.
- bedmaker — a person who constructs beds
- bedrails — Plural form of bedrail.
- bedstraw — any of numerous rubiaceous plants of the genus Galium, which have small white or yellow flowers and prickly or hairy fruits: some species formerly used as straw for beds as they are aromatic when dry
- bedwards — towards bed
- bee road — an area planted with nectar-rich flowers in order to provide a habitat for bees and other pollinating insects
- beebread — a mixture of pollen and nectar prepared by worker bees and fed to the larvae
- beggared — a person who begs alms or lives by begging.
- beheader — a person who beheads another