8-letter words containing a, r, i, d
- parodist — a writer of parodies, especially of a literary subject, work, or style.
- parotoid — Also called parotoid gland. any of certain cutaneous glands forming warty masses near the ear in certain toads.
- pay dirt — soil, gravel, or ore that can be mined profitably.
- pedalier — the pedal-board of an organ, piano, etc
- peridial — of or pertaining to the peridium
- picrated — containing picrate
- pierhead — the outermost end of a pier or wharf.
- pilchard — a small, southern European, marine fish, Sardina pilchardus, related to the herring but smaller and rounder.
- pillared — an upright shaft or structure, of stone, brick, or other material, relatively slender in proportion to its height, and of any shape in section, used as a building support, or standing alone, as for a monument: Gothic pillars; a pillar to commemorate Columbus.
- pindaric — of, relating to, or in the style of Pindar.
- podiatry — the care of the human foot, especially the diagnosis and treatment of foot disorders.
- polaroid — instant photograph
- praedial — of, relating to, or consisting of land or its products; real; landed.
- prandial — of or relating to a meal, especially dinner.
- pre-aids — (not in technical use) AIDS-related complex.
- preadmit — to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
- 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.
- preradio — before the invention of radio
- prichard — a city in S Alabama.
- prodigal — wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
- pyramids — Architecture. (in ancient Egypt) a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb. (in ancient Egypt and pre-Columbian Central America) a quadrilateral masonry mass, stepped and sharply sloping, used as a tomb or a platform for a temple.
- pyranoid — relating to the structure of a pyranose
- qadarite — a member of the Qadariyah.
- qindarka — Plural form of qindark\u00eb.
- quadriad — a group of four, especially a group of four persons with an interest or task in common.
- quadrics — Plural form of quadric.
- quadriga — a two-wheeled chariot drawn by four horses harnessed abreast.
- quarried — an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
- rabbited — Simple past tense and past participle of rabbit.
- rabidity — irrationally extreme in opinion or practice: a rabid isolationist; a rabid baseball fan.
- racemoid — racemic
- radcliff — a city in central Kentucky.
- raddling — Present participle of raddle.
- radiable — to extend, spread, or move like rays or radii from a center.
- radially — arranged like radii or rays.
- radiance — radiant brightness or light: the radiance of the tropical sun.
- radiancy — radiance.
- radiants — Plural form of radiant.
- radiated — to extend, spread, or move like rays or radii from a center.
- radiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of radiate.
- radiator — a person or thing that radiates.
- radiatus — (of a cloud) having bands that appear to converge toward a point on the horizon.
- radicand — the quantity under a radical sign.
- radicant — rooting from the stem, as ivy.
- 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)
- radioman — a person who operates a radio.
- radisson — Pierre Esprit [es-pree] /ɛs pri/ (Show IPA), 1636?–1710? French fur trader and explorer in Canada.
- radium a — a substance, formed by decay of radon, that gives rise to radium B.
- radium b — an isotope of lead, formed by decay of radium A, that gives rise to radium C, which is an isotope of bismuth, from which radium D, radium E, and radium F, or polonium 210, are derived.