8-letter words containing a, r, i, d
- disraeli — Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield ("Dizzy") 1804–81, British statesman and novelist: prime minister 1868, 1874–80.
- disrange — (obsolete) To disarrange.
- disrated — Simple past tense and past participle of disrate.
- distract — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- distrail — dissipation trail.
- distrain — to constrain by seizing and holding goods, etc., in pledge for rent, damages, etc., or in order to obtain satisfaction of a claim.
- distrait — inattentive because of distracting worries, fears, etc.; absent-minded.
- diurnals — Plural form of diurnal.
- dizzards — Plural form of dizzard.
- doornail — a large-headed nail formerly used for strengthening or ornamenting doors.
- dorsalis — dorsal1 .
- douanier — a customs officer or official.
- drabbish — Somewhat drab in colour.
- draconic — (often lowercase) Draconian.
- draconid — any of several unrelated meteor showers whose radiants are in the constellation Draco.
- draconis — a late 7th-century b.c. Athenian statesman noted for the severity of his code of laws.
- draffish — resembling draff
- draftily — In a drafty manner.
- drafting — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- dragging — marked by or involving the wearing of clothing characteristically associated with the opposite sex; transvestite.
- draglift — a ski lift with a rope or metal bar by which skiers are pulled up to the top of a slope.
- dragline — a rope dragging from something; dragrope.
- draglink — (engineering) A link connecting the cranks of two shafts.
- drainage — the act or process of draining.
- drainers — Plural form of drainer.
- draining — Present participle of drain.
- draisine — an early form of bicycle designed in Germany, nick-named the hobby horse or dandy horse
- dramatic — of or relating to the drama.
- drambuie — a liqueur based on Scotch whisky and made exclusively in Scotland from a recipe dating from the 18th century
- dramming — Measurements. a unit of apothecaries' weight, equal to 60 grains, or 1/8 (0.125) ounce (3.89 grams). 1/16 (0.0625) ounce, avoirdupois weight (27.34 grains; 1.77 grams). Abbreviation: dr., dr.
- dratting — to damn; confound: Drat your interference.
- drawings — Plural form of drawing.
- drawling — an act or utterance of a person who drawls.
- drawlink — (rail transport) drawbar.
- dreading — to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of: to dread death.
- dreamier — Comparative form of dreamy.
- dreamily — of the nature of or characteristic of dreams; visionary.
- dreaming — (often initial capital letter) the ancient time of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors, whose spirits continue into the present, as conceived in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines.
- drearier — Comparative form of dreary.
- drearily — causing sadness or gloom.
- drearing — sorrow; grief
- drepanid — any moth of the superfamily Drepanoidae (family Drepanidae): it comprises the hook-tip moths
- driftage — the action or an amount of drifting.
- driftway — A common road or path for driving cattle.
- drip bag — a bag used for administering an intravenous solution to a patient
- drip cap — a molding over an opening for catching and shedding rain water.
- drip mat — a little mat that you place under drinking glasses to catch drips
- drip pan — a shallow metal pan used under roasting meat to receive the drippings.
- drippage — a dripping, as of water from a faucet.
- drivable — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.