8-letter words containing a, r, o, d
- funboard — (surfing) A type of surfboard which is roughly in between a shortboard and a mini-mal. A funboard is a little longer than a shortboard and with wider and somewhat rounded nose and tail, making it easier to paddle but still having most of the performance of a shortboard.
- gabbroid — gabbro-like, esp of a rock in the petrographic clan which contains the gabbro family
- gadroons — Plural form of gadroon.
- ganglord — The leader of a gang, especially a criminal organization.
- gaolbird — Alternative spelling of jailbird.
- garamond — a printing type designed in 1540 by Claude Garamond (c1480–1561), French type founder.
- garboard — The first range of planks or plates laid on a ship’s bottom next to the keel.
- gardyloo — (Scotland, obsolete) Used by servants in medieval Scotland to warn passers-by of waste about to be thrown from a window into the street below. The term was still in use as late the 1930s and 1940s, when many people had no indoor toilets.
- garotted — to execute by the garrote.
- garroted — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- gatorade — A fruit-flavored drink especially for athletes, designed to supply the body with carbohydrates and to replace fluids and sodium lost during exercise.
- gheraoed — Simple past tense and past participle of gherao.
- giordano — Luca [loo-kuh;; Italian loo-kah] /ˈlu kə;; Italian ˈlu kɑ/ (Show IPA), ("Luca Fapresto") 1632–1705, Italian painter.
- glendora — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- goadster — a goadsman
- goalward — relating to a move towards a goal
- goatherd — a person who tends goats.
- godavari — a river flowing SE from W India to the Bay of Bengal. 900 miles (1450 km) long.
- goldmark — Karl [kahrl] /kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1830–1915, Hungarian composer.
- gondomar — Diego Sarmiento de Acuña [dye-gaw sahr-myen-taw th e ah-koo-nyah] /ˈdyɛ gɔ sɑrˈmyɛn tɔ ðɛ ɑˈku nyɑ/ (Show IPA), Count of, 1567–1626, Spanish diplomat.
- goodyear — Charles, 1800–60, U.S. inventor: developer of the process of vulcanizing rubber.
- gospodar — a hospodar; a master
- gourmand — a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess.
- granados — Enrique [en-ree-ke] /ɛnˈri kɛ/ (Show IPA), 1867–1916, Spanish pianist and composer.
- granddog — (humorous) A dog owned by the children of someone old enough to be a grandparent; a dog that has a similar role to a grandchild.
- grandmom — (US) Grandmother.
- grandpop — (US, informal) grandfather.
- grandson — a son of one's son or daughter.
- guarddog — a dog that guards a property or person
- gyroidal — having a spiral arrangement.
- hadronic — (physics) of, related to, or composed of hadrons.
- half-rod — a unit of length equal to 2.75 yards or 8.25 feet (2.52 meters).
- halfword — (computing) An area of storage one half the size of the word in a particular system; usually two bytes.
- handiron — andiron.
- handover — the act of relinquishing property, authority, etc.: a handover of occupied territory.
- handroll — a Japanese dish consisting of a large cone of dried seaweed filled with cold rice and other ingredients, eaten with the fingers rather than chopsticks
- handwork — work done by hand, as distinguished from work done by machine.
- harbored — a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
- hard bop — an aggressive, driving, hot style of modern jazz developed by East Coast musicians in the late 1950s as a rejection of the more relaxed, cool style of West Coast jazz. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, modern jazz, progressive jazz.
- hard top — A hard top is a vehicle that has a permanent rigid roof.
- hard-won — If you describe something that someone has gained or achieved as hard-won, you mean that they worked hard to gain or achieve it.
- hardbody — a person who is muscular and physically fit.
- hardboil — Alternative form of hard-boil.
- hardboot — a horse-racing enthusiast.
- hardcopy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
- hardcore — unswervingly committed; uncompromising; dedicated: a hard-core segregationist.
- hardnose — a person who is tough and uncompromising
- hardrock — the original form of rock-'n'-roll, basically dependent on a consistently loud and strong beat.
- hardtops — Plural form of hardtop.
- hardwood — the hard, compact wood or timber of various trees, as the oak, cherry, maple, or mahogany.