8-letter words containing a, s, d, i
- oppidans — Plural form of oppidan.
- ordinals — Plural form of ordinal.
- oxidasic — relating to enzymes that catalyse oxidation
- padishah — (often initial capital letter) great king; emperor (a title applied especially formerly to the shah of Iran, the sultan of Turkey, and to the British sovereign as emperor in India).
- palisade — a fence of pales or stakes set firmly in the ground, as for enclosure or defense.
- paludism — malaria.
- paradise — a town in N California.
- paradiso — heaven, as the final abode of the righteous.
- parishad — (in India) an assembly
- parodist — a writer of parodies, especially of a literary subject, work, or style.
- pheidias — Phidias
- pisidian — the extinct language of Pisidia, not known to be related to any other language, written in a script derived from the Greek alphabet.
- pisshead — a drunkard
- plasmoid — a section of a plasma having a characteristic shape
- plaudits — an enthusiastic expression of approval: Her portrayal of Juliet won the plaudits of the critics.
- pleiades — any of the Pleiades.
- postpaid — envelope, card: prepaid
- pre-aids — (not in technical use) AIDS-related complex.
- 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.
- qadianis — a modern sect, divided into an older group (Qadianis) and a newer group (Lahore party)
- quadrics — Plural form of quadric.
- quayside — the area bordering and around a quay or quays.
- radiants — Plural form of radiant.
- radiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of radiate.
- radiatus — (of a cloud) having bands that appear to converge toward a point on the horizon.
- radisson — Pierre Esprit [es-pree] /ɛs pri/ (Show IPA), 1636?–1710? French fur trader and explorer in Canada.
- radiuses — a straight line extending from the center of a circle or sphere to the circumference or surface: The radius of a circle is half the diameter.
- ram disk — (operating system, storage) A memory-resident program which mimics a hard disk drive. It uses part of computer's RAM to store data which can be accessed as files. Unlike a real disk drive, this drive forgets all stored data when the computer is turned off.
- readings — Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquis of, 1860–1935, Lord Chief Justice of England 1913–21; viceroy of India 1921–26.
- readvise — to give counsel to; offer an opinion or suggestion as worth following: I advise you to be cautious.
- realised — to grasp or understand clearly.
- residual — pertaining to or constituting a residue or remainder; remaining; leftover.
- rhodesia — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
- richards — a male given name.
- roadside — the side or border of the road; wayside.
- rosalind — a female given name.
- ruisdael — Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˌyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1628?–82, Dutch painter.
- saccadic — characterized by discontinuous or sporadic movement; jerky.
- saddling — a seat for a rider on the back of a horse or other animal.
- sadistic — pertaining to or characterized by sadism; deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from extreme cruelty: a sadistic psychopath.
- sailyard — a yard for a sail.
- salading — the ingredients for a salad
- salaried — receiving a salary: a salaried employee.
- salified — to form into a salt, as by chemical combination.
- salmonid — belonging or pertaining to the family Salmonidae, including the salmons, trouts, chars, and whitefishes.
- samizdat — a clandestine publishing system within the Soviet Union, by which forbidden or unpublishable literature was reproduced and circulated privately.
- sandfish — either of two scaleless fishes of the family Trichodontidae, of the North Pacific, that live in sand or mud.
- sandhill — a hill of sand, esp a dune on the seashore
- sandiver — a whitish, saline scum formed on the surface of molten glass.
- sandling — a sand eel