8-letter words containing a, s, d, i
- sidepath — a minor path
- siderate — to strike violently
- sidereal — determined by or from the stars: sidereal time.
- sideroad — (esp in Ontario) a road, usually north-south, going at right angles to concession roads
- sidesman — a man elected to help the parish church warden
- sidewalk — a walk, especially a paved one, at the side of a street or road.
- sidewall — the part of a pneumatic tire between the edge of the tread and the rim of the wheel.
- sideward — directed or moving toward one side.
- sideways — with a side foremost.
- sidonian — a city of ancient Phoenicia: site of modern Saida.
- signaled — anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct, command, or the like, as a light, a gesture, an act, etc.: a traffic signal; a signal to leave.
- silladar — an Indian irregular cavalryman
- sim card — Subscriber Identity/Identification Module: a removable card inside a cell phone that stores data unique to the user, as an identification number, passwords, phone numbers, and messages.
- situated — Archaic. located; placed; situated.
- skinhead — a baldheaded man.
- sleazoid — a sleazy person
- slideway — an inclined surface along which something can slide.
- soapdish — a shallow container for a bar of soap, used in a bathroom
- sodalist — a member of a sodality.
- sodalite — a mineral, sodium aluminum silicate, Na 4 Al 3 Si 3 O 1 2 Cl, occurring massive and in crystals, usually blue in color and found in certain alkali-rich igneous rocks.
- sodality — fellowship; comradeship.
- sodamide — sodium amide.
- sogdiana — a province of the ancient Persian Empire between the Oxus and Jaxartes rivers: now in Uzbekistan. Capital: Samarkand.
- solidago — any plant of the chiefly American genus Solidago, which includes the goldenrods: family Asteraceae (composites)
- solidare — an old coin
- solidary — characterized by or involving community of responsibilities and interests.
- solidate — a parcel of land whose value is equal to a solidus
- soredial — pertaining to or resembling a soredium.
- spadille — the highest trump in certain card games, as the queen of clubs in omber.
- spalding — Albert, 1888–1953, U.S. violinist.
- spaniard — a native or inhabitant of Spain.
- spavined — suffering from or affected with spavin.
- spirated — twisted in a spiral
- spithead — a roadstead off the S coast of England between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
- spondaic — of or relating to a spondee.
- sporadic — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- sprained — (of a joint) having been injured by a sudden twisting or wrenching of its ligaments
- squaddie — soldier
- squaloid — of, relating to, or like a shark, or specifically the dogfish (Squalidae) family of sharks
- stand in — a substitute for a motion-picture star during the preparation of lighting, cameras, etc., or in dangerous scenes.
- stand-in — a substitute for a motion-picture star during the preparation of lighting, cameras, etc., or in dangerous scenes.
- standing — rank or status, especially with respect to social, economic, or personal position, reputation, etc.: He had little standing in the community.
- standish — Burt L. pseudonym of Gilbert Patten.
- steadily — firmly placed or fixed; stable in position or equilibrium: a steady ladder.
- steading — the place of a person or thing as occupied by a successor or substitute: The nephew of the queen came in her stead.
- sticcado — a type of xylophone
- stinkard — a despicable person; stinker.
- stradiot — a soldier, usually of Greek or Albanian origin, who fought on horseback for the Venetian republic in the 15th and 16th centuries
- strained — affected or produced by effort; not natural or spontaneous; forced: strained hospitality.
- striated — striated.