8-letter words containing c, a, r, d, s
- distract — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- dogcarts — Plural form of dogcart.
- doorcase — the finish frame of a doorway.
- drachmas — Plural form of drachma.
- draconis — a late 7th-century b.c. Athenian statesman noted for the severity of his code of laws.
- dustcart — a garbage truck.
- dyschroa — an alteration of colour on the skin
- escarped — Simple past tense and past participle of escarp.
- frescade — a shaded walkway
- guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
- handcars — Plural form of handcar.
- hardcase — a container that has a rigid structure
- idocrase — vesuvianite.
- keycards — Plural form of keycard.
- orchards — Plural form of orchard.
- ostracod — seed shrimp.
- postcard — Also called picture postcard. a small, commercially printed card, usually having a picture on one side and space for a short message on the other.
- pushcard — punchboard.
- quadrics — Plural form of quadric.
- reascend — to ascend again
- richards — a male given name.
- sacredly — devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose; consecrated.
- sandarac — a coniferous tree, Tetraclinis articulata (Callitrus quadrivalvis), native to northwestern Africa, yielding a resin and a fragrant, hard, dark-colored wood much used in building.
- sarcodic — pertaining to the sarcode or protoplasm of an animal
- sardonic — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
- scabbard — a sheath for a sword or the like.
- scordato — out of tune
- scorepad — a pad whose sheets are printed with headings, vertical or horizontal lines, symbols, or the like, to facilitate the recording of scores in a game, as bowling or bridge.
- scragged — a lean or scrawny person or animal.
- scrapped — a fight or quarrel: She got into a scrap with her in-laws.
- scrawled — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- screamed — to utter a loud, sharp, piercing cry.
- searched — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- shadrach — a companion of Daniel who, with Meshach and Abednego, was thrown into the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar and came out unharmed. Dan. 3:12–30.
- 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.
- sporadic — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- starched — a white, tasteless, solid carbohydrate, (C 6 H 1 0 O 5) n , occurring in the form of minute granules in the seeds, tubers, and other parts of plants, and forming an important constituent of rice, corn, wheat, beans, potatoes, and many other vegetable foods.
- subacrid — slightly acrid
- surfaced — the outer face, outside, or exterior boundary of a thing; outermost or uppermost layer or area.
- unscared — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.