8-letter words containing c, e, d, a
- prefaced — a preliminary statement in a book by the book's author or editor, setting forth its purpose and scope, expressing acknowledgment of assistance from others, etc.
- quadcore — (computing, of a microprocessor) Composed of four cores.
- racecard — a usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, thin pasteboard, or plastic for various uses, as to write information on or printed as a means of identifying the holder: a 3″ × 5″ file card; a membership card.
- racemoid — racemic
- radiance — radiant brightness or light: the radiance of the tropical sun.
- radicate — to (cause to) take root
- raticide — a substance or preparation for killing rats.
- reaccede — to accede again
- readdict — to cause (a person) to become addicted to something again
- reascend — to ascend again
- recanted — to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
- recapped — to recondition (a worn automobile tire) by cementing on a strip of prepared rubber and vulcanizing by subjecting to heat and pressure in a mold.
- red card — Soccer. a red card shown by the referee to a player being sent off the field for a flagrant violation.
- red clay — a brown to red, widely distributed deep-sea deposit consisting chiefly of microscopic particles and tinted red by iron oxides and manganese.
- redacted — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- redactor — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- replaced — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- riddance — the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
- rochdale — a borough of Greater Manchester, in N England: site of one of the earliest cooperative societies 1844.
- rondache — a small, round shield
- saccades — the act of checking a horse quickly with a single strong pull of the reins.
- sacheted — contained in a sachet
- sacredly — devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose; consecrated.
- sad case — a person considered to be ludicrously contemptible or pathetic
- sadducee — a member of a Palestinian sect, consisting mainly of priests and aristocrats, that flourished from the 1st century b.c. to the 1st century a.d. and differed from the Pharisees chiefly in its literal interpretation of the Bible, rejection of oral laws and traditions, and denial of an afterlife and the coming of the Messiah.
- scan-edf — (storage, algorithm) A variation of the Scan disk aceess algorithm for use in a real-time environment where, in general, requests are served according to Earliest Deadline First. If two requests share the same deadline, they may be reorganised according to Scan. A typical example is a video server that retrieves video data from a hard disk. The playback of a video impose tight real-time constraints but if the server retrieves data once every second for each video channel, Scan-EDF can be applied, reducing the seek overhead.
- scandent — climbing, as a plant.
- schiedam — a city in SW Netherlands.
- sciaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Sciaenidae, a family of carnivorous fishes that produce a loud sound by snapping the muscles attached to their air bladder, comprising the croakers and drums.
- 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.
- sea duck — any of various diving ducks, as the scaups, goldeneyes, scoters, and eiders, found principally on seas.
- 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.
- sedecias — Zedekiah.
- seedcake — a sweet cake containing aromatic seeds, usually caraway.
- seedcase — a seed capsule; pericarp.
- shackled — a ring or other fastening, as of iron, for securing the wrist, ankle, etc.; fetter.
- sidalcea — any plant of the mostly perennial N American genus Sidalcea, related to and resembling mallow, esp S. malvaeflora, grown for its spikes of lilac, pink, or red flowers: family Malvaceae
- snatched — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
- 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.
- stockade — Fortification. a defensive barrier consisting of strong posts or timbers fixed upright in the ground.
- surfaced — the outer face, outside, or exterior boundary of a thing; outermost or uppermost layer or area.
- tax code — (in the UK) a code consisting of numbers and letters, which indicates to an employer how much tax should be deducted from an employee's pay
- tendance — attention; care; ministration, as to the sick.
- terraced — a raised level with a vertical or sloping front or sides faced with masonry, turf, or the like, especially one of a series of levels rising one above another.
- tetracid — a base or alcohol containing four hydroxyl groups.
- tetradic — relating to something that has a group of four