8-letter words containing d, a, n, c
- rockland — a city in SE Massachusetts.
- roncador — any of several types of fish found along the Pacific Coast of North America
- rondache — a small, round shield
- 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.
- sandwich — a town in E Kent, in SE England: one of the Cinque Ports.
- sardonic — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
- scabland — rough, barren, volcanic topography with thin soils and little vegetation.
- scalding — to burn or affect painfully with or as if with hot liquid or steam.
- scaldino — an Italian earthen brazier
- 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.
- scandian — of or relating to Scandia.
- scandisk — (operating system, storage) An MS-DOS command to check for faults on a disk and provide a graphical representation the results. Scandisk was introduced with MS-DOS version 6 to replace CHKDSK.
- scandium — a rare, trivalent, metallic element obtained from thortveitite. Symbol: Sc; atomic weight: 44.956; atomic number: 21; specific gravity: 3.0.
- 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.
- scotland — a division of the United Kingdom in the N part of Great Britain. 30,412 sq. mi. (78,772 sq. km). Capital: Edinburgh.
- shadchan — shadkhan.
- snatched — to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).
- spondaic — of or relating to a spondee.
- sulindac — a yellow crystalline substance, C 2 0 H 1 7 FO 3 S, that is used as an analgesic, antipyretic, and anti-inflammatory in the treatment of certain rheumatic diseases.
- sunscald — injury to the leaves, bark, or underlying tissues of woody plants due to the combined effects of heat, humidity, and intense sunshine.
- syndical — of or relating to a union of persons engaged in a particular trade.
- tachinid — any of numerous flies belonging to the family Tachinidae
- tendance — attention; care; ministration, as to the sick.
- thinclad — a runner on a track team
- tornadic — a localized, violently destructive windstorm occurring over land, especially in the Middle West, and characterized by a long, funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground and made visible by condensation and debris. Compare waterspout (def 3).
- tranched — Finance. one part or division of a larger unit, as of an asset pool or investment: The loan will be repaid in three tranches. a group of securities that share a certain characteristic and form part of a larger offering: The second tranche of the bond issue has a five-year maturity.
- tridacna — a genus of giant clams inhabiting reefs in the South Pacific, attaining a diameter of 4 feet (1.2 meters) or more, and weighing over 500 pounds (227 kg).
- unacidic — not acidic
- unarched — (of a structure) not arched; lacking arches
- unbacked — without backing or support.
- uncalled — to cry out in a loud voice; shout: He called her name to see if she was home.
- uncandid — not frank or candid; guarded; reserved
- uncanned — preserved in a can or jar: canned peaches.
- uncapped — to remove a cap or cover from (a bottle, container, etc.).
- uncarded — (of wool or other fibres) not carded
- uncarved — (of food) not carved or carved up
- uncashed — money in the form of coins or banknotes, especially that issued by a government.
- uncasked — removed from a cask; brought out of a cask
- uncaused — not resulting from some antecedent cause.
- unceased — to stop; discontinue: Not all medieval beliefs have ceased to exist.
- unclawed — not mauled, scratched, or otherwise damaged by claws
- uncoated — not covered with a coating
- underact — to play (a role) without adequate emphasis
- ungraced — deprived of something
- unhacked — not cut or hacked
- unplaced — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- unracked — not stretched
- unscaled — noting armor having imbricated metal plates sewn to a flexible backing.
- unscared — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.