8-letter words containing d, a, r, e
- iterated — to utter again or repeatedly.
- jabbered — Simple past tense and past participle of jabber.
- jaredite — (in Mormon belief) a member of a tribe of people who settled America after the dispersal at Babel.
- jargoned — Simple past tense and past participle of jargon.
- jarheads — Plural form of jarhead.
- jemadars — Plural form of jemadar.
- jeopards — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jeopard.
- jeopardy — hazard or risk of or exposure to loss, harm, death, or injury: For a moment his life was in jeopardy.
- jeremiad — a prolonged lamentation or mournful complaint.
- jordaens — Jacob [yah-kawp] /ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1593–1678, Flemish painter.
- judicare — a federally funded program providing free or low-cost legal services to the poor.
- kalendar — a calendar, especially of a church: the Anglican kalendar.
- kaleyard — a kitchen garden.
- keratode — the horny, fibrous substance forming the skeleton of certain sponges.
- keratoid — resembling horn; horny.
- kerkrade — a town in the SE Netherlands, in Limburg: one of the oldest coal-mining centres in Europe. Pop: 50 000 (2003 est)
- key card — a plastic card, similar to a credit card, containing data on an embedded magnetized strip that can electronically unlock a door, activate a machine, etc.
- keyboard — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
- keycards — Plural form of keycard.
- kidnaper — Alternative spelling of kidnapper.
- laboured — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- lacertid — any of numerous Old World lizards of the family Lacertidae.
- laddered — (of tights, stockings, etc) Having a ladder in them.
- ladrones — a group of 15 small islands in the Pacific, E of the Philippines: divided into Guam, a possession of the U.S., and the North Marianas, formally under U.S. trusteeship. 453 sq. mi. (1127 sq. km).
- landrace — one of several widely distributed strains of large, white, lop-eared swine of northern European origin.
- landseer — Sir Edwin Henry, 1802–73, English painter, especially of animals.
- landwehr — (in Germany, Austria, etc.) the part of the organized military forces of a nation that has completed a certain amount of compulsory training, and whose continuous service is required only in time of war.
- langered — (slang, Ireland) extremely drunk.
- lappered — to clabber; curdle.
- larderer — a person in charge of a larder
- largened — Simple past tense and past participle of largen.
- lariated — Simple past tense and past participle of lariat.
- larruped — Simple past tense and past participle of larrup.
- lathered — foam or froth made by a detergent, especially soap, when stirred or rubbed in water, as by a brush used in shaving or by hands in washing.
- launders — Plural form of launder.
- laureled — Crowned with laurel, or with a laurel wreath; laureate.
- lavender — a pale bluish purple.
- lawyered — Simple past tense and past participle of lawyer.
- leadwork — work involving lead, such as maintenance work on lead pipes
- leadwort — any plant or shrub of the genus Plumbago, having spikes of blue, white, or red flowers.
- leafbird — any of several greenish, passerine birds of the genus Chloropsis, of Asia, related to the bulbuls, and often kept as pets.
- leeboard — either of two broad, flat objects attached to the sides of a sailing ship amidships, the one on the lee side being lowered into the water to prevent the ship from making leeway.
- leewards — towards the lee side
- leftward — Also, leftwards. toward or on the left.
- leopardi — Count Giacomo [jah-kuh-moh;; Italian jah-kaw-maw] /ˈdʒɑ kəˌmoʊ;; Italian ˈdʒɑ kɔ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1798–1837, Italian poet.
- leopards — Plural form of leopard.
- leotards — A close-fitting one-piece garment, made of a stretchy fabric, which covers a person's body from the shoulders to the top of the thighs and typically the arms, worn by dancers or people exercising indoors.
- librated — Simple past tense and past participle of librate.
- lip-read — to understand spoken words by interpreting the movements of a speaker's lips without hearing the sounds made.
- lodestar — a star that shows the way.