8-letter words containing d, e, a, s
- pay desk — the counter in a shop where customers pay for goods
- peasecod — the pod of the pea.
- pederast — a person who engages in pederasty.
- pedestal — an architectural support for a column, statue, vase, or the like.
- persuade — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- phaedrus — flourished a.d. c40, Roman writer of fables.
- pheidias — Phidias
- pisshead — a drunkard
- pleiades — any of the Pleiades.
- postdate — to date (a check, invoice, letter, document) with a date later than the actual date.
- pre-aids — (not in technical use) AIDS-related complex.
- predates — to date before the actual time; antedate: He predated the check by three days.
- pthreads — POSIX Threads
- quayside — the area bordering and around a quay or quays.
- radiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of radiate.
- radiuses — a straight line extending from the center of a circle or sphere to the circumference or surface: The radius of a circle is half the diameter.
- radwaste — radioactive waste.
- ransomed — the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- rapeseed — the seed of the rape.
- readings — Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquis of, 1860–1935, Lord Chief Justice of England 1913–21; viceroy of India 1921–26.
- readjust — to adjust again or anew; rearrange.
- readvise — to give counsel to; offer an opinion or suggestion as worth following: I advise you to be cautious.
- realised — to grasp or understand clearly.
- reascend — to ascend again
- reasoned — based on reason: a carefully reasoned decision.
- red mass — a votive Mass of the Holy Ghost said as a blessing for the legal profession.
- red sage — a showy, rank-smelling shrub, Lantana camara, of tropical America, having yellow flowers that turn orange or red.
- red star — any star with a low surface temperature and a reddish color, as a red giant or a red dwarf.
- redlands — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- redshank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
- redshare — any red algae, esp one belonging to the genus Polysiphonia
- redstart — any of several small, Old World thrushes, usually with reddish-brown tails, especially Phoenicurus phoenicurus (European redstart)
- rehashed — to work up (old material) in a new form.
- released — to free from confinement, bondage, obligation, pain, etc.; let go: to release a prisoner; to release someone from a debt.
- resaddle — to saddle (a horse etc) again
- residual — pertaining to or constituting a residue or remainder; remaining; leftover.
- respread — to draw, stretch, or open out, especially over a flat surface, as something rolled or folded (often followed by out).
- rest day — a holiday; a day when people do not have to work
- rhagades — linear cracks or scars found in the skin at the angles of the nose and mouth which are one of the later signs of congenital syphilis
- rhapsode — in ancient Greece, a person who recited rhapsodies, esp. one who recited epic poems as a profession
- rhodesia — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
- roadside — the side or border of the road; wayside.
- roadster — an early automobile having an open body, a single seat for two or three persons, and a large trunk or a rumble seat.
- rosedale — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
- rosemead — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- ruisdael — Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˌyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1628?–82, Dutch painter.
- ruysdael — Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˌyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1628?–82, Dutch painter.
- s-a node — sinoatrial node
- sabadell — a city in NE Spain, N of Barcelona.
- saccades — the act of checking a horse quickly with a single strong pull of the reins.