8-letter words containing d, e, c, r
- freckled — Having freckles.
- frescade — a shaded walkway
- frescoed — Also called buon fresco, true fresco. the art or technique of painting on a moist, plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture. Compare fresco secco.
- frounced — Simple past tense and past participle of frounce.
- furcated — Forked or branched.
- furnaced — (in combinations) having a particular type or number of furnaces.
- goderich — Viscount, title of Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon. 1782–1859, British statesman; prime minister (1827–28)
- grimaced — a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
- grouched — Simple past tense and past participle of grouch.
- hachured — one of a series of short parallel lines drawn on a map to indicate topographic relief.
- hardcase — a container that has a rigid structure
- hardcore — unswervingly committed; uncompromising; dedicated: a hard-core segregationist.
- hardface — an uncompromising person
- headrace — the race, flume, or channel leading to a water wheel or the like.
- hectored — Simple past form of hector.
- hendrick — a male given name, form of Henry.
- heraclid — a person claiming descent from Hercules, especially one of the Dorian aristocracy of Sparta.
- heraldic — of, relating to, or characteristic of heralds or heraldry: heraldic form; heraldic images; heraldic history; a heraldic device.
- herdwick — a hardy breed of coarse-woolled sheep from NW England
- ice road — a temporary winter road built across ice or frozen ground
- idocrase — vesuvianite.
- inarched — Simple past tense and past participle of inarch.
- incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
- incurved — Turned inwards.
- indicter — One who indicts.
- indirect — not in a direct course or path; deviating from a straight line; roundabout: an indirect course in sailing.
- indrench — to submerge, immerse, or drown (someone in something)
- inducers — Plural form of inducer.
- judicare — a federally funded program providing free or low-cost legal services to the poor.
- 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.
- keycards — Plural form of keycard.
- lacertid — any of numerous Old World lizards of the family Lacertidae.
- landrace — one of several widely distributed strains of large, white, lop-eared swine of northern European origin.
- lechered — Simple past tense and past participle of lecher.
- lectured — a speech read or delivered before an audience or class, especially for instruction or to set forth some subject: a lecture on Picasso's paintings.
- luderick — An edible, herbivorous fish of Australasian coastal waters and estuaries.
- macbride — Seán [shawn] /ʃɔn/ (Show IPA), 1904–88, Irish politician and diplomat, born in France: Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
- macramed — an elaborately patterned lacelike webbing made of hand-knotted cord, yarn, or the like, and used for wall decorations, hanging baskets, garments, accessories, etc.
- macready — William Charles, 1793–1873, English actor.
- medicare — (sometimes lowercase) a U.S. government program of hospitalization insurance and voluntary medical insurance for persons aged 65 and over and for certain disabled persons under 65. Compare Medicaid.
- mediocer — Obsolete form of mediocre.
- mediocre — of only ordinary or moderate quality; neither good nor bad; barely adequate: The car gets only mediocre mileage, but it's fun to drive. Synonyms: undistinguished, commonplace, pedestrian, everyday; run-of-the-mill. Antonyms: extraordinary, superior, uncommon, incomparable.
- mercedes — a city in SW Uruguay, on the Río Negro.
- merchild — a mythical creature with the upper body of a child and the lower body of a fish
- merodach — Marduk.
- metacard — A commercial human interface and hypertext system for Unix and the X Window System, similar to Hypercard.
- miscreed — a false creed
- mordecai — the cousin and guardian of Esther who delivered the Jews from the destruction planned by Haman. Esther 2–8.
- necrosed — Simple past tense and past participle of necrose.
- nectared — Imbued or abounding with nectar.