8-letter words containing d, e, i, r
- griddles — Plural form of griddle.
- gridelin — a greyish violet colour
- grievand — One who is the object of a formal grievance.
- grillade — a dish or serving of broiled or grilled meat.
- grimaced — a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
- grinders — Plural form of grinder.
- grindery — a workshop for grinding edge tools.
- griselda — a woman of exemplary meekness and patience.
- grizzled — gray; grayish; devoid of hue.
- grundies — men's underpants
- gueridon — a small table or stand, as for holding a candelabrum.
- guilders — Plural form of guilder.
- hagrider — a person or thing that causes distressing anxiety or apprehension
- hagrides — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hagride.
- hardiest — capable of enduring fatigue, hardship, exposure, etc.; sturdy; strong: hardy explorers of northern Canada.
- hardinge — Henry, 1st Viscount Hardinge of Lahore. 1785–1856, British politician, soldier, and colonial administrator; governor general of India (1844–48)
- hardline — an uncompromising or unyielding stand, especially in politics.
- hardwire — Alternative spelling of hard-wire.
- hayrides — Plural form of hayride.
- headrail — a railing on a sailing vessel, extending forward from abaft the bow to the back of the figurehead.
- headring — an African head decoration and symbol of maturity
- hebrides — a group of islands (Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides) off the W coast of and belonging to Scotland. About 2900 sq. mi. (7500 sq. km).
- heliodor — a clear yellow variety of beryl used as a gemstone.
- 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.
- herdlike — Resembling a herd or some aspect of one, especially a propensity to follow blindly after a leader.
- herdwick — a hardy breed of coarse-woolled sheep from NW England
- heredity — the transmission of genetic characters from parents to offspring: it is dependent upon the segregation and recombination of genes during meiosis and fertilization and results in the genesis of a new individual similar to others of its kind but exhibiting certain variations resulting from the particular mix of genes and their interactions with the environment.
- herodian — of or relating to Herod the Great, his family, or its partisans.
- herodias — the second wife of Herod Antipas and the mother of Salome: she told Salome to ask Herod for the head of John the Baptist.
- hesperid — any small butterfly of the family Hesperiidae; a skipper
- highbred — of superior breed.
- hindered — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
- hinderer — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
- hiveward — (of a bee's movement) towards the hive
- homebird — a person who is reluctant to leave their hometown or their childhood home, or who returns after a period of living away
- hotwired — Simple past tense and past participle of hotwire.
- hreidmar — (in the Volsunga Saga) the father of Fafnir, Otter, and Regin. He demanded wergild from the gods for killing Otter, and was killed by Fafnir when he got it.
- hydremia — the state of having an excess of water in the blood.
- hydrides — Plural form of hydride.
- i wonder — You can say 'I wonder' if you want to be very polite when you are asking someone to do something, or when you are asking them for their opinion or for information.
- ice road — a temporary winter road built across ice or frozen ground
- ideogram — a written symbol that represents an idea or object directly rather than a particular word or speech sound, as a Chinese character.
- idocrase — vesuvianite.
- idolater — Also, idolist [ahyd-l-ist] /ˈaɪd l ɪst/ (Show IPA). a worshiper of idols.
- idoliser — (UK) alternative spelling of idolizer.
- idolizer — One who idolizes.
- ill-bred — showing lack of good social breeding; unmannerly; rude.
- imbursed — Simple past tense and past participle of imburse.