8-letter words containing d, e, i, r
- quarried — an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
- quiddler — someone who quiddles
- quivered — the act or state of quivering; a tremble or tremor.
- rabbited — Simple past tense and past participle of rabbit.
- racemoid — racemic
- radiable — to extend, spread, or move like rays or radii from a center.
- radiance — radiant brightness or light: the radiance of the tropical sun.
- radiated — to extend, spread, or move like rays or radii from a center.
- radiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of radiate.
- radicate — to (cause to) take root
- radiguet — Raymond (rɛmɔ̃). 1903–23, French novelist; the author of The Devil in the Flesh (1923) and Count d'Orgel (1924)
- 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.
- railhead — the farthest point to which the rails of a railroad have been laid.
- raindate — an alternative date proposed in case of rain
- rapiered — wearing or carrying a rapier
- rarefied — extremely high or elevated; lofty; exalted: the rarefied atmosphere of a scholarly symposium.
- raticide — a substance or preparation for killing rats.
- ratified — to confirm by expressing consent, approval, or formal sanction: to ratify a constitutional amendment.
- rationed — a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage: a daily ration of meat and bread.
- re-admit — to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
- re-audit — an official examination and verification of accounts and records, especially of financial accounts.
- re-edify — to edify again or rebuild
- re-sited — the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment: the site of our summer cabin.
- readdict — to cause (a person) to become addicted to something again
- readings — Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquis of, 1860–1935, Lord Chief Justice of England 1913–21; viceroy of India 1921–26.
- readvise — to give counsel to; offer an opinion or suggestion as worth following: I advise you to be cautious.
- readying — completely prepared or in fit condition for immediate action or use: troops ready for battle; Dinner is ready.
- realised — to grasp or understand clearly.
- realized — to grasp or understand clearly.
- receding — to go or move away; retreat; go to or toward a more distant point; withdraw.
- received — generally or traditionally accepted; conventional; standard: a received moral idea.
- recodify — to reduce (laws, rules, etc.) to a code.
- recoiled — to draw back; start or shrink back, as in alarm, horror, or disgust.
- red bird — red1 (def 6).
- red fire — any of various combustible preparations, as one containing strontium nitrate, that burn with a vivid red light: used chiefly in pyrotechnic displays and in signaling.
- red hind — a grouper, Epinephelus guttatus, of Florida, the West Indies, etc., valued as a food fish.
- red kite — a large, rare, bird of prey, Milvus milvus, of parts of Europe and Africa: family Accipitridae
- red line — a point beyond which a person or group is not prepared to negotiate
- red mist — a feeling of extreme anger that clouds one's judgment temporarily
- red pine — a pine, Pinus resinosa, of northeastern North America, having needles in groups of two and reddish bark.
- red tide — a brownish-red discoloration of marine waters caused by the presence of enormous numbers of certain microscopic flagellates, especially the dinoflagellates, that often produce a potent neurotoxin that accumulates in the tissues of shellfish, making them poisonous when eaten by humans and other vertebrates.
- red wine — wine having a predominantly red color derived from the skin pigment in the red or other dark-colored grapes used in making it.
- red wing — (Tantangamini) c1750–c1825, Sioux leader.
- red wire — (jargon, hardware) (IBM) Patch wires installed by programmers who have no business mucking with the hardware. It is said that the only thing more dangerous than a hardware guy with a code patch is a softy with a soldering iron. Compare blue wire, yellow wire, purple wire.
- redbrick — of, relating to, or associated with a redbrick university.
- redditch — a town in W central England, in N Worcestershire: designated a new town in the mid-1960s; metal-working industries. Pop: 74 803 (2001)
- redecide — to solve or conclude (a question, controversy, or struggle) by giving victory to one side: The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff.
- redefine — to state or set forth the meaning of (a word, phrase, etc.): They disagreed on how to define “liberal.”.
- redesign — to prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), especially to plan the form and structure of: to design a new bridge.
- redfield — Robert, 1897–1958, American anthropologist.