8-letter words containing d, e, s
- presumed — to take for granted, assume, or suppose: I presume you're tired after your drive.
- proceeds — to move or go forward or onward, especially after stopping.
- prodnose — an inquisitive person
- promised — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- proposed — to offer or suggest (a matter, subject, case, etc.) for consideration, acceptance, or action: to propose a new method.
- proudest — feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often followed by of, an infinitive, or a clause).
- pseudery — pretentious talk
- pseudish — pretentious
- pthreads — POSIX Threads
- purposed — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- quayside — the area bordering and around a quay or quays.
- quiesced — Simple past tense and past participle of quiesce.
- 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.
- re-dress — to dress again.
- re-sited — the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment: the site of our summer cabin.
- re-sound — to sound or cause to sound again
- 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.
- recessed — temporary withdrawal or cessation from the usual work or activity.
- red beds — sequences of red sedimentary rocks, usually sandstones or shales, coloured by the oxidization of the iron in them
- red mass — a votive Mass of the Holy Ghost said as a blessing for the legal profession.
- red mist — a feeling of extreme anger that clouds one's judgment temporarily
- red rose — the emblem of the royal house of Lancaster.
- red sage — a showy, rank-smelling shrub, Lantana camara, of tropical America, having yellow flowers that turn orange or red.
- red snow — snow that has acquired a red color either from airborne particles of red dust or from a type of alga that contains a red pigment.
- red star — any star with a low surface temperature and a reddish color, as a red giant or a red dwarf.
- redeless — without rede or advice
- 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.
- redhorse — any of several suckers of the genus Moxostoma, found in the fresh waters of North America, often having reddish fins.
- redigest — to digest again
- redilisp — R.M. Keller, U Utah. Dialect of Lisp used on the Rediflow machine, a derivative of FEL.
- redistil — to distil again, usually to purify further
- 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
- redshift — a shift toward longer wavelengths of the spectral lines emitted by a celestial object that is caused by the object moving away from the earth.
- redshirt — a high-school or college athlete kept out of varsity competition for one year to develop skills and extend eligibility. a child held back from starting kindergarten for one year, the practice of which is believed by some parents to give the child academic, athletic, and social advantages.
- redshort — (of metal, iron, steel, etc) to become brittle at red-hot temperatures
- redstart — any of several small, Old World thrushes, usually with reddish-brown tails, especially Phoenicurus phoenicurus (European redstart)
- redstone — a U.S. surface-to-surface ballistic missile powered by a single rocket engine.
- reedstop — an organ stop that is made up of or that controls a rank of reed pipes
- rehashed — to work up (old material) in a new form.