8-letter words containing d, i, c
- 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.
- 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.
- redirect — to direct again.
- reducing — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
- regicide — the killing of a king.
- reindict — (of a grand jury) to bring a formal accusation against, as a means of bringing to trial: The grand jury indicted him for murder.
- reinduce — to induce again
- reinduct — to install in an office, benefice, position, etc., especially with formal ceremonies: The committee inducted her as president.
- repriced — the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
- rhodanic — of or relating to thiocyanic acid
- ricebird — Southern U.S. the bobolink.
- richards — a male given name.
- richland — a city in SE Washington, on the Columbia River: residential and administrative quarters for the Hanford Works. Compare Hanford (def 2).
- richmond — a state in the E United States, on the Atlantic coast: part of the historical South. 40,815 sq. mi. (105,710 sq. km). Capital: Richmond. Abbreviation: VA (for use with zip code), Va.
- richweed — clearweed.
- rickyard — a place where haystacks or ricks are put
- riddance — the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
- ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
- rip cord — a cord on a parachute that, when pulled, opens the parachute for descent.
- roderick — a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “glory” and “ruler.”.
- rubicund — red or reddish; ruddy: a rubicund complexion.
- saccadic — characterized by discontinuous or sporadic movement; jerky.
- sadistic — pertaining to or characterized by sadism; deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from extreme cruelty: a sadistic psychopath.
- sandwich — a town in E Kent, in SE England: one of the Cinque Ports.
- sarcodic — pertaining to the sarcode or protoplasm of an animal
- sardonic — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
- scalding — to burn or affect painfully with or as if with hot liquid or steam.
- scaldino — an Italian earthen brazier
- scandian — of or relating to Scandia.
- scandisk — (operating system, storage) An MS-DOS command to check for faults on a disk and provide a graphical representation the results. Scandisk was introduced with MS-DOS version 6 to replace CHKDSK.
- scandium — a rare, trivalent, metallic element obtained from thortveitite. Symbol: Sc; atomic weight: 44.956; atomic number: 21; specific gravity: 3.0.
- scaphoid — boat-shaped; navicular.
- schiedam — a city in SW Netherlands.
- schizoid — Psychology. of or relating to a personality disorder marked by dissociation, passivity, withdrawal, inability to form warm social relationships, and indifference to praise or criticism.
- sciaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Sciaenidae, a family of carnivorous fishes that produce a loud sound by snapping the muscles attached to their air bladder, comprising the croakers and drums.
- scienced — learned or knowledgeable (about something)
- scincoid — of, relating to, or resembling a skink.
- sciuroid — sciurine.
- sclereid — a short, thickened plant cell of the sclerenchyma, typically containing branched pits.
- scleroid — hard or indurated.
- scofield — (David) Paul. (1922–2008), English stage and film actor
- scolding — a person who is constantly scolding, often with loud and abusive speech.
- scolecid — a variety of worm
- scolytid — any of various dark-coloured cylinder-shaped beetles, including the bark and ambrosia beetles
- scombrid — any fish of the family Scombridae, comprising the mackerels and tunas.