8-letter words containing d, i, s, a, r
- drusilla — a female given name.
- dwarfish — like a dwarf, especially in being abnormally small; diminutive.
- dwarfism — the condition of being a dwarf or dwarfed.
- dwarvish — Synonym of dwarfish.
- eridanus — a long twisting constellation in the S hemisphere extending from Orion to Hydrus and containing the first magnitude star Achernar
- faradise — /far'*-di:z/ [US Geological Survey] To start any hyper-addictive process or trend, or to continue adding current to such a trend. Telling one user about a new octo-tetris game you compiled would be a faradising act - in two weeks you might find your entire department playing the faradic game.
- faradism — to stimulate or treat (muscles or nerves) with induced alternating electric current (distinguished from galvanize).
- firdausi — (Abul Qasim Mansu or Hasan) 932–1020, Persian poet.
- foresaid — aforementioned; aforesaid.
- gizzards — Also called ventriculus. a thick-walled, muscular pouch in the lower stomach of many birds and reptiles that grinds food, often with the aid of ingested stones or grit.
- gradings — Plural form of grading.
- gravidas — Plural form of gravida.
- griselda — a woman of exemplary meekness and patience.
- guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
- 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.
- hardship — a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship.
- hayrides — Plural form of hayride.
- 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.
- idocrase — vesuvianite.
- igdrasil — Ygdrasil
- inboards — Plural form of inboard.
- inradius — the radius of the circle inscribed in a triangle.
- intrados — the interior curve or surface of an arch or vault.
- invaders — Plural form of invader.
- islander — a native or inhabitant of an island.
- jaybirds — Plural form of jaybird.
- laniards — Plural form of laniard.
- maderise — become reddish
- marrieds — Plural form of married.
- mermaids — Plural form of mermaid.
- midyears — Plural form of midyear.
- miradors — Plural form of mirador.
- misandry — hatred of males.
- misaward — to award wrongly
- misbrand — to brand or label erroneously.
- misdrawn — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- misdread — a fear or dread of evil
- misgrade — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
- misheard — to hear incorrectly or imperfectly: to mishear a remark.
- misrated — Rated incorrectly.
- misreads — Plural form of misread.
- naderism — the philosophy and beliefs of consumerism and environmentalism preached by Ralph Nader
- nearside — (British) the left side of a road vehicle when facing in the same direction as the vehicle.
- niggards — Plural form of niggard.
- ordinals — Plural form of ordinal.
- paradise — a town in N California.
- paradiso — heaven, as the final abode of the righteous.
- parishad — (in India) an assembly
- parodist — a writer of parodies, especially of a literary subject, work, or style.