8-letter words containing d, p, a, r
- rapidity — a rapid state or quality; quickness; celerity.
- rapiered — wearing or carrying a rapier
- raptured — (especially of saints) experiencing religious ecstasy as a result of one's faith.
- re-adopt — to choose or take as one's own; make one's own by selection or assent: to adopt a nickname.
- recapped — to recondition (a worn automobile tire) by cementing on a strip of prepared rubber and vulcanizing by subjecting to heat and pressure in a mold.
- red tape — excessive formality and routine required before official action can be taken.
- remapped — a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation: a map of Canada.
- repaired — to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend: to repair a motor.
- repeated — done, made, or said again and again: repeated attempts.
- replaced — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- respread — to draw, stretch, or open out, especially over a flat surface, as something rolled or folded (often followed by out).
- revamped — to renovate, redo, or revise: We've decided to revamp the entire show.
- rhapsode — in ancient Greece, a person who recited rhapsodies, esp. one who recited epic poems as a profession
- rhapsody — Music. an instrumental composition irregular in form and suggestive of improvisation.
- road map — a map designed for motorists, showing the principal cities and towns of a state or area, the chief roads, usually tourist attractions and places of historical interest, and the mileage from one place to another.
- sandspur — an American wild grass
- sarpedon — a Lycian prince, son of Zeus, killed by Patroclus in the Trojan War.
- sauropod — any herbivorous dinosaur of the suborder Sauropoda, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a small head, long neck and tail, and five-toed limbs: the largest known land animal.
- scorepad — a pad whose sheets are printed with headings, vertical or horizontal lines, symbols, or the like, to facilitate the recording of scores in a game, as bowling or bridge.
- scrapped — a fight or quarrel: She got into a scrap with her in-laws.
- sephardi — a Jew of Spanish, Portuguese, or North African descent
- sheppard — Jack. 1702–24, English criminal, whose daring escapes from prison were celebrated in many contemporary ballads and plays
- shipyard — a yard or enclosure in which ships are built or repaired.
- spadroon — a type of sword
- spandrel — Architecture. an area between the extradoses of two adjoining arches, or between the extrados of an arch and a perpendicular through the extrados at the springing line.
- spaniard — a native or inhabitant of Spain.
- spaulder — a pauldron, especially one for protecting only a shoulder.
- spirated — twisted in a spiral
- sporades — two groups of Greek islands in the Aegean: the Northern Sporades, lying northeast of Euboea, and the Southern Sporades, which include the Dodecanese and lie off the SW coast of Turkey
- sporadic — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- spraddle — to straddle.
- sprained — (of a joint) having been injured by a sudden twisting or wrenching of its ligaments
- sprawled — to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner: The puppy's legs sprawled in all directions.
- spreader — a person or thing that spreads.
- stoppard — Tom (Thomas Straussler) born 1937, British playwright, born in the Czech Republic.
- strapped — needy; wanting: The company is rather strapped for funds.
- superadd — to add over and above; join as a further addition; add besides.
- superbad — exceptionally bad
- tapadera — Southwestern U.S. a hoodlike piece of heavy leather around the front of the stirrup of a stock or range saddle to protect the rider's foot.
- tapadero — tapadera.
- tapiroid — of or resembling a tapir
- tarsiped — a generic term for marsupials of the genus Tarsipes
- teardrop — a tear or something suggesting a tear: A single teardrop rolled down her face.
- tetrapod — any vertebrate having four limbs or, as in the snake and whale, having had four-limbed ancestors.
- trackpad — touchpad.
- trade up — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- trade-up — the act or process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities, at either wholesale or retail, within a country or between countries: domestic trade; foreign trade.
- trampled — to tread or step heavily and noisily; stamp.
- trapdoor — a door flush with the surface of a floor, ceiling, or roof.
- tripedal — having three feet.