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4-letter words containing d, r

  • erdf — European Regional Development Fund: a fund to provide money for specific projects for work on the infrastructure in countries of the European Union
  • fard — facial cosmetics.
  • ferd — (obsolete or historical) An army, a host.
  • ford — Elizabeth Bloomer ("Betty") 1918–2011, U.S. First Lady 1974–77 (wife of Gerald R. Ford).
  • frad — (communications)   Frame Relay Access Device.
  • fred — Antoinette, 1888–1946, U.S. actress, theatrical manager, and producer.
  • fyrd — the militia in Anglo-Saxon England.
  • gard — a department in S France. 2271 sq. mi. (5882 sq. km). Capital: Nîmes.
  • gerd — gastroesophageal reflux disease.
  • gird — to gibe or jeer at; taunt.
  • gord — (obsolete) An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice.
  • grad — one hundredth of a right angle.
  • grid — a grating of crossed bars; gridiron.
  • hard — not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
  • herd — a herdsman (usually used in combination): a cowherd; a goatherd; a shepherd.
  • hird — (historical) In Norwegian history, an informal retinue of personal armed companions, hirdmen or housecarls.
  • hurd — (operating system)   The GNU project's replacement for the Unix kernel. The Hurd is a collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel to implement file systems, network protocols, file access control, and other features that are implemented by the Unix kernel or similar kernels such as Linux. The GNU C Library provides the Unix system call interface, and calls the Hurd for services it can't provide itself. The Hurd aims to establish a framework for shared development and maintenance, allowing a broad range of users to share projects without knowing much about the internal workings of the system - projects that might never have been attempted without freely available source, a well-designed interface, and a multi-server-based design. Currently there are free ports of the Mach kernel to the Intel 80386 IBM PC, the DEC PMAX workstation, the Luna 88k, with more in progress, including the Amiga and DEC Alpha-3000 machines. According to Thomas Bushnell, BSG, the primary architect of the Hurd: 'Hurd' stands for 'Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons' and 'Hird' stands for 'Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth'. Possibly the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms.
  • ibrd — International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the World Bank)
  • irda — Infrared Data Association
  • irdp — ICMP Router Discovery Protocol
  • irds — Information Resource Dictionary System. A set of ISO standards for CASE repositories. It governs the definition of data dictionaries to be implemented on top of relational databases (see repository, data dictionary).
  • ired — Simple past tense and past participle of ire.
  • irid — any plant belonging to the Iridaceae, the iris family.
  • jedr — (person, abuse, humour)   Synonymous with IYFEG. At one time, people in the Usenet newsgroup news:rec.humor.funny tended to use "JEDR" instead of IYFEG or ""; this stemmed from a public attempt to suppress the group once made by a loser with initials JEDR after he was offended by an ethnic joke posted there. (The practice was retconned by expanding these initials as "Joke Ethnic/Denomination/Race".) After much sound and fury JEDR faded away; this term appears to be doing likewise. JEDR's only permanent effect on the net.culture was to discredit "sensitivity" arguments for censorship so thoroughly that more recent attempts to raise them have met with immediate and near-universal rejection.
  • jird — any of several species of small, burrowing rodents of the genus Meriones, subfamily Gerbillinae, inhabiting dry regions of Asia and northern Africa.
  • jurd — Doctor of Law
  • kurd — a member of an Islamic people speaking Kurdish and dwelling chiefly in Kurdistan.
  • lard — the rendered fat of hogs, especially the internal fat of the abdomen.
  • lord — a person who has authority, control, or power over others; a master, chief, or ruler.
  • mard — (Northern England) To cosset (a child).
  • merd — (obsolete) ordure; dung.
  • mrda — Mandy Rice-Davis Applies
  • mrds — Multics Relational Data Store
  • nard — an aromatic Himalayan plant, believed to be the spikenard, Nardostachys jatamansi, the source of an ointment used by the ancients.
  • nerd — a person considered to be socially awkward, boring, unstylish, etc.
  • nord — a department in N France. 2229 sq. mi. (5770 sq. km). Capital: Lille.
  • nsrd — National Software Reuse Directory
  • nurd — a person considered to be socially awkward, boring, unstylish, etc.
  • oder — a river in central Europe, flowing from the NE Czech Republic, N through SW Poland and along the border between Germany and Poland into the Baltic. 562 miles (905 km) long.
  • odor — the property of a substance that activates the sense of smell: to have an unpleasant odor.
  • odra — the Oder
  • orad — toward the mouth or the oral region.
  • orde — Alternative form of ord.
  • ordo — Roman Catholic Church. a booklet containing short and abbreviated directions for the contents of the office and Mass of each day in the year.
  • pard — partner; companion.
  • prad — Informal. horse.
  • prmd — primary management domain
  • prod — to poke or jab with or as if with something pointed: I prodded him with my elbow.
  • raad — Electric catfish.
  • rada — (politics) a parliamentary body in a number of Slavic countries.
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