8-letter words containing e, c, a, r, d
- grimaced — a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
- hachured — one of a series of short parallel lines drawn on a map to indicate topographic relief.
- hardcase — a container that has a rigid structure
- hardcore — unswervingly committed; uncompromising; dedicated: a hard-core segregationist.
- hardface — an uncompromising person
- headrace — the race, flume, or channel leading to a water wheel or the like.
- heraclid — a person claiming descent from Hercules, especially one of the Dorian aristocracy of Sparta.
- heraldic — of, relating to, or characteristic of heralds or heraldry: heraldic form; heraldic images; heraldic history; a heraldic device.
- ice road — a temporary winter road built across ice or frozen ground
- idocrase — vesuvianite.
- inarched — Simple past tense and past participle of inarch.
- judicare — a federally funded program providing free or low-cost legal services to the poor.
- key card — a plastic card, similar to a credit card, containing data on an embedded magnetized strip that can electronically unlock a door, activate a machine, etc.
- keycards — Plural form of keycard.
- lacertid — any of numerous Old World lizards of the family Lacertidae.
- landrace — one of several widely distributed strains of large, white, lop-eared swine of northern European origin.
- macbride — Seán [shawn] /ʃɔn/ (Show IPA), 1904–88, Irish politician and diplomat, born in France: Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
- macramed — an elaborately patterned lacelike webbing made of hand-knotted cord, yarn, or the like, and used for wall decorations, hanging baskets, garments, accessories, etc.
- macready — William Charles, 1793–1873, English actor.
- medicare — (sometimes lowercase) a U.S. government program of hospitalization insurance and voluntary medical insurance for persons aged 65 and over and for certain disabled persons under 65. Compare Medicaid.
- merodach — Marduk.
- metacard — A commercial human interface and hypertext system for Unix and the X Window System, similar to Hypercard.
- mordecai — the cousin and guardian of Esther who delivered the Jews from the destruction planned by Haman. Esther 2–8.
- nectared — Imbued or abounding with nectar.
- notecard — A paper card on which notes are written, or which is intended for such use.
- ordnance — cannon or artillery.
- outraced — Simple past tense and past participle of outrace.
- overclad — wearing too many clothes
- parceled — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
- pedalcar — a four-wheeled vehicle that is operated by pedals, usually a child's toy
- picrated — containing picrate
- prefaced — a preliminary statement in a book by the book's author or editor, setting forth its purpose and scope, expressing acknowledgment of assistance from others, etc.
- quadcore — (computing, of a microprocessor) Composed of four cores.
- racecard — a usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, thin pasteboard, or plastic for various uses, as to write information on or printed as a means of identifying the holder: a 3″ × 5″ file card; a membership card.
- racemoid — racemic
- radiance — radiant brightness or light: the radiance of the tropical sun.
- radicate — to (cause to) take root
- raticide — a substance or preparation for killing rats.
- reaccede — to accede again
- readdict — to cause (a person) to become addicted to something again
- reascend — to ascend again
- recanted — to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
- 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 card — Soccer. a red card shown by the referee to a player being sent off the field for a flagrant violation.
- red clay — a brown to red, widely distributed deep-sea deposit consisting chiefly of microscopic particles and tinted red by iron oxides and manganese.
- redacted — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- redactor — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- replaced — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- riddance — the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
- rochdale — a borough of Greater Manchester, in N England: site of one of the earliest cooperative societies 1844.