8-letter words containing e, d, i, r
- ascribed — Simple past tense and past participle of ascribe.
- asteroid — An asteroid is one of the very small planets that move around the sun between Mars and Jupiter.
- attrited — worn down by friction or attrition
- auricled — (botany) auriculate.
- avoiders — Plural form of avoider.
- bandeira — an expedition in search of gold or slaves
- barred i — a high central vowel with phonetic quality approximating that of the vowels in pit, put, putt, or pet, and considered by most phonologists as a phonetic variant of one of these vowels, depending on the context, but by some as an autonomous phoneme in some varieties of English.
- bearding — the growth of hair on the face of an adult man, often including a mustache.
- bedchair — an adjustable chair to support an invalid sitting up in bed
- bediaper — to put a nappy on
- bedivere — the loyal knight who is with the dying King Arthur and sees him off to Avalon
- bedrails — Plural form of bedrail.
- bedright — a right expected in the marital bed
- bedrivel — to drivel upon or cover in dribble
- bee bird — any of several birds, as the bee-eaters, that feed on bees.
- befriend — If you befriend someone, especially someone who is lonely or far from home, you make friends with them.
- begirdle — to surround with a girdle
- begrimed — dirty
- belfried — with a belfry
- bellbird — any of several tropical American passerine birds of the genus Procnias having a bell-like call: family Cotingidae (cotingas)
- benidorm — a coastal resort town in W Spain, on the Costa Blanca
- beringed — wearing a ring or rings
- bestride — To bestride something means to be the most powerful and important person or thing in it.
- bewilder — If something bewilders you, it is so confusing or difficult that you cannot understand it.
- biforked — two-pronged
- bigarade — a Seville orange
- bigender — Also, bigendered. noting or relating to a person who has two gender identities or some combination of both.
- bilander — a small two-masted cargo ship
- birdcage — A birdcage is a cage in which birds are kept.
- birdfeed — food for birds
- birdlife — The birdlife in a place is all the birds that live there.
- birdlike — If someone has a birdlike manner, they move or look like a bird.
- birdlime — a sticky substance, prepared from holly, mistletoe, or other plants, smeared on twigs to catch small birds
- birdseed — Birdseed is seeds that you give to birds as food.
- birdseye — Clarence1886-1956; U.S. inventor of methods of quick-freezing foods
- bittered — having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood, or aloes.
- blinders — Blinders are two pieces of leather that are placed at the side of a horse's eyes so that it can only see straight ahead.
- bluebird — any North American songbird of the genus Sialia, having a blue or partly blue plumage: subfamily Turdinae (thrushes)
- boardies — a pair of board shorts
- bouderie — sulkiness, pouting
- bourride — a Mediterranean fish soup flavoured with aioli
- bowrider — a motorboat with an open bow provided with seating.
- braeheid — the summit of a hill or slope
- brainerd — a city in central Minnesota.
- brandeis — ˈLouis Demˌbitz (ˈdɛmˌbɪts ) ; demˈbitsˌ) 1856-1941; U.S. jurist: associate justice, Supreme Court (1916-39)
- brandied — flavored or blended with brandy
- brandise — a trivet
- breadbin — a household container for bread, usually quite small
- breading — a kind of food made of flour or meal that has been mixed with milk or water, made into a dough or batter, with or without yeast or other leavening agent, and baked.
- breeding — If someone says that a person has breeding, they mean that they think the person is from a good social background and has good manners.