8-letter words containing e, d, i, r
- brideman — a male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding
- bridgend — a county borough in S Wales, created in 1996 from S Mid Glamorgan. Administrative centre: Bridgend. Pop: 129 900 (2003 est). Area: 264 sq km (102 sq miles)
- brigaded — a military unit having its own headquarters and consisting of two or more regiments, squadrons, groups, or battalions.
- brindled — brown or grey streaked or patched with a darker colour
- brindley — James. 1716–72, British canal builder, who constructed (1759–61) the Bridgewater Canal, the first in England
- bristled — one of the short, stiff, coarse hairs of certain animals, especially hogs, used extensively in making brushes.
- brittled — having hardness and rigidity but little tensile strength; breaking readily with a comparatively smooth fracture, as glass.
- brodiaea — any of several plants belonging to the genus Brodiaea, of the amaryllis family, native to western North America, having grasslike basal leaves and clusters of usually purplish flowers.
- broidery — a piece of embroidery
- brontide — a rumbling noise heard occasionally in some parts of the world, probably caused by seismic activity.
- burbidge — (Eleanor) Margaret (Peachey) [pee-chee] /ˈpi tʃi/ (Show IPA), born 1919, U.S. astronomer, born in England.
- burnside — land along the side of a burn
- cadherin — (protein) Any of a class of transmembrane proteins important in maintaining tissue structure.
- cagebird — A bird kept in a cage.
- cd drive — a device that plays CDs
- centroid — the centre of mass of an object of uniform density, esp of a geometric figure
- ceramide — any of a class of biologically important compounds used as moisturizers in skin-care preparations
- ceratoid — having the shape or texture of animal horn
- cercopid — any small leaping herbivorous homopterous insect of the family Cercopidae; a froghopper
- charidee — a jocular spelling of charity, as pronounced in a mid-Atlantic accent
- childern — Eye dialect of children.
- childers — (Robert) Erskine. 1870–1922, Irish politician, executed by the Irish Free State for his IRA activities: author of the spy story The Riddle of the Sands (1903)
- children — Children is the plural of child.
- chimerid — any fish of the genus Chimaera
- chloride — Chloride is a chemical compound of chlorine and another substance.
- choreoid — any of several diseases of the nervous system characterized by jerky, involuntary movements, chiefly of the face and extremities.
- chromide — any fish of the family Cichlidae
- ciderkin — a weak type of cider
- cindered — Simple past tense and past participle of cinder.
- ciphered — Put (a message) into secret writing; encode.
- cirriped — any of a class (Cirripedia) of saltwater crustaceans that are attached or parasitic as adults, including the barnacles and the rhizocephalans
- citrated — treated with a citrate
- cloudier — full of or overcast by clouds: a cloudy sky.
- co-drive — to take alternate turns driving (a vehicle) with another person
- coadmire — to admire together
- coderive — to derive jointly
- codifier — to reduce (laws, rules, etc.) to a code.
- codirect — to direct jointly
- codriver — The navigator in the sport of rally racing, who sits in the front passenger seat and gives directions to the driver.
- coeditor — a person who cooperates or collaborates as editor with another.
- collider — a particle accelerator in which beams of particles are made to collide
- confider — to impart secrets trustfully; discuss private matters or problems (usually followed by in): She confides in no one but her husband.
- consider — If you consider a person or thing to be something, you have the opinion that this is what they are.
- cordelia — a feminine name
- cordlike — a string or thin rope made of several strands braided, twisted, or woven together.
- corniced — having or decorated with a cornice
- coverlid — coverlet
- crannied — full of crannies or chinks
- credible — Credible means able to be trusted or believed.
- credibly — capable of being believed; believable: a credible statement.