8-letter words containing e, l, d, r
- ruysdael — Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˌyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1628?–82, Dutch painter.
- sacredly — devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose; consecrated.
- saddlery — saddles, harnesses, and other equipment for horses.
- salaried — receiving a salary: a salaried employee.
- saleyard — an area with pens for holding animals before auction
- sardelle — a small fish, Clupea or Sardinella aurita, similar to the sardine
- sclereid — a short, thickened plant cell of the sclerenchyma, typically containing branched pits.
- scleroid — hard or indurated.
- scrawled — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- scrolled — sawn into scrolls
- sea lord — (in Britain) either of the two serving naval officers (First and Second Sea Lords) who sit on the admiralty board of the Ministry of Defence
- selfward — in the direction of or toward oneself: a selfward-moving gesture.
- serpulid — a marine polychaete worm of the family Serpulidae, which constructs and lives in a calcareous tube attached to stones or seaweed and has a crown of ciliated tentacles
- shoulder — the part of each side of the body in humans, at the top of the trunk, extending from each side of the base of the neck to the region where the arm articulates with the trunk.
- shrewdly — astute or sharp in practical matters: a shrewd politician.
- shrilled — high-pitched and piercing in sound quality: a shrill cry.
- sidereal — determined by or from the stars: sidereal time.
- silvered — consisting of, made of, or plated with silver.
- sliddery — slippery
- slurried — a thin mixture of an insoluble substance, as cement, clay, or coal, with a liquid, as water or oil.
- smoulder — to burn without flame; undergo slow or suppressed combustion.
- solander — a case for maps, plates, etc., made to resemble a book and having the front cover and fore edge hinged.
- soldered — any of various alloys fused and applied to the joint between metal objects to unite them without heating the objects to the melting point.
- solderer — any of various alloys fused and applied to the joint between metal objects to unite them without heating the objects to the melting point.
- soldiery — soldiers collectively.
- solidare — an old coin
- sordello — born ?1200, Italian troubadour
- soredial — pertaining to or resembling a soredium.
- sourveld — (in South Africa) a type of grazing characterized by long coarse grass
- 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.
- spaulder — a pauldron, especially one for protecting only a shoulder.
- spindler — a person who spindles
- splendor — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
- spraddle — to straddle.
- sprawled — to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner: The puppy's legs sprawled in all directions.
- startled — to disturb or agitate suddenly as by surprise or alarm.
- straddle — to walk, stand, or sit with the legs wide apart; stand or sit astride.
- strolled — to walk leisurely as inclination directs; ramble; saunter; take a walk: to stroll along the beach.
- swaddler — a blanket in which to swaddle a baby
- swindler — to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
- tailored — (of a woman's garment) in a simple or plain style with fitted lines. Compare dressmaker (def 2).
- tenderly — soft or delicate in substance; not hard or tough: a tender steak.
- tendrils — a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, so as to support the plant.
- thralled — a person who is in bondage; slave.
- thrilled — to affect with a sudden wave of keen emotion or excitement, as to produce a tremor or tingling sensation through the body.
- tradable — 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.
- tradeful — (of shops etc) full of trade
- trampled — to tread or step heavily and noisily; stamp.
- traveled — used or designed for use while traveling: a travel alarm clock.
- trembled — to shake involuntarily with quick, short movements, as from fear, excitement, weakness, or cold; quake; quiver.