8-letter words containing i, d, a, e
- sidereal — determined by or from the stars: sidereal time.
- sideroad — (esp in Ontario) a road, usually north-south, going at right angles to concession roads
- sidesman — a man elected to help the parish church warden
- sidewalk — a walk, especially a paved one, at the side of a street or road.
- sidewall — the part of a pneumatic tire between the edge of the tread and the rim of the wheel.
- sideward — directed or moving toward one side.
- sideways — with a side foremost.
- signaled — anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct, command, or the like, as a light, a gesture, an act, etc.: a traffic signal; a signal to leave.
- situated — Archaic. located; placed; situated.
- skinhead — a baldheaded man.
- sleazoid — a sleazy person
- slideway — an inclined surface along which something can slide.
- sodalite — a mineral, sodium aluminum silicate, Na 4 Al 3 Si 3 O 1 2 Cl, occurring massive and in crystals, usually blue in color and found in certain alkali-rich igneous rocks.
- sodamide — sodium amide.
- solidare — an old coin
- solidate — a parcel of land whose value is equal to a solidus
- soredial — pertaining to or resembling a soredium.
- spadille — the highest trump in certain card games, as the queen of clubs in omber.
- spavined — suffering from or affected with spavin.
- spirated — twisted in a spiral
- spithead — a roadstead off the S coast of England between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
- sprained — (of a joint) having been injured by a sudden twisting or wrenching of its ligaments
- squaddie — soldier
- steadily — firmly placed or fixed; stable in position or equilibrium: a steady ladder.
- steading — the place of a person or thing as occupied by a successor or substitute: The nephew of the queen came in her stead.
- strained — affected or produced by effort; not natural or spontaneous; forced: strained hospitality.
- striated — striated.
- swadeshi — a political movement in British India that encouraged domestic production and the boycott of foreign, especially British, goods as a step toward home rule.
- taenioid — ribbon-like in structure
- tail end — the hinder or rear part of anything.
- tailored — (of a woman's garment) in a simple or plain style with fitted lines. Compare dressmaker (def 2).
- tameside — a unitary authority of NW England, in Greater Manchester. Pop: 213 400 (2003 est). Area: 103 sq km (40 sq miles)
- tarsiped — a generic term for marsupials of the genus Tarsipes
- teratoid — resembling a monster.
- tetanoid — Pathology. an infectious, often fatal disease caused by a specific bacterium that enters the body through wounds and characterized by respiratory paralysis and tonic spasms and rigidity of the voluntary muscles, especially those of the neck and lower jaw. Compare lockjaw.
- tetracid — a base or alcohol containing four hydroxyl groups.
- tetradic — relating to something that has a group of four
- the maid — Joan of Arc
- thiazide — a member of a class of diuretic substances that inhibit the reabsorption of sodium chloride in the distal convoluted tubule of the kidneys: used principally to treat hypertension.
- thridace — a sedative made from lettuce juice
- tidehead — the inland limit of the tide.
- tideland — land alternately exposed and covered by the ordinary ebb and flow of the tide.
- tidemark — the point that something or someone has reached, receded below, or risen above: He has reached the tidemark of his prosperity.
- tidesman — a Customs official at a port
- tidewave — the swell of the earth's water levels as the tide moves
- timecard — a card for recording the time at which an employee arrives at and departs from a job.
- tracheid — an elongated, tapering xylem cell having lignified, pitted, intact walls, adapted for conduction and support. Compare vessel (def 5).
- trade in — 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.
- trade-in — goods given in whole or, usually, part payment of a purchase: We used our old car as a trade-in for the new one.
- tripedal — having three feet.