8-letter words containing i, d, a, r, e, s
- herodias — the second wife of Herod Antipas and the mother of Salome: she told Salome to ask Herod for the head of John the Baptist.
- idocrase — vesuvianite.
- invaders — Plural form of invader.
- islander — a native or inhabitant of an island.
- maderise — become reddish
- marrieds — Plural form of married.
- mermaids — Plural form of mermaid.
- midyears — Plural form of midyear.
- misdread — a fear or dread of evil
- misgrade — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
- misheard — to hear incorrectly or imperfectly: to mishear a remark.
- misrated — Rated incorrectly.
- misreads — Plural form of misread.
- naderism — the philosophy and beliefs of consumerism and environmentalism preached by Ralph Nader
- nearside — (British) the left side of a road vehicle when facing in the same direction as the vehicle.
- paradise — a town in N California.
- pre-aids — (not in technical use) AIDS-related complex.
- radiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of radiate.
- radiuses — a straight line extending from the center of a circle or sphere to the circumference or surface: The radius of a circle is half the diameter.
- readings — Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquis of, 1860–1935, Lord Chief Justice of England 1913–21; viceroy of India 1921–26.
- readvise — to give counsel to; offer an opinion or suggestion as worth following: I advise you to be cautious.
- realised — to grasp or understand clearly.
- residual — pertaining to or constituting a residue or remainder; remaining; leftover.
- rhodesia — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
- roadside — the side or border of the road; wayside.
- ruisdael — Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˌyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1628?–82, Dutch painter.
- salaried — receiving a salary: a salaried employee.
- sandiver — a whitish, saline scum formed on the surface of molten glass.
- sea bird — a bird frequenting the sea or coast.
- semiarid — characterized by very little annual rainfall, usually from 10 to 20 inches (25 to 50 cm): the struggle to raise vegetables in semiarid regions.
- semihard — partly hard; not completely hard
- sephardi — a Jew of Spanish, Portuguese, or North African descent
- serranid — any of numerous percoid fishes of the family Serranidae, living chiefly in warm seas, including the sea basses and groupers.
- sheridan — Philip Henry, 1831–88, Union general in the Civil War.
- side arm — a weapon, as a pistol or sword, carried at the side or in the belt.
- siderate — to strike violently
- 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
- sideward — directed or moving toward one side.
- solidare — an old coin
- soredial — pertaining to or resembling a soredium.
- spirated — twisted in a spiral
- sprained — (of a joint) having been injured by a sudden twisting or wrenching of its ligaments
- strained — affected or produced by effort; not natural or spontaneous; forced: strained hospitality.
- striated — striated.
- tarsiped — a generic term for marsupials of the genus Tarsipes
- unraised — fashioned or made as a surface design in relief.
- upraised — If your hand or an object is upraised, you are holding it up in the air.
- visegrad — a town in N Hungary, NW of Budapest on the Danube: site of summit in 1991 of the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland.