8-letter words containing i, d, r, s
- camisard — any French Protestant, living in the region of the Cévennes Mountains, who carried on a revolt against Louis XIV in the early part of the 18th century.
- carabids — Plural form of carabid.
- carditis — inflammation of the heart
- carotids — Plural form of carotid.
- catbirds — Plural form of catbird.
- 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)
- choroids — Plural form of choroid.
- chytrids — Plural form of chytrid.
- consider — If you consider a person or thing to be something, you have the opinion that this is what they are.
- cordials — Plural form of cordial.
- corixids — Plural form of corixid.
- corridas — Plural form of corrida.
- corridos — Plural form of corrido.
- cowbirds — Plural form of cowbird.
- cressida — (in medieval adaptations of the story of Troy) a woman who deserts her Trojan lover Troilus for the Greek Diomedes
- crinoids — Plural form of crinoid.
- criseyde — Cressida
- crudites — Crudités are pieces of raw vegetable, often served before a meal.
- cryptids — Plural form of cryptid.
- curbside — at the curb or on the sidewalk adjacent to the street
- curtsied — a respectful bow made by women and girls, consisting of bending the knees and lowering the body.
- cuspidor — spittoon
- darioles — Plural form of dariole.
- darius i — known as Darius the Great, surname Hystaspis. ?550–486 bc, king of Persia (521–486), who extended the Persian empire and crushed the revolt of the Ionian city states (500). He led two expeditions against Greece but was defeated at Marathon (490)
- darlings — Plural form of darling.
- dartitis — (in darts) nervous twitching or tension that destroys concentration and spoils performance
- dasyurid — Any carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae.
- de vries — Hugo (ˈhyːxoː). 1848–1935, Dutch botanist, who rediscovered Mendel's laws and developed the mutation theory of evolution
- deadrise — the angle with the horizontal made by the outboard rise of the bottom of a vessel at the widest frame.
- debitors — a debtor.
- debriefs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of debrief.
- debrises — the remains of anything broken down or destroyed; ruins; rubble: the debris of buildings after an air raid.
- debruise — to overlay or partly cover with an ordinary
- deciders — Plural form of decider.
- deerskin — the hide of a deer
- definers — Plural form of definer.
- delivers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deliver.
- demerits — Plural form of demerit.
- deminers — Plural form of deminer.
- demireps — Plural form of demirep.
- demister — A demister is the same as a defogger.
- denarius — a silver coin of ancient Rome, often called a penny in translation
- depretis — Agostino (aɡoˈstiːno). 1813–87, Italian statesman; prime minister (1876–78; 1878–79; 1881–87). His policy led to the Triple Alliance (1882) between Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Germany
- deprives — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deprive.
- derision — If you treat someone or something with derision, you express contempt for them.
- derisive — A derisive noise, expression, or remark expresses contempt.
- derisory — If you describe something such as an amount of money as derisory, you are emphasizing that it is so small or inadequate that it seems silly or not worth considering.
- derricks — Plural form of derrick.
- describe — If you describe a person, object, event, or situation, you say what they are like or what happened.
- descried — to see (something unclear or distant) by looking carefully; discern; espy: The lookout descried land.