8-letter words containing i, d, r, s
- drisheen — a pudding made of sheep's intestines filled with meal and sheep's blood
- drizzles — Plural form of drizzle.
- drollish — somewhat droll
- drop-ins — [analogy with drop-outs] Spurious characters appearing on a terminal or console as a result of line noise or a system malfunction of some sort. Especially used when these are interspersed with one's own typed input.
- dropship — (science fiction, gaming) A flying transport that drops troops onto the battlefield.
- dropwise — in the form of a drop
- drowsier — Comparative form of drowsy.
- drowsily — half-asleep; sleepy.
- drowsing — Present participle of drowse.
- drudgism — the work of a drudge
- druggies — Plural form of druggie.
- druggist — a person who compounds or prepares drugs according to medical prescriptions; apothecary; pharmacist; dispensing chemist.
- druidess — a female member of the Druids.
- druidism — the religion or rites of the Druids.
- drumfish — drum1 (def 11).
- drumlins — Plural form of drumlin.
- drumskin — drumhead (def 1).
- drusilla — a female given name.
- dry sink — a wooden kitchen sink, especially of the 19th century, not connected to an external water supply, with a shallow zinc- or tin-lined well on top in which a dishpan can be placed, and usually a cupboard below.
- dry suit — a close-fitting, double-layered synthetic garment worn by a scuba diver in especially cold water, protecting the skin from contact with water and having an internal, warming layer of air that can be added to in order to equalize pressure during descent.
- duisburg — a city in W Germany, at the junction of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers: the largest river port in Europe; formed 1929 from the cities of Duisburg and Hamborn.
- dumfries — Also called Dumfriesshire [duhm-frees-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈfrisˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in S Scotland.
- duumvirs — Plural form of duumvir.
- dwarfish — like a dwarf, especially in being abnormally small; diminutive.
- dwarfism — the condition of being a dwarf or dwarfed.
- dwarvish — Synonym of dwarfish.
- editress — a woman employed in the work of editing.
- eridanus — a long twisting constellation in the S hemisphere extending from Orion to Hydrus and containing the first magnitude star Achernar
- faradise — /far'*-di:z/ [US Geological Survey] To start any hyper-addictive process or trend, or to continue adding current to such a trend. Telling one user about a new octo-tetris game you compiled would be a faradising act - in two weeks you might find your entire department playing the faradic game.
- faradism — to stimulate or treat (muscles or nerves) with induced alternating electric current (distinguished from galvanize).
- fibroids — Plural form of fibroid.
- fiddlers — Plural form of fiddler.
- fielders — Plural form of fielder.
- firdausi — (Abul Qasim Mansu or Hasan) 932–1020, Persian poet.
- firedogs — Plural form of firedog.
- fireside — Also called hearthside. the space about a fire or hearth.
- fissured — Simple past tense and past participle of fissure.
- flinders — Matthew, 1774–1814, English navigator and explorer: surveyed coast of Australia.
- foresaid — aforementioned; aforesaid.
- foreside — the front side or part.
- ghiordes — a Turkish rug characterized by an uneven pile produced by the Ghiordes knot.
- gizzards — Also called ventriculus. a thick-walled, muscular pouch in the lower stomach of many birds and reptiles that grinds food, often with the aid of ingested stones or grit.
- goodsire — a grandfather
- gradings — Plural form of grading.
- gravidas — Plural form of gravida.
- griddles — Plural form of griddle.
- grinders — Plural form of grinder.
- griselda — a woman of exemplary meekness and patience.
- griswold — Erwin Nathaniel, 1904–1994, U.S. lawyer and educator: dean of Harvard University Law School 1950–67.
- grundies — men's underpants