8-letter words containing i, r, a, n
- dinosaur — any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile of the extinct orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, from the Mesozoic Era, certain species of which are the largest known land animals.
- dipluran — Any of various hexapods, of the order Diplura.
- dipteran — dipterous (def 1).
- disadorn — To deprive of ornaments.
- disrange — (obsolete) To disarrange.
- distrain — to constrain by seizing and holding goods, etc., in pledge for rent, damages, etc., or in order to obtain satisfaction of a claim.
- diurnals — Plural form of diurnal.
- doornail — a large-headed nail formerly used for strengthening or ornamenting doors.
- douanier — a customs officer or official.
- draconic — (often lowercase) Draconian.
- draconid — any of several unrelated meteor showers whose radiants are in the constellation Draco.
- draconis — a late 7th-century b.c. Athenian statesman noted for the severity of his code of laws.
- drafting — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- dragging — marked by or involving the wearing of clothing characteristically associated with the opposite sex; transvestite.
- dragline — a rope dragging from something; dragrope.
- draglink — (engineering) A link connecting the cranks of two shafts.
- drainage — the act or process of draining.
- drainers — Plural form of drainer.
- draining — Present participle of drain.
- draisine — an early form of bicycle designed in Germany, nick-named the hobby horse or dandy horse
- dramming — Measurements. a unit of apothecaries' weight, equal to 60 grains, or 1/8 (0.125) ounce (3.89 grams). 1/16 (0.0625) ounce, avoirdupois weight (27.34 grains; 1.77 grams). Abbreviation: dr., dr.
- dratting — to damn; confound: Drat your interference.
- drawings — Plural form of drawing.
- drawling — an act or utterance of a person who drawls.
- drawlink — (rail transport) drawbar.
- dreading — to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of: to dread death.
- dreaming — (often initial capital letter) the ancient time of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors, whose spirits continue into the present, as conceived in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines.
- drearing — sorrow; grief
- drepanid — any moth of the superfamily Drepanoidae (family Drepanidae): it comprises the hook-tip moths
- drip pan — a shallow metal pan used under roasting meat to receive the drippings.
- duration — the length of time something continues or exists (often used with the).
- dwarfing — Present participle of dwarf.
- earnings — money earned; wages; profits.
- earrings — Plural form of earring.
- earthing — (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 miles (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 miles (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million miles (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite.
- echiuran — spoonworm
- elaterin — An extract from the juice of the fruit of Ecballium elaterium (the squirting cucumber), used as a purgative.
- emigrant — A person who leaves their own country in order to settle permanently in another.
- en clair — in ordinary language; not in cipher
- enargite — a sulphide of copper and arsenic
- endbrain — (neuroanatomy) The anterior part of the forebrain; the telencephalon.
- engrails — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of engrail.
- enraging — Present participle of enrage.
- enravish — to enchant
- entrails — A person or animal's intestines or internal organs, especially when removed or exposed.
- entrains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of entrain.
- erastian — of or supporting Thomas Erastus or his doctrines
- eridanus — a long twisting constellation in the S hemisphere extending from Orion to Hydrus and containing the first magnitude star Achernar
- eritrean — of or relating to Eritrea or its inhabitants
- eurasian — Eurasian means concerned with or relating to both Europe and Asia.