8-letter words containing o, r, e, d
- resorted — to sort or arrange (cards, papers, etc.) again.
- retinoid — Biochemistry. any of a group of substances related to vitamin A and functioning like vitamin A in the body.
- retorted — to sterilize food after it is sealed in a container, by steam or other heating methods.
- revolted — to break away from or rise against constituted authority, as by open rebellion; cast off allegiance or subjection to those in authority; rebel; mutiny: to revolt against the present government.
- reynolds — a male given name, form of Reginald.
- rhapsode — in ancient Greece, a person who recited rhapsodies, esp. one who recited epic poems as a profession
- rhodesia — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
- ride out — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
- ridgetop — the summit of a ridge
- ringdove — a small Old World dove, Streptopelia risoria, having a black half ring around the nape of the neck.
- roadside — the side or border of the road; wayside.
- roadster — an early automobile having an open body, a single seat for two or three persons, and a large trunk or a rumble seat.
- rochdale — a borough of Greater Manchester, in N England: site of one of the earliest cooperative societies 1844.
- rocketed — any of various simple or complex tubelike devices containing combustibles that on being ignited liberate gases whose action propels the tube through the air: used for pyrotechnic effect, signaling, carrying a lifeline, hurling explosives at an enemy, putting a space vehicle into orbit, etc.
- rockweed — a fucoid seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide.
- rodentia — the order comprising the rodents.
- rodeoing — a public exhibition of cowboy skills, as bronco riding and calf roping.
- roderick — a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “glory” and “ruler.”.
- roe deer — a small, agile Old World deer, Capreolus capreolus, the male of which has three-pointed antlers.
- romeward — to or toward Rome or the Roman Catholic Church.
- rondache — a small, round shield
- rondavel — a circular often thatched building with a conical roof
- rondelet — a short poem of fixed form, consisting of five lines on two rhymes, and having the opening words or word used after the second and fifth lines as an unrhymed refrain.
- rondelle — a small disk of glass used as an ornament in a stained-glass window.
- rootedly — in a rooted manner
- rose-red — of a pure purplish-red colour
- rosedale — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
- rosemead — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- rosewood — any of various reddish cabinet woods, sometimes with a roselike odor, yielded by certain tropical trees, especially belonging to the genus Dalbergia, of the legume family.
- roskilde — a city on the island of Zealand, in E Denmark: a suburb of Copenhagen.
- rota bed — a bed in an old people's home, reserved for the regular respite care of dependent old people
- rounders — a person or thing that rounds something.
- roundlet — a small circle or circular object.
- roundure — roundness
- routered — any of various tools or machines for routing, hollowing out, or furrowing.
- rude boy — a member of a group of often delinquent teenagers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, noted for listening to ska music and wearing suits with trilby or similar soft felt hats
- rumoured — If something is rumoured to be the case, people are suggesting that it is the case, but they do not know for certain.
- sarpedon — a Lycian prince, son of Zeus, killed by Patroclus in the Trojan War.
- schröder — Gerhard (ˈɡerhɑt). born 1944, German Social Democrat politician; chancellor of Germany from 1998–2005
- scleroid — hard or indurated.
- scorched — slightly burned
- scorepad — a pad whose sheets are printed with headings, vertical or horizontal lines, symbols, or the like, to facilitate the recording of scores in a game, as bowling or bridge.
- scrolled — sawn into scrolls
- sea lord — (in Britain) either of the two serving naval officers (First and Second Sea Lords) who sit on the admiralty board of the Ministry of Defence
- seaboard — the line where land and sea meet.
- seadrome — a floating airdrome serving as an intermediate or emergency landing place for aircraft flying over water.
- seconder — next after the first; being the ordinal number for two.
- seductor — a person, usually a man, who seduces
- send for — to cause, permit, or enable to go: to send a messenger; They sent their son to college.
- shadower — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.