8-letter words containing r, a, d, i, c
- hyracoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the mammalian order Hyracoidea, which contains the hyraxes
- ice road — a temporary winter road built across ice or frozen ground
- idocrase — vesuvianite.
- inarched — Simple past tense and past participle of inarch.
- ironclad — covered or cased with iron plates, as a ship for naval warfare; armor-plated.
- judicare — a federally funded program providing free or low-cost legal services to the poor.
- karadzic — Radovan [rah-duh-vahn] /ˈrɑ dəˌvɑn/ (Show IPA), born 1945, Bosnian Serb political leader, indicted as a war criminal 1995.
- lacertid — any of numerous Old World lizards of the family Lacertidae.
- macbride — Seán [shawn] /ʃɔn/ (Show IPA), 1904–88, Irish politician and diplomat, born in France: Nobel Peace Prize 1974.
- medicare — (sometimes lowercase) a U.S. government program of hospitalization insurance and voluntary medical insurance for persons aged 65 and over and for certain disabled persons under 65. Compare Medicaid.
- mordecai — the cousin and guardian of Esther who delivered the Jews from the destruction planned by Haman. Esther 2–8.
- nocardia — any of several filamentous or rod-shaped, aerobic bacteria of the genus Nocardia, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans and other animals.
- orcadian — a native or inhabitant of Orkney
- picrated — containing picrate
- pilchard — a small, southern European, marine fish, Sardina pilchardus, related to the herring but smaller and rounder.
- pindaric — of, relating to, or in the style of Pindar.
- prichard — a city in S Alabama.
- quadrics — Plural form of quadric.
- racemoid — racemic
- radcliff — a city in central Kentucky.
- radiance — radiant brightness or light: the radiance of the tropical sun.
- radiancy — radiance.
- radicand — the quantity under a radical sign.
- radicant — rooting from the stem, as ivy.
- radicate — to (cause to) take root
- railcard — pre-paid pass for train travel
- rancidly — in a rancid manner
- randwick — a city in E New South Wales, SE Australia, on Botany Bay and the Pacific Ocean: a suburb of Sydney.
- rapidcad — (processor) A specially packaged Intel 486DX and a dummy floating point unit (FPU) designed as pin-compatible replacements for an Intel 80386 processor and 80387 FPU. Since the DX variant has a working on-chip FPU, a dummy FPU package is supplied to go in the 387 FPU socket.
- raticide — a substance or preparation for killing rats.
- readdict — to cause (a person) to become addicted to something again
- rhodanic — of or relating to thiocyanic acid
- richards — a male given name.
- richland — a city in SE Washington, on the Columbia River: residential and administrative quarters for the Hanford Works. Compare Hanford (def 2).
- rickyard — a place where haystacks or ricks are put
- riddance — the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
- sarcodic — pertaining to the sarcode or protoplasm of an animal
- sardonic — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
- sim card — Subscriber Identity/Identification Module: a removable card inside a cell phone that stores data unique to the user, as an identification number, passwords, phone numbers, and messages.
- sporadic — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- subacrid — slightly acrid
- tetracid — a base or alcohol containing four hydroxyl groups.
- tetradic — relating to something that has a group of four
- thridace — a sedative made from lettuce juice
- timecard — a card for recording the time at which an employee arrives at and departs from a job.
- tornadic — a localized, violently destructive windstorm occurring over land, especially in the Middle West, and characterized by a long, funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground and made visible by condensation and debris. Compare waterspout (def 3).
- tracheid — an elongated, tapering xylem cell having lignified, pitted, intact walls, adapted for conduction and support. Compare vessel (def 5).
- tribadic — lesbian (def 5).
- tridacna — a genus of giant clams inhabiting reefs in the South Pacific, attaining a diameter of 4 feet (1.2 meters) or more, and weighing over 500 pounds (227 kg).
- wildcard — (computing) A character that takes the place of any other character or string that is not known or specified.