8-letter words containing r, d, o, s
- splendor — brilliant or gorgeous appearance, coloring, etc.; magnificence: the splendor of the palace.
- sporades — two groups of Greek islands in the Aegean: the Northern Sporades, lying northeast of Euboea, and the Southern Sporades, which include the Dodecanese and lie off the SW coast of Turkey
- sporadic — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- squadron — a portion of a naval fleet or a detachment of warships; a subdivision of a fleet.
- stafford — Jean, 1915–79, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- stamford — a city in SW Connecticut.
- stanford — (Amasa) Leland, 1824–93, U.S. railroad developer, politician, and philanthropist: governor of California 1861–63; senator 1885–93.
- stepford — blandly conformist and submissive
- steroids — any of a large group of fat-soluble organic compounds, as the sterols, bile acids, and sex hormones, most of which have specific physiological action.
- stoppard — Tom (Thomas Straussler) born 1937, British playwright, born in the Czech Republic.
- stopword — any of a number of very commonly used words, as a, and, in, and to, that are normally excluded by computer search engines or when compiling a concordance.
- storeyed — having stories or floors (often used in combination): a two-storied house.
- stradiot — a soldier, usually of Greek or Albanian origin, who fought on horseback for the Venetian republic in the 15th and 16th centuries
- strijdom — Johannes Gerhardus (joˈhanəs ɡeːrˈhɑːdəs). 1893–1958, South African statesman; prime minister (1954–58)
- strolled — to walk leisurely as inclination directs; ramble; saunter; take a walk: to stroll along the beach.
- studwork — the act or process of building with studding.
- sturnoid — of or relating to starlings
- subchord — a part of a chord
- suborder — a category of related families within an order.
- suborned — to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime.
- subround — somewhat round or rounded.
- subworld — in literary theory, a world 'created' by a character within a text world or fiction, for example through a flashback or reminiscence on the part of the character; the subworld is subordinate to but not part of the text world
- sudatory — pertaining to or causing sweating.
- sudorous — sweaty
- sundrops — any of various plants of the genus Oenothera, of the evening primrose family, having flowers that bloom during the day.
- surround — to enclose on all sides; encompass: She was surrounded by reporters.
- swordman — swordsman.
- syndrome — Pathology, Psychiatry. a group of symptoms that together are characteristic of a specific disorder, disease, or the like.
- tarsioid — a fossil of the suborder Tarsioidea
- thyrsoid — having somewhat the form of a thyrsus.
- toadrush — an annual rush growing in damp lowlands
- topsider — a light canvas shoe
- undrossy — free from dross; pure
- unroused — undisturbed
- unshroud — to divest of a shroud or something that shrouds or hides: to unshroud a corpse; to unshroud a mystery.
- unsolder — to separate (something soldered).
- unsorted — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
- unsoured — not soured
- virusoid — a small particle of RNA associated with the larger RNA of some infectious plant viruses.
- warlords — Plural form of warlord.
- weirdoes — Plural form of weirdo.
- westford — a city in NE Massachusetts.
- widowers — Plural form of widower.
- windrose — Alternative spelling of wind rose.
- windrows — Plural form of windrow.
- wondrous — wonderful; remarkable.
- woodrush — A grasslike plant that typically has long flat leaves fringed with long hairs.
- wordages — Plural form of wordage.
- wordiest — Superlative form of wordy.
- wordings — Plural form of wording.