8-letter words containing r, d, o, s
- sauropod — any herbivorous dinosaur of the suborder Sauropoda, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a small head, long neck and tail, and five-toed limbs: the largest known land animal.
- savoyard — a native or inhabitant of Savoy.
- schröder — Gerhard (ˈɡerhɑt). born 1944, German Social Democrat politician; chancellor of Germany from 1998–2005
- sciuroid — sciurine.
- scleroid — hard or indurated.
- scombrid — any fish of the family Scombridae, comprising the mackerels and tunas.
- scorched — slightly burned
- scordato — out of tune
- 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.
- sherwood — Robert Emmet [em-it] /ˈɛm ɪt/ (Show IPA), 1896–1955, U.S. dramatist.
- shoulder — the part of each side of the body in humans, at the top of the trunk, extending from each side of the base of the neck to the region where the arm articulates with the trunk.
- showyard — a yard where cattle and machinery are displayed
- shrouded — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
- sideroad — (esp in Ontario) a road, usually north-south, going at right angles to concession roads
- siluroid — a freshwater fish of the family Siluridae
- sistroid — contained between the convex sides of two intersecting curves
- skid row — an area of cheap barrooms and run-down hotels, frequented by alcoholics and vagrants.
- skyboard — a sport that is similar to skydiving but uses a special lightweight board (skyboard) attached to the feet and usually equipped with a parachute.
- slumlord — a landlord who owns slum buildings, especially one who fails to maintain or improve the buildings and charges tenants exorbitant rents.
- smoulder — to burn without flame; undergo slow or suppressed combustion.
- smouldry — smouldering
- snowbird — junco.
- snowdrop — any of several early-blooming bulbous plants belonging to the genus Galanthus, of the amaryllis family, native to Eurasia, especially G. nivalis, having drooping white flowers with green markings.
- solander — a case for maps, plates, etc., made to resemble a book and having the front cover and fore edge hinged.
- soldered — any of various alloys fused and applied to the joint between metal objects to unite them without heating the objects to the melting point.
- solderer — any of various alloys fused and applied to the joint between metal objects to unite them without heating the objects to the melting point.
- soldiery — soldiers collectively.
- solidare — an old coin
- solidary — characterized by or involving community of responsibilities and interests.
- songbird — a bird that sings.
- sordello — born ?1200, Italian troubadour
- sordidly — morally ignoble or base; vile: sordid methods.
- soredial — pertaining to or resembling a soredium.
- soredium — a group of algal cells surrounded by hyphal tissue, occurring on the surface of the thallus and functioning in vegetative reproduction.
- sorehead — a disgruntled or vindictive person, especially an unsportsmanlike loser: Don't be such a sorehead, they won fair and square.
- sorrowed — distress caused by loss, affliction, disappointment, etc.; grief, sadness, or regret.
- sourdine — mute (def 10).
- sourveld — (in South Africa) a type of grazing characterized by long coarse grass
- sourwood — sorrel tree.
- sowbread — any of several species of cyclamen, especially Cyclamen hederifolium, a low-growing Old World plant having mottled leaves and pink or white flowers.
- spadroon — a type of sword
- spheroid — a solid geometrical figure similar in shape to a sphere, as an ellipsoid.