8-letter words containing r, e, d, c
- recurved — curved upward, as the bill of a bird.
- red card — Soccer. a red card shown by the referee to a player being sent off the field for a flagrant violation.
- red cell — a red blood cell.
- red cent — a cent, as representative of triviality: His promise isn't worth a red cent.
- red clay — a brown to red, widely distributed deep-sea deposit consisting chiefly of microscopic particles and tinted red by iron oxides and manganese.
- redacted — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- redactor — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- redbrick — of, relating to, or associated with a redbrick university.
- redditch — a town in W central England, in N Worcestershire: designated a new town in the mid-1960s; metal-working industries. Pop: 74 803 (2001)
- redecide — to solve or conclude (a question, controversy, or struggle) by giving victory to one side: The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff.
- redefect — to defect back or again
- redirect — to direct again.
- reducing — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
- reducted — to reduce.
- reductor — a tube with a stopcock at one end, usually filled with a metal, for reducing a constituent in a solution.
- reedbuck — any of several yellowish African antelopes of the genus Redunca, living near lakes and rivers, the male of which has short, forward-curving horns.
- regicide — the killing of a king.
- reindict — (of a grand jury) to bring a formal accusation against, as a means of bringing to trial: The grand jury indicted him for murder.
- reinduce — to induce again
- reinduct — to install in an office, benefice, position, etc., especially with formal ceremonies: The committee inducted her as president.
- rejected — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
- replaced — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
- repriced — the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
- ricebird — Southern U.S. the bobolink.
- richweed — clearweed.
- riddance — the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
- ridicule — speech or action intended to cause contemptuous laughter at a person or thing; derision.
- 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.
- roderick — a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “glory” and “ruler.”.
- rondache — a small, round shield
- sacredly — devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose; consecrated.
- sceptred — to give a scepter to; invest with authority.
- schröder — Gerhard (ˈɡerhɑt). born 1944, German Social Democrat politician; chancellor of Germany from 1998–2005
- sclereid — a short, thickened plant cell of the sclerenchyma, typically containing branched pits.
- 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.
- scragged — a lean or scrawny person or animal.
- scrapped — a fight or quarrel: She got into a scrap with her in-laws.
- scrawled — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- screamed — to utter a loud, sharp, piercing cry.
- screeded — a long discourse or essay, especially a diatribe.
- screeder — a person who lays screeds on a surface
- screened — a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
- scripted — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- scrolled — sawn into scrolls
- scrubbed — stunted; scrubby.
- scurried — to go or move quickly or in haste.