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8-letter words containing r, o, s, d, e

  • potsherd — a broken pottery fragment, especially one of archaeological value.
  • presidio — a garrisoned fort; military post.
  • proceeds — to move or go forward or onward, especially after stopping.
  • prodnose — an inquisitive person
  • promised — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
  • proposed — to offer or suggest (a matter, subject, case, etc.) for consideration, acceptance, or action: to propose a new method.
  • proudest — feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often followed by of, an infinitive, or a clause).
  • purposed — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
  • ransomed — the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
  • re-sound — to sound or cause to sound again
  • reasoned — based on reason: a carefully reasoned decision.
  • red rose — the emblem of the royal house of Lancaster.
  • red snow — snow that has acquired a red color either from airborne particles of red dust or from a type of alga that contains a red pigment.
  • redhorse — any of several suckers of the genus Moxostoma, found in the fresh waters of North America, often having reddish fins.
  • redshort — (of metal, iron, steel, etc) to become brittle at red-hot temperatures
  • redstone — a U.S. surface-to-surface ballistic missile powered by a single rocket engine.
  • reedstop — an organ stop that is made up of or that controls a rank of reed pipes
  • resinoid — resinlike.
  • resolder — any of various alloys fused and applied to the joint between metal objects to unite them without heating the objects to the melting point.
  • resolved — firm in purpose or intent; determined.
  • resorted — to sort or arrange (cards, papers, etc.) again.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • rounders — a person or thing that rounds something.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • smoulder — to burn without flame; undergo slow or suppressed combustion.
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