8-letter words containing r, u, d, a
- board up — If you board up a door or window, you fix pieces of wood over it so that it is covered up.
- bordeaux — a port in SW France, on the River Garonne: a major centre of the wine trade. Pop: 235 878 (2006)
- bouchard — (Louis) Henri [lwee ahn-ree] /lwi ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1875–1960, French sculptor.
- boundary — The boundary of an area of land is an imaginary line that separates it from other areas.
- bradbury — Sir Malcolm (Stanley). 1932–2000, British novelist and critic. His novels include The History Man (1975), Rates of Exchange (1983), Cuts (1988), and Doctor Criminale (1992)
- breadnut — a moraceous tree, Brosimum alicastrum, of Central America and the Caribbean
- buraydah — a town and oasis in central Saudi Arabia. Pop: 462 000 (2005 est)
- captured — Simple past tense and past participle of capture.
- card-cut — having a fretwork pattern in low relief: card-cut woodwork.
- carducci — Giosuè (dʒozuˈɛ). 1835–1907, Italian poet: Nobel prize for literature 1906
- caroused — Simple past tense and past participle of carouse.
- cauldron — A cauldron is a very large, round metal pot used for cooking over a fire. In stories and fairy tales, a cauldron is used by witches for their spells.
- chaudron — (obsolete) entrails.
- couraged — Having a specified form or amount of courage.
- courland — a region of Latvia, between the Gulf of Riga and the Lithuanian border
- cournand — André (Frederic). 1895–1988, US physician, born in France: shared the 1956 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine for his work on heart catheterization
- croupade — a type of horse leap in which the hind legs are drawn towards the belly
- crudware — /kruhd'weir/ Pejorative term for the hundreds of megabytes of low-quality freeware circulated by user's groups and BBSs in the micro-hobbyist world.
- crunodal — of or relating to a crunode
- crusaded — (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- crusader — A crusader for a cause is someone who does a lot in support of it.
- crusades — (often initial capital letter) any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
- cue card — a card, unseen by the audience, carrying dialogue, lyrics, etc. as an aid to a television performer
- cupboard — A cupboard is a piece of furniture that has one or two doors, usually contains shelves, and is used to store things. In British English, cupboard refers to all kinds of furniture like this. In American English, closet is usually used instead to refer to larger pieces of furniture.
- custardy — resembling custard
- daguerre — Louis Jacques Mandé (lwi ʒɑk mɑ̃de). 1789–1851, French inventor, who devised one of the first practical photographic processes (1838)
- daiquiri — A daiquiri is a drink made with rum, lime or lemon juice, sugar, and ice.
- damanhur — a city in NE Egypt, in the Nile delta. Pop: 229 000 (2005 est)
- dandruff — Dandruff is small white pieces of dead skin in someone's hair, or fallen from someone's hair.
- dardanus — the son of Zeus and Electra who founded the royal house of Troy
- darius i — known as Darius the Great, surname Hystaspis. ?550–486 bc, king of Persia (521–486), who extended the Persian empire and crushed the revolt of the Ionian city states (500). He led two expeditions against Greece but was defeated at Marathon (490)
- dartrous — of or pertaining to dartre
- dasyures — Plural form of dasyure.
- dasyurid — Any carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae.
- daturine — a poisonous substance found in plants belonging to the Solanaceae family
- daughter — Someone's daughter is their female child.
- dead run — a steady run at top speed: The centerfielder caught the ball on the dead run.
- dearnful — gloomy or heavy-hearted
- defrauds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defraud.
- demurral — the act or an instance of demurring
- denarius — a silver coin of ancient Rome, often called a penny in translation
- denature — to change the nature of
- dentural — of or relating to dentures
- depurant — purifying
- depurate — to cleanse or purify or to be cleansed or purified
- detraque — insane person
- deuddarn — a type of two-tiered Welsh dresser or cupboard
- devaluer — One who, or that which, devalues.
- dinosaur — any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile of the extinct orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, from the Mesozoic Era, certain species of which are the largest known land animals.
- dipluran — Any of various hexapods, of the order Diplura.