8-letter words containing r, u, d, a
- mudlarks — Plural form of mudlark.
- muraenid — any fish of the family Muraenidae, comprising the morays.
- muralled — decorated with a mural or murals
- murdabad — down with; death to: used as part of a slogan in India, Pakistan, etc
- mustards — Plural form of mustard.
- mustardy — Like mustard.
- obduracy — the state or quality of being obdurate.
- obdurate — unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding.
- omdurman — a city in central Sudan, on the White Nile opposite Khartoum: British victory 1898.
- on guard — prepared, at the ready
- our lady — a title of the Virgin Mary.
- outboard — located on the exterior of a hull or aircraft.
- outdream — to exceed in dreaming
- outguard — a guard placed furthest away from the main contingent of an army
- outraced — Simple past tense and past participle of outrace.
- outraged — Simple past tense and past participle of outrage.
- outtrade — to outdo in trading; get the better of in a trade.
- outwards — proceeding or directed toward the outside or exterior, or away from a central point: the outward flow of gold; the outward part of a voyage.
- pandarus — a Trojan who attempted to assassinate Menelaus, thereby violating a truce between the Greeks and the Trojans and prolonging the Trojan War: in Chaucerian and other medieval accounts, he is the procurer of Cressida for Troilus.
- pastured — Also called pastureland [pas-cher-land, pahs-] /ˈpæs tʃərˌlænd, ˈpɑs-/ (Show IPA). an area covered with grass or other plants used or suitable for the grazing of livestock; grassland.
- pauldron — a piece of plate armor for the shoulder and the uppermost part of the arm, often overlapping the adjacent parts of the chest and back.
- pauropod — a member of the Pauropoda, a class of minute myriapods less than 2 mm (1⁄20 in.) in size, having 8 to 10 pairs of legs and branched antennae
- pendular — of or relating to a pendulum.
- persuade — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- phaedrus — flourished a.d. c40, Roman writer of fables.
- podargus — a bird of South East Asia and Australia
- preadult — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
- preaudit — an examination of vouchers, contracts, etc., in order to substantiate a transaction or a series of transactions before they are paid for and recorded.
- pushcard — punchboard.
- quadcore — (computing, of a microprocessor) Composed of four cores.
- quadrans — a bronze coin of ancient Rome, the fourth part of an as.
- quadrant — a quarter of a circle; an arc of 90°.
- quadrate — square or rectangular.
- quadrats — Plural form of quadrat.
- quadriad — a group of four, especially a group of four persons with an interest or task in common.
- quadrics — Plural form of quadric.
- quadriga — a two-wheeled chariot drawn by four horses harnessed abreast.
- quadroon — a person having one-fourth black ancestry, with one black grandparent; the offspring of a mulatto and a white person.
- quadword — (computing) A numerical value of four times the magnitude of a word, thus typically 64 bits.
- quandary — a state of perplexity or uncertainty, especially as to what to do; dilemma.
- quarried — an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
- quavered — to shake tremulously; quiver or tremble: He stood there quavering with fear.
- quebrada — Southwestern U.S. a ravine.
- radiatus — (of a cloud) having bands that appear to converge toward a point on the horizon.
- radiguet — Raymond (rɛmɔ̃). 1903–23, French novelist; the author of The Devil in the Flesh (1923) and Count d'Orgel (1924)
- radium a — a substance, formed by decay of radon, that gives rise to radium B.
- radium b — an isotope of lead, formed by decay of radium A, that gives rise to radium C, which is an isotope of bismuth, from which radium D, radium E, and radium F, or polonium 210, are derived.
- radium f — an isotope of polonium: polonium 210.
- radiuses — a straight line extending from the center of a circle or sphere to the circumference or surface: The radius of a circle is half the diameter.
- raptured — (especially of saints) experiencing religious ecstasy as a result of one's faith.