8-letter words containing s, a, c, d
- idocrase — vesuvianite.
- jackdaws — Plural form of jackdaw.
- keycards — Plural form of keycard.
- maddocks — Plural form of maddock.
- medevacs — Plural form of medevac.
- medicals — Plural form of medical.
- midscale — (business) Neither downscale nor upscale.
- midspace — an area between two celestial objects
- muscadel — muscatel.
- muscadet — a white grape grown especially in the lower Loire Valley region of France.
- muscadin — a person with monarchical sympathies during the French Revolution, especially from 1794 to 1796.
- nonacids — Plural form of nonacid.
- orchards — Plural form of orchard.
- ostracod — seed shrimp.
- oxidasic — relating to enzymes that catalyse oxidation
- passcode — password (def 2).
- peasecod — the pod of the pea.
- postcard — Also called picture postcard. a small, commercially printed card, usually having a picture on one side and space for a short message on the other.
- pushcard — punchboard.
- quadrics — Plural form of quadric.
- reascend — to ascend again
- richards — a male given name.
- saccades — the act of checking a horse quickly with a single strong pull of the reins.
- saccadic — characterized by discontinuous or sporadic movement; jerky.
- sacheted — contained in a sachet
- sacredly — devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose; consecrated.
- sad case — a person considered to be ludicrously contemptible or pathetic
- sad sack — a pathetically inept person, especially a soldier, who continually blunders in spite of good intentions.
- sadducee — a member of a Palestinian sect, consisting mainly of priests and aristocrats, that flourished from the 1st century b.c. to the 1st century a.d. and differed from the Pharisees chiefly in its literal interpretation of the Bible, rejection of oral laws and traditions, and denial of an afterlife and the coming of the Messiah.
- sadistic — pertaining to or characterized by sadism; deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from extreme cruelty: a sadistic psychopath.
- salt cod — salted and dried cod that is desalted by soaking before use.
- sandarac — a coniferous tree, Tetraclinis articulata (Callitrus quadrivalvis), native to northwestern Africa, yielding a resin and a fragrant, hard, dark-colored wood much used in building.
- sandwich — a town in E Kent, in SE England: one of the Cinque Ports.
- sarcodic — pertaining to the sarcode or protoplasm of an animal
- sardonic — characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering: a sardonic grin.
- scabbard — a sheath for a sword or the like.
- scabland — rough, barren, volcanic topography with thin soils and little vegetation.
- scaffold — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
- scalding — to burn or affect painfully with or as if with hot liquid or steam.
- scaldino — an Italian earthen brazier
- scan-edf — (storage, algorithm) A variation of the Scan disk aceess algorithm for use in a real-time environment where, in general, requests are served according to Earliest Deadline First. If two requests share the same deadline, they may be reorganised according to Scan. A typical example is a video server that retrieves video data from a hard disk. The playback of a video impose tight real-time constraints but if the server retrieves data once every second for each video channel, Scan-EDF can be applied, reducing the seek overhead.
- scandent — climbing, as a plant.
- scandian — of or relating to Scandia.
- scandisk — (operating system, storage) An MS-DOS command to check for faults on a disk and provide a graphical representation the results. Scandisk was introduced with MS-DOS version 6 to replace CHKDSK.
- scandium — a rare, trivalent, metallic element obtained from thortveitite. Symbol: Sc; atomic weight: 44.956; atomic number: 21; specific gravity: 3.0.
- scaphoid — boat-shaped; navicular.
- schiedam — a city in SW Netherlands.
- sciaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Sciaenidae, a family of carnivorous fishes that produce a loud sound by snapping the muscles attached to their air bladder, comprising the croakers and drums.
- 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.