8-letter words containing s, e, n, d, a
- handsets — Plural form of handset.
- handsewn — sewn by hand.
- handsome — having an attractive, well-proportioned, and imposing appearance suggestive of health and strength; good-looking: a handsome man; a handsome woman.
- hardness — the state or quality of being hard: the hardness of ice.
- hardnose — a person who is tough and uncompromising
- hasidean — Assidean.
- hastened — to move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry: to hasten to a place.
- headings — Plural form of heading.
- headsman — a public executioner who beheads condemned persons.
- headsmen — Plural form of headsman.
- herdsman — a herder; the keeper of a herd, especially of cattle or sheep.
- hinsdale — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- inseamed — Simple past tense and past participle of inseam.
- instated — to put or place in a certain state or position, as in an office; install.
- invaders — Plural form of invader.
- isenland — (in the Nibelungenlied) the country of Brunhild, usually identified with Iceland.
- islanded — Simple past tense and past participle of island.
- islander — a native or inhabitant of an island.
- jordaens — Jacob [yah-kawp] /ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1593–1678, Flemish painter.
- kneepads — Plural form of kneepad.
- ladrones — a group of 15 small islands in the Pacific, E of the Philippines: divided into Guam, a possession of the U.S., and the North Marianas, formally under U.S. trusteeship. 453 sq. mi. (1127 sq. km).
- landless — without landed property; not owning land: a landless noble.
- landseer — Sir Edwin Henry, 1802–73, English painter, especially of animals.
- landside — the part of a plow consisting of a sidepiece opposite the moldboard, for guiding the plow and resisting the side pressure caused by the turning of the furrow.
- lansdale — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
- launders — Plural form of launder.
- leadings — Plural form of leading.
- leadsman — a sailor who sounds with a lead line.
- leadsmen — Plural form of leadsman.
- leonidas — died 480 b.c, Greek hero: king of Sparta 489?–480.
- lodesman — a person who steers a ship
- lysander — died 395 b.c, Spartan naval commander and statesman.
- mandates — a command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative: The president had a clear mandate to end the war.
- mandrels — Plural form of mandrel.
- meanders — Plural form of meander.
- misnamed — Simple past tense and past participle of misname.
- mundanes — Plural form of mundane.
- naderism — the philosophy and beliefs of consumerism and environmentalism preached by Ralph Nader
- nearside — (British) the left side of a road vehicle when facing in the same direction as the vehicle.
- nerdgasm — a feeling of intense excitement felt by someone considered to be a nerd, esp. when caused by something relating to his or her leisure interests such as a new piece of technology, computer game, science fiction film, etc.
- newlands — John Alexander. 1838–98, British chemist: classified the elements in order of their atomic weight, noticing similarities in every eighth and thus discovering his law of octaves
- newslady — A newswoman.
- noseband — that part of a bridle or halter that passes over the animal's nose.
- notepads — Plural form of notepad.
- odonates — Plural form of odonate.
- odyssean — (italics) an epic poem attributed to Homer, describing Odysseus's adventures in his ten-year attempt to return home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.
- operands — Plural form of operand.
- pasadena — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- ransomed — the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- readings — Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquis of, 1860–1935, Lord Chief Justice of England 1913–21; viceroy of India 1921–26.