8-letter words containing s, r, d
- forspend — to exhaust financially
- forstand — (transitive) To stand against; oppose; withstand.
- forwards — forward.
- fostered — to promote the growth or development of; further; encourage: to foster new ideas.
- foulards — Plural form of foulard.
- founders — Plural form of founder.
- freedoms — Plural form of freedom.
- frescade — a shaded walkway
- frescoed — Also called buon fresco, true fresco. the art or technique of painting on a moist, plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture. Compare fresco secco.
- frondose — bearing fronds.
- frowsted — Simple past tense and past participle of frowst.
- fud wars — /fuhd worz/ Political posturing, intended to create FUD, engaged in by hardware and software vendors ostensibly committed to standardisation but actually willing to fragment the market to protect their own shares. The Unix International vs. OSF conflict is but one outstanding example.
- gadroons — Plural form of gadroon.
- garlands — Plural form of garland.
- gestured — a movement or position of the hand, arm, body, head, or face that is expressive of an idea, opinion, emotion, etc.: the gestures of an orator; a threatening gesture.
- ghiordes — a Turkish rug characterized by an uneven pile produced by the Ghiordes knot.
- gizzards — Also called ventriculus. a thick-walled, muscular pouch in the lower stomach of many birds and reptiles that grinds food, often with the aid of ingested stones or grit.
- glanders — a contagious disease chiefly of horses and mules but communicable to humans, caused by the bacterium Pseudomonas mallei and characterized by swellings beneath the jaw and a profuse mucous discharge from the nostrils.
- goadster — a goadsman
- goldrush — Alternative spelling of gold rush.
- goodsire — a grandfather
- gospodar — a hospodar; a master
- gradings — Plural form of grading.
- graduals — Plural form of gradual.
- graduses — Plural form of gradus.
- granados — Enrique [en-ree-ke] /ɛnˈri kɛ/ (Show IPA), 1867–1916, Spanish pianist and composer.
- grandams — Plural form of grandam.
- grandees — Plural form of grandee.
- grandest — impressive in size, appearance, or general effect: grand mountain scenery.
- grandmas — Plural form of grandma.
- grandpas — Plural form of grandpa.
- grandson — a son of one's son or daughter.
- gravidas — Plural form of gravida.
- grenades — Plural form of grenade.
- griddles — Plural form of griddle.
- grinders — Plural form of grinder.
- griselda — a woman of exemplary meekness and patience.
- griswold — Erwin Nathaniel, 1904–1994, U.S. lawyer and educator: dean of Harvard University Law School 1950–67.
- grundies — men's underpants
- guelders — Gelderland.
- guerdons — Plural form of guerdon.
- guilders — Plural form of guilder.
- guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
- gumdrops — Plural form of gumdrop.
- gurnards — Plural form of gurnard.
- haggards — Plural form of haggard.
- hagrides — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hagride.
- halberds — Plural form of halberd.
- halyards — Plural form of halyard.
- handcars — Plural form of handcar.