8-letter words containing s, r, d
- oystered — veneered with matched flitches having a figure of concentric rings.
- 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.
- paradise — a town in N California.
- paradiso — heaven, as the final abode of the righteous.
- parishad — (in India) an assembly
- parodist — a writer of parodies, especially of a literary subject, work, or style.
- passw0rd — (security) A common default password, often given out by system administrtors to new users, the hope being that they will change it immediately.
- password — a secret word or expression used by authorized persons to prove their right to access, information, etc.
- pastored — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- 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.
- pederast — a person who engages in pederasty.
- perfused — to overspread with moisture, color, etc.; suffuse.
- perished — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
- perseids — the heavy meteor showers visible annually about Aug. 12: they appear to radiate from the constellation Perseus
- persuade — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- pestered — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- phaedrus — flourished a.d. c40, Roman writer of fables.
- pierides — the Muses
- piershed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.
- podargus — a bird of South East Asia and Australia
- portside — situated on the port side
- 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.
- postdrug — following the administration of a drug
- postgrad — A postgrad is the same as a postgraduate.
- potsherd — a broken pottery fragment, especially one of archaeological value.
- pre-aids — (not in technical use) AIDS-related complex.
- precised — a concise summary.
- predates — to date before the actual time; antedate: He predated the check by three days.
- premised — Also, premiss. Logic. a proposition supporting or helping to support a conclusion.
- prescind — to separate or single out in thought; abstract.
- presided — to occupy the place of authority or control, as in an assembly or meeting; act as president or chairperson.
- presider — to occupy the place of authority or control, as in an assembly or meeting; act as president or chairperson.
- presidio — a garrisoned fort; military post.
- prestudy — application of the mind to the acquisition of knowledge, as by reading, investigation, or reflection: long hours of study.
- presumed — to take for granted, assume, or suppose: I presume you're tired after your drive.
- prismoid — a solid having sides that are trapezoids and bases or ends that are parallel and similar but not congruent polygons. Compare prism (def 2).
- proceeds — to move or go forward or onward, especially after stopping.
- prodnose — an inquisitive person
- prodomos — an open vestibule, as a pronaos.
- promised — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- proposed — to offer or suggest (a matter, subject, case, etc.) for consideration, acceptance, or action: to propose a new method.
- prosodic — the science or study of poetic meters and versification.
- proudest — feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often followed by of, an infinitive, or a clause).
- proudish — rather proud
- pseudery — pretentious talk
- pthreads — POSIX Threads
- purposed — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- pushcard — punchboard.
- pyramids — Architecture. (in ancient Egypt) a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb. (in ancient Egypt and pre-Columbian Central America) a quadrilateral masonry mass, stepped and sharply sloping, used as a tomb or a platform for a temple.
- quadrans — a bronze coin of ancient Rome, the fourth part of an as.