8-letter words containing s, r, d
- quadrats — Plural form of quadrat.
- quadrics — Plural form of quadric.
- radiants — Plural form of radiant.
- radiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of radiate.
- radiatus — (of a cloud) having bands that appear to converge toward a point on the horizon.
- radisson — Pierre Esprit [es-pree] /ɛs pri/ (Show IPA), 1636?–1710? French fur trader and explorer in Canada.
- 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.
- radwaste — radioactive waste.
- ram disk — (operating system, storage) A memory-resident program which mimics a hard disk drive. It uses part of computer's RAM to store data which can be accessed as files. Unlike a real disk drive, this drive forgets all stored data when the computer is turned off.
- ransomed — the redemption of a prisoner, slave, or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
- rapeseed — the seed of the rape.
- re-dress — to dress again.
- re-sited — the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment: the site of our summer cabin.
- re-sound — to sound or cause to sound again
- readings — Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st Marquis of, 1860–1935, Lord Chief Justice of England 1913–21; viceroy of India 1921–26.
- readjust — to adjust again or anew; rearrange.
- readvise — to give counsel to; offer an opinion or suggestion as worth following: I advise you to be cautious.
- realised — to grasp or understand clearly.
- reascend — to ascend again
- reasoned — based on reason: a carefully reasoned decision.
- recessed — temporary withdrawal or cessation from the usual work or activity.
- red beds — sequences of red sedimentary rocks, usually sandstones or shales, coloured by the oxidization of the iron in them
- red mass — a votive Mass of the Holy Ghost said as a blessing for the legal profession.
- red mist — a feeling of extreme anger that clouds one's judgment temporarily
- red rose — the emblem of the royal house of Lancaster.
- red sage — a showy, rank-smelling shrub, Lantana camara, of tropical America, having yellow flowers that turn orange or red.
- red snow — snow that has acquired a red color either from airborne particles of red dust or from a type of alga that contains a red pigment.
- red star — any star with a low surface temperature and a reddish color, as a red giant or a red dwarf.
- redeless — without rede or advice
- redesign — to prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), especially to plan the form and structure of: to design a new bridge.
- redhorse — any of several suckers of the genus Moxostoma, found in the fresh waters of North America, often having reddish fins.
- redigest — to digest again
- redilisp — R.M. Keller, U Utah. Dialect of Lisp used on the Rediflow machine, a derivative of FEL.
- redistil — to distil again, usually to purify further
- redlands — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- redshank — an Old World sandpiper, Tringa totanus, having red legs and feet.
- redshare — any red algae, esp one belonging to the genus Polysiphonia
- redshift — a shift toward longer wavelengths of the spectral lines emitted by a celestial object that is caused by the object moving away from the earth.
- redshirt — a high-school or college athlete kept out of varsity competition for one year to develop skills and extend eligibility. a child held back from starting kindergarten for one year, the practice of which is believed by some parents to give the child academic, athletic, and social advantages.
- redshort — (of metal, iron, steel, etc) to become brittle at red-hot temperatures
- redstart — any of several small, Old World thrushes, usually with reddish-brown tails, especially Phoenicurus phoenicurus (European redstart)
- redstone — a U.S. surface-to-surface ballistic missile powered by a single rocket engine.
- reedstop — an organ stop that is made up of or that controls a rank of reed pipes
- rehashed — to work up (old material) in a new form.
- reissued — something that is issued again, as a book or a motion picture.
- released — to free from confinement, bondage, obligation, pain, etc.; let go: to release a prisoner; to release someone from a debt.
- relished — liking or enjoyment of the taste of something.
- reprised — Usually, reprises. Law. an annual deduction, duty, or payment out of a manor or estate, as an annuity or the like.
- resaddle — to saddle (a horse etc) again
- resented — to feel or show displeasure or indignation at (a person, act, remark, etc.) from a sense of injury or insult.