8-letter words containing ard
- edward v — 1470–83, king of England 1483 (son of Edward IV).
- en garde — ready to defend oneself
- eurocard — A range of standard circuit board sizes. Normal double Eurocard = 233.4 x 160 mm Extended double Eurocard = 233.4 x 220 mm Super extended double Eurocard = 233.4 x 250 mm Hyper extended double Eurocard = 233.4 x 280 mm
- faceward — Toward the face.
- farmyard — a yard or enclosure surrounded by or connected with farm buildings.
- fauchard — a shafted weapon having a knifelike blade with a convex cutting edge and a beak on the back for catching the blade of an aggressor's weapon.
- feedyard — an area where cattle are kept and fed when being fattened for market
- filecard — a card of a size suitable for filing, typically 3 × 5 inches (7.62 × 12.7 cm) or 4 × 6 inches (10.16 × 15.24 cm).
- filmcard — microfiche.
- fireward — (obsolete) a fire chief.
- flancard — a piece of armour covering a horse's flank
- foreward — (obsolete) An advance group; the vanguard.
- foreyard — a yard on the lower mast of a square-rigged foremast of a ship used to support the foresail.
- forwards — forward.
- foulards — Plural form of foulard.
- funboard — (surfing) A type of surfboard which is roughly in between a shortboard and a mini-mal. A funboard is a little longer than a shortboard and with wider and somewhat rounded nose and tail, making it easier to paddle but still having most of the performance of a shortboard.
- gaillard — a spirited dance for two dancers in triple rhythm, common in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- galliard — a spirited dance for two dancers in triple rhythm, common in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- garboard — The first range of planks or plates laid on a ship’s bottom next to the keel.
- gardened — Simple past tense and past participle of garden.
- gardener — a person who is employed to cultivate or care for a garden, lawn, etc.
- gardenia — any evergreen tree or shrub belonging to the genus Gardenia, of the madder family, native to the warmer parts of the Eastern Hemisphere, cultivated for its usually large, fragrant white flowers.
- gardiner — Samuel Rawson [raw-suh n] /ˈrɔ sən/ (Show IPA), 1829–1902, English historian.
- gardyloo — (Scotland, obsolete) Used by servants in medieval Scotland to warn passers-by of waste about to be thrown from a window into the street below. The term was still in use as late the 1930s and 1940s, when many people had no indoor toilets.
- gerardia — any plant of the genus Gerardia
- ghardaia — a city in N Algeria.
- 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.
- goalward — relating to a move towards a goal
- grignard — (François Auguste) Victor [frahn-swa oh-gyst veek-tawr] /frɑ̃ˈswa oʊˈgüst vikˈtɔr/ (Show IPA), 1871–1935, French organic chemist: Nobel Prize 1912.
- guardage — the state of being in the care of a guardian
- guardant — (of an animal) depicted full-faced but with the body seen from the side: a lion guardant.
- guarddog — a dog that guards a property or person
- guardian — a person who guards, protects, or preserves.
- guarding — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
- gurnards — Plural form of gurnard.
- hadamard — Jacques Salomon [zhahk sa-law-mawn] /ʒɑk sa lɔˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1865–1963, French mathematician.
- haggards — Plural form of haggard.
- halliard — any of various lines or tackles for hoisting a spar, sail, flag, etc., into position for use.
- halyards — Plural form of halyard.
- hard bop — an aggressive, driving, hot style of modern jazz developed by East Coast musicians in the late 1950s as a rejection of the more relaxed, cool style of West Coast jazz. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, modern jazz, progressive jazz.
- hard hat — protective helmet
- hard pad — (in dogs) an abnormal increase in the thickness of the foot pads: one of the clinical signs of canine distemper
- hard put — not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
- hard top — A hard top is a vehicle that has a permanent rigid roof.
- hard-ass — a person who follows rules and regulations meticulously and enforces them without exceptions.
- hard-hat — a protective helmet of metal or plastic, especially as worn by construction or factory workers.
- hard-hit — adversely affected; struck by disaster.
- hard-put — hard (def 57).
- hard-set — firmly or rigidly set; fixed: a hard-set smile.