8-letter words containing a, d, u
- arguidos — Plural form of arguido.
- armguard — a band of leather or other material worn about the wrist or lower part of the arm for protection and support.
- armoured — Armoured vehicles are fitted with a hard metal covering in order to protect them from gunfire and other missiles.
- ascidium — part of a plant that is shaped like a pitcher, such as the modified leaf of the pitcher plant
- asmodeus — (in Jewish demonology) prince of the demons
- aspidium — a variety of fern that is used in the treatment of various ailments
- assuaged — to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.
- astounds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of astound.
- attitude — Your attitude to something is the way that you think and feel about it, especially when this shows in the way you behave.
- auckland — the chief port of New Zealand, in the northern part of North Island: former capital of New Zealand (1840–65). Pop: 450 300 (2010 est)
- audacity — Audacity is audacious behaviour.
- audhumla — a cow, owned by Ymir and born like him from drops of the melting primeval ice: its licking of a mass of salty ice exposed the first god, Buri.
- audibled — Simple past tense and past participle of audible.
- audibles — Plural form of audible.
- audience — The audience at a play, concert, film, or public meeting is the group of people watching or listening to it.
- audients — Plural form of audient.
- audioone — (tool, music) Digital recording and editing software developed by BizTrack Software Development for the dance, music, and audio industries. AudioOne includes a waveform recorder that allows signal manipulation, editing, and recording.
- auditees — Plural form of auditee.
- auditing — the act of inspecting, correcting, and certifying (accounts, etc)
- audition — An audition is a short performance given by an actor, dancer, or musician so that a director or conductor can decide if they are good enough to be in a play, film, or orchestra.
- auditive — a person who learns primarily by listening
- auditors — Plural form of auditor.
- auditory — Auditory means related to hearing.
- aumildar — a manager or agent.
- aunthood — the state of being, or relationship of, aunt
- auricled — (botany) auriculate.
- autacoid — any natural internal secretion, esp one that exerts an effect similar to a drug
- authored — a person who writes a novel, poem, essay, etc.; the composer of a literary work, as distinguished from a compiler, translator, editor, or copyist.
- autobaud — automatic baud rate detection
- autobody — Alternative form of auto body.
- autocade — a procession or parade of automobiles; motorcade.
- autocide — suicide by crashing the vehicle one is driving.
- autocode — (language) 1. The assembly language accepted by AUTOCODER. 2. A generic term for symbolic assembly language. Versions of Autocode were developed for Ferranti Atlas, Titan, Mercury and Pegasus and IBM 702 and IBM 705.
- autocoid — Alternative form of autacoid.
- autodial — a telephone device that makes possible a service feature (au·to-dial) whereby a call is automatically made in response to a brief input signal from the user, as the pressing of a button.
- autodyne — denoting or relating to an electrical circuit in which the same elements and valves are used as oscillator and detector
- autoload — to load automatically
- ayurveda — an ancient medical treatise on the art of healing and prolonging life, sometimes regarded as a fifth Veda
- bad luck — You can say 'Bad luck', or 'Hard luck', to someone when you want to express sympathy to them.
- badmouth — (informal) To criticize or malign, especially unfairly or spitefully.
- bandeaux — Plural form of bandeau.
- barleduc — a French preserve made of whitecurrants, redcurrants, or gooseberries
- basidium — the structure, produced by basidiomycetous fungi after sexual reproduction, in which spores are formed at the tips of projecting slender stalks
- batucada — A style of repetitive, fast-paced percussive samba.
- baudekin — baldachin
- baudouin — 1930-93; king of Belgium (1951-93): son of Leopold III
- baudrons — a cat
- beancurd — Alternative spelling of bean curd.
- bedaubed — Simple past tense and past participle of bedaub.
- bedeguar — a moss-like growth found on rosebushes, caused by a reaction by the bush to the egg-laying process of the gall wasp or gallfly