8-letter words that end in rd
- red bird — red1 (def 6).
- red card — Soccer. a red card shown by the referee to a player being sent off the field for a flagrant violation.
- reedbird — bobolink.
- rereward — rearward (defs 2, 3).
- ricebird — Southern U.S. the bobolink.
- rickyard — a place where haystacks or ricks are put
- rip cord — a cord on a parachute that, when pulled, opens the parachute for descent.
- rockford — a city in N Illinois.
- romeward — to or toward Rome or the Roman Catholic Church.
- rubboard — a board for scrubbing clothes on
- sailyard — a yard for a sail.
- saleyard — an area with pens for holding animals before auction
- savegard — safe conduct, protection
- savoyard — a native or inhabitant of Savoy.
- scabbard — a sheath for a sword or the like.
- sea bird — a bird frequenting the sea or coast.
- sea lord — (in Britain) either of the two serving naval officers (First and Second Sea Lords) who sit on the admiralty board of the Ministry of Defence
- seaboard — the line where land and sea meet.
- selfward — in the direction of or toward oneself: a selfward-moving gesture.
- semihard — partly hard; not completely hard
- shepherd — a male given name.
- sheppard — Jack. 1702–24, English criminal, whose daring escapes from prison were celebrated in many contemporary ballads and plays
- shipyard — a yard or enclosure in which ships are built or repaired.
- showyard — a yard where cattle and machinery are displayed
- sideward — directed or moving toward one side.
- sim card — Subscriber Identity/Identification Module: a removable card inside a cell phone that stores data unique to the user, as an identification number, passwords, phone numbers, and messages.
- skyboard — a sport that is similar to skydiving but uses a special lightweight board (skyboard) attached to the feet and usually equipped with a parachute.
- sluggard — a person who is habitually inactive or lazy.
- slumlord — a landlord who owns slum buildings, especially one who fails to maintain or improve the buildings and charges tenants exorbitant rents.
- snowbird — junco.
- songbird — a bird that sings.
- spaniard — a native or inhabitant of Spain.
- stafford — Jean, 1915–79, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- staggard — a four-year-old male red deer.
- stamford — a city in SW Connecticut.
- standard — something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; an approved model.
- stanford — (Amasa) Leland, 1824–93, U.S. railroad developer, politician, and philanthropist: governor of California 1861–63; senator 1885–93.
- stepford — blandly conformist and submissive
- stinkard — a despicable person; stinker.
- stoppard — Tom (Thomas Straussler) born 1937, British playwright, born in the Czech Republic.
- stopword — any of a number of very commonly used words, as a, and, in, and to, that are normally excluded by computer search engines or when compiling a concordance.
- stunkard — sulky
- subchord — a part of a chord
- surfbird — a sandpiperlike shorebird, Aphriza virgata, of the Pacific coast, breeding in Alaska and wintering in South America.
- svalbard — Norwegian name of Spitsbergen.
- swanherd — a person who tends swans.
- tagboard — a strong cardboard suitable for tags or posters.
- teaboard — a tea tray
- the bard — William ("the Bard"; "the Bard of Avon") 1564–1616, English poet and dramatist.
- the word — the proper or most fitting expression