8-Letter Words Containing A,C,D,H,R,S,_

• a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains

• formerly the basic unit of money in Greece

• heavy-bodied Old World diving duck having a grey-and-black body and reddish head

• hard smooth-textured cheese; originally made in Cheddar in southwestern England

• a village in southwestern England where cheddar cheese was first made

• a cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women

• guessing game in which one player pantomimes a word or phrase for others to guess

• a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles

• a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering

• stiffen with starch

• the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

• an investigation seeking answers

• an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property

• the examination of alternative hypotheses

• boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas

• try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of

• search or seek

• inquire into

• subject to a search

• The spinal column, or the vertebrae of the spine.

• An anatomical shaft or axis in a marine invertebrate.

• The central shaft of a feather.

• The main shaft of either a compound leaf, head of grain, or fern frond.