11-letter words containing a, r, n, d
- downpatrick — a market town in Northern Ireland: reputedly the burial place of Saint Patrick. Pop: 10 316 (2001)
- dracunculus — A fish, the dragonet.
- draftsmanly — Befitting a draftsman; geometrically artistic.
- draftswoman — a woman employed in making mechanical drawings.
- draftswomen — Plural form of draftswoman.
- drag anchor — (of a vessel) to move away from its mooring because the anchor has failed to hold
- drag-n-drop — (spelling) Stupid spelling of drag and drop.
- dragon beam — dragging piece.
- dragon book — (publication) The classic text "Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools", by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman (Addison-Wesley 1986; ISBN 0-201-10088-6). So called because of the cover design featuring a dragon labelled "complexity of compiler design" and a knight bearing the lance "LALR parser generator" among his other trappings. This one is more specifically known as the "Red Dragon Book" (1986); an earlier edition, sans Sethi and titled "Principles Of Compiler Design" (Alfred V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman; Addison-Wesley, 1977; ISBN 0-201-00022-9), was the "Green Dragon Book" (1977). (Also "New Dragon Book", "Old Dragon Book".) The horsed knight and the Green Dragon were warily eying each other at a distance; now the knight is typing (wearing gauntlets!) at a terminal showing a video-game representation of the Red Dragon's head while the rest of the beast extends back in normal space. See also book titles.
- dragon lady — (often initial capital letters) a woman of somewhat sinister glamour often perceived as wielding ruthless or corrupt power.
- dragon tree — a tall, treelike plant, Dracaena draco, of the Canary Islands, scarce in the wild but common in cultivation, yielding a variety of dragon's blood.
- dragon-head — dragonhead.
- dragonflies — Plural form of dragonfly.
- drainageway — a conduit, ditch, or the like, for draining water from an area.
- drainboards — Plural form of drainboard.
- drakensberg — a mountain range in the E Republic of South Africa: highest peak, 10,988 feet (3350 meters).
- drama queen — Informal. a person who often has exaggerated or overly emotional reactions to events or situations: You're such a drama queen! You always have to have all the attention.
- dramatising — Present participle of dramatise.
- dramatizing — Present participle of dramatize.
- draughtsman — a checker, as used in the game of checkers.
- draughtsmen — Plural form of draughtsman.
- draw a line — If you draw a line between two things, you make a distinction between them.
- draw runner — loper.
- drawing pen — a pen with a fine nib used for drawing
- drawing pin — a thumbtack.
- drawstrings — Plural form of drawstring.
- dreadnaught — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
- dreadnought — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
- dressmaking — a person whose occupation is the making or alteration of women's dresses, coats, etc.
- drift angle — the angle made by the path of a drifting vessel with its heading.
- drive chain — a roller chain that transmits power from one toothed wheel to another
- drive train — the power train of an automotive vehicle consisting of all the components between the engine and driving wheels and including the clutch and axle, as well as the components of the driveline.
- drop a hint — If you drop a hint, you give a hint or say something in a casual way.
- drop a line — send a message
- drop anchor — secure a ship in place
- drop astern — to fall back to the stern (of another vessel)
- drop cannon — a shot in which the first object ball joins or gathers with the cue ball and the other object ball, esp at the top of the table
- drug-taking — the activity of taking illegal drugs
- drum'n'bass — a type of electronic dance music using mainly bass guitar and drum sounds
- drumbeating — That to beat on drums.
- drunkalogue — an account of a person’s problems with alcohol
- dry cleaner — a business that dry-cleans garments, draperies, etc.
- dry farming — a system of growing crops in arid or semiarid regions without artificial irrigation, by reducing evaporation and by special methods of tillage
- dry martini — cocktail
- dry-cleanse — to dry-clean.
- dual number — a grammatical number category referring to exactly two persons or things
- dunderheads — Plural form of dunderhead.
- dundrearies — an expression for long whiskers or side-burns on the side of the face when present without a beard
- durableness — Durability.
- dynamic ram — dynamic random-access memory