8-letter words containing d, g
- drag out — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
- drag-out — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
- draggers — Plural form of dragger.
- dragging — marked by or involving the wearing of clothing characteristically associated with the opposite sex; transvestite.
- draggled — Simple past tense and past participle of draggle.
- draglift — a ski lift with a rope or metal bar by which skiers are pulled up to the top of a slope.
- dragline — a rope dragging from something; dragrope.
- draglink — (engineering) A link connecting the cranks of two shafts.
- dragnets — Plural form of dragnet.
- dragoman — (in the Near East) a professional interpreter.
- dragonet — any fish of the genus Callionymus, the species of which are small and usually brightly colored.
- dragonné — shaped like a dragon
- dragoons — Plural form of dragoon.
- dragrope — a rope for dragging something, as a piece of artillery.
- dragsman — a person who drives a carriage or drag
- dragster — an automobile designed and built specifically for drag racing, especially on a ¼-mi. (402-meter) or ⅛-mi. (201-meter) drag strip.
- drainage — the act or process of draining.
- draining — Present participle of drain.
- dramming — Measurements. a unit of apothecaries' weight, equal to 60 grains, or 1/8 (0.125) ounce (3.89 grams). 1/16 (0.0625) ounce, avoirdupois weight (27.34 grains; 1.77 grams). Abbreviation: dr., dr.
- drangway — a narrow lane; passageway
- dratting — to damn; confound: Drat your interference.
- draughts — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- draughty — characterized by or admitting currents of air, usually uncomfortable.
- drawings — Plural form of drawing.
- drawling — an act or utterance of a person who drawls.
- dreading — to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of: to dread death.
- dreaming — (often initial capital letter) the ancient time of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors, whose spirits continue into the present, as conceived in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines.
- drearing — sorrow; grief
- dredgers — Plural form of dredger.
- dredging — Present participle of dredge.
- dreggish — resembling or containing dregs
- dressage — haute école (def 1).
- dressing — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- driftage — the action or an amount of drifting.
- drifting — a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
- drilling — a small furrow made in the soil in which to sow seeds.
- drinking — suitable or safe to drink: drinking water.
- drip bag — a bag used for administering an intravenous solution to a patient
- drippage — a dripping, as of water from a faucet.
- dripping — an act of dripping.
- drogheda — a seaport in the NE Republic of Ireland, near the mouth of the Boyne River: the town was captured by Cromwell in 1649 and its garrisons as well as many male inhabitants put to the sword.
- drogoman — Alternative form of dragoman.
- drolling — amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish.
- drooling — to water at the mouth, as in anticipation of food; salivate; drivel.
- drooping — to sag, sink, bend, or hang down, as from weakness, exhaustion, or lack of support.
- droppage — an amount dropped or wasted during application, installation, etc.: Mix some extra plaster to allow for droppage.
- dropping — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- droughts — Plural form of drought.
- droughty — dry.
- drowning — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.