9-letter words containing d, i, a
- dragstrip — a race course for drag racing
- drain off — liquid: remove
- drain rod — one of a series of flexible rods with threaded ends that screw together and can be pushed to and fro in a drain to clear a blockage
- drainable — Capable of being drained.
- drainages — Plural form of drainage.
- drainless — inexhaustible.
- drainpipe — a large pipe that carries away the discharge of waste pipes, soil pipes, etc.
- drainplug — A plug for a drain.
- draintrap — A bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents the escape of noxious gases, but permits the flow of liquids.
- dramamine — dimenhydrinate
- dramatics — (used with a singular or plural verb) the art of producing or acting dramas.
- dramatise — to put into a form suitable for acting on a stage.
- dramatist — a writer of dramas or dramatic poetry; playwright.
- dramatize — to put into a form suitable for acting on a stage.
- draperies — coverings, hangings, clothing, etc., of fabric, especially as arranged in loose, graceful folds.
- dravidian — a family of languages, wholly distinct from Indo-European, spoken mostly in southern India and Sri Lanka and including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and, in Pakistan, Brahui.
- draw fire — If you draw fire for something that you have done, you cause people to criticize you or attack you because of it.
- draw into — involve sb in sth
- draw rein — to tighten the reins
- draw-slip — a person or thing that lopes, as a horse with a loping gait.
- drawknife — a knife with a handle at each end at right angles to the blade, used by drawing over a surface.
- dreamiest — of the nature of or characteristic of dreams; visionary.
- dreamlike — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- dreamtime — (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.
- dreariest — Superlative form of dreary.
- drepanium — a type of flower cluster shaped like a sickle
- drillable — Machinery, Building Trades. a shaftlike tool with two or more cutting edges for making holes in firm materials, especially by rotation. a tool, especially a hand tool, for holding and operating such a tool.
- drinkable — suitable for drinking.
- drinkably — from the point of view of how drinkable something is
- drinkware — Vessels from which people drink.
- drip tray — a tray, sometimes with a slotted cover, designed to catch drips, as under a beer tap, sump, plant pot, etc
- driveable — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- driveaway — the delivery of a car to a buyer or to a specified destination by means of a hired driver.
- driveways — Plural form of driveway.
- droitural — pertaining to right of ownership as distinguished from right of possession.
- dropsical — of, like, or affected with dropsy.
- druidical — Alt form Druidical.
- dry basis — The dry basis is a measure of how much water is in a solid, which is expressed as the weight of water as a percentage of the completely dry solid.
- dualistic — of, relating to, or of the nature of dualism.
- dualities — Plural form of duality.
- dubitable — open to doubt; doubtful; uncertain.
- dubitably — Defn en.
- dubitancy — doubt; uncertainty
- ducktails — Plural form of ducktail.
- dulcianas — Plural form of dulciana.
- dundonian — a native or inhabitant of Dundee
- dunnaging — baggage or personal effects.
- dunsinane — a hill NE of Perth, in central Scotland: a ruined fort on its summit is traditionally called Macbeth's Castle. 1012 feet (308 meters).
- duobinary — denoting a communications system for coding digital data in which three data bands are used, 0, +1, –1
- duplation — multiplication by two; doubling.