10-letter words containing d, i, e, r
- drearisome — Very dreary.
- dregginess — the condition or quality of dregs
- dreikanter — a pebble or boulder having three faces formed by the action of windblown sand.
- dress ship — to decorate a vessel by displaying all signal flags on lines run from the bow to the stern over the mast trucks
- dress suit — a man's suit for formal evening dress, with tail coat and open-front waistcoat.
- dressiness — The characteristic of being dressy.
- dried milk — dehydrated milk from which about 95 percent of the moisture has been evaporated.
- drift lead — a lead indicating, by the angle its line makes with the perpendicular, the movement of a supposedly stationary ship or the movement of water past a stationary ship.
- drift mine — a mine the opening of which is dug into an outcrop of coal or ore.
- drift tube — a conducting enclosure, usually cylindrical, held at a constant potential so that electrons or charged particles within will experience no force, and therefore no change in velocity. Compare Klystron.
- drill pipe — (in oil-well drilling or the like) any of several coupled tubes for rotating the bit and supplying drilling mud.
- drill stem — A drill stem is all the parts of the equipment used for rotary drilling.
- drill team — a group trained, especially for exhibition purposes, in precision marching, the manual of arms, etc.
- drinkwater — John, 1882–1937, English poet, playwright, and critic.
- dripstones — Plural form of dripstone.
- drive away — depart in a vehicle
- drive home — to cause to penetrate to the fullest extent
- drive time — the time or estimated time to drive between two points or to one's destination.
- drive-thru — a takeaway restaurant, bank, etc designed so that customers can use it without leaving their cars
- drive-time — driving time.
- drivelines — Plural form of driveline.
- drivelling — saliva flowing from the mouth, or mucus from the nose; slaver.
- drivenness — past participle of drive.
- driver ant — army ant.
- driverless — not having a human driver in control: The horse became startled and the now driverless horse-drawn carriage ran into a car. without a human operator: driverless machinery.
- driveshaft — A rotating shaft that transmits torque in an engine.
- drivetrain — 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.
- drolleries — Plural form of drollery.
- droopiness — The characteristic of being droopy.
- droperidol — a phenothiazine, C 22 H 22 FN 3 O 2 , used as an anesthetic or antiemetic, or for emergency control of severe behavioral disturbance.
- dropkicked — Simple past tense and past participle of dropkick.
- dropkicker — One who dropkicks.
- dropper-in — drop-in (def 1).
- drowsihead — drowsiness.
- drowsiness — half-asleep; sleepy.
- drudgeries — Plural form of drudgery.
- dry ginger — ginger ale
- du maurier — Dame Daphne (Lady Browning) 1907–1989, English novelist.
- duisenberg — Willem Frederik, known as Wim. 1935–2005, Dutch economist; president of the European Central Bank (1998–2003)
- dukkeripen — fortune-telling
- dumbwaiter — a small elevator, manually or electrically operated, consisting typically of a box with shelves, used in apartment houses, restaurants, and large private dwellings for moving dishes, food, garbage, etc., between floors.
- dup killer — /d[y]oop kill'r/ Software that is supposed to detect and delete duplicates of a message that may have reached the FidoNet system via different routes. See also dup loop.
- dutch rise — an increase in wages that is of no benefit to the recipient
- duumvirate — a coalition of two persons holding the same office, as in ancient Rome.
- dvd writer — A DVD writer is the same as a DVD burner.
- dyscrasite — an alloy of antimony and silver
- dysenteric — Of, relating, or pertaining to dysentery.
- dzerzhinsk — a city in the central Russian Federation in Europe, W of Nizhni Novgorod.
- ear-minded — tending to perceive one's environment in terms of sound and to recall sounds more vividly than sights, smells, etc.
- early bird — a person who rises at an early hour.