8-letter words containing d, n, r
- dressing — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- drifting — a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
- driftnet — Alternative spelling of drift net.
- driftpin — driftbolt (def 1).
- drilling — a small furrow made in the soil in which to sow seeds.
- drink in — absorb attentively
- drink to — to take water or other liquid into the mouth and swallow it; imbibe.
- drink up — finish beverage
- drinkers — Plural form of drinker.
- drinkery — barroom; tavern.
- drinketh — Archaic third-person singular form of drink.
- drinking — suitable or safe to drink: drinking water.
- drip pan — a shallow metal pan used under roasting meat to receive the drippings.
- dripping — an act of dripping.
- drisheen — a pudding made of sheep's intestines filled with meal and sheep's blood
- drive-in — a motion-picture theater, refreshment stand, bank, or other public facility designed to accommodate patrons in their automobiles.
- drnovsek — Janez . 1950–2008, Slovenian politician, president of Slovenia (2002–07)
- drogoman — Alternative form of dragoman.
- drolling — amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish.
- dromonds — Plural form of dromond.
- drone on — talk boringly
- drone-on — to make a dull, continued, low, monotonous sound; hum; buzz.
- dronklap — a drunkard
- 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.
- drop-ins — [analogy with drop-outs] Spurious characters appearing on a terminal or console as a result of line noise or a system malfunction of some sort. Especially used when these are interspersed with one's own typed input.
- dropdown — (computing, GUI, of a widget) Dropping down from above; being a specific type of selection control that hides its contents until activated.
- dropline — a headline or bank consisting of a top line set flush with the left margin, with each succeeding line indented on the left, and the final line flush with the right margin.
- dropping — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- dropzone — The location at which troops or supplies are dropped, usually by parachute.
- drownded — Simple past tense and past participle of drownd.
- drowning — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- drowsing — Present participle of drowse.
- drubbing — a blow with a stick or the like.
- drudging — Present participle of drudge.
- drugging — Present participle of drug.
- drumline — A group of percussionists in a marching band.
- drumlins — Plural form of drumlin.
- drumming — The act of beating a drum.
- drummond — Henry, 1851–97, Scottish clergyman and writer.
- drumskin — drumhead (def 1).
- drunkard — a person who is habitually or frequently drunk.
- drunkest — Superlative form of drunk.
- dry kiln — an oven for the controlled drying and seasoning of cut lumber.
- dry land — terra firma, earth
- dry rent — rent seck.
- dry sink — a wooden kitchen sink, especially of the 19th century, not connected to an external water supply, with a shallow zinc- or tin-lined well on top in which a dishpan can be placed, and usually a cupboard below.
- dry wine — wine that is not sweet
- drypoint — a technique of engraving, especially on copper, in which a sharp-pointed needle is used for producing furrows having a burr that is often retained in order to produce a print characterized by soft, velvety black lines.
- drystone — (of a stone wall) built without using mortar.