9-letter words containing d, n, r
- dribbling — Present participle of dribble.
- drift net — a fishing net supported upright in the water by floats attached along the upper edge and sinkers along the lower, so as to be carried with the current or tide.
- driftnets — Plural form of driftnet.
- drinkable — suitable for drinking.
- drinkably — from the point of view of how drinkable something is
- drinkware — Vessels from which people drink.
- drippings — Plural form of dripping.
- dripstone — Architecture. a stone molding used as a drip.
- driveline — the components of the power train of an automotive vehicle that are between the transmission and the differential, and generally consisting of the drive shaft and universal joint.
- driveling — saliva flowing from the mouth, or mucus from the nose; slaver.
- drivingly — in a driving manner
- drizzling — Present participle of drizzle.
- drollness — The quality of being odd or comical.
- droningly — With a droning sound.
- dronishly — in a droning manner
- drop tank — an external aircraft tank, usually containing fuel, that can be detached and dropped in flight
- drop zone — an area into which paratroopers, soldiers, or supplies are landed from aircraft for a military operation. Abbreviation: DZ.
- drop-down — computer menu, list: displayed when selected
- droppings — the act of a person or thing that drops.
- dropsonde — an instrument similar to a radiosonde that is attached to a parachute and released from an aircraft.
- dropstone — an old name for stalactites
- drown out — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- drownings — Plural form of drowning.
- drubbings — Plural form of drubbing.
- drum into — instill by repetition
- drunkards — Plural form of drunkard.
- drunkenly — intoxicated; drunk.
- drunkness — Drunkenness.
- dry drunk — an alcoholic who is not currently drinking alcohol but is still following an irregular undisciplined lifestyle like that of a drunkard
- dry nurse — a nurse who cares for a child without suckling it
- dry point — 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.
- dry-clean — to clean (garments, draperies, rugs, etc.) with a liquid other than water, as benzine or gasoline.
- dry-nurse — to act as a dry nurse to.
- dry-stone — (of a wall) made without mortar
- drying up — When you do the drying up, you dry things such as plates, pans, knives, and cups after they have been washed.
- dubliners — a collection of short stories (1914) by James Joyce.
- dubrovnik — a seaport in S Croatia, on the Adriatic: resort.
- dumbarton — Also, Dunbarton [duhn-bahr-tn] /dʌnˈbɑr tn/ (Show IPA). Also called Dumbartonshire [duhm-bahr-tn-sheer, -sher] /dʌmˈbɑr tnˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in W Scotland.
- dummy run — trial or practice
- dunbarton — former county of W Scotland
- dungareed — wearing dungarees
- dungarees — dungarees. work clothes, overalls, etc., of blue denim. blue jeans.
- dungeoner — a thing which or a jailer who confines in, or as if in, a dungeon
- dunkerque — French Dunkerque [dœn-kerk] /dœ̃ˈkɛrk/ (Show IPA). a seaport in N France: site of the evacuation of a British expeditionary force of over 330,000 men under German fire May 29–June 4, 1940.
- duobinary — denoting a communications system for coding digital data in which three data bands are used, 0, +1, –1
- duodenary — duodecimal.
- duralumin — an alloy of aluminum that is 4 percent copper and contains small amounts of magnesium, manganese, iron, and silicon: used for applications requiring lightness and strength, as in airplane construction.
- durations — Plural form of duration.
- dwarfling — A diminutive dwarf.
- dwarfness — a person of abnormally small stature owing to a pathological condition, especially one suffering from cretinism or some other disease that produces disproportion or deformation of features and limbs.