10-letter words containing r, d, l
- drawlingly — Speaking with a drawl.
- drawplates — Plural form of drawplate.
- dreadfully — in a dreadful way: The pain has increased dreadfully.
- dreadingly — With dread.
- dreadlocks — a hair style, especially among Rastafarians, in which the hair is worn in long, ropelike locks.
- dreamingly — In a dreamy manner.
- dreamwhile — the duration of a dream
- dreamworld — A fantastic or idealized view of life.
- dribblings — Plural form of dribbling.
- 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.
- driftingly — In a way that drifts.
- drill down — bore a hole
- drill pipe — (in oil-well drilling or the like) any of several coupled tubes for rotating the bit and supplying drilling mud.
- drill ship — A drill ship is a ship which has been modified to include a drilling rig.
- 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.
- drillstock — a device for holding a drill.
- drivelines — Plural form of driveline.
- drivelling — saliva flowing from the mouth, or mucus from the nose; slaver.
- 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.
- drolleries — Plural form of drollery.
- dronabinol — Synthetic tetrahydrocannabinol.
- drool over — desire, look longingly at
- droolingly — In a drooling manner or fashion.
- droopingly — In a drooping manner.
- drop black — carbon, as animal black or lampblack, formed into pellets by mixing with water or glue: used as a black pigment.
- drop cable — Wiring between a computer and its Ethernet transceiver. Maximum length if full-spec is 47m.
- drop cloth — a sheet of cloth, paper, plastic, or the like laid over furniture and floors for protection while a room is being painted or laid over shrubbery while the exterior of a house is being painted.
- drop elbow — an elbow having lugs for attaching it to a wall or joist.
- drop table — a tabletop hinged to a wall, held in a horizontal position by a bracket while in use.
- drop valve — a valve, as for a steam engine, that drops freely to close.
- drop-panel — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- dropcloths — Plural form of dropcloth.
- 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.
- dropperful — the amount contained in a dropper
- drosophila — a fly of the genus Drosophila, especially D. melanogaster, used in laboratory studies of genetics and development.
- drudgingly — a person who does menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work.
- druidology — the study of the religion, customs, and practices of the Druids.
- drum table — a table having a cylindrical top with drawers or shelves in the skirt, rotating on a central post with three or four outwardly curving legs.
- drunk dial — a phone call made by someone who is intoxicated.
- drury lane — a street in London, England, formerly notable for its theaters, named after the house Sir William Drury built there in the reign of Henry VIII.
- dry valley — a valley originally produced by running water but now waterless
- drying oil — any of a group of oily, organic liquids occurring naturally, as linseed, soybean, or dehydrated castor oil, or synthesized, that when applied as a thin coating absorb atmospheric oxygen, forming a tough, elastic layer.
- drysaltery — The articles kept by a drysalter for sale.
- dumbledore — (dialectal) A bumblebee.
- 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.
- duplicator — a machine for making duplicates, as a mimeograph.
- durability — able to resist wear, decay, etc., well; lasting; enduring.
- durational — the length of time something continues or exists (often used with the).