11-letter words containing r, o, d
- dragon book — (publication) The classic text "Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools", by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman (Addison-Wesley 1986; ISBN 0-201-10088-6). So called because of the cover design featuring a dragon labelled "complexity of compiler design" and a knight bearing the lance "LALR parser generator" among his other trappings. This one is more specifically known as the "Red Dragon Book" (1986); an earlier edition, sans Sethi and titled "Principles Of Compiler Design" (Alfred V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman; Addison-Wesley, 1977; ISBN 0-201-00022-9), was the "Green Dragon Book" (1977). (Also "New Dragon Book", "Old Dragon Book".) The horsed knight and the Green Dragon were warily eying each other at a distance; now the knight is typing (wearing gauntlets!) at a terminal showing a video-game representation of the Red Dragon's head while the rest of the beast extends back in normal space. See also book titles.
- dragon lady — (often initial capital letters) a woman of somewhat sinister glamour often perceived as wielding ruthless or corrupt power.
- dragon tree — a tall, treelike plant, Dracaena draco, of the Canary Islands, scarce in the wild but common in cultivation, yielding a variety of dragon's blood.
- dragon-head — dragonhead.
- dragonflies — Plural form of dragonfly.
- drainboards — Plural form of drainboard.
- dreadlocked — Wearing dreadlocks.
- dreadnought — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
- dream world — the world of imagination or illusion rather than of objective reality.
- dress goods — cloth or material for dresses.
- dress shoes — formal shoes for wearing with evening dress
- drill corps — drill team.
- drill tower — a structure, usually of concrete and steel, that resembles a building and is used by firefighters for practicing and improving firefighting techniques.
- drillstocks — Plural form of drillstock.
- drip coffee — a beverage prepared in a vessel in which boiling water filters from a top compartment through the coffee into a pot below.
- driving dog — (on a lathe) a clamp securing a piece of work and engaging with a slot in a faceplate.
- dromaeosaur — Any bird-like theropod dinosaur of the family Dromaeosauridae.
- dromedaries — Plural form of dromedary.
- dromophobia — an irrational fear of crossing roads
- dronishness — the quality or capacity to drone
- droolworthy — inspiring or likely to inspire excessive enthusiasm or pleasure; extremely attractive or desirable
- drop a hint — If you drop a hint, you give a hint or say something in a casual way.
- drop a line — send a message
- drop anchor — secure a ship in place
- drop astern — to fall back to the stern (of another vessel)
- drop behind — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- drop cannon — a shot in which the first object ball joins or gathers with the cue ball and the other object ball, esp at the top of the table
- drop cookie — a cookie made by dropping batter from a spoon onto a cookie sheet for baking.
- drop hammer — drop forge.
- drop letter — a letter that is mailed to a local address at a post office without city delivery or a rural delivery service and must be picked up by the addressee.
- drop rudder — a rudder that can be lowered beneath the level of the bottom of a boat.
- drop siding — weatherboarding having its upper edges narrowed to fit into grooves or rabbets in its lower edges, and its backs flat against the sheathing or studs of the wall.
- drop window — a window with a sash that slides into a space below the sill.
- dropped egg — a poached egg.
- drosometers — Plural form of drosometer.
- drosophilas — Plural form of drosophila.
- drouthiness — the state or condition of being thirsty or dry
- drudge-work — work that is menial and tedious and therefore distasteful; drudgery.
- drug report — (humour) A bug report so utterly incomprehensible that whoever submitted it must have been smoking crack. Even worse than a chug report.
- drugged-out — being under the influence of drugs, especially a narcotic or an illicit drug.
- druid stone — sarsen.
- drum out of — to expel from (the army) with drums beating
- drummer boy — a young boy who in earlier times played a drum in the army and on the battlefield
- drunkalogue — an account of a person’s problems with alcohol
- drunkometer — a device for measuring the amount of alcohol in a person's breath to determine the amount of alcohol in the bloodstream.
- dry compass — a compass having a compass card mounted on pivots.
- dry shampoo — a product in powder or spray form that you can use to clean hair without wetting it
- dry-dockage — the act or fact of placing a ship in a dry dock.
- dry-footing — removal of glaze from the rim at the bottom of a piece.
- dry-roasted — roasted with no oil, or less oil than is usually used in roasting, so that the product is drier, crisper, and less caloric: dry-roasted peanuts.