8-letter words containing dr
- cadreman — an officer or enlisted person in a military cadre.
- calandra — A large Eurasian lark with a stout bill and a black patch on each side of the neck.
- caldrons — Plural form of caldron (Alternative spelling of cauldrons).
- calendry — a place where calendering is carried out
- cardroom — a room for carding wool.
- cathedra — a bishop's throne
- cauldron — A cauldron is a very large, round metal pot used for cooking over a fire. In stories and fairy tales, a cauldron is used by witches for their spells.
- cd drive — a device that plays CDs
- chaldron — a unit of capacity equal to 36 bushels. Formerly used in the US for the measurement of solids, being equivalent to 1.268 cubic metres. Used in Britain for both solids and liquids, it is equivalent to 1.309 cubic metres
- chaudron — (obsolete) entrails.
- chawdron — the entrails of an animal
- children — Children is the plural of child.
- chondral — of or relating to cartilage
- chondria — a profusely branched red alga, Chondria tenuissima, of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North America.
- chondrin — a resilient translucent bluish-white substance that forms the matrix of cartilage
- chondro- — indicating cartilage
- chondrus — a protoctist genus that belongs to the family Gigartinaceae
- co-drive — to take alternate turns driving (a vehicle) with another person
- codriver — The navigator in the sport of rally racing, who sits in the front passenger seat and gives directions to the driver.
- compadre — a male friend
- cowardry — Lb uncommon Cowardice.
- cut drop — a drop scene cut to reveal part of the upstage area.
- damp-dry — (of something, such as a garment, that has been drying) nearly dry but still damp
- dandriff — Archaic spelling of dandruff.
- dandruff — Dandruff is small white pieces of dead skin in someone's hair, or fallen from someone's hair.
- daydream — A daydream is a series of pleasant thoughts, usually about things that you would like to happen.
- deadrise — the angle with the horizontal made by the outboard rise of the bottom of a vessel at the widest frame.
- dendrite — any of the short branched threadlike extensions of a nerve cell, which conduct impulses towards the cell body
- dendroid — freely branching; arborescent; treelike
- dendrons — Plural form of dendron.
- dewdrops — a drop of dew.
- didrachm — (in ancient Greece) a silver coin worth two drachmas
- dieldrin — a light tan, crystalline, water-insoluble, poisonous solid, C 12 H 8 OCl 6 , used as an insecticide: manufacture and use have been discontinued in the U.S.
- dihedral — having or formed by two planes.
- dihedron — a figure formed by two intersecting planes.
- dihydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) dihydroxy.
- doldrums — A part of the ocean near the equator, abounding in calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds, which sometimes prevent all progress for weeks – so called by sailors.
- drabbest — Superlative form of drab.
- drabbish — Somewhat drab in colour.
- drabbled — Simple past tense and past participle of drabble.
- drabbler — a piece of canvas fixed to the bottom of a sail to give it a greater area
- drabbles — Plural form of drabble.
- drabness — dull; cheerless; lacking in spirit, brightness, etc.
- dracaena — any treelike tropical plant of the genus Dracaena, many species of which are cultivated as ornamentals for their showy leaves.
- drachmas — Plural form of drachma.
- draconic — (often lowercase) Draconian.
- draconid — any of several unrelated meteor showers whose radiants are in the constellation Draco.
- draconis — a late 7th-century b.c. Athenian statesman noted for the severity of his code of laws.
- draffish — resembling draff
- draftees — Plural form of draftee.