8-letter words containing dr
- drafters — Plural form of drafter.
- draftily — In a drafty manner.
- drafting — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- drag out — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
- drag-out — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
- draggers — Plural form of dragger.
- dragging — marked by or involving the wearing of clothing characteristically associated with the opposite sex; transvestite.
- draggled — Simple past tense and past participle of draggle.
- draglift — a ski lift with a rope or metal bar by which skiers are pulled up to the top of a slope.
- dragline — a rope dragging from something; dragrope.
- draglink — (engineering) A link connecting the cranks of two shafts.
- dragnets — Plural form of dragnet.
- dragoman — (in the Near East) a professional interpreter.
- dragonet — any fish of the genus Callionymus, the species of which are small and usually brightly colored.
- dragonné — shaped like a dragon
- dragoons — Plural form of dragoon.
- dragrope — a rope for dragging something, as a piece of artillery.
- dragsman — a person who drives a carriage or drag
- dragster — an automobile designed and built specifically for drag racing, especially on a ¼-mi. (402-meter) or ⅛-mi. (201-meter) drag strip.
- drainage — the act or process of draining.
- drainers — Plural form of drainer.
- draining — Present participle of drain.
- draisine — an early form of bicycle designed in Germany, nick-named the hobby horse or dandy horse
- dramatic — of or relating to the drama.
- drambuie — a liqueur based on Scotch whisky and made exclusively in Scotland from a recipe dating from the 18th century
- drammach — an uncooked mixture of meal, usually oatmeal, and cold water.
- dramming — Measurements. a unit of apothecaries' weight, equal to 60 grains, or 1/8 (0.125) ounce (3.89 grams). 1/16 (0.0625) ounce, avoirdupois weight (27.34 grains; 1.77 grams). Abbreviation: dr., dr.
- drammock — an uncooked mixture of meal, usually oatmeal, and cold water.
- dramshop — bar; barroom; saloon.
- drangway — a narrow lane; passageway
- drapable — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
- dratting — to damn; confound: Drat your interference.
- draughts — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- draughty — characterized by or admitting currents of air, usually uncomfortable.
- draw off — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- draw out — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- draw top — a tabletop that can be extended by drawing out and raising leaves suspended from either end.
- drawable — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- drawback — a hindrance or disadvantage; an undesirable or objectionable feature.
- drawbars — Plural form of drawbar.
- drawbore — a hole in a tenon made eccentric with the corresponding holes to the mortise so that the two pieces being joined will be forced tightly together when the pin (drawbore pin) is hammered into place.
- drawcard — drawing card.
- drawdown — a lowering of water surface level, as in a well.
- drawhole — a funnel-shaped vertical opening cut at the bottom of a stope, which permits the loading of ore into conveyances in the passageways below.
- drawings — Plural form of drawing.
- drawling — an act or utterance of a person who drawls.
- drawlink — (rail transport) drawbar.
- drawtube — a tube sliding within another tube, as the tube carrying the eyepiece in a microscope.
- dreadful — causing great dread, fear, or terror; terrible: a dreadful storm.
- dreading — to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of: to dread death.