8-letter words containing dr
- drip cap — a molding over an opening for catching and shedding rain water.
- drip mat — a little mat that you place under drinking glasses to catch drips
- drip pan — a shallow metal pan used under roasting meat to receive the drippings.
- drip-dry — wash-and-wear.
- dripless — designed so that the substance, item, or its contents will not drip: a dripless candle; a dripless pitcher.
- drippage — a dripping, as of water from a faucet.
- drippily — In a drippy way.
- dripping — an act of dripping.
- drisheen — a pudding made of sheep's intestines filled with meal and sheep's blood
- drivable — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- drive at — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
- drive-by — the action of driving by a specified locality, object, etc.: a drive-by of Nelson's Monument.
- drive-in — a motion-picture theater, refreshment stand, bank, or other public facility designed to accommodate patrons in their automobiles.
- drive-up — serving or accessible to customers who drive up in their cars: a drive-up taco stand; a drive-up window at a bank.
- driveled — Simple past tense and past participle of drivel.
- driveway — a road, especially a private one, leading from a street or other thoroughfare to a building, house, garage, etc.
- drizzled — Simple past tense and past participle of drizzle.
- drizzles — Plural form of drizzle.
- drnovsek — Janez . 1950–2008, Slovenian politician, president of Slovenia (2002–07)
- drogheda — a seaport in the NE Republic of Ireland, near the mouth of the Boyne River: the town was captured by Cromwell in 1649 and its garrisons as well as many male inhabitants put to the sword.
- drogoman — Alternative form of dragoman.
- drollery — something whimsically amusing or funny.
- drollest — amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish.
- drolling — amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish.
- drollish — somewhat droll
- dromonds — Plural form of dromond.
- drone on — talk boringly
- drone-on — to make a dull, continued, low, monotonous sound; hum; buzz.
- dronklap — a drunkard
- drooling — to water at the mouth, as in anticipation of food; salivate; drivel.
- drooping — to sag, sink, bend, or hang down, as from weakness, exhaustion, or lack of support.
- drop box — a box for holding shuttles on a loom, as a box loom, used on either side of the race plate in weaving cloth having a variety of colors in the filling.
- drop off — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- drop out — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- drop tee — a tee having lugs for attaching it to a wall or joist.
- drop-add — the period at the beginning of a term when students can sign up for new courses and drop courses for which they were previously registered
- drop-box — a box for holding shuttles on a loom, as a box loom, used on either side of the race plate in weaving cloth having a variety of colors in the filling.
- drop-ins — [analogy with drop-outs] Spurious characters appearing on a terminal or console as a result of line noise or a system malfunction of some sort. Especially used when these are interspersed with one's own typed input.
- drop-off — a vertical or very steep descent: The trail has a drop-off of several hundred feet.
- dropable — (US) Alternative form of droppable.
- dropback — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.
- dropdown — (computing, GUI, of a widget) Dropping down from above; being a specific type of selection control that hides its contents until activated.
- drophead — (British) Shortened form of 'drophead coupé'.
- dropkick — (football) kicking where the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground.
- dropleaf — A flat section of a table that can be extended or collapsed.
- droplets — Plural form of droplet.
- dropline — a headline or bank consisting of a top line set flush with the left margin, with each succeeding line indented on the left, and the final line flush with the right margin.
- droplock — a variable-rate bank loan used on international markets that is automatically replaced by a fixed-rate long-term bond if the long-term interest rates fall to a specified level; it thus combines the advantages of a bank loan with those of a bond
- dropoffs — Plural form of dropoff.
- dropouts — Plural form of dropout.