Words containing dry
3 letter words containing dry
- dry — free from moisture or excess moisture; not moist; not wet: a dry towel; dry air.
4 letter words containing dry
5 letter words containing dry
- dryad — a deity or nymph of the woods.
- dryas — any creeping plant belonging to the genus Dryas, of the rose family, having solitary white or yellow flowers, comprising the mountain avens.
- dryer — Also, drier. a machine, appliance, or apparatus for removing moisture, as by forced ventilation or heat: hair dryer; clothes dryer.
- dryly — free from moisture or excess moisture; not moist; not wet: a dry towel; dry air.
- oudry — Jean-Baptiste (ʒɑ̃batist). 1686–1755, French rococo painter and tapestry designer, noted esp for animal and hunting scenes
6 letter words containing dry
7 letter words containing dry
- air-dry — to dry by exposure to the air
- diandry — the phenomenon in which an egg is fertilized either by two sperm or by a diploid sperm, thus making the fertilized egg triploid, resulting in early miscarriage
- dry-rot — Plant Pathology. a decay of seasoned timber, resulting in its becoming brittle and crumbling to a dry powder, caused by various fungi. any of various diseases of plants in which the rotted tissues are dry.
- dryable — Which can be dried.
- drybeat — to beat (someone) severely
8 letter words containing dry
- balladry — ballad poetry or songs
- benadryl — an antihistamine drug used in sleeping tablets; diphenhydramine. Formula: C17H21NO
- blow-dry — If you blow-dry your hair, you dry it with a hairdryer, often to give it a particular style.
- bone-dry — very dry.
- calendry — a place where calendering is carried out
9 letter words containing dry
- bastardry — malicious or cruel behaviour
- cuckoldry — the act of making someone's husband a cuckold.
- dry-clean — to clean (garments, draperies, rugs, etc.) with a liquid other than water, as benzine or gasoline.
- dry-gulch — to ambush with the intent of killing or severely mauling: The riders were dry-gulched by bandits.
- dry-nurse — to act as a dry nurse to.
10 letter words containing dry
- blow-dryer — a small, usually handheld electrical appliance that dries hair by emitting a stream of warm air.
- dry-fresco — the technique of painting in watercolors on dry plaster. Also called dry fresco, secco. Compare fresco (def 1).
- drying-out — the process of detoxifying an alcoholic patient: Drying-out takes time.
- drysaltery — The articles kept by a drysalter for sale.
- finger-dry — to dry hair by lifting it and running it between the fingers from roots to ends
11 letter words containing dry
- dry-as-dust — dull and boring: a dry-as-dust biography.
- dry-cleanse — to dry-clean.
- 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.
12 letter words containing dry
- dry-cleaning — Dry-cleaning is the action or work of dry-cleaning things such as clothes.
- dryopithecus — an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors.
- laundrywoman — laundress.
- laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
- quick-drying — (of paint, concrete, glue, etc) that dries quickly
13 letter words containing dry
- dirty-laundry — personal or private matters that could cause embarrassment if made public: You didn't have to air our dirty linen to all your friends!
- dryopithecine — (sometimes initial capital letter) an extinct ape of the genus Dryopithecus, known from Old World Miocene fossils.
- freeze-drying — a process for drying heat-sensitive substances, as foods, blood plasma, antibiotics, and the like, by freezing the substance and then subliming the ice or other frozen solvent in a high vacuum.
- laundry-woman — laundress.
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