12-letter words starting with dr
- draconically — (often lowercase) Draconian.
- draft animal — an animal used for pulling heavy loads.
- draft dodger — a person who evades or attempts to evade compulsory military service.
- draft letter — the first version of a letter
- draftsperson — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, especially in an architectural or engineering firm.
- draggle-tail — slut; slattern.
- dragon light — a herbal remedy for impotence
- dragonslayer — One who slays a dragon.
- dram refresh — (storage) The operation which cycles through a DRAM reading each row and writing it back again to compensate for the gradual leakage of charge from the capacitors which store the data. This may be done by the CPU but is often done by a dedicated memory controller.
- drama critic — a journalist who writes critiques of plays, or who talks about the theatre on radio or television
- drama school — a college which trains students (who are generally 18+) to act
- dramatically — of or relating to the drama.
- dramatizable — Capable of being dramatized.
- dramaturgist — A person who composes a drama and directs its representation; a playwright.
- drapeability — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
- drapery shop — a shop selling fabrics and sewing materials
- drapetomania — (dated) an overwhelming urge to run away (from home, a bad situation, responsibility, etc.).
- draught beer — beer which is stored in bulk, esp in a cask, as opposed to being bottled
- draughtboard — checkerboard (def 1).
- draughtproof — That prevents the access of draughts.
- draw a blank — (of paper or other writing surface) having no marks; not written or printed on: a blank sheet of paper.
- draw curtain — a curtain, opening at the middle, that can be drawn to the sides of a stage.
- drawbar pull — the force, measured in pounds, available to a locomotive for pulling rolling stock after overcoming its own tractive resistance.
- drawing card — a person who or thing that attracts attention or patrons.
- drawing room — a formal reception room, especially in an apartment or private house.
- drawlingness — the quality or characteristic of a drawler
- drawn butter — melted butter, clarified and often seasoned with herbs or lemon juice.
- dreadfulness — The characteristic of being dreadful.
- dreadnoughts — Plural form of dreadnought.
- dream ticket — If journalists talk about a dream ticket, they are referring to two candidates for political positions, for example President and Vice-President, or Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, who they think will be extremely successful.
- dream vision — a conventional device used in narrative verse, employed especially by medieval poets, that presents a story as told by one who falls asleep and dreams the events of the poem: Dante's Divine Comedy exemplifies the dream vision in its most developed form.
- dreamcatcher — A small hoop containing a horsehair mesh, or a similar construction of string or yarn, decorated with feathers and beads, believed to give its owner good dreams. Dreamcatchers were originally made by American Indians.
- dreamfulness — the quality of being full of dreams
- dress circle — a circular or curving division of seats in a theater, opera house, etc., usually the first gallery, originally set apart for spectators in evening dress.
- dress length — a piece of material that is big enough to make a dress from
- dress parade — a formal parade of sufficient ceremonial importance for the wearing of dress uniform
- dress shield — a fabric or plastic pad for attaching to the inside of the underarm of a woman's garment to protect the garment from being soiled by perspiration.
- dressed crab — cooked crabmeat that has been taken out of the shell
- drift anchor — a sea anchor or drag.
- drift netter — a person who uses a drift net in fishing.
- drill collar — A drill collar is a thick tubular piece at the bottom of a drillpipe, which concentrates the weight on the rotating drill bit.
- drill string — (on a drill rig) the assemblage of drill pipes that link the drill bit to the mechanism that imparts rotary or reciprocating motion.
- drillability — Machinery, Building Trades. a shaftlike tool with two or more cutting edges for making holes in firm materials, especially by rotation. a tool, especially a hand tool, for holding and operating such a tool.
- drilling mud — a water-based or oil-based suspension of clays pumped into an oil well during drilling in order to seal off porous rock layers, equalize the pressure, cool the bit, and flush out the cuttings.
- drilling rig — rig (def 7).
- drillmasters — Plural form of drillmaster.
- drink-driver — A drink-driver is someone who drives after drinking more than the amount of alcohol that is legally allowed.
- drinkability — The state or property of being drinkable.
- drinker moth — a large yellowish-brown bombycid eggar moth, Philudoria potatoria, having a stout hairy body, the larvae of which drink dew and feed on grasses
- drinks party — a cocktail party
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