9-letter words starting with dr
- dribbling — Present participle of dribble.
- dried out — recovered; detoxified
- drift ice — detached floating ice in masses that drift with the wind or ocean currents, as in the polar seas.
- drift net — a fishing net supported upright in the water by floats attached along the upper edge and sinkers along the lower, so as to be carried with the current or tide.
- drift off — fall asleep
- driftbolt — Also called driftpin. a spike having a round shank and used for fastening heavy timbers together.
- driftfish — any of several butterfishes, especially of the genus Psenes, inhabiting tropical waters.
- driftless — a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
- driftnets — Plural form of driftnet.
- driftwood — wood floating on a body of water or cast ashore by it.
- drill bit — bit1 (defs 1a, b).
- drill rig — rig (def 7).
- drillable — 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.
- drillhole — a hole drilled in the ground, usually for exploratory purposes
- drillpipe — A drillpipe is a piece of tubular steel in a well, used for lowering and raising equipment and supplying drilling mud.
- drillship — a ship equipped with a drill rig and engaged in offshore oil and gas exploration, oceanographic research, etc.
- drinkable — suitable for drinking.
- drinkably — from the point of view of how drinkable something is
- drinkware — Vessels from which people drink.
- drip feed — intravenous feeding.
- drip tray — a tray, sometimes with a slotted cover, designed to catch drips, as under a beer tap, sump, plant pot, etc
- drip-feed — intravenous feeding.
- drippings — Plural form of dripping.
- dripstone — Architecture. a stone molding used as a drip.
- drive fit — assembly of two tightly fitting parts, as a hub on a shaft, made by a press or the like.
- drive off — vehicle: pull out, move off
- drive out — To drive out something means to make it disappear or stop operating.
- driveable — 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.
- driveaway — the delivery of a car to a buyer or to a specified destination by means of a hired driver.
- driveline — the components of the power train of an automotive vehicle that are between the transmission and the differential, and generally consisting of the drive shaft and universal joint.
- driveling — saliva flowing from the mouth, or mucus from the nose; slaver.
- drivelled — Simple past tense and past participle of drivel.
- driver ed — driver education.
- driveways — Plural form of driveway.
- drivingly — in a driving manner
- drizzling — Present participle of drizzle.
- droitural — pertaining to right of ownership as distinguished from right of possession.
- drollness — The quality of being odd or comical.
- dromedary — the single-humped camel, Camelus dromedarius, of Arabia and northern Africa.
- droningly — With a droning sound.
- dronishly — in a droning manner
- drop arch — a pointed arch having radii of length less than the span.
- drop away — become fewer
- drop back — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.
- drop bear — a mythical creature said to live in the outback; it resembles an oversized koala with sharp teeth and drops from trees to devour unwary passers-by
- drop dead — inspiring awe, astonishment, or envy: a drop-dead guest list; a drop-dead sable coat.
- drop girt — a girt running beneath the ends of joists and at right angles to them.
- drop goal — In rugby, a drop goal is a goal that a player scores by dropping the ball and kicking it between the posts.
- drop keel — centerboard.
- drop kick — In sports such as football and rugby, a drop kick is a kick in which the ball is dropped to the ground and kicked at the moment that it bounces.