11-letter words starting with dr
- dreamscapes — Plural form of dreamscape.
- dress goods — cloth or material for dresses.
- dress sense — Someone's dress sense is their ability to choose clothes that make them look attractive.
- dress shirt — a man's shirt worn for formal or semiformal evening dress, usually having French cuffs and a stiff or pleated front to be fastened with studs.
- dress shoes — formal shoes for wearing with evening dress
- dresser set — a set of toilet articles, as comb, brush, mirror, etc., usually of matching design, for arrangement and use on a dresser or vanity.
- dressing-up — When children play at dressing-up, they put on special or different clothes and pretend to be different people.
- dressmakers — Plural form of dressmaker.
- dressmaking — a person whose occupation is the making or alteration of women's dresses, coats, etc.
- dried fruit — Dried fruit is fruit that has been preserved by being dried; used especially to refer to currants, raisins, or sultanas, which are kinds of dried grapes.
- drift angle — the angle made by the path of a drifting vessel with its heading.
- drift apart — separate gradually
- drill chuck — a chuck for holding a drill bit.
- drill corps — drill team.
- drill press — a drilling machine having a single vertical spindle.
- drill tower — a structure, usually of concrete and steel, that resembles a building and is used by firefighters for practicing and improving firefighting techniques.
- drillmaster — a person who trains others in something, especially routinely or mechanically.
- drillstocks — Plural form of drillstock.
- drink-drive — Drink-drive means relating to drink-driving.
- drip coffee — a beverage prepared in a vessel in which boiling water filters from a top compartment through the coffee into a pot below.
- drivability — the degree of smoothness and steadiness of acceleration of an automotive vehicle: The automatic transmission has been improved to give the new model better drivability.
- drive chain — a roller chain that transmits power from one toothed wheel to another
- drive screw — a fastener with a helical thread of coarse pitch that can be driven into wood with a hammer and removed with a screwdriver.
- drive shaft — a shaft for imparting torque from a power source or prime mover to machinery.
- drive train — the power train of an automotive vehicle consisting of all the components between the engine and driving wheels and including the clutch and axle, as well as the components of the driveline.
- driver's ed — the preparation of students for driving tests, whether at school, in a car or through online courses
- driving dog — (on a lathe) a clamp securing a piece of work and engaging with a slot in a faceplate.
- drizzlingly — With drizzle, or light rain.
- dromaeosaur — Any bird-like theropod dinosaur of the family Dromaeosauridae.
- dromedaries — Plural form of dromedary.
- dromophobia — an irrational fear of crossing roads
- dronishness — the quality or capacity to drone
- droolworthy — inspiring or likely to inspire excessive enthusiasm or pleasure; extremely attractive or desirable
- drop a hint — If you drop a hint, you give a hint or say something in a casual way.
- drop a line — send a message
- drop anchor — secure a ship in place
- drop astern — to fall back to the stern (of another vessel)
- drop behind — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- drop cannon — a shot in which the first object ball joins or gathers with the cue ball and the other object ball, esp at the top of the table
- drop cookie — a cookie made by dropping batter from a spoon onto a cookie sheet for baking.
- drop hammer — drop forge.
- drop letter — a letter that is mailed to a local address at a post office without city delivery or a rural delivery service and must be picked up by the addressee.
- drop rudder — a rudder that can be lowered beneath the level of the bottom of a boat.
- drop siding — weatherboarding having its upper edges narrowed to fit into grooves or rabbets in its lower edges, and its backs flat against the sheathing or studs of the wall.
- drop window — a window with a sash that slides into a space below the sill.
- dropped egg — a poached egg.
- drosometers — Plural form of drosometer.
- drosophilas — Plural form of drosophila.
- drouthiness — the state or condition of being thirsty or dry
- druckenness — the state of being drunk