9-letter words starting with dr
- draperies — coverings, hangings, clothing, etc., of fabric, especially as arranged in loose, graceful folds.
- dratchell — a scruffy woman; a slut; a drab
- draughted — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- draughter — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- dravidian — a family of languages, wholly distinct from Indo-European, spoken mostly in southern India and Sri Lanka and including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and, in Pakistan, Brahui.
- draw away — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- draw back — a hindrance or disadvantage; an undesirable or objectionable feature.
- draw down — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- draw fire — If you draw fire for something that you have done, you cause people to criticize you or attack you because of it.
- draw game — a game in which a player must keep drawing pieces from the boneyard until a playable one is drawn.
- draw gear — an apparatus for coupling railway cars
- draw into — involve sb in sth
- draw lots — to decide an issue by using lots
- draw play — draw (def 54).
- draw rein — to tighten the reins
- draw shot — a stroke that imparts a backward spin to the cue ball, causing it to roll back after striking the object ball. Compare follow shot (def 2).
- draw upon — use as source or resource
- draw-gate — the valve that controls a sluice
- draw-loom — an early handloom used for producing figured fabrics.
- draw-slip — a person or thing that lopes, as a horse with a loping gait.
- drawbacks — Plural form of drawback.
- drawbench — a bench having apparatus for cold-drawing wires, tubes, etc.
- drawerful — an amount sufficient to fill a drawer: a drawerful of socks.
- drawknife — a knife with a handle at each end at right angles to the blade, used by drawing over a surface.
- drawn-out — long-drawn-out.
- drawnwork — Ornamental work on linen or other fabric, done by drawing out threads and usually with additional needlework.
- drawplate — A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.
- drawshave — drawknife.
- drawsheet — a narrow sheet, often used on hospital beds, placed under a patient's buttocks and often over a rubber sheet, that can easily be removed if soiled.
- drawtubes — Plural form of drawtube.
- drawworks — A drawworks is a drum for reeling the drill string in and out.
- drayhorse — a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
- dreadfull — Archaic spelling of dreadful.
- dreadless — having no apprehension, fear, or dread
- dreadlock — A single strand of dreadlocks.
- dreamboat — a highly attractive or desirable person.
- dreamhole — a light-admitting hole in a tower
- dreamiest — of the nature of or characteristic of dreams; visionary.
- dreamland — a pleasant, lovely land that exists only in dreams or the imagination; the region of reverie.
- dreamless — undisturbed by dreams: a sound and dreamless sleep.
- dreamlike — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- dreamtime — (often initial capital letter) the ancient time of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors, whose spirits continue into the present, as conceived in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines.
- dreamwork — the processes that cause the transformation of unconscious thoughts into the content of dreams, as displacement, distortion, condensation, and symbolism.
- dreariest — Superlative form of dreary.
- drecksill — a doorstep
- dredge up — Also called dredging machine. any of various powerful machines for dredging up or removing earth, as from the bottom of a river, by means of a scoop, a series of buckets, a suction pipe, or the like.
- drenching — to wet thoroughly; soak.
- drepanium — a type of flower cluster shaped like a sickle
- dressings — the act of a person or thing that dresses.
- dressmake — to make dresses