10-letter words starting with dr
- draw-sheet — a sheet that can be easily removed from underneath a patient in a bed
- draw-slide — Also called draw slide. a black plastic, metal, or fabric sheet that is inserted into a film holder to protect the film from light.
- drawbridge — a bridge of which the whole or a section may be drawn up, let down, or drawn aside, to prevent access or to leave a passage open for boats, barges, etc.
- drawing-in — the act or process of threading warp ends through the heddle eyes of the harness and the dents of the reed according to a given plan for weaving a fabric.
- drawknives — Plural form of drawknife.
- drawlingly — Speaking with a drawl.
- drawn work — ornamental work done by drawing threads from a fabric, the remaining portions usually being formed into lacelike patterns by needlework.
- drawplates — Plural form of drawplate.
- drawshaves — Plural form of drawshave.
- drawstring — a string or cord that tightens or closes an opening, as of a bag, clothing, or the like, when one or both ends are pulled.
- dray horse — a draft horse used for pulling a dray.
- dreadfully — in a dreadful way: The pain has increased dreadfully.
- dreadingly — With dread.
- dreadlocks — a hair style, especially among Rastafarians, in which the hair is worn in long, ropelike locks.
- dream 6800 — (computer) A computer based on the Motorola 6800 microprocessor. The DREAM 6800 could be programmed in CHIP-8.
- dream book — a book, pamphlet, etc., that lists common dreams and purports to interpret them, especially in regard to their meaning for the future.
- dream team — A dream team is the best possible group of people to be in a sports team or to do a particular job.
- dreamboats — Plural form of dreamboat.
- dreaminess — of the nature of or characteristic of dreams; visionary.
- dreamingly — In a dreamy manner.
- dreamscape — a dreamlike, often surrealistic scene.
- dreamwhile — the duration of a dream
- dreamworld — A fantastic or idealized view of life.
- drearihead — (obsolete) sadness; dreariness.
- drearihood — (obsolete) affliction; dreariness.
- dreariment — (obsolete) dreariness.
- dreariness — causing sadness or gloom.
- drearisome — Very dreary.
- dregginess — the condition or quality of dregs
- dreikanter — a pebble or boulder having three faces formed by the action of windblown sand.
- dress coat — tail coat.
- dress code — a set of rules specifying the garb or type of clothing to be worn by a group or by people under specific circumstances: a military dress code; The restaurant's dress code requires men to wear jackets and ties at dinner.
- dress down — of or for a dress or dresses.
- dress form — an adjustable dummy used in dressmaking that can be made to conform to a person's figure
- dress ship — to decorate a vessel by displaying all signal flags on lines run from the bow to the stern over the mast trucks
- dress suit — a man's suit for formal evening dress, with tail coat and open-front waistcoat.
- dress-down — pertaining to or being a policy that allows employees to dress less formally than usual: dress-down days during the summer.
- dressed up — in evening wear
- dressguard — an attachment for a wheel or cycle that prevents damage or the dirtying of clothes
- dressiness — The characteristic of being dressy.
- dressmaker — a person whose occupation is the making or alteration of women's dresses, coats, etc.
- dreyfusard — a defender or supporter of Alfred Dreyfus.
- dribblings — Plural form of dribbling.
- dried milk — dehydrated milk from which about 95 percent of the moisture has been evaporated.
- drift lead — a lead indicating, by the angle its line makes with the perpendicular, the movement of a supposedly stationary ship or the movement of water past a stationary ship.
- drift mine — a mine the opening of which is dug into an outcrop of coal or ore.
- drift tube — a conducting enclosure, usually cylindrical, held at a constant potential so that electrons or charged particles within will experience no force, and therefore no change in velocity. Compare Klystron.
- driftingly — In a way that drifts.
- drill down — bore a hole
- drill pipe — (in oil-well drilling or the like) any of several coupled tubes for rotating the bit and supplying drilling mud.