10-letter words starting with dr
- drill ship — A drill ship is a ship which has been modified to include a drilling rig.
- drill stem — A drill stem is all the parts of the equipment used for rotary drilling.
- drill team — a group trained, especially for exhibition purposes, in precision marching, the manual of arms, etc.
- drillstock — a device for holding a drill.
- drinkwater — John, 1882–1937, English poet, playwright, and critic.
- drip grind — finely ground coffee beans, used in making drip coffee.
- dripstones — Plural form of dripstone.
- drive away — depart in a vehicle
- drive home — to cause to penetrate to the fullest extent
- drive time — the time or estimated time to drive between two points or to one's destination.
- drive-thru — a takeaway restaurant, bank, etc designed so that customers can use it without leaving their cars
- drive-time — driving time.
- drivelines — Plural form of driveline.
- drivelling — saliva flowing from the mouth, or mucus from the nose; slaver.
- drivenness — past participle of drive.
- driver ant — army ant.
- driverless — not having a human driver in control: The horse became startled and the now driverless horse-drawn carriage ran into a car. without a human operator: driverless machinery.
- driveshaft — A rotating shaft that transmits torque in an engine.
- drivetrain — 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.
- driving at — 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.
- drolleries — Plural form of drollery.
- dromomania — An irrational impulse to wander or travel without purpose.
- dronabinol — Synthetic tetrahydrocannabinol.
- drool over — desire, look longingly at
- droolingly — In a drooling manner or fashion.
- droop nose — Aeronautics. a downward-sloping, adjustable aircraft nose, which increases visibility for the pilot during takeoff and landing. an aircraft with this type of nose. an adjustable flap at the leading edge of an aircraft wing.
- droopiness — The characteristic of being droopy.
- droopingly — In a drooping manner.
- drop black — carbon, as animal black or lampblack, formed into pellets by mixing with water or glue: used as a black pigment.
- drop cable — Wiring between a computer and its Ethernet transceiver. Maximum length if full-spec is 47m.
- drop cloth — a sheet of cloth, paper, plastic, or the like laid over furniture and floors for protection while a room is being painted or laid over shrubbery while the exterior of a house is being painted.
- drop elbow — an elbow having lugs for attaching it to a wall or joist.
- drop forge — a device for forging metal between two dies, one of which is fixed, the other acting by gravity or by steam or hydraulic pressure
- drop front — fall front.
- drop press — drop forge.
- drop scene — a drop curtain, often of painted or dyed canvas, located downstage and used as the backdrop for a scene played while the set upstage is being changed.
- drop scone — a flat spongy cake made by dropping a spoonful of batter on a griddle
- drop table — a tabletop hinged to a wall, held in a horizontal position by a bracket while in use.
- drop valve — a valve, as for a steam engine, that drops freely to close.
- drop-forge — to form in a drop forge.
- drop-front — designating a desk with a front panel fitted with hinges on its bottom edge so that it can be pivoted forward and down to form a surface for writing
- drop-panel — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- dropcloths — Plural form of dropcloth.
- droperidol — a phenothiazine, C 22 H 22 FN 3 O 2 , used as an anesthetic or antiemetic, or for emergency control of severe behavioral disturbance.
- dropkicked — Simple past tense and past participle of dropkick.
- dropkicker — One who dropkicks.
- dropper-in — drop-in (def 1).
- dropperful — the amount contained in a dropper
- drosometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of dew formed on a given surface.
- drosophila — a fly of the genus Drosophila, especially D. melanogaster, used in laboratory studies of genetics and development.