7-letter words starting with dr
- drayman — a person who drives a dray.
- drayton — Michael, 1563–1631, English poet.
- dreaded — to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of: to dread death.
- dreader — a person who dreads
- dreadly — dreadful
- dreamed — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- dreamer — a person who dreams.
- drearer — dreary.
- drecnet — /drek'net/ [Yiddish/German "dreck", meaning filth] Deliberate distortion of DECNET, a networking protocol used in the VMS community. So called because DEC helped write the Ethernet specification and then (either stupidly or as a malignant customer-control tactic) violated that spec in the design of DRECNET in a way that made it incompatible. See also connector conspiracy.
- dredged — Simple past tense and past participle of dredge.
- dredger — a container with a perforated top for sprinkling flour, sugar, etc., on food for cooking.
- dredges — Plural form of dredge.
- dreidel — a four-sided top bearing the Hebrew letters nun, gimel, he, and shin, one on each side, used chiefly in a children's game traditionally played on the Jewish festival of Hanukkah.
- dreiser — Theodore, 1871–1945, U.S. novelist.
- drenthe — a province in E Netherlands. 1011 sq. mi. (2620 sq. km).
- dresden — a state in E central Germany. 6561 sq. mi. (16,990 sq. km). Capital: Dresden.
- dressed — Simple past tense and past participle of dress.
- dresser — a dressing table or bureau.
- dresses — Plural form of dress.
- dretful — (archaic) dreadful.
- drevill — an offensive person
- dreyfus — Alfred [al-frid;; French al-fred] /ˈæl frɪd;; French alˈfrɛd/ (Show IPA), 1859–1935, French army officer of Jewish descent: convicted of treason 1894, 1899; acquitted 1906.
- dribbed — Simple past tense and past participle of drib.
- dribber — a person who shoots arrows weakly
- dribble — to fall or flow in drops or small quantities; trickle.
- dribbly — Prone to dribbling.
- driblet — a small portion or part.
- driesch — Hans Adolf Eduard (hans ˈaːdɔlf ˈɛdʊɑːd). 1867–1941, German zoologist and embryologist
- drifted — Simple past tense and past participle of drift.
- drifter — a person or thing that drifts.
- drilled — Simple past tense and past participle of drill.
- driller — One who drills.
- driness — Archaic form of dryness.
- drinked — (nonstandard) Simple past tense and past participle of drink.
- drinker — a person who drinks.
- dripped — to let drops fall; shed drops: This faucet drips.
- dripper — Agent noun of drip; one who drips.
- drivage — a horizontal or inclined heading or roadway in the process of construction.
- drivers — driver
- driveth — Archaic third-person singular form of drive.
- driving — noting or pertaining to a part of a machine or vehicle used for its propulsion.
- drizzle — to rain gently and steadily in fine drops; sprinkle: It drizzled throughout the night.
- drizzly — to rain gently and steadily in fine drops; sprinkle: It drizzled throughout the night.
- drogher — a freight barge of the West Indies, rigged as a cutter or schooner.
- drogman — Alternative form of dragoman.
- drogues — Plural form of drogue.
- droguet — a woollen fabric
- droichy — having the qualities of a dwarf; dwarfish
- drolled — amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish.
- dromond — a large, fast-sailing ship of the Middle Ages.