8-letter words starting with dr
- driftnet — Alternative spelling of drift net.
- driftpin — driftbolt (def 1).
- driftway — A common road or path for driving cattle.
- drillers — Plural form of driller.
- drilling — a small furrow made in the soil in which to sow seeds.
- drink in — absorb attentively
- drink to — to take water or other liquid into the mouth and swallow it; imbibe.
- drink up — finish beverage
- drinkers — Plural form of drinker.
- drinkery — barroom; tavern.
- drinketh — Archaic third-person singular form of drink.
- drinking — suitable or safe to drink: drinking water.
- drip bag — a bag used for administering an intravenous solution to a patient
- drip cap — a molding over an opening for catching and shedding rain water.
- drip mat — a little mat that you place under drinking glasses to catch drips
- drip pan — a shallow metal pan used under roasting meat to receive the drippings.
- drip-dry — wash-and-wear.
- dripless — designed so that the substance, item, or its contents will not drip: a dripless candle; a dripless pitcher.
- drippage — a dripping, as of water from a faucet.
- drippily — In a drippy way.
- dripping — an act of dripping.
- drisheen — a pudding made of sheep's intestines filled with meal and sheep's blood
- drivable — 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.
- drive 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.
- drive-by — the action of driving by a specified locality, object, etc.: a drive-by of Nelson's Monument.
- drive-in — a motion-picture theater, refreshment stand, bank, or other public facility designed to accommodate patrons in their automobiles.
- drive-up — serving or accessible to customers who drive up in their cars: a drive-up taco stand; a drive-up window at a bank.
- driveled — Simple past tense and past participle of drivel.
- driveway — a road, especially a private one, leading from a street or other thoroughfare to a building, house, garage, etc.
- drizzled — Simple past tense and past participle of drizzle.
- drizzles — Plural form of drizzle.
- drnovsek — Janez . 1950–2008, Slovenian politician, president of Slovenia (2002–07)
- drogheda — a seaport in the NE Republic of Ireland, near the mouth of the Boyne River: the town was captured by Cromwell in 1649 and its garrisons as well as many male inhabitants put to the sword.
- drogoman — Alternative form of dragoman.
- drollery — something whimsically amusing or funny.
- drollest — amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish.
- drolling — amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish.
- drollish — somewhat droll
- dromonds — Plural form of dromond.
- drone on — talk boringly
- drone-on — to make a dull, continued, low, monotonous sound; hum; buzz.
- dronklap — a drunkard
- drooling — to water at the mouth, as in anticipation of food; salivate; drivel.
- drooping — to sag, sink, bend, or hang down, as from weakness, exhaustion, or lack of support.
- drop box — a box for holding shuttles on a loom, as a box loom, used on either side of the race plate in weaving cloth having a variety of colors in the filling.
- drop off — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- drop out — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- drop tee — a tee having lugs for attaching it to a wall or joist.
- drop-add — the period at the beginning of a term when students can sign up for new courses and drop courses for which they were previously registered
- drop-box — a box for holding shuttles on a loom, as a box loom, used on either side of the race plate in weaving cloth having a variety of colors in the filling.