| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| drabbling | present participle & vb. noun | of Drabble |
| draconian | adjective | Pertaining to Draco, a famous lawgiver of Athens, 621 b. c. |
| dracontic | adjective | Belonging to that space of time in which the moon performs one revolution, from ascending node to ascending node. See Dragon’s head, under Dragon. |
| draftsman | noun | See Draughtsman. |
| draggling | present participle & vb. noun | of Draggle |
| dragomans | plural | of Dragoman |
| dragonish | adjective | resembling a dragon. |
| dragooned | imp. & past participle | of Dragoon |
| dragooner | noun | A dragoon. |
| drainable | adjective | Capable of being drained. |
| drainpipe | noun | A pipe used for carrying off surplus water. |
| draintile | noun | A hollow tile used in making drains; — called also draining tile. |
| draintrap | noun | See 4th Trap, 5. |
| dramatist | noun | The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays. |
| dramatize | verb t. | To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode. |
| draperied | adjective | Covered or supplied with drapery. |
| draperies | plural | of Drapery |
| draughted | imp. & past participle | of Draught |
| dravidian | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Dravida. |
| drawbench | noun | A machine in which strips of metal are drawn through a drawplate; especially, one in which wire is thus made; — also called drawing bench. |
| drawknife | noun | A joiner’s tool having a blade with a handle at each end, used to shave off surfaces, by drawing it toward one; a shave; — called also drawshave, and drawing shave., A tool used for the purpose of making an incision along the path a saw is to follow, to prevent it from tearing the surface of the wood. |
| drawlatch | noun | A housebreaker or thief. |
| drawplate | noun | A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated. |
| drawshave | noun | See Drawing knife. |
| dreadable | adjective | Worthy of being dreaded. |
| dreadless | adjective | Free from dread; fearless; intrepid; dauntless; as, dreadless heart., Exempt from danger which causes dread; secure., Without doubt. |
| dreamland | noun | An unreal, delightful country such as in sometimes pictured in dreams; region of fancies; fairyland. |
| dreamless | adjective | Free from, or without, dreams. |
| dreissena | noun | A genus of bivalve shells of which one species (D. polymorpha) is often so abundant as to be very troublesome in the fresh waters of Europe. |
| drenching | present participle & vb. noun | of Drench |
| driftbolt | noun | A bolt for driving out other bolts. |
| driftless | adjective | Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless. |
| driftweed | noun | Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind. |
| driftwind | noun | A driving wind; a wind that drives snow, sand, etc., into heaps. |
| driftwood | noun | Wood drifted or floated by water., Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water. |
| drinkable | adjective | Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. |
| drinkless | adjective | Destitute of drink. |
| dripstone | noun | A drip, when made of stone. See Drip, 2. |
| drivebolt | noun | A drift; a tool for setting bolts home. |
| drivelled | of Drivel | |
| driveling | present participle & vb. noun | of Drivel |
| drivepipe | noun | A pipe for forcing into the earth. |
| drizzling | present participle & vb. noun | of Drizzle |
| droitural | adjective | relating to the mere right of property, as distinguished from the right of possession; as, droitural actions. |
| dromedary | noun | The Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius), having one hump or protuberance on the back, in distinction from the Bactrian camel, which has two humps. |
| drone bee | The male of the honeybee; a drone. | |
| drone fly | A dipterous insect (Eristalis tenax), resembling the drone bee. See Eristalis. | |
| dronepipe | noun | One of the low-toned tubes of a bagpipe. |
| droplight | noun | An apparatus for bringing artificial light down from a chandelier nearer to a table or desk; a pendant. |
| droppinly | adverb | In drops. |
| dropsical | adjective | Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; tending to dropsy; as, a dropsical patient., Of or pertaining to dropsy. |
| drossless | adjective | Free from dross. |
| drowsihed | noun | Drowsihead. |
| druidical | adjective | Pertaining to, or resembling, the Druids. |
| drumstick | noun | A stick with which a drum is beaten., Anything resembling a drumstick in form, as the tibiotarsus, or second joint, of the leg of a fowl. |
| drunkenly | adverb | In a drunken manner. |
| drunkship | noun | The state of being drunk; drunkenness. |
| dry-boned | adjective | Having dry bones, or bones without flesh. |
| dry goods | A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., — in distinction from groceries. | |
| dry nurse | A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; — in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it. | |
| drysalter | noun | A dealer in salted or dried meats, pickles, sauces, etc., and in the materials used in pickling, salting, and preserving various kinds of food Hence drysalters usually sell a number of saline substances and miscellaneous drugs. |
| dry-stone | adjective | Constructed of uncemented stone. |