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. |