Words Starting With DR
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter DR. This section showcases how DR at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with DR, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
3 letter words
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| dry | 7 | become dry or drier | The laundry dries in the sun |
4 letter words
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|---|---|---|---|
| drop | 7 | a shape that is spherical and small | he studied the shapes of low-viscosity drops |
| drug | 6 | use recreational drugs | - |
| draw | 8 | thread on or as if on a string | - |
| drag | 6 | proceed for an extended period of time | The speech dragged on for two hours |
| drew | 8 | United States actor (born in Ireland); father of Georgiana Emma Barrymore (1827-1862) | - |
| drum | 7 | a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends | - |
| drip | 7 | the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop | the constant sound of dripping irritated him |
| drab | 7 | a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown | - |
| drat | 5 | - | - |
| drey | 8 | the nest of a squirrel | - |
| dram | 7 | a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains | - |
| dreg | 6 | a small amount of residue | - |
| dray | 8 | a low heavy horse cart without sides; used for haulage | - |
| dree | 5 | - | - |
| drac | 7 | - | - |
| drad | 6 | - | - |
| drap | 7 | - | - |
| drek | 9 | - | - |
| drib | 7 | a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid) | years afterward, they would pay the blood-money, driblet by driblet |
| drow | 8 | - | - |
| drub | 7 | beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | - |
| drys | 8 | - | - |
5 letter words
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|---|---|---|---|
| drink | 10 | propose a toast to | Let's drink to the New Year |
| dream | 8 | a cherished desire | - |
| drive | 9 | hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver | he sliced his drive out of bounds |
| drunk | 10 | a chronic drinker | - |
| dress | 6 | cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | dress the plants in the garden |
| drove | 9 | a stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone | - |
| drank | 10 | - | - |
| drama | 8 | a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage | - |
| drown | 9 | cover completely or make imperceptible | I was drowned in work |
| drops | 8 | - | - |
| drawn | 9 | showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering | her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness |
| drill | 6 | make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool | don't drill here, there's a gas pipe |
| dried | 7 | preserved by removing natural moisture | dried beef |
| drain | 6 | flow off gradually | The rain water drains into this big vat |
| draft | 9 | a large and hurried swallow | - |
| drift | 9 | live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely | My son drifted around for years in California before going to law school |
| drake | 10 | English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596) | - |
| dryer | 9 | an appliance that removes moisture | - |
| dread | 7 | causing fear or dread or terror | the dread presence of the headmaster |
| drool | 6 | pretentious or silly talk or writing | - |
| drone | 6 | someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind | - |
| druid | 7 | a pre-Christian priest among the Celts of ancient Gaul and Britain and Ireland | - |
| draco | 8 | a faint constellation twisting around the north celestial pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus | - |
| drape | 8 | hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) | - |
| drier | 6 | an appliance that removes moisture | - |
| dregs | 7 | sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid | - |
| droop | 8 | hang loosely or laxly | - |
| droll | 6 | comical in an odd or whimsical manner | a droll little man with a quiet tongue-in-cheek kind of humor |
| druse | 6 | an adherent of an esoteric monotheistic religious sect living in the relative security of the mountains of Syria and Lebanon who believes that Al-hakim was an incarnation of God | - |
| drawl | 9 | a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels | - |
| dross | 6 | the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals | - |
| dryly | 12 | in a dry laconic manner | `I know that', he said dryly |
| dreck | 12 | merchandise that is shoddy or inferior | - |
| droit | 6 | - | - |
| dryad | 10 | a deity or nymph of the woods | - |
| drabs | 8 | - | - |
| drack | 12 | - | - |
| draff | 12 | - | - |
| drags | 7 | - | - |
| drail | 6 | - | - |
| drams | 8 | - | - |
| drant | 6 | - | - |
| draps | 8 | - | - |
| drats | 6 | - | - |
| drave | 9 | - | - |
| draws | 9 | - | - |
| drays | 9 | - | - |
| drear | 6 | causing dejection | - |
| dreed | 7 | - | - |
| dreer | 6 | - | - |
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6 letter words
View all| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| dreams | 9 | - | - |
| driver | 10 | a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee | - |
| dragon | 8 | a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman | - |
| driven | 10 | urged or forced to action through moral pressure | - |
| dreamt | 9 | - | - |
| drawer | 10 | an artist skilled at drawing | - |
| drying | 11 | - | - |
| dreamy | 12 | lacking spirit or liveliness | - |
| drapes | 9 | - | - |
| draper | 9 | a dealer in fabrics and sewing materials (and sometimes in clothing and drygoods) | - |
| dreary | 10 | causing dejection | - |
| drowsy | 13 | showing lack of attention or boredom | - |
| drivel | 10 | saliva spilling from the mouth | - |
| droopy | 12 | hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness) | - |
| draped | 10 | covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak | a beam draped with cobwebs |
| drench | 12 | permeate or impregnate | The war drenched the country in blood |
| dredge | 9 | search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost | - |
| drafty | 13 | not airtight | - |
| driest | 7 | - | - |
| drudge | 9 | a laborer who is obliged to do menial work | - |
| dressy | 10 | in fancy clothing | - |
| drippy | 14 | wet with light rain | a wet drippy day |
| drogue | 8 | a parachute used to decelerate an object that is moving rapidly | - |
| dryads | 11 | - | - |
| druggy | 12 | - | - |
| drawee | 10 | the person (or bank) who is expected to pay a check or draft when it is presented for payment | - |
| drooly | 10 | - | - |
| dropsy | 12 | swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities | - |
| drabby | 14 | - | - |
| drably | 12 | in a drab manner | she dresses drably |
| drachm | 14 | a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 60 minims or 3.5516 cubic centimeters | - |
| draffs | 13 | - | - |
| draffy | 16 | - | - |
| drafts | 10 | - | - |
| dragee | 8 | pill that is a sugar-coated medicated candy | - |
| draggy | 12 | - | - |
| drails | 7 | - | - |
| drains | 7 | - | - |
| drakes | 11 | - | - |
| dramas | 9 | - | - |
| drants | 7 | - | - |
| drapet | 9 | - | - |
| drapey | 12 | - | - |
| drappy | 14 | - | - |
| draunt | 7 | - | - |
| drawls | 10 | - | - |
| drawly | 13 | - | - |
| drayed | 11 | - | - |
| drazel | 16 | - | - |
| dreads | 8 | - | - |
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7 letter words
View all| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| driving | 12 | hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver | - |
| dressed | 9 | (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth | - |
| drawing | 12 | act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source | the drawing of water from the well |
| dreamed | 11 | conceived of or imagined or hoped for | his dreamed symphony that would take the world of music by storm |
| drunken | 12 | given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol | a drunken binge |
| drummer | 12 | someone who plays a drum | - |
| drugged | 11 | under the influence of narcotics | a drugged sleep |
| drawers | 11 | underpants worn by men | - |
| drought | 12 | a prolonged shortage | when England defeated Pakistan it ended a ten-year drought |
| dreamer | 10 | a person who escapes into a world of fantasy | - |
| dresser | 8 | furniture with drawers for keeping clothes | - |
| drained | 9 | very tired | - |
| drastic | 10 | forceful and extreme and rigorous | drastic measures |
| drinker | 12 | a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) | - |
| dreaded | 10 | causing fear or dread or terror | polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was |
| dribble | 12 | the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks | - |
| drilled | 9 | trained in a skill by repetitious practice | well-drilled in military procedures |
| drifter | 11 | a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support | - |
| draught | 12 | a large and hurried swallow | - |
| dropout | 10 | someone who quits school before graduation | - |
| drizzle | 26 | very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower | - |
| droning | 9 | an unchanging intonation | - |
| dragoon | 9 | compel by coercion, threats, or crude means | - |
| droplet | 10 | a tiny drop | - |
| driller | 8 | - | - |
| dragnet | 9 | a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths | - |
| drywall | 14 | a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions; made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses | - |
| dreidel | 9 | - | - |
| dryness | 11 | moderation in or abstinence from alcohol or other drugs | - |
| draping | 11 | - | - |
| dropper | 12 | pipet consisting of a small tube with a vacuum bulb at one end for drawing liquid in and releasing it a drop at a time | she used an eye dropper to administer medication to the eyes |
| drapery | 13 | hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) | - |
| druidic | 11 | - | - |
| dragger | 10 | a fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet to catch fish | - |
| drizzly | 29 | wet with light rain | a sad drizzly day |
| draggle | 10 | make wet and dirty, as from rain | - |
| drosera | 8 | the type genus of Droseraceae including many low bog-inhabiting insectivorous plants | - |
| dratted | 9 | - | - |
| dredger | 10 | a barge (or a vessel resembling a barge) that is used for dredging | - |
| drabbed | 13 | - | - |
| drabber | 12 | - | - |
| drabbet | 12 | - | - |
| drabble | 12 | - | - |
| drabler | 10 | - | - |
| dracena | 10 | - | - |
| drachma | 15 | formerly the basic unit of money in Greece | - |
| drachms | 15 | - | - |
| dracone | 10 | - | - |
| drafted | 12 | - | - |
| draftee | 11 | someone who is drafted into military service | - |
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8 letter words
View all| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| drinking | 14 | the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | - |
| dreaming | 12 | imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake | - |
| dramatic | 13 | sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect | a dramatic sunset |
| dropping | 14 | coming down freely under the influence of gravity | the eerie whistle of dropping bombs |
| dressing | 10 | making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure | - |
| dreadful | 13 | causing fear or dread or terror | a dreadful storm |
| dragging | 12 | marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner | it was a strange dragging approach |
| dripping | 14 | the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop | the constant sound of dripping irritated him |
| drifting | 13 | continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another | a drifting double-dealer |
| driveway | 18 | a road leading up to a private house | they parked in the driveway |
| drilling | 10 | the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum | - |
| drenched | 15 | abundantly covered or supplied with; often used in combination | drenched in moonlight |
| drunkard | 14 | a chronic drinker | - |
| drumming | 14 | the act of playing drums | he practiced his drumming several hours every day |
| draining | 10 | having a debilitating effect | - |
| drainage | 10 | emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it | - |
| drafting | 13 | the craft of drawing blueprints | - |
| drugging | 12 | the administration of a sedative agent or drug | - |
| drawback | 20 | the quality of being a hindrance | he pointed out all the drawbacks to my plan |
| dredging | 12 | - | - |
| drumbeat | 13 | the sound made by beating a drum | - |
| drooping | 12 | having branches or flower heads that bend downward | lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers |
| draughts | 13 | a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces | - |
| draughty | 16 | not airtight | - |
| drudgery | 14 | hard monotonous routine work | - |
| dreamily | 14 | in a dreamy manner | `She would look beautiful in the new dress,' Tommy said dreamily |
| dressage | 10 | maneuvers of a horse in response to body signals by the rider | - |
| dribbler | 13 | a person who dribbles | that baby is a dribbler; he needs a bib |
| druggist | 11 | a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs | - |
| druthers | 12 | the right or chance to choose | given my druthers, I'd eat cake |
| drubbing | 14 | the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | - |
| drowsily | 15 | in a drowsy manner | `Time to get up,' she said drowsily |
| drowsing | 13 | half asleep | it seemed a pity to disturb the drowsing (or dozing) professor |
| drabbing | 14 | - | - |
| dressier | 9 | - | - |
| dropkick | 21 | drop and kick (a ball) as it touches the ground, as for a field goal | - |
| drabbers | 13 | - | - |
| drabbest | 13 | - | - |
| drabbets | 13 | - | - |
| drabbier | 13 | - | - |
| drabbish | 16 | - | - |
| drabbled | 14 | - | - |
| drabbler | 13 | - | - |
| drabbles | 13 | - | - |
| drabette | 11 | - | - |
| drablers | 11 | - | - |
| drabness | 11 | having a drab or dowdy quality; lacking stylishness or elegance | - |
| dracaena | 11 | an agave that is often cultivated for its decorative foliage | - |
| dracenas | 11 | - | - |
| drachmae | 16 | - | - |
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9 letter words
View all| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| drugstore | 11 | a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold | - |
| dragonfly | 17 | slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc. | - |
| droppings | 15 | fecal matter of animals | - |
| dribbling | 15 | the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks | - |
| dreamland | 13 | a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination | - |
| drumstick | 18 | a stick used for playing a drum | - |
| driftwood | 17 | wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore | - |
| dreamboat | 14 | - | - |
| dramatize | 21 | put into dramatic form | - |
| drizzling | 29 | (of rain) falling lightly in very small drops | - |
| dramatics | 14 | the art of writing and producing plays | - |
| drunkenly | 17 | showing effects of much strong drink | He sang drunkenly |
| dreamlike | 16 | resembling a dream | night invested the lake with a dreamlike quality |
| draconian | 12 | of or relating to Draco or his harsh code of laws | - |
| dressings | 11 | - | - |
| drinkable | 16 | any liquid suitable for drinking | - |
| drainpipe | 14 | a pipe through which liquid is carried away | - |
| drippings | 15 | fat that exudes from meat and drips off while it is being roasted or fried | - |
| dromedary | 16 | one-humped camel of the hot deserts of northern Africa and southwestern Asia | - |
| dramatise | 12 | put into dramatic form | - |
| dreamless | 12 | untroubled by dreams | a sound and dreamless sleep |
| draperies | 12 | - | - |
| dreamtime | 14 | - | - |
| drenching | 16 | the act of making something completely wet | he gave it a good drenching |
| driveling | 14 | - | - |
| draftsman | 15 | a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | - |
| dramatist | 12 | someone who writes plays | - |
| dreamiest | 12 | - | - |
| drabbiest | 14 | - | - |
| drabblers | 14 | - | - |
| drabbling | 15 | - | - |
| drabettes | 12 | - | - |
| dracaenas | 12 | - | - |
| draconism | 14 | - | - |
| dracontic | 14 | - | - |
| draffiest | 16 | - | - |
| draftable | 15 | - | - |
| draftiest | 13 | - | - |
| draftings | 14 | - | - |
| draftsmen | 15 | - | - |
| draggiest | 12 | - | - |
| draggings | 13 | - | - |
| draggling | 13 | - | - |
| draghound | 15 | - | - |
| draglines | 11 | - | - |
| dragomans | 13 | - | - |
| dragoness | 11 | - | - |
| dragonets | 11 | - | - |
| dragonise | 11 | - | - |
| dragonish | 14 | - | - |
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10 letter words
View all| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| dreadfully | 18 | in a dreadful manner | - |
| dressmaker | 17 | someone who makes or mends dresses | - |
| dreadlocks | 18 | - | - |
| drawbridge | 18 | a bridge that can be raised to block passage or to allow boats or ships to pass beneath it | - |
| drowsiness | 14 | a very sleepy state | - |
| dreamworld | 17 | a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination | - |
| dramatized | 23 | - | - |
| dramaturgy | 17 | the art of writing and producing plays | - |
| drosophila | 16 | small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance | - |
| drawstring | 15 | a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening | he pulled the drawstring and closed the bag |
| drivelling | 15 | - | - |
| drainpipes | 15 | - | - |
| dreariness | 11 | extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest | - |
| drabbiness | 15 | - | - |
| drabblings | 16 | - | - |
| drabnesses | 13 | - | - |
| draconisms | 15 | - | - |
| draconites | 13 | - | - |
| draegerman | 14 | - | - |
| draegermen | 14 | - | - |
| draftiness | 14 | - | - |
| draggerman | 15 | - | - |
| draggermen | 15 | - | - |
| draggingly | 17 | in a dragging manner | - |
| draghounds | 16 | - | - |
| dragonfish | 18 | - | - |
| dragonhead | 16 | American herb having sharply serrate lanceolate leaves and spikes of blue to violet flowers | - |
| dragonised | 13 | - | - |
| dragonises | 12 | - | - |
| dragonisms | 14 | - | - |
| dragonized | 22 | - | - |
| dragonizes | 21 | - | - |
| dragonlike | 16 | - | - |
| dragonnade | 13 | - | - |
| dragonroot | 12 | - | - |
| dragoonage | 13 | - | - |
| dragooning | 13 | - | - |
| dragstrips | 14 | - | - |
| dragsville | 15 | - | - |
| drainboard | 14 | a board beside a kitchen sink and inclined to drain into the sink | - |
| drainlayer | 14 | - | - |
| drakestone | 15 | - | - |
| dramatical | 15 | - | - |
| dramatised | 14 | - | - |
| dramatiser | 13 | - | - |
| dramatises | 13 | - | - |
| dramatists | 13 | - | - |
| dramatizer | 22 | - | - |
| dramatizes | 22 | - | - |
| dramaturge | 14 | - | - |
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