8-letter 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.
| 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 | - | - |
| drachmai | 16 | - | - |
| drachmas | 16 | - | - |
| dracones | 11 | - | - |
| draconic | 13 | - | - |
| draffier | 15 | - | - |
| draffish | 18 | - | - |
| draftees | 12 | - | - |
| drafters | 12 | - | - |
| draftier | 12 | - | - |
| draftily | 15 | - | - |
| draggers | 11 | - | - |
| draggier | 11 | - | - |
| draggled | 12 | limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud | the beggar's bedraggled clothes |
| draggles | 11 | - | - |
| dragline | 10 | - | - |
| dragnets | 10 | - | - |
| dragoman | 12 | an interpreter and guide in the Near East; in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries a translator of European languages for the Turkish and Arab authorities and most dragomans were Greek (many reached high positions in the government) | - |
| dragomen | 12 | - | - |
| dragonet | 10 | small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm temperate waters of Europe and America | - |
| dragonne | 10 | - | - |
| dragoons | 10 | - | - |
| dragrope | 12 | - | - |
| dragsman | 12 | - | - |
| dragsmen | 12 | - | - |
| dragster | 10 | - | - |
| dragways | 16 | - | - |
| drailing | 10 | - | - |
| drainers | 9 | - | - |
| draisene | 9 | - | - |
| draisine | 9 | - | - |
| drammach | 18 | - | - |
| dramming | 14 | - | - |
| drammock | 19 | - | - |
| dramshop | 16 | - | - |
| drangway | 16 | - | - |
| dranting | 10 | - | - |
| drapable | 13 | - | - |
| drapiers | 11 | - | - |
| drapiest | 11 | - | - |
| drappies | 13 | - | - |
| drapping | 14 | - | - |
| drastics | 11 | - | - |
| dratting | 10 | - | - |
| draunted | 10 | - | - |
| drawable | 14 | - | - |
| drawbars | 14 | - | - |
| drawbore | 14 | - | - |
| drawcard | 15 | - | - |
| drawcord | 15 | - | - |
| drawdown | 16 | - | - |
| drawings | 13 | - | - |
| drawlers | 12 | - | - |
| drawlier | 12 | - | - |
| drawling | 13 | - | - |
| drawtube | 14 | - | - |
| drayages | 13 | - | - |
| dreaders | 10 | - | - |
| dreadest | 10 | - | - |
| dreading | 11 | - | - |
| dreamers | 11 | - | - |
| dreamery | 14 | - | - |
| dreamful | 14 | - | - |
| dreamier | 11 | - | - |
| drearest | 9 | - | - |
| drearier | 9 | - | - |
| drearies | 9 | - | - |
| drearily | 12 | in a cheerless manner | - |
| drearing | 10 | - | - |
| dreckier | 15 | - | - |
| dreckish | 18 | - | - |
| dredgers | 11 | - | - |
| dreggier | 11 | - | - |
| dreggish | 14 | - | - |
| dreicher | 14 | - | - |
| dreidels | 10 | - | - |
| dreigher | 13 | - | - |
| drekkier | 17 | - | - |
| drencher | 14 | - | - |
| drenches | 14 | - | - |
| drepanid | 12 | - | - |
| dressers | 9 | - | - |
| dressily | 12 | - | - |
| drevills | 12 | - | - |
| dribbers | 13 | - | - |
| dribbing | 14 | - | - |
| dribbled | 14 | - | - |
| dribbles | 13 | - | - |
| dribblet | 13 | - | - |
| driblets | 11 | - | - |
| dricksie | 15 | - | - |
| driftage | 13 | the deviation (by a vessel or aircraft) from its intended course due to drifting | - |
| drifters | 12 | - | - |
| driftier | 12 | - | - |
| driftnet | 12 | - | - |
| driftpin | 14 | - | - |
| drillers | 9 | - | - |
| drinkers | 13 | - | - |
| dripless | 11 | designed to prevent dripping | a dripless faucet |
| drippers | 13 | - | - |
| drippier | 13 | - | - |
| drippily | 16 | in a mawkish and emotional manner | - |
| drisheen | 12 | - | - |
| drivable | 14 | - | - |
| driveled | 13 | - | - |
| driveler | 12 | - | - |
| drivings | 13 | - | - |
| drizzled | 28 | - | - |
| drizzles | 27 | - | - |
| droghers | 13 | - | - |
| droguets | 10 | - | - |
| droiling | 10 | - | - |
| drollery | 12 | a quaint and amusing jest | - |
| drollest | 9 | - | - |
| drolling | 10 | - | - |
| drollish | 12 | - | - |
| dromical | 13 | - | - |
| dromonds | 12 | - | - |
| drongoes | 10 | - | - |
| droniest | 9 | - | - |
| dronklap | 15 | - | - |
| droogish | 13 | - | - |
| drooking | 14 | - | - |
| droolier | 9 | - | - |
| drooling | 10 | - | - |
| droopier | 11 | - | - |
| droopily | 14 | - | - |
| dropdown | 15 | - | - |
| drophead | 15 | - | - |
| droplets | 11 | - | - |
| droplike | 15 | - | - |
| droplock | 17 | - | - |
| dropouts | 11 | - | - |
| droppers | 13 | - | - |
| dropples | 13 | - | - |
| dropseed | 12 | a grass of the genus Sporobolus | - |
| dropshot | 14 | - | - |
| dropsied | 12 | - | - |
| dropsies | 11 | - | - |
| droptops | 13 | - | - |
| dropwise | 14 | - | - |
| dropwort | 14 | - | - |
| droseras | 9 | - | - |
| droshkys | 19 | - | - |
| droskies | 13 | - | - |
| drossier | 9 | - | - |
| drostdys | 13 | - | - |
| droughts | 13 | - | - |
| droughty | 16 | - | - |
| drouking | 14 | - | - |
| drovings | 13 | - | - |
| drownded | 14 | - | - |
| drowners | 12 | - | - |
| drowning | 13 | - | - |
| drowsier | 12 | - | - |
| drubbers | 13 | - | - |
| drudgers | 11 | - | - |
| drudging | 12 | doing arduous or unpleasant work | drudging peasants |
| drudgism | 13 | - | - |
| druggers | 11 | - | - |
| druggets | 11 | - | - |
| druggier | 11 | - | - |
| druggies | 11 | - | - |
| drugless | 10 | without the use of drugs | drugless therapy |
| druglord | 11 | - | - |
| drugster | 10 | - | - |
| druidess | 10 | - | - |
| druidism | 12 | the system of religion and philosophy taught by the Druids and their rites and ceremonies | - |
| drumbled | 14 | - | - |
| drumbles | 13 | - | - |
| drumfire | 14 | intense and continuous artillery fire | - |
| drumfish | 17 | small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise | - |
| drumhead | 15 | performed speedily and without formality | - |
| drumlier | 11 | - | - |
| drumlike | 15 | - | - |
| drumlins | 11 | - | - |
| drummers | 13 | - | - |
| drummies | 13 | - | - |
| drummock | 19 | - | - |
| drumroll | 11 | - | - |
| drunkest | 13 | - | - |
| drunkish | 16 | - | - |
| drupelet | 11 | a small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe | - |
| drusiest | 9 | - | - |
| druxiest | 16 | - | - |
| drybeats | 14 | - | - |
| drylands | 13 | - | - |
| drymouth | 17 | - | - |
| drypoint | 14 | - | - |
| drystone | 12 | - | - |
| drysuits | 12 | - | - |
| drywalls | 15 | - | - |
| drywells | 15 | - | - |
