| driving | (adjective) having the power of driving or impelling | Synonyms: impulsive |
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| (adjective) acting with vigor | - |
| (noun) the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal | - |
| (noun) hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver | Synonyms: drive |
| drizzle | (noun) very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower | Synonyms: mizzle |
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| (verb) moisten with fine drops | Synonyms: moisten |
| (verb) rain lightly | Synonyms: mizzle |
| drizzling | (adjective) (of rain) falling lightly in very small drops | - |
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| drizzly | (adjective) wet with light rain | Synonyms: drippy |
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| drogue | (noun) a parachute used to decelerate an object that is moving rapidly | Synonyms: drogue chute, drogue parachute |
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| (noun) restraint consisting of a canvas covered frame that floats behind a vessel; prevents drifting or maintains the heading into a wind | Synonyms: sea anchor |
| (noun) a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind | Synonyms: air-sleeve, air sock, sock, wind cone, wind sleeve, wind sock, windsock |
| (noun) a funnel-shaped device towed as a target by an airplane | - |
| droll | (adjective) comical in an odd or whimsical manner | - |
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| drollery | (noun) a quaint and amusing jest | Synonyms: waggery |
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| (noun) a comic incident or series of incidents | Synonyms: clowning, comedy, funniness |
| dromaeosaur | (noun) a kind of maniraptor | - |
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| drome | (noun) an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo | Synonyms: aerodrome, airdrome, airport |
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| dromedary | (noun) one-humped camel of the hot deserts of northern Africa and southwestern Asia | Synonyms: Arabian camel, Camelus dromedarius |
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| dronabinol | (noun) psychoactive substance present in marijuana; used therapeutically to control nausea associated with cancer therapy | - |
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| drone | (noun) stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen | - |
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| (noun) a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone | Synonyms: bourdon, drone pipe |
| (noun) an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control | Synonyms: pilotless aircraft, radio-controlled aircraft |
| (noun) an unchanging intonation | Synonyms: droning, monotone |
| (noun) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind | Synonyms: dawdler, laggard, lagger, poke, trailer |
| (verb) talk in a monotonous voice | Synonyms: drone on |
| (verb) make a monotonous low dull sound | - |
| droning | (noun) an unchanging intonation | Synonyms: drone, monotone |
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| drool | (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, slobber |
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| (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
| (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, slabber, slaver, slobber |
| (verb) be envious, desirous, eager for, or extremely happy about something | Synonyms: salivate |
| drooler | (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: dribbler, driveller, slobberer |
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| droop | (noun) a shape that sags | Synonyms: sag |
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| (verb) become limp | Synonyms: wilt |
| (verb) droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness | Synonyms: flag, sag, swag |
| (verb) hang loosely or laxly | Synonyms: loll |
| drooping | (adjective) hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness) | Synonyms: droopy, sagging |
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| (adjective) weak from exhaustion | Synonyms: flagging |
| (adjective) having branches or flower heads that bend downward | Synonyms: cernuous, nodding, pendulous, weeping |
| droopingly | (adverb) in a drooping manner | - |
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| droopy | (adjective) hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness) | Synonyms: drooping, sagging |
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| drop | (noun) the act of dropping something | - |
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| (noun) a central depository where things can be left or picked up | - |
| (noun) a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery | Synonyms: drop cloth, drop curtain |
| (noun) a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity | Synonyms: dip, fall, free fall |
| (noun) a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity | Synonyms: fall |
| (noun) a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property) | - |
| (noun) a steep high face of rock | Synonyms: cliff, drop-off |
| (noun) a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid) | Synonyms: drib, driblet |
| (noun) a shape that is spherical and small | Synonyms: bead, pearl |
| (verb) give birth; used for animals | - |
| (verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: degenerate, deteriorate, devolve |
| (verb) go down in value | - |
| (verb) stop pursuing or acting | Synonyms: knock off |
| (verb) change from one level to another | - |
| (verb) lower the pitch of (musical notes) | Synonyms: flatten |
| (verb) fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death | - |
| (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit |
| (verb) omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing | - |
| (verb) utter with seeming casualness | - |
| (verb) lose (a game) | - |
| (verb) take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth | - |
| (verb) remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave | Synonyms: discharge, drop off, put down, set down, unload |
| (verb) to remove | Synonyms: cast, cast off, shake off, shed, throw, throw away, throw off |
| (verb) cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow | Synonyms: cut down, fell, strike down |
| (verb) let or cause to fall in drops | Synonyms: dribble, drip |
| (verb) to fall vertically | - |
| (verb) let fall to the ground | - |
| (verb) fall or descend to a lower place or level | Synonyms: drop down, sink |
| (verb) pay out | Synonyms: expend, spend |
| (verb) stop associating with | Synonyms: dismiss, send away, send packing |
| (verb) terminate an association with | - |
| (verb) hang loosely | Synonyms: dangle, swing |
| dropforge | (verb) forge with a dropforge | - |
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| dropkick | (noun) (football) kicking (as for a field goal) in which the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground | - |
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| (verb) make the point after a touchdown with a dropkick | Synonyms: drop-kick |
| (verb) drop and kick (a ball) as it touches the ground, as for a field goal | Synonyms: drop-kick |
| dropkicker | (noun) a football kicker who drops the ball and kicks it just as it reaches the ground | - |
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| droplet | (noun) a tiny drop | - |
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| dropline | (noun) a headline with the top line flush left and succeeding lines indented to the right | Synonyms: drop line, stagger head, staggered head, stephead, stepped line |
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| dropout | (noun) someone who quits school before graduation | - |
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| (noun) someone who withdraws from a social group or environment | - |
| dropper | (noun) 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 | Synonyms: eye dropper |
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| dropping | (adjective) coming down freely under the influence of gravity | Synonyms: falling |
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| droppings | (noun) fecal matter of animals | Synonyms: dung, muck |
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| dropseed | (noun) a grass of the genus Sporobolus | Synonyms: drop-seed |
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| dropsical | (adjective) swollen with an excessive accumulation of fluid | Synonyms: edematous |
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| dropsy | (noun) swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities | Synonyms: edema, hydrops, oedema |
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| droshky | (noun) an open horse-drawn carriage with four wheels; formerly used in Poland and Russia | Synonyms: drosky |
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| drosky | (noun) an open horse-drawn carriage with four wheels; formerly used in Poland and Russia | Synonyms: droshky |
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| drosophila | (noun) small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance | Synonyms: Drosophila melanogaster |
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| dross | (noun) the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals | Synonyms: scoria, slag |
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| (noun) worthless or dangerous material that should be removed | Synonyms: impurity |
| drought | (noun) a shortage of rainfall | Synonyms: drouth |
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| (noun) a prolonged shortage | Synonyms: drouth |
| drouth | (noun) a shortage of rainfall | Synonyms: drought |
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| (noun) a prolonged shortage | Synonyms: drought |
| drove | (noun) a stonemason's chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone | Synonyms: drove chisel |
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| (noun) a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together | - |
| (noun) a moving crowd | Synonyms: horde, swarm |
| drover | (noun) someone who drives a herd | Synonyms: herder, herdsman |
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| drown | (verb) die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating | - |
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| (verb) kill by submerging in water | - |
| (verb) get rid of as if by submerging | - |
| (verb) cover completely or make imperceptible | Synonyms: overwhelm, submerge |
| (verb) be in danger of dying from submersion in a liquid and asphyxiation | - |
| (verb) be covered with or submerged in a liquid | Synonyms: swim |
| drowse | (noun) a light fitful sleep | Synonyms: doze |
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| (verb) be on the verge of sleeping | - |
| (verb) sleep lightly or for a short period of time | Synonyms: doze, snooze |
| drowsily | (adverb) in a drowsy manner | Synonyms: somnolently |
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| drowsiness | (noun) a very sleepy state | Synonyms: sleepiness, somnolence |
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| drowsing | (adjective) half asleep | Synonyms: dozy, drowsy |
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| drowsy | (adjective) half asleep | Synonyms: dozy, drowsing |
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| (adjective) showing lack of attention or boredom | Synonyms: oscitant, yawning |
| drub | (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, cream, lick, thrash |
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| drubbing | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking |
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| (noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: debacle, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
| drudge | (noun) a laborer who is obliged to do menial work | Synonyms: galley slave, navvy, peon |
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| (noun) one who works hard at boring tasks | Synonyms: hack, hacker |
| (verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail |
| drudgery | (noun) hard monotonous routine work | Synonyms: donkeywork, grind, plodding |
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| drudging | (adjective) doing arduous or unpleasant work | Synonyms: laboring, labouring, toiling |
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| drug | (noun) a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic | - |
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| (verb) administer a drug to | Synonyms: dose |
| (verb) use recreational drugs | Synonyms: do drugs |
| drugged | (adjective) under the influence of narcotics | Synonyms: doped, narcotised, narcotized |
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| drugget | (noun) a rug made of a coarse fabric having a cotton warp and a wool filling | - |
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| drugging | (noun) the administration of a sedative agent or drug | Synonyms: sedation |
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| druggist | (noun) a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs | Synonyms: apothecary, chemist, pharmacist, pill pusher, pill roller |
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| drugless | (adjective) without the use of drugs | - |
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| drugstore | (noun) a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold | Synonyms: apothecary's shop, chemist's, chemist's shop, pharmacy |
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| druidism | (noun) the system of religion and philosophy taught by the Druids and their rites and ceremonies | - |
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| drum | (noun) small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise | Synonyms: drumfish |
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| (noun) a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end | Synonyms: membranophone, tympan |
| (noun) a cylindrical metal container, commonly used for shipping or storage of liquids | Synonyms: metal drum |
| (noun) a hollow cast iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes | Synonyms: brake drum |
| (noun) the sound of a drum | - |
| (noun) a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends | Synonyms: barrel |
| (verb) study intensively, as before an exam | Synonyms: bone, bone up, cram, get up, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up |
| (verb) play a percussion instrument | - |
| (verb) make a rhythmic sound | Synonyms: beat, thrum |
| drumbeat | (noun) a vehement and vociferous advocacy of a cause | - |
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| (noun) (military) the beating of a drum as a signal for lowering the flag at sundown | - |
| (noun) the sound made by beating a drum | Synonyms: rataplan, rub-a-dub |
| drumbeater | (noun) a fervent and even militant proponent of something | Synonyms: partisan, zealot |
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| drumfire | (noun) intense and continuous artillery fire | Synonyms: cannonade |
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| drumfish | (noun) small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise | Synonyms: drum |
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| drumhead | (adjective) performed speedily and without formality | Synonyms: summary |
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| (noun) a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum | Synonyms: head |
| drumlin | (noun) a mound of glacial drift | - |
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| drummer | (noun) someone who plays a drum | - |
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| drumming | (noun) the act of playing drums | - |
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| drumstick | (noun) a stick used for playing a drum | - |
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| (noun) the lower joint of the leg of a fowl | - |
| drunk | (adjective) stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: gone, inebriated, intoxicated, ripped |
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| (adjective) as if under the influence of alcohol | Synonyms: intoxicated |
| (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunkard, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino |
| (noun) someone who is intoxicated | - |
| drunkard | (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunk, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino |
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| drunken | (adjective) given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: bibulous, boozy, sottish |
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| drunkenly | (adverb) showing effects of much strong drink | - |
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| drunkenness | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drink, drinking |
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| (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
| (noun) habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms | Synonyms: alcohol addiction, alcoholism, inebriation |
| drupaceous | (adjective) of or related to a drupe | - |
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| drupe | (noun) fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond, peach, plum, cherry, elderberry, olive, jujube | Synonyms: stone fruit |
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| drupelet | (noun) a small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe | - |
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| drusen | (noun) (plural) an eye disease resulting from small accumulations of hyaline bodies underneath the retina | - |
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| druthers | (noun) the right or chance to choose | Synonyms: preference |
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| dry | (adjective) free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet | - |
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| (adjective) not producing milk | - |
| (adjective) (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation | - |
| (adjective) opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages | - |
| (adjective) lacking moisture or volatile components | - |
| (adjective) without a mucous or watery discharge | - |
| (adjective) having a large proportion of strong liquor | - |
| (adjective) humorously sarcastic or mocking | Synonyms: ironic, ironical, wry |
| (adjective) practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages | Synonyms: teetotal |
| (adjective) used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones | - |
| (adjective) not shedding tears | - |
| (adjective) lacking warmth or emotional involvement | - |
| (adjective) unproductive especially of the expected results | - |
| (adjective) lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless | Synonyms: juiceless |
| (adjective) (of food) eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish | - |
| (adjective) having no adornment or coloration | - |
| (noun) a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: prohibitionist |
| (verb) become dry or drier | Synonyms: dry out |
| (verb) remove the moisture from and make dry | Synonyms: dry out |
| dryad | (noun) a deity or nymph of the woods | Synonyms: wood nymph |
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| drydock | (noun) a large dock from which water can be pumped out; used for building ships or for repairing a ship below its waterline | Synonyms: dry dock, graving dock |
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| (verb) maneuver (a ship) into a drydock | Synonyms: dry-dock |
| dryer | (noun) an appliance that removes moisture | Synonyms: drier |
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| drygoods | (noun) textiles or clothing and related merchandise | Synonyms: soft goods |
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| dryly | (adverb) in a dry laconic manner | Synonyms: drily, laconically |
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| dryness | (noun) objectivity and detachment | Synonyms: dispassion, dispassionateness |
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| (noun) moderation in or abstinence from alcohol or other drugs | Synonyms: sobriety |
| (noun) the condition of not containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water) | Synonyms: waterlessness, xerotes |
| dryopithecine | (noun) considered a possible ancestor to both anthropoid apes and humans | - |
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| drypis | (noun) spiny-leaved perennial herb of southern Europe having terminal clusters of small flowers | - |
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| drywall | (noun) 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 | Synonyms: dry wall, wallboard |
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| eardrop | (noun) an earring with a pendant ornament | Synonyms: drop earring, pendant earring |
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| eardrum | (noun) the membrane in the ear that vibrates to sound | Synonyms: myringa, tympanic membrane, tympanum |
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| eavesdrop | (verb) listen without the speaker's knowledge | Synonyms: listen in |
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| eavesdropper | (noun) a secret listener to private conversations | - |
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| eldritch | (adjective) suggesting the operation of supernatural influences | Synonyms: uncanny, unearthly, weird |
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| enchondroma | (noun) benign slow-growing tumor of cartilaginous cells at the ends of tubular bones (especially in the hands and feet) | - |
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| ephedra | (noun) jointed and nearly leafless desert shrub having reduced scalelike leaves and reddish fleshy seeds | Synonyms: joint fir |
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| ephedrine | (noun) white odorless powdered or crystalline alkaloid from plants of the genus Ephedra (especially Ephedra sinica) or made synthetically; used as a bronchodilator to treat bronchitis and asthma | - |
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| epidendron | (noun) any of various orchids of the genus Epidendrum | - |
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| escadrille | (noun) an air force squadron typically containing six airplanes (as in France during World War I) | - |
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| (noun) a small squadron | - |
| espadrille | (noun) a sandal with a sole made of rope or rubber and a cloth upper part | - |
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