| adrift | (adjective) afloat on the surface of a body of water | - |
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| (adjective) aimlessly drifting | Synonyms: afloat, aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected |
| (adverb) off course, wandering aimlessly | - |
| (adverb) floating freely; not anchored | - |
| drift | (noun) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine | Synonyms: gallery, heading |
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| (noun) the pervading meaning or tenor | Synonyms: purport |
| (noun) a general tendency to change (as of opinion) | Synonyms: movement, trend |
| (noun) a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents | - |
| (noun) a force that moves something along | Synonyms: impetus, impulsion |
| (noun) the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane) | - |
| (noun) a process of linguistic change over a period of time | - |
| (verb) be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current | - |
| (verb) be subject to fluctuation | - |
| (verb) drive slowly and far afield for grazing | - |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) be in motion due to some air or water current | Synonyms: be adrift, blow, float |
| (verb) wander from a direct course or at random | Synonyms: err, stray |
| (verb) move in an unhurried fashion | - |
| (verb) cause to be carried by a current | - |
| (verb) live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely | Synonyms: freewheel |
| (verb) vary or move from a fixed point or course | - |
| driftage | (noun) the deviation (by a vessel or aircraft) from its intended course due to drifting | - |
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| drifter | (noun) a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support | Synonyms: clochard, floater, vagabond, vagrant |
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| driftfish | (noun) small (6 inches) tropical butterfishes found worldwide | - |
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| (noun) larger butterfishes of the western Atlantic from the New York area to the northern Gulf of Mexico | - |
| drifting | (adjective) continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another | Synonyms: aimless, floating, vagabond, vagrant |
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| (noun) aimless wandering from place to place | - |
| driftwood | (noun) wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore | - |
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| festschrift | (noun) a collection of writings published in honor of a scholar | - |
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| grifter | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, scammer, swindler |
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| rift | (noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: breach, break, falling out, rupture, severance |
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| (noun) a narrow fissure in rock | - |
| (noun) a gap between cloud masses | - |
| shrift | (noun) the act of being shriven | - |
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| snowdrift | (noun) a mass of snow heaped up by the wind | - |
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| spendthrift | (adjective) recklessly wasteful | Synonyms: extravagant, prodigal, profligate |
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| (noun) someone who spends money prodigally | Synonyms: scattergood, spend-all, spender |
| spindrift | (noun) spray blown up from the surface of the sea | Synonyms: spoondrift |
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| spoondrift | (noun) spray blown up from the surface of the sea | Synonyms: spindrift |
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| thrift | (noun) extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily | Synonyms: parsimoniousness, parsimony, penny-pinching |
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| (noun) any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers | - |
| thriftily | (adverb) in a thrifty manner | - |
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| thriftiness | (noun) frugality in the expenditure of money or resources | Synonyms: economy |
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| thriftless | (adjective) careless of the future | - |
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| thriftlessly | (adverb) in a thriftless manner | - |
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| thriftlessness | (noun) the trait of wasting resources | Synonyms: waste, wastefulness |
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| thriftshop | (noun) a shop that sells secondhand goods at reduced prices | Synonyms: second-hand store |
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| thrifty | (adjective) careful and diligent in the use of resources | - |
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| (adjective) mindful of the future in spending money | Synonyms: careful |