| drib | (noun) a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid) | Synonyms: driblet, drop |
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| dribble | (noun) the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks | Synonyms: dribbling |
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| (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: drivel, drool, slobber |
| (noun) flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid | Synonyms: drip, trickle |
| (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: drivel, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber |
| (verb) propel | Synonyms: carry |
| (verb) let or cause to fall in drops | Synonyms: drip, drop |
| (verb) run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream | Synonyms: filter, trickle |
| dribbler | (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: driveller, drooler, slobberer |
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| (noun) a basketball player who is dribbling the ball to advance it | - |
| dribbling | (noun) the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks | Synonyms: dribble |
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| driblet | (noun) a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid) | Synonyms: drib, drop |
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| dried | (adjective) not still wet | - |
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| (adjective) preserved by removing natural moisture | Synonyms: dehydrated, desiccated |
| drier | (noun) an appliance that removes moisture | Synonyms: dryer |
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| (noun) a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture) | Synonyms: desiccant, drying agent, siccative |
| 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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| drill | (noun) systematic training by multiple repetitions | Synonyms: exercise, practice, practice session, recitation |
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| (noun) (military) the training of soldiers to march (as in ceremonial parades) or to perform the manual of arms | - |
| (noun) similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored | Synonyms: Mandrillus leucophaeus |
| (noun) a tool with a sharp point and cutting edges for making holes in hard materials (usually rotating rapidly or by repeated blows) | - |
| (verb) learn by repetition | Synonyms: exercise, practice, practise |
| (verb) teach by repetition | - |
| (verb) train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons | - |
| (verb) undergo military training or do military exercises | - |
| (verb) make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool | Synonyms: bore |
| drilled | (adjective) trained in a skill by repetitious practice | - |
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| drilling | (noun) the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum | Synonyms: boring, oil production |
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| (noun) the act of drilling | Synonyms: boring |
| drily | (adverb) in a dry laconic manner | Synonyms: dryly, laconically |
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| drink | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drinking, drunkenness |
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| (noun) the act of swallowing | Synonyms: deglutition, swallow |
| (noun) any liquid suitable for drinking | Synonyms: beverage, drinkable, potable |
| (noun) a single serving of a beverage | - |
| (noun) any large deep body of water | - |
| (verb) be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to | Synonyms: drink in |
| (verb) take in liquids | Synonyms: imbibe |
| (verb) consume alcohol | Synonyms: booze, fuddle, hit the bottle |
| (verb) drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic | Synonyms: tope |
| (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: pledge, salute, toast, wassail |
| drinkable | (adjective) suitable for drinking | Synonyms: potable |
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| (noun) any liquid suitable for drinking | Synonyms: beverage, drink, potable |
| drinker | (noun) a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) | Synonyms: imbiber, juicer, toper |
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| (noun) a person who drinks liquids | - |
| drinking | (noun) the act of consuming liquids | Synonyms: imbibing, imbibition |
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| (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drink, drunkenness |
| drip | (noun) (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway) | Synonyms: drip mold, drip mould |
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| (noun) flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid | Synonyms: dribble, trickle |
| (noun) the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop | Synonyms: dripping |
| (verb) let or cause to fall in drops | Synonyms: dribble, drop |
| (verb) fall in drops | - |
| dripless | (adjective) designed to prevent dripping | - |
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| drippage | (noun) a liquid (as water) that flows in drops (as from the eaves of house) | Synonyms: dripping |
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| drippily | (adverb) in a mawkish and emotional manner | Synonyms: mawkishly |
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| drippiness | (noun) the physical property of being soft and drippy | - |
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| (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: mawkishness, mushiness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness |
| dripping | (noun) a liquid (as water) that flows in drops (as from the eaves of house) | Synonyms: drippage |
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| (noun) the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop | Synonyms: drip |
| (adverb) extremely wet | Synonyms: soaking, sopping |
| drippings | (noun) fat that exudes from meat and drips off while it is being roasted or fried | - |
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| drippy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| (adjective) leaking in drops | - |
| (adjective) wet with light rain | Synonyms: drizzly |
| dripstone | (noun) a protective drip that is made of stone | Synonyms: hoodmold, hoodmould |
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| (noun) the form of calcium carbonate found in stalactites and stalagmites | - |
| drive | (noun) a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile) | Synonyms: ride |
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| (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, effort, movement |
| (noun) hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver | Synonyms: driving |
| (noun) the act of applying force to propel something | Synonyms: driving force, thrust |
| (noun) (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash) | - |
| (noun) the act of driving a herd of animals overland | - |
| (noun) a wide scenic road planted with trees | Synonyms: parkway |
| (noun) a road leading up to a private house | Synonyms: driveway, private road |
| (noun) a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine | - |
| (noun) (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium | - |
| (noun) the trait of being highly motivated | - |
| (noun) a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire | - |
| (verb) move into a desired direction of discourse | Synonyms: aim, get |
| (verb) (hunting) chase from cover into more open ground | - |
| (verb) (hunting) search for game | - |
| (verb) cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling | - |
| (verb) force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically | Synonyms: force, ram |
| (verb) cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force | - |
| (verb) hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally | - |
| (verb) strike with a driver, as in teeing off | - |
| (verb) excavate horizontally | - |
| (verb) push, propel, or press with force | - |
| (verb) cause to move back by force or influence | Synonyms: beat back, force back, push back, repel, repulse |
| (verb) compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment | - |
| (verb) travel or be transported in a vehicle | Synonyms: motor |
| (verb) operate or control a vehicle | - |
| (verb) cause someone or something to move by driving | - |
| (verb) move by being propelled by a force | - |
| (verb) urge forward | - |
| (verb) proceed along in a vehicle | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) strive and make an effort to reach a goal | Synonyms: labor, labour, push, tug |
| (verb) to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly | - |
| (verb) work as a driver | - |
| (verb) have certain properties when driven | Synonyms: ride |
| drivel | (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drool, slobber |
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| (noun) a worthless message | Synonyms: garbage |
| (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber |
| driveller | (noun) someone whose talk is trivial drivel | Synonyms: jabberer |
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| (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: dribbler, drooler, slobberer |
| driven | (adjective) strongly motivated to succeed | Synonyms: compulsive, determined |
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| (adjective) compelled forcibly by an outside agency | Synonyms: goaded |
| (adjective) urged or forced to action through moral pressure | Synonyms: impelled |
| driver | (noun) a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee | Synonyms: number one wood |
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| (noun) (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device | Synonyms: device driver |
| (noun) the operator of a motor vehicle | - |
| (noun) a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver | - |
| (noun) someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle | - |
| driveshaft | (noun) a rotating shaft that transmits power from the engine to the point of application | - |
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| driveway | (noun) a road leading up to a private house | Synonyms: drive, private road |
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| 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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