5 letter words starting with dri

Looking for a clue for todays Wordle or another Word game? Look no further! We got you covered. We got quite a few plausible five letter words starting with dri.

  • DRIBS
  • DRICE
  • DRIED
  • DRIER
  • DRIES
  • DRIFT
  • DRILL
  • DRILY
  • DRINK
  • DRIPS
  • DRIPT
  • DRIVE

Sometimes the solution is an uncommon word, then It’s time to learn something new. Here’s the definition of a few of these words:


Definition of drier

drier (noun)

  1. One who, or that which, dries; a desiccative.
  2. A household appliance that removes the water from clothing by accelerating evaporation, usually though heat and a tumbling motion.
  3. An electric hair dryer.
  4. Any other device or substance, household or industrial, designed to remove water or humidity.
  5. A catalyst used to promote the drying of paints and varnishes by oxidative crosslinking.

drier (adjective)

  1. Free from or lacking moisture.
  2. Unable to produce a liquid, as water, oil, or (farming) milk.
  3. Built without or lacking mortar.
  4. Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
  5. Athirst, eager.
  6. Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
  7. Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
  8. Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:
  9. (somewhat derogatory) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
  10. (of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects.
  11. Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
  12. Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.

Definition of dries

dries (noun)

  1. The process by which something is dried.
  2. A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
  3. (with "the") The dry season.
  4. An area of waterless country.
  5. (UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.

dries (verb)

  1. To lose moisture.
  2. To remove moisture from.
  3. To be thirsty.
  4. To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
  5. For an actor to forget his or her lines while performing.

Definition of drill

drill (noun)

  1. A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
  2. The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
  3. An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.
  4. Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that drill holes in the shells of other animals.
  5. A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.

drill (verb)

  1. To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
  2. To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
  3. To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
  4. To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
  5. To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
  6. To hit or kick with a lot of power.
  7. To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
  8. To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.

drill (noun)

  1. An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
  2. A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
  3. A row of seed sown in a furrow.

drill (verb)

  1. To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.

drill (noun)

  1. A small trickling stream; a rill.

drill (verb)

  1. To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.

drill (verb)

  1. To entice or allure; to decoy; with on.
  2. To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.

drill (noun)

  1. An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.

drill (noun)

  1. A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.