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5 letter words starting with dri

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

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Definition of dried

dried (adjective)

  1. Without water or moisture, said of something that has previously been wet or moist; resulting from the process of drying.
  2. Usually of foods: cured, preserved by drying.
  3. Sold raw and unprocessed.

dried (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 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 drift

drift (noun)

  1. (physical) Movement; that which moves or is moved.
  2. The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
  3. A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
  4. The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
  5. The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
  6. (handiwork) A tool.
  7. A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.
  8. Minor deviation of audio or video playback from its correct speed.
  9. The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene.
  10. A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
  11. Movement.
  12. A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
  13. Slow, cumulative change.

drift (verb)

  1. To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
  2. To move haphazardly without any destination.
  3. To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
  4. To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
  5. To drive into heaps.
  6. To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
  7. To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
  8. To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
  9. To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See Drifting (motorsport).

Definition of drily

drily (adverb)

  1. In a dry manner