Name Report For First Name DRAKE:
DRAKE
First name DRAKE's origin is English. DRAKE means "dragon". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with DRAKE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of drake.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with DRAKE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with DRAKE - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming DRAKE
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES DRAKE AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH DRAKE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (rake) - Names That Ends with rake:
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ake) - Names That Ends with ake:
kandake kanake blake harlake jake wake evelakeRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ke) - Names That Ends with ke:
federikke anke brooke nike erssike ferike irenke haloke morenike obike shermarke vandyke chike jumoke moke oke peterke mordke annikke asenke elke frederike larke lilike perke viheke bourke burke clarke deke duke falke hillocke locke meinke mike nyke parke pike renke rocke rorke rourke sike sparke tasunke thorndike thorndyke driske evike perzsike ilke helike dike vibeke ulrike fiske stoke ike zeke berkeNAMES RHYMING WITH DRAKE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (drak) - Names That Begins with drak:
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (dra) - Names That Begins with dra:
draca dracon dracul draedan drago draguta draven dravin drayceRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (dr) - Names That Begins with dr:
dreama dreena drefan drem dreng dreogan drew dreyken dridan driden drina drisana driscol driscoll drishti driskell dristan dru druas druce drud drudwyn drue drugi drummand drummond drusilla drust dryden drygedene dryhus dryope drystanNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DRAKE:
First Names which starts with 'dr' and ends with 'ke':
First Names which starts with 'd' and ends with 'e':
dace dae daesgesage daine daire daisie dale dalene damae damerae damiane danae dane danele danelle danette danice daniele danielle danise dannalee dannee dannelle dannie danrelle dantae dante daphne darce darcelle darchelle darcie darelene darelle darence darice darleane darlene darline darrance darrence daryle darylene daunte dave davide davidsone davie davine davite dawayne dawne dawnelle dawnette dawnielle dayle dayne deane deanne dearbourne debbee debbie debralee dechtere dechtire dedre dee deheune deidre deiene deirdre dekle delaine delane delanie delbine delcine delice delmare delmore delphine demasone demissie dene denelle denice deniece denise denisse dennie dennise denyse deonne deorwine derebourne derorice derrance desarae desaree desiraeEnglish Words Rhyming DRAKE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES DRAKE AS A WHOLE:
| drake | noun (n.) The male of the duck kind. |
| noun (n.) The drake fly. | |
| noun (n.) A dragon. | |
| noun (n.) A small piece of artillery. | |
| noun (n.) Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also drawk, dravick, and drank. |
| drakestone | noun (n.) A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes. |
| earthdrake | noun (n.) A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. |
| firedrake | noun (n.) A fiery dragon. |
| noun (n.) A fiery meteor; an ignis fatuus; a rocket. | |
| noun (n.) A worker at a furnace or fire. |
| mandrake | noun (n.) A low plant (Mandragora officinarum) of the Nightshade family, having a fleshy root, often forked, and supposed to resemble a man. It was therefore supposed to have animal life, and to cry out when pulled up. All parts of the plant are strongly narcotic. It is found in the Mediterranean region. |
| noun (n.) The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). See May apple under May, and Podophyllum. |
| sheldrake | noun (n.) Any one of several species of large Old World ducks of the genus Tadorna and allied genera, especially the European and Asiatic species. (T. cornuta, / tadorna), which somewhat resembles a goose in form and habit, but breeds in burrows. |
| noun (n.) Any one of the American mergansers. |
| shielddrake | noun (n.) A sheldrake. |
| skeldrake | noun (n.) Alt. of Skieldrake |
| skieldrake | noun (n.) The common European sheldrake. |
| noun (n.) The oyster catcher. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DRAKE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (rake) - English Words That Ends with rake:
| barleybrake | noun (n.) Alt. of Barleybreak |
| brake | noun (n.) A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern. |
| noun (n.) A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes. | |
| verb (v. t.) An instrument or machine to break or bruise the woody part of flax or hemp so that it may be separated from the fiber. | |
| verb (v. t.) An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine. | |
| verb (v. t.) A baker's kneading though. | |
| verb (v. t.) A sharp bit or snaffle. | |
| verb (v. t.) A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn. | |
| verb (v. t.) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista. | |
| verb (v. t.) A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag. | |
| verb (v. t.) A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine. | |
| verb (v. t.) An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine, or other motor, by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake. | |
| verb (v. t.) A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses. | |
| verb (v. t.) An ancient instrument of torture. | |
| () imp. of Break. | |
| () of Break |
| canebrake | noun (n.) A thicket of canes. |
| corncrake | noun (n.) A bird (Crex crex or C. pratensis) which frequents grain fields; the European crake or land rail; -- called also corn bird. |
| crake | noun (n.) A boast. See Crack, n. |
| noun (n.) Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully. |
| hayrake | noun (n.) A rake for collecting hay; especially, a large rake drawn by a horse or horses. |
| horserake | noun (n.) A rake drawn by a horse. |
| lapstrake | adjective (a.) Made with boards whose edges lap one over another; clinker-built; -- said of boats. |
| rake | noun (n.) An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and smoothing the earth. |
| noun (n.) A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake. | |
| noun (n.) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein. | |
| noun (n.) The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc. | |
| noun (n.) the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel. | |
| noun (n.) A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue. | |
| verb (v. t.) To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves. | |
| verb (v. t.) To collect or draw together with laborious industry; to gather from a wide space; to scrape together; as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pass a rake over; to scrape or scratch with a rake for the purpose of collecting and clearing off something, or for stirring up the soil; as, to rake a lawn; to rake a flower bed. | |
| verb (v. t.) To search through; to scour; to ransack. | |
| verb (v. t.) To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does. | |
| verb (v. t.) To enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of; in naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the stern or head so that the balls range the whole length of the deck. | |
| verb (v. i.) To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely. | |
| verb (v. i.) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along. | |
| verb (v. i.) To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft. | |
| verb (v. i.) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly. | |
| verb (v. i.) To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life. |
| skirlcrake | noun (n.) The turnstone. |
| strake | noun (n.) A streak. |
| noun (n.) An iron band by which the fellies of a wheel are secured to each other, being not continuous, as the tire is, but made up of separate pieces. | |
| noun (n.) One breadth of planks or plates forming a continuous range on the bottom or sides of a vessel, reaching from the stem to the stern; a streak. | |
| noun (n.) A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder. | |
| () imp. of Strike. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ake) - English Words That Ends with ake:
| ake | noun (n. & v.) See Ache. |
| alestake | noun (n.) A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a "bush." |
| awake | adjective (a.) Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action. |
| verb (v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken. | |
| verb (v. t.) To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties. | |
| verb (v. i.) To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death. |
| bake | noun (n.) The process, or result, of baking. |
| verb (v. t.) To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples. | |
| verb (v. t.) To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground. | |
| verb (v. t.) To harden by cold. | |
| verb (v. i.) To do the work of baking something; as, she brews, washes, and bakes. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun. |
| beadsnake | noun (n.) A small poisonous snake of North America (Elaps fulvius), banded with yellow, red, and black. |
| black snake | noun (n.) Alt. of Blacksnake |
| blacksnake | noun (n.) A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long. |
| bridecake | noun (n.) Rich or highly ornamented cake, to be distributed to the guests at a wedding, or sent to friends after the wedding. |
| bridestake | noun (n.) A stake or post set in the ground, for guests at a wedding to dance round. |
| cake | noun (n.) A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake. |
| noun (n.) A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape. | |
| noun (n.) A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes. | |
| noun (n.) A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake. | |
| verb (v. i.) To form into a cake, or mass. | |
| verb (v. i.) To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate. | |
| verb (v. i.) To cackle as a goose. |
| clake | noun (n.) Alt. of Claik |
| clambake | noun (n.) The backing or steaming of clams on heated stones, between layers of seaweed; hence, a picnic party, gathered on such an occasion. |
| clapcake | noun (n.) Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin. |
| cowquake | noun (n.) A genus of plants (Briza); quaking grass. |
| creamcake | noun (n.) A kind of cake filled with custard made of cream, eggs, etc. |
| earthquake | noun (n.) A shaking, trembling, or concussion of the earth, due to subterranean causes, often accompanied by a rumbling noise. The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere, destroying cities and many thousand lives; -- called also earthdin, earthquave, and earthshock. |
| adjective (a.) Like, or characteristic of, an earthquake; loud; starling. |
| fake | noun (n.) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil. |
| noun (n.) A trick; a swindle. | |
| verb (v. t.) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make; to construct; to do. | |
| verb (v. t.) To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it. |
| flake | noun (n.) A paling; a hurdle. |
| noun (n.) A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things. | |
| noun (n.) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish. | |
| noun (n.) A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash. | |
| noun (n.) A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes. | |
| noun (n.) A flat layer, or fake, of a coiled cable. | |
| verb (v. t.) To form into flakes. | |
| verb (v. i.) To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off. |
| fleshquake | noun (n.) A quaking or trembling of the flesh; a quiver. |
| griddlecake | noun (n.) A cake baked or fried on a griddle, esp. a thin batter cake, as of buckwheat or common flour. |
| hake | noun (n.) A drying shed, as for unburned tile. |
| noun (n.) One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merlucius, and allies. The common European hake is M. vulgaris; the American silver hake or whiting is M. bilinearis. Two American species (Phycis chuss and P. tenius) are important food fishes, and are also valued for their oil and sounds. Called also squirrel hake, and codling. | |
| verb (v. t.) To loiter; to sneak. |
| hardbake | noun (n.) A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc. |
| hawebake | noun (n.) Probably, the baked berry of the hawthorn tree, that is, coarse fare. See 1st Haw, 2. |
| headshake | noun (n.) A significant shake of the head, commonly as a signal of denial. |
| heartquake | noun (n.) Trembling of the heart; trepidation; fear. |
| hoecake | noun (n.) A cake of Indian meal, water, and salt, baked before the fire or in the ashes; -- so called because often cooked on a hoe. |
| hornsnake | noun (n.) A harmless snake (Farancia abacura), found in the Southern United States. The color is bluish black above, red below. |
| icequake | noun (n.) The crash or concussion attending the breaking up of masses of ice, -- often due to contraction from extreme cold. |
| intake | noun (n.) The place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; -- opposed to outlet. |
| noun (n.) the beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder. | |
| noun (n.) The quantity taken in; as, the intake of air. |
| johnnycake | noun (n.) A kind of bread made of the meal of maize (Indian corn), mixed with water or milk, etc., and baked. |
| keepsake | noun (n.) Anything kept, or given to be kept, for the sake of the giver; a token of friendship. |
| kittiwake | noun (n.) A northern gull (Rissa tridactyla), inhabiting the coasts of Europe and America. It is white, with black tips to the wings, and has but three toes. |
| lake | noun (n.) A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc. |
| noun (n.) A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use. | |
| noun (n.) A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area. | |
| verb (v. i.) To play; to sport. |
| latewake | noun (n.) See Lich wake, under Lich. |
| make | noun (n.) A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. |
| noun (n.) Structure, texture, constitution of parts; construction; shape; form. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to exist; to bring into being; to form; to produce; to frame; to fashion; to create. | |
| verb (v. t.) To form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain form; to construct; to fabricate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false; -- often with up; as, to make up a story. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bring about; to bring forward; to be the cause or agent of; to effect, do, perform, or execute; -- often used with a noun to form a phrase equivalent to the simple verb that corresponds to such noun; as, to make complaint, for to complain; to make record of, for to record; to make abode, for to abide, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) To execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make a bill, note, will, deed, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) To gain, as the result of one's efforts; to get, as profit; to make acquisition of; to have accrue or happen to one; as, to make a large profit; to make an error; to make a loss; to make money. | |
| verb (v. t.) To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put a desired or desirable condition; to cause to thrive. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to be or become; to put into a given state verb, or adjective; to constitute; as, to make known; to make public; to make fast. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to esteem, suppose, or represent. | |
| verb (v. t.) To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive. | |
| verb (v. t.) To become; to be, or to be capable of being, changed or fashioned into; to do the part or office of; to furnish the material for; as, he will make a good musician; sweet cider makes sour vinegar; wool makes warm clothing. | |
| verb (v. t.) To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to constitute; to form; to amount to. | |
| verb (v. t.) To be engaged or concerned in. | |
| verb (v. t.) To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of. | |
| verb (v. i.) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; -- often in the phrase to meddle or make. | |
| verb (v. i.) To proceed; to tend; to move; to go; as, he made toward home; the tiger made at the sportsmen. | |
| verb (v. i.) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; -- with for or against; as, it makes for his advantage. | |
| verb (v. i.) To increase; to augment; to accrue. | |
| verb (v. i.) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify. |
| merrimake | noun (n.) See Merrymake, n. |
| verb (v. i.) See Merrymake, v. |
| merrymake | noun (n.) Mirth; frolic; a meeting for mirth; a festival. |
| verb (v. i.) To make merry; to be jolly; to feast. |
| mistake | noun (n.) An apprehending wrongly; a misconception; a misunderstanding; a fault in opinion or judgment; an unintentional error of conduct. |
| noun (n.) Misconception, error, which when non-negligent may be ground for rescinding a contract, or for refusing to perform it. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make or form amiss; to spoil in making. | |
| verb (v. t.) To take or choose wrongly. | |
| verb (v. t.) To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning. | |
| verb (v. t.) To substitute in thought or perception; as, to mistake one person for another. | |
| verb (v. t.) To have a wrong idea of in respect of character, qualities, etc.; to misjudge. | |
| verb (v. i.) To err in knowledge, perception, opinion, or judgment; to commit an unintentional error. |
| namesake | noun (n.) One that has the same name as another; especially, one called after, or named out of regard to, another. |
| nocake | noun (n.) Indian corn parched, and beaten to powder, -- used for food by the Northern American Indians. |
| oatcake | noun (n.) A cake made of oatmeal. |
| opake | adjective (a.) See Opaque. |
| offtake | noun (n.) Act of taking off; specif., the taking off or purchase of goods. |
| noun (n.) Something taken off; a deduction. | |
| noun (n.) A channel for taking away air or water; also, the point of beginning of such a channel; a take-off. |
| quake | noun (n.) A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering. |
| noun (n.) A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble. | |
| verb (v. i.) To shake, vibrate, or quiver, either from not being solid, as soft, wet land, or from violent convulsion of any kind; as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to quake. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble. | |
| verb (v. i.) To shake, vibrate, or quiver, either from not being solid, as soft, wet land, or from violent convulsion of any kind; as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to quake. |
| pancake | noun (n.) A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack. |
| poake | noun (n.) Waste matter from the preparation of skins, consisting of hair, lime, oil, etc. |
| poundcake | noun (n.) A kind of rich, sweet cake; -- so called from the ingredients being used by pounds, or in equal quantities. |
| rattlesnake | noun (n.) Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp rattling sound when shaken. The common rattlesnake of the Northern United States (Crotalus horridus), and the diamond rattlesnake of the South (C. adamanteus), are the best known. See Illust. of Fang. |
| sake | noun (n.) Final cause; end; purpose of obtaining; cause; motive; reason; interest; concern; account; regard or respect; -- used chiefly in such phrases as, for the sake of, for his sake, for man's sake, for mercy's sake, and the like; as, to commit crime for the sake of gain; to go abroad for the sake of one's health. |
| seaquake | noun (n.) A quaking of the sea. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH DRAKE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (drak) - Words That Begins with drak:
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (dra) - Words That Begins with dra:
| drab | noun (n.) A low, sluttish woman. |
| noun (n.) A lewd wench; a strumpet. | |
| noun (n.) A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth. | |
| noun (n.) A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color. | |
| noun (n.) A drab color. | |
| adjective (a.) Of a color between gray and brown. | |
| verb (v. i.) To associate with strumpets; to wench. |
| drabbing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drab |
| drabber | noun (n.) One who associates with drabs; a wencher. |
| drabbet | noun (n.) A coarse linen fabric, or duck. |
| drabbish | adjective (a.) Somewhat drab in color. |
| adjective (a.) Having the character of a drab or low wench. |
| drabbling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drabble |
| drabbler | noun (n.) A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop. |
| dracaena | noun (n.) A genus of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers. |
| dracanth | noun (n.) A kind of gum; -- called also gum tragacanth, or tragacanth. See Tragacanth. |
| drachm | noun (n.) A drachma. |
| noun (n.) Same as Dram. |
| drachma | noun (n.) A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, having a different value in different States and at different periods. The average value of the Attic drachma is computed to have been about 19 cents. |
| noun (n.) A gold and silver coin of modern Greece worth 19.3 cents. | |
| noun (n.) Among the ancient Greeks, a weight of about 66.5 grains; among the modern Greeks, a weight equal to a gram. |
| drachme | noun (n.) See Drachma. |
| dracin | noun (n.) See Draconin. |
| draco | noun (n.) The Dragon, a northern constellation within which is the north pole of the ecliptic. |
| noun (n.) A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds. | |
| noun (n.) A genus of lizards. See Dragon, 6. |
| draconian | adjective (a.) Pertaining to Draco, a famous lawgiver of Athens, 621 b. c. |
| draconic | adjective (a.) Relating to Draco, the Athenian lawgiver; or to the constellation Draco; or to dragon's blood. |
| draconin | noun (n.) A red resin forming the essential basis of dragon's blood; -- called also dracin. |
| dracontic | adjective (a.) Belonging to that space of time in which the moon performs one revolution, from ascending node to ascending node. See Dragon's head, under Dragon. |
| dracontine | adjective (a.) Belonging to a dragon. |
| dracunculus | noun (n.) A fish; the dragonet. |
| noun (n.) The Guinea worm (Filaria medinensis). |
| drad | adjective (p. p. & a.) Dreaded. |
| dradge | noun (n.) Inferior ore, separated from the better by cobbing. |
| draff | noun (n.) Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine or cows; hogwash; waste matter. |
| noun (n.) The act of drawing; also, the thing drawn. Same as Draught. | |
| noun (n.) A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted. | |
| noun (n.) An order from one person or party to another, directing the payment of money; a bill of exchange. | |
| noun (n.) An allowance or deduction made from the gross veight of goods. | |
| noun (n.) A drawing of lines for a plan; a plan delineated, or drawn in outline; a delineation. See Draught. | |
| noun (n.) The form of any writing as first drawn up; the first rough sketch of written composition, to be filled in, or completed. See Draught. | |
| noun (n.) A narrow border left on a finished stone, worked differently from the rest of its face. | |
| noun (n.) A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter. | |
| noun (n.) The slant given to the furrows in the dress of a millstone. | |
| noun (n.) Depth of water necessary to float a ship. See Draught. | |
| noun (n.) A current of air. Same as Draught. |
| draffish | adjective (a.) Worthless; draffy. |
| draffy | adjective (a.) Dreggy; waste; worthless. |
| draft | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as Draught. |
| adjective (a.) Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air. Same as Draught. | |
| verb (v. t.) To draw the outline of; to delineate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To compose and write; as, to draft a memorial. | |
| verb (v. t.) To draw from a military band or post, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select. | |
| verb (v. t.) To transfer by draft. |
| drafting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Draft |
| draftsman | noun (n.) See Draughtsman. |
| drag | noun (n.) A confection; a comfit; a drug. |
| verb (v. t.) To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing. | |
| verb (v. t.) To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag. | |
| verb (v. t.) To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly. | |
| verb (v. i.) To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back. | |
| verb (v. i.) To fish with a dragnet. | |
| verb (v. t.) The act of dragging; anything which is dragged. | |
| verb (v. t.) A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag. | |
| verb (v. t.) A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage. | |
| verb (v. t.) A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground. | |
| verb (v. t.) Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below). | |
| verb (v. t.) Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel. | |
| verb (v. t.) Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment. | |
| verb (v. t.) Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged. | |
| verb (v. t.) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope. | |
| verb (v. t.) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone. | |
| verb (v. t.) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3. |
| dragging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drag |
| dragantine | noun (n.) A mucilage obtained from, or containing, gum tragacanth. |
| dragbar | noun (n.) Same as Drawbar (b). Called also draglink, and drawlink. |
| dragbolt | noun (n.) A coupling pin. See under Coupling. |
| dragees | noun (n. pl.) Sugar-coated medicines. |
| draggling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Draggle |
| draglink | noun (n.) A link connecting the cranks of two shafts. |
| noun (n.) A drawbar. |
| dragman | noun (n.) A fisherman who uses a dragnet. |
| dragnet | noun (n.) A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as in fishing. |
| dragoman | noun (n.) An interpreter; -- so called in the Levant and other parts of the East. |
| dragon | noun (n.) A fabulous animal, generally represented as a monstrous winged serpent or lizard, with a crested head and enormous claws, and regarded as very powerful and ferocious. |
| noun (n.) A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman. | |
| noun (n.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere figured as a dragon; Draco. | |
| noun (n.) A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent. | |
| noun (n.) A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; -- so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle. | |
| noun (n.) A small arboreal lizard of the genus Draco, of several species, found in the East Indies and Southern Asia. Five or six of the hind ribs, on each side, are prolonged and covered with weblike skin, forming a sort of wing. These prolongations aid them in making long leaps from tree to tree. Called also flying lizard. | |
| noun (n.) A variety of carrier pigeon. | |
| noun (n.) A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms. |
| dragonet | noun (n.) A little dragon. |
| noun (n.) A small British marine fish (Callionymuslyra); -- called also yellow sculpin, fox, and gowdie. |
| dragonish | adjective (a.) resembling a dragon. |
| dragonlike | adjective (a.) Like a dragon. |
| dragonnade | noun (n.) The severe persecution of French Protestants under Louis XIV., by an armed force, usually of dragoons; hence, a rapid and devastating incursion; dragoonade. |
| dragoon | noun (n.) Formerly, a soldier who was taught and armed to serve either on horseback or on foot; now, a mounted soldier; a cavalry man. |
| noun (n.) A variety of pigeon. | |
| verb (v. t.) To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers. | |
| verb (v. t.) To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute. |
| dragooning | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dragoon |
| dragoonade | noun (n.) See Dragonnade. |
| dragooner | noun (n.) A dragoon. |
| draining | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drain |
| verb (v. t.) The art of carrying off surplus water, as from land. |
| drain | noun (n.) The act of draining, or of drawing off; gradual and continuous outflow or withdrawal; as, the drain of specie from a country. |
| noun (n.) That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink. | |
| noun (n.) The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains. | |
| verb (v. t.) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of. | |
| verb (v. t.) To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as, to drain a country of its specie. | |
| verb (v. t.) To filter. | |
| verb (v. i.) To flow gradually; as, the water of low ground drains off. | |
| verb (v. i.) To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH DRAKE:
English Words which starts with 'dr' and ends with 'ke':
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