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DRIES

5 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

DRIES is a valid 5-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 2 in Classic, 2 in Big, and 2 in Super Big Boggle.

DRIES root DRY

Word family

DRY 1 DRIER 2 DRYER-er 2 DRIEST 3 DRYEST-est 3 DRYS-s 1 DRYING-ing 3 DRIED 2

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DRYINGS 5
adjective
  1. Free from or lacking moisture.
    • This towel's dry. Could you wet it and cover the chicken so it doesn't go dry as it cooks?
  2. Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.
    • This well is as dry as that cow.
  3. Built without or lacking mortar.
  4. Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
    • Dry alcohol is 200 proof.
  5. figurativelyAthirst, eager.
  6. Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
    • Of course it's a dry house. He was an alcoholic but he's been dry for almost a year now.
  7. Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
    • You'll have to drive out of this dry county to find any liquor.
  8. Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly
  9. Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
    • Proper martinis are made with London dry gin and dry vermouth.
  10. Amusing without showing amusement.
    • Steven Wright has a deadpan delivery, Norm Macdonald has a dry sense of humor, and Oscar Wilde had a dry wit.
  11. Lacking interest, boring.
    • a dry academic discipline turned into a living subject
    • A dry lecture may require the professor to bring a water gun in order to keep the students' attention.
  12. Of a board or flop: Not permitting the creation of many or of strong hands.
    • Jake was hoping to make something good out of his suited 7-8 hand, but the flop came out dry: 2-5-10 rainbow, and all of the wrong suit!.
  13. Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
  14. Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
    • This fighter jet's engine has a maximum dry thrust of 200 kilonewtons.
  15. derogatoryInvolving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
  16. Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
  17. Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
    • never dry fire a bow
    • dry humping her girlfriend
    • making a dry run
    • dry snitches are as bad as regular snitches
  18. Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom.
    • dry bite
  19. In a dry spell (e.g., unemployed, slow).
    • Things are dry right now. We're hoping business'll pick up next month.
  20. Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
  21. MalaysiaSingaporeMixed with sauce and not served in a soup.
noun
  1. The process by which something is dried.
    • This towel is still damp: I think it needs another dry.
  2. USA prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
  3. An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
    • Come under my umbrella and keep in the dry.
  4. AustraliaThe dry season.
  5. AustraliaAn area of waterless country.
  6. Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
  7. UKA radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
verb
  1. intransitiveTo lose moisture.
    • The clothes dried on the line.
    • The fruit dried in the dehydrator.
  2. transitiveTo remove moisture from.
    • Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.
    • We dried the fruit in the dehydrator.
  3. figurativelytransitiveTo exhaust; to cause to run dry.
  4. informalintransitiveFor an actor to forget their lines while performing.