DRIES

Date "DRIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Mining

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Crosswords: DRIES

So there I was at the Blackjack table with all my wash 'n' dries did I tell you I had they idea for them first? (Night Shift; writing credit: Lowell Ganz; Babaloo Mandel)

Feels sustained, dries here eyes (FALLS APART; performing artist: Sugar Ray)

Ink dries, paper burns; but what is written in the soul will last an eternity. (references; author: unknown)

Love, like paint, can make things beautiful when you spread it, but it simply dries up when you don't use it. (references; author: unknown)

Dries de brandwacht (1924)

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Books

• Pay the Labor Salary Before Their Perspiration Dries (reference)

• How to Form Your Own Ohio LLC (Limited Liability Company) Before the Ink Dries!: A Step-By-Step Guide With Forms (How to Form a Limited Liability com (reference)

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The Greenhill/East Timbalier dredged material inside of temporary levee to right -- dredged material dries to create new land. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Women at war (Mrs. Smuda). There's a war to be won, but there's work to be done at home, and this modern warrior-mother enjoys taking a hand in household duties. Tonight, she's washing the supper dishes while her daughter Genevieve dries. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Health

They can't get to a bathroom when they need to go so they hold it. As the rectum fills with stool, the child may lose the urge to go and become constipated as the stool dries and hardens. (references)

Economic History

Benin

Grass dries up, the vegetation turns reddish brown, and a veil of fine dust hangs over the country, causing the skies to be overcast. (references)

Worker Rights

Dominican Republic

Employers often do not provide trucks to transport the newly cut cane at the conclusion of the workday, causing workers to receive lower compensation because the cane dries and weighs less. (references)

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Ending with "DRIES": blow-dries.

French

séche. (various references)

German

trocknet (dehumidifies). (various references)

Pig Latin

iesdray

Scottish

turloch (a lake that dries in summer). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "DRIES": driest. (additional references)

Words ending with "DRIES": balladries, bawdries, cuckoldries, foundries, gynandries, haphazardries, heraldries, husbandries, laundries, legendries, misandries, monandries, overdries, polyandries, redries, ribaldries, roughdries, sundries, tawdries, updries, wizardries. (additional references)

Words containing "DRIES": tawdriest. (additional references)

Misspellings

"DRIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Daries, Dariuss, Darrius, dcise, dires, diress, direx, dreeb, drees, drei, dreien, dremes, Drewes, drez, dria, Drie, driech, driel, drien, Drieu, drife, drigs, Drii, driom, dris, drivs, Drnis, Droese, droites, drous, drues, druie, druiz, Dryas, drye, dryen, dryet, drys, dyies, rdeis, vries. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: resid, rides, sired.

-1 letter: dies, dire, ides, ired, ires, reds, reis, ride, rids, rise, side, sire.

-2 letters: die, dis, eds, ers, ids, ire, red, rei, res, rid, sei, ser, sir, sri.

-3 letters: de, ed, er, es, id, is, re, si.

+1 letter: aiders, biders, brides, ciders, deairs, debris, dermis, derris, desire, dicers, dikers, dimers, diners, direst, dirges, divers, dories, driers, driest, drives, eiders, grides, hiders, idlers, irades, irides, irised, jerids, prides, prised, raised, rebids, redias, redips, resaid, reside, resids, riders, ridges, rinsed, risked, scried, sidler, slider, snider, spider, spired, stride, weirds.

+2 letters: abiders, admires, adviser, airshed, aridest, aspired, astride, begirds, bestrid, bidders, binders, birders, birdies, bistred, borides, braised, bridges, bridles, brisked, bruised, burdies, chiders, cinders, clerids, credits, crisped, cruised, daikers, dairies, darbies, darkies, dashier, dearies, decries, defiers, deicers, deniers, derails, derbies, derides, derives, derries, dervish, desired, desirer, desires, despair, deviser, devisor, devoirs, dialers, diapers, diaries, diaster, dibbers, dickers, diester, dieters, differs, diggers, digress, dimmers, dineros, dingers, dinners, dippers, directs, dirties, discern, dishier, disrate, disrobe, dissert, dithers, ditsier, diverse, diverts, dossier, dowries, dreidls, drivels, drivers, duikers, durries, duskier, dustier, editors, endrins, engirds, farside, finders, fridges, friends, frisked, gilders, girders, girdles, gliders, guiders, hardies, herdics, hinders, hirsled, hurdies, inbreds, indorse, insider, insured, jerrids, kidders, minders, misdoer, misdrew, misread, nerdish, nereids, ordines, oreides, oroides, periods, pinders, praised, preside, prissed, radices, radixes, raiders, randies, readies, rebinds, reddish, redfins, redfish, redials, redries, redskin, reedits, refinds, regilds, reminds, remised, rescind, resided, resider, resides, residua, residue, resiled, resined, resited, resized, revised, rewinds, ridders, riddles, ridgels, ridleys, roadies, rosined, rowdies, sandier, sardine, scribed, scrived, seabird, sedarim, sedgier, seedier, semidry, serifed, serried, shadier, shirked, shirred, shrined, shrived, sidearm, sidebar, sidecar, sidlers, skidder, skirled, skirred, skirted, sliders, smirked, soldier, solider, sordine, sortied, speired, spiders, spidery, spiered, spirted, squired, staider, steroid, stirred, storied, strider, strides, striped, strived, studier, sudsier, swirled, tardies, tidiers, tinders, tirades, triodes, updries, ureides, verbids, verdins, visored, voiders, weirdos, widders, wilders, winders.