Dry

Definition: Dry

Dry

Adjective

1. Free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet; "dry land"; "dry clothes"; "a dry climate"; "dry splintery boards"; "a dry river bed"; "the paint is dry".

2. Humorously sarcastic or mocking; "dry humor"; "an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely"; "an ironic novel"; "an ironical smile"; "with a wry Scottish wit".

3. Opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages; "the dry vote led by preachers and bootleggers"; "a dry state".

4. Not producing milk; "a dry cow".

5. (of wines) not sweet because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation; "a dry white burgundy".

6. Without a mucous or watery discharge; "a dry cough"; "that rare thing in the wintertime; a small child with a dry nose".

7. Not shedding tears; "dry sobs"; "with dry eyes".

8. Lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless; "a dry book"; "a dry lecture filled with trivial details"; "dull and juiceless as only book knowledge can be when it is unrelated to...life"- John Mason Brown.

9. Used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones; "dry weight".

10. : unproductive especially of the expected results; "a dry run"; "a mind dry of new ideas".

11. : having no adornment or coloration; "dry facts"; "rattled off the facts in a dry mechanical manner".

12. : (of food) eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish; "dry toast"; "dry meat".

13. : suffering from fluid deprivation; "his mouth was dry".

14. : having a large proportion of strong liquor; "a very dry martini is almost straight gin".

15. : lacking warmth or emotional involvement; "a dry greeting"; "a dry reading of the lines"; "a dry critique".

16. : practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages; "he's been dry for ten years"; "no thank you; I happen to be teetotal".

Noun

1. A reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages.

Verb

1. Remove the moisture from and make dry; "dry clothes"; "dry hair".

2. Become dry or drier; "The laundry dries in the sun".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

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

Note: Dry \Dry\, adjective. [Comparative Drier; superlative Driest.]. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Literature

Metallurgy

Mining

Tips from 1870

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Dry

Aphony

Croaking, raucous, hoarse, husky, dry, hollow, sepulchral, hoarse as a raven; rough.

Desire

Adjective: desirous; desiring; Verb: inclined; (willing); partial to; fain, wishful, optative; anxious, wistful, curious; at a loss for, sedulous, solicitous. craving, hungry, sharp-set, peckish, ravening, with an empty stomach, esurient, lickerish, thirsty, athirst, parched with thirst, pinched with hunger, famished, dry, drouthy; hungry as a hunter, hungry as a hawk, hungry as a horse, hungry as a church mouse, hungry as a bear.

Disapprobation

Satirical, sarcastic, sardonic, cynical, dry, sharp, cutting, biting, severe, withering, trenchant, hard upon; censorious, critical, captious, carping, hypercritical; fastidious; sparing of praise, grudging praise.

Feebleness

Adjective: feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, bland, trashy, lukewarm, cold, frigid, poor, dull, dry, languid; colorless, enervated; proposing, prosy, prosaic; unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy-washy; sketchy, slight.

Inelegance

Adjective: inelegant, graceless, ungraceful; harsh, abrupt; dry, stiff, cramped, formal, guinde; forced, labored; artificial, mannered, ponderous; awkward, uncourtly, unpolished; turgid; affected, euphuistic; barbarous, uncouth, grotesque, rude, crude, halting; offensive to ears polite.

Insufficiency

Slack, at a low ebb; empty, vacant, bare; short of, out of, devoid of, bereft of; denuded of; dry, drained.

Preservation

Embalm, cure, salt, pickle, season, kyanize, bottle, pot, tin, can; sterilize, pasteurize, radiate; dry, lyophilize, freeze-dry, concentrate, evaporate; freeze, quick-freeze, deep-freeze; husband; (store).

Taking

Oust; (eject); divest; levy, distrain, confiscate; sequester, sequestrate; accroach; usurp; despoil, strip, fleece, shear, displume, impoverish, eat out of house and home; drain, drain to the dregs; gut, dry, exhaust, swallow up; absorb; (suck in); draw off; suck the blood of, suck like a leech.

Weariness

Adjective: wearying; Verb: wearing; wearisome, tiresome, irksome; uninteresting, stupid, bald, devoid of interest, dry, monotonous, dull, arid, tedious, humdrum, mortal, flat; prosy, prosing; slow, soporific, somniferous.

Crosswords: Dry

Albanian (lock, padlock), Turkish (sec).

As you know my paper is dry. Do you have any advice for girl who choose to avoid a life of jazz, and drink (Chicago; writing credit: Maurine Dallas Watkins; Bob Fosse)

The night was dry, yet it was raining (Throw Momma from the Train; writing credit: Stu Silver.)

It's dark, but at least it's dry. (Dinosaur; writing credit: Walon Green; Thom Enriquez)

More like a full-bodied dry heave set to music (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Hand wash, no bleach, tumble dry, medium heat, cool iron (Monk; writing credit: Andy Breckman; David Breckman)

Then you hung me out to dry (What It Takes; performing artist: Aerosmith)

But the air is so heavy and dry (Cruel Summer; performing artist: Bananarama)

And if I ever lose my eyes, if my colours all run dry, (Moonshadow; performing artist: Cat Stevens)

For you I bleed myself dry (Yellow; performing artist: Coldplay)

Who kept her warm and safe and dry (Same Old Lang Syne; performing artist: Dan Fogelberg)

The skin was moist and dry. (references; author: unknown)

Arizona: But It's A Dry Heat (references; author: unknown)

Laughter is the jam on the toast of life: it adds flavor, keeps it from becoming too dry, and makes it easier to swallow. (references; author: unknown)

Dry Wood (1973)

High But Not Dry (1967)

Blood Is Dry (1960)

Dry Rot (1956)

Keep Your Powder Dry (1945)

Home and Dry (performing artist: Gerry Rafferty)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2002 Official Patient's Sourcebook on Dry eye (reference)

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Dry Cat Food (reference)

• The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Dry Mouth (reference)

• Toyo Takasago Dry Battery Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2001 Report on Ambient Ready, Dry Main Meals: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

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Books

• How to Dry Foods (reference)

• Landscape Plants for Dry Regions: More Than 600 Species from Around the World (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Usa Dry Pea & Lentil Council Bulletin (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Dry Cleaning (reference)

• A Cool, Dry Place (reference)

• Dry White Season (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Dry (reference)

• High 'N' Dry (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Maxell 8mm Dry Video Head Cleaner (VP-203) (reference)

• Maxell VHS-C Dry Head Cleaner (VP-202) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Delonghi DH100P Always Dry Dehumidifier (reference)

• Aria Dry Deluxe Dehumidifier (reference)

• HomeRight C800524 Auto Wash Stick and EZI Dry (reference)

• Goldblatt Trowel Trade Tools GB15301 Dry Tape Banjo (reference)

• Shop-Vac 903-98-00 Cartridge Filter for HangUp Wet/ Dry Vacuum (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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A flat red spot that is rough, dry or scaly may indicate skin cancer. See artwork: RR-15b, WYNTK-22b. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

A flat, red spot that has become rough, dry and scaly may indicate skin cancer. See artwork: RR-15b, WYNTK-22b. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

B. anthracis Colony Characteristics: A. 2-5mm overnight at 35 degrees centigrade without carbon dioxide B. Non-hemolytic, non-pigmented, dry ground glass surface, edge irregular with comma projections, “Medusa Head”. Credit: CDC.

M2-F2 Crash on Rogers Dry Lake. Credit: NASA.

HL-10 On Rogers Dry Lake Bed With Pilots. Credit: NASA.

This scar on an arid landscape is the dry riverbed of the Ghadamis River in the Tinrhert Hamada Mountains near Ghadamis, Libya. Credit: NASA.

Ephemeral Lake Carnegie, in Western Australia, fills with water only during periods of significant rainfall. In dry years, it is reduced to a muddy marsh. Credit: NASA.

On a dry lake bed White 1 and 1/2 ton truck Astro party of C.V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A dry lake bed flooded by late spring rains Level crew of Paul Taylor. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

"The Seattle Construction and Dry Dock Company's Works". In: "Puget Sound and Western Washington Cities-Towns Scenery", by Robert A. Reid, Robert A. Reid Publisher, Seattle, 1912. P. 72. Credit: America's Coastlines.

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Donwell Lane is never dusty, and now it is perfectly dry.

Alice took a piece to taste, but it was very dry.

Excessive work fatigued Fantine, and the slight dry cough that she had increased

He was glad for his mouth was hot and dry.

God, if you had the strength to rouse up, you'd slaughter your half-dreams with buckshot! But no, you lie pinned to a deep well-bottom that's burned dry. The moon rolls by to look at you down there, with its idiot face

Young Tom stared for a long time at the ragged willow beside the dry horse trough, at the concrete base where the pump had been

When I had done, Glumdalclitch always carried my boat into her closet, and hung it on a nail to dry.

My auxiliaries are the dews and rains which water this dry soil, and what fertility is in the soil itself, which for the most part is lean and effete

The wills above be done! but I would fain die a dry death

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Health

They dry out the mouth. (references)

Let them dry overnight. (references)

Dry off with a clean towel. (references)

Business

Sour gas is treated at those plants and further processed into dry gas and liquids. (references)

PIA has recently acquired 5 Boeing 747-300 from Cathay Pacific on a two-year dry lease. (references)

Based on international trends, there is an increased demand for UV and dry sanitation systems. (references)

Economic History

Andorra

Climate: Temperate, cool, dry. (references)

Mauritania

Climate: Predominantly hot and dry. (references)

Ukraine

In cement, dry mixes are available. (references)

Human Rights

Yemen

The DRY leaders are subject to arrest if they return. (references)

Yemen

The Government denied amnesty to the 16 most senior leaders of the DRY (1 of whom is presumed dead), who fled abroad. (references)

Laos

Officials attributed it to terrorists or "ill-intentioned persons." In February a small explosion occurred next to the dry goods market in Luang Prabang; no one was injured. (references)

Political Economy

POLAND

However, the number of companies to be privatized is shrinking rapidly and revenues from this source will dry up within the next few years, forcing action to curb the budget deficit to prevent the government debt ratio from approaching the constitutional limit of 60 percent of GDP. The constitution prohibits the National Bank of Poland (NBP) from financing the budget deficit. (references)

Trade

Djibouti

A huge warehouse facility, the Djibouti Dry Port, is designed to free-up limited port storage. (references)

Ukraine

To assist in the current finance of five river/sea dry cargo vessels and enable Ukrrichflot to acquire two new vessels, all built in Romania. (references)

Travel

Mexico

Most parts of the country have fairly well defined wet and dry seasons. (references)

Nigeria

The dry season in the north is usually dusty from Saharan winds called the Harmattan. (references)

Honduras

Drinking water must be boiled and filtered and often is in short supply during the dry season. (references)

Worker Rights

Bangladesh

Children drive rickshaws, break bricks at construction sites, carry fruit, vegetables, and dry goods for shoppers at markets, work at tea stalls, and work as beachcombers in the shrimp industry. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

House of dry figs

Paste of dry figs

Dry

Dry

Expressions using "dry": be as dry as tinder ♦ be dry ♦ be kept dry ♦ become dry ♦ becoming dry ♦ before the ink is dry ♦ before the ink was dry ♦ boil dry ♦ bone dry ♦ brick outer walls with dry dash finish ♦ clean dry air ♦ clear and dry ♦ cooling with dry cooling towers ♦ drain dry ♦ dry air ♦ dry air pump ♦ dry and air ♦ Dry area ♦ dry as a biscuit ♦ dry as a bone ♦ dry as a mummy ♦ dry as a stick ♦ dry as dust ♦ dry battery ♦ Dry blow ♦ Dry bone ♦ dry book ♦ Dry Branch ♦ dry bread ♦ Dry castor ♦ dry cell ♦ dry cell battery ♦ dry cereal ♦ dry clean ♦ dry cleaned coal ♦ dry cleaner ♦ dry cleaners ♦ dry cleaner's ♦ dry cleaner's shop ♦ dry cleaning ♦ dry cold ♦ dry containment ♦ dry cough ♦ Dry Creek ♦ Dry cup ♦ Dry cupping ♦ dry density ♦ Dry distillation ♦ Dry dock ♦ dry drill ♦ dry end ♦ dry extract ♦ Dry Eye Syndrome ♦ Dry Eye Syndromes ♦ dry eyed ♦ dry farming ♦ Dry fat ♦ dry fly ♦ dry fog ♦ Dry Fork ♦ dry fruits ♦ dry gap ♦ dry gap bridge ♦ Dry goods ♦ dry goods store ♦ dry grass ♦ dry hail ♦ dry harbour ♦ dry hole plug ♦ dry ice ♦ dry ice freezer ♦ dry ironic ironical pawky wry ♦ dry joke ♦ dry kiln ♦ dry knot ♦ dry lake ♦ dry land ♦ dry lease ♦ dry leasing ♦ Dry light ♦ Dry masonry ♦ dry mass ♦ dry matter ♦ Dry measure ♦ Dry meter ♦ dry milk ♦ dry mop ♦ dry mount ♦ dry mounting ♦ dry mouth ♦ Dry nurse ♦ dry off ♦ dry oneself ♦ dry orgasm ♦ dry out ♦ dry pack ♦ dry pea ♦ Dry pile ♦ dry pint ♦ Dry pipe ♦ Dry plate. Additional references.

Beginning with "dry": dry-as-dust, dry-assembly, dry-bagged, dry-bark, Dry-beat, dry-boatswain, Dry-boned, dry-bony, dry-bulb thermometer, dry-cave, dry-cell, dry-clean, dry-cleaned, dry-cleaner, dry-cleaners, dry-cleaning, dry-cleaning, dry-cleaning establishment, dry-cleaning machine, dry-clean-only, dry-coloured, dry-cow, dry-cure, dry-deposition, dry-dock, dry-drilling, dry-drunk, Dry-eyed, dry-farming, Dry-fisted, dry-floated, dry-fly, dry-fried, dry-fry, dry-glistening, dry-goods, dry-gulching, dry-heat, dry-hopped, dry-humoured, dry-ice, dry-into-wet, dry-land, dry-lay, dry-lease, dry-looking, dry-mix, dry-mouthed, dry-nosed, dry-nurse, dry-out, dry-out farm, Dry-plate process, dry-play, dry-plucked, dry-road, dry-roast, dry-roasted, dry-rot, dry-rotted, Dry-rub, Dry-rubbed, Dry-rubbing, dry-run, dry-salt, dry-salter, dry-scraped, dry-season, dry-seasonal, Dry-shod, dry-skinned, dry-smelling, dry-spun, Dry-stone, dry-stone wall, dry-stone-wall, dry-storage, dry-store, dry-stored, dry-suits, dry-tanks, dry-type, dry-verge, dry-walling, dry-weight, dry-wipe, dry-witted.

Ending with "dry": half-dry, medium-dry, tinder-dry, wet-and-dry.

Afrikaans

droog, dor. (various references)

Albanian

pa lëng, e shterur, i etur (agog, eager, keen, parched, rapacious, ravenous, solicitous, thirsty, voracious, wistful), i hidhët (acrid, bitter), i mërzitshëm (annoying, boring, bothersome, corny, dead alive, depressing, dissatisfactory, dreary, dull, fatiguing, fierce, pesky, plaguesome, pragmatical, slow, tedious, tiresome, weariful, wearisome, weary), i pazbukuruar (unenlivened, unvarnished), i tharë (blasted, bone dry, dried, dried up, gaunt, husky, jerked, jerky, parched, rough-dry, thirsty, withered), i thatë (arid, blain, dead, dehydrated, dried, empty, furuncle, lank, lathy, peaked, rainless, raw boned, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrubby, sec, sere, short, skinny, slab-sided, slender, spare, spidery, thin, waterless, wizen, wizened), abstinent, kundërshtues i pijeve alkoolike, therës (acid, acidly, acrimonious, acute, biting, butcher, caustic, cutting, epigrammatic, executioner, exquisite, incisive, keen, nippy, penetrating, peppery, piercing, poignant, sharp, sharp cut, stinging, trenchant), pa lot (tearless), që s'pi, që të jep etje, shterp (barren, desert, effete, sterile), thahem (become dry, become numb, desiccate, feel cold, get dry, pine), thaj (blot, desiccate, drain, drink off, dry up, exsiccate, feel cool, sap, sear, torrefy, wipe out, wither), thatë (barely, drily, dryly, only, said), i zhveshur (bald, bare, bleak, defoliate, leafless, naked, nude, treeless, unclad, undressed). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غسيل جاف, ‏جاف (arid, becoming dry, boorish, brittle, churlish, crude, curt, dehydrated, desiccated, dried, dryish, gross, harsh, objectionable, rough, surly, unceremonious, uncivil, uncouth, ungracious, wild), ‏جاف الضرع, ‏جف (drain, dry up, run dry, season), ‏جفاف (aridity, aridness, coldness, dehydration, desiccation, drought, drying up, dryness, exsiccation), ‏جفف (dehydrate, desiccate, drain off, exsiccate, mangle, mummify, parch, sear, season, spin), ‏جفف الفم, ‏ذابل (blasted, passe, sear, sere, shrivelled, staleness, tatty, withered, wizened), ‏ظامئ (thirsty), ‏حجارة بطارية, ‏يبس, ‏غير سائل, ‏قاحل (arid, barren, desert, infertile, waste), ‏قليل الأمطار, ‏نشف (cure, scorch, tumble dry), ‏مجدب (arid, barren, desert, infertile, sterile, sterilized, unfruitful, waste), ‏متسم بالواقعية, ‏موضوعي (documentary, impartial, literal, nonpartisan, objective, objectivist, outer, thematic, topical), ‏سبب الظمأ. (various references)

Aymara

huañachaña (to dry). (various references)

Basque

lehor. (various references)

Bulgarian 

забравям си репликата, изсъхнал (dried, parched, sapless, sere, thirsty), изсъхвам (become peaky, become thin and hollow-cheeked, crisp, drain, dry up, get dry, mummify, parch, sear, season), ироничен (bland, derisive, derisory, ironic, pawky, sly), привърженик на сухия режим (prohibitionist, pussyfoot), преставам да давам мляко, пресъхнал, избърсвам (mop up, remove, wipe, wipe clean, wipe dry, wipe off), жаден (ambitious, avid, concupiscent, craving, droughty, eager, hungry, thirsty), съхна (wither), необщителен (antisocial, dissociable, dissocial, incommunicable, incommunicative, morose, reserved, reticent, segregative, self contained, taciturn, uncommunicative, unneighborly, unneighbourly, unsociable, unsocial, withdrawn), който кара на вода, резлив (nippy, sharp), суша (air, aridness, bake, drought, earth, exsiccate, fire, land, main, mainland, terra firma, weather), сух (academic, academical, anhydrous, arid, aseptic, bald, brut, chaffy, chippy, dried, droughty, fleshless, gaunt, hacking, lean, liny, matter of fact, pedestrian, prosy, rainless, sapless, sec, spare, tearless, undamped, uninspired), сухо място, сухо време, пресъхвам (becoming dry, parch). (various references)

Catalan

sec, eixut. (various references)

Chamorro

tiempon somnak (dry season). (various references)

Chinese 

蔋 (scorched), 燥 (impatient, parched), 熇 , 索然 (dull), 暵 (hold up, hot, mortgage, on the whole, push against, to arrive, to reach, to resist, to support), 槁 (rotten), 干燥 (Dryness), 干 (shield, to concern, to do, to manage, to work), 乾燥 (arid, dull), 乾旱 (arid, drought), 乾 (male, strong). (various references)

Czech

usušit, suchý (arid, bald, bare, dead, desiccated, droughty, hacking, matter of fact, pedestrian, sear, sere, torrid, wry). (various references)

Danish

tørre (bake, stove), tør (harsh). (various references)

Dutch

droog, drogen (bake, dehumidify, dehydrate, drying, seasoning, stove), dor. (various references)

Esperanto

sekigi, sekiĝi, seka. (various references)

Faeroese

turrur, turka (delete, wipe, wipe off), torna. (various references)

Farsi 

تشنه شدن , خشک انداختن , اخلاقاخشک , بی اب (Thirsty). (various references)

Finnish

kuiva (arid), kuivata (drain, wipe). (various references)

French

sec (becoming dry, dried), sécher (to dry). (various references)

Frisian

druie, droegje, droechmeitsje. (various references)

German

trocken (arid, barren, bookish, dead pan, drily, dry-cell, dryly, dusty, humorless, humorlessly, humourless, humourlessly, jejune, stale, uninspiring, wry), trocknen (cure, dehumidify, desiccate, desiccation, parch, to dehumidify, to dry, towel down), dörren (dehydrate, desiccate, parch, to dehydrate, to desiccate, to dry), dürr (arid, aridly, barren, lank, scraggy, scrawny, seares, searly, skinny, withered), austrocknen (drain, dry out, dry up, parch, sear, shrivel, wither), abtrocknen (dry off, dry up, to dry, to wipe, towel down, wipe). (various references)

Greek 

στεγνώνω (become dry, dry up), στεγνός (parched), ξηρός (crisp, parched). (various references)

Hebrew 

יבש (sere). (various references)

Hungarian

száraz (anhydrous, arid, bald, bare, cut and dried, droughty, dryasdust, dryish, fine, husky, lean, prosaic, prosy, sear, sec, sere, stale, undamped), kiszáradt (parched, thirsty, weazened, wizen, wizened), aszalt (dried, parched, shrivelled), szárított (dried), víztelen sivatag, szomjas (bone dry, hungry, thirsting, thirsty, to be dry, to feel dry), szesztilalom híve (prohibitionist), tél (winter), töltés nélküli, terméketlen (barren, effete, fruitless, hungry, infertile, jejune, lean, non-productive, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive), porított (powdered), ostoba (asinine, bird brained, blockish, brainless, Daffy, doltish, dumb, dump, dunce, fatuous, feeble minded, goofy, hulking, idiotic, inane, inept, lack-brain, lame brain, loggerheaded, Looby, numb-skull, numskull, oafish, owlish, preposterous, puerile, silly, simple, simple minded, simpleton, slow, sot, stupid, thick-headed, to cut capers, tomfool, witless, wooden-headed), meddő (abortive, barren, dead, effete, refuse, spoil, waste), unalmas (bald, boring, cut and dried, dull, dusty, groaty, grotty, heavy, humdrum, insipid, languid, muzzy, pokey, prosaic, prosy, repetitious, tedious, tiresome, tiring, witless), hallgatag (dumb, incommunicable, reticent, silent, taciturn, tight-lipped), fanyar (acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, austere, crusty, frumpish, harsh, sour, tart), prohibicionista. (various references)

Icelandic

þurr. (various references)

Indonesian

membeku (become immobile, clot, congeal, congealed, freeze, inflexible, over, rigid, unbending), kering (arid, droughty), gersang (arid, barren, coarse). (various references)

Irish

tirim. (various references)

Italian

secco (arid, dried, offhand, offhanded, sharp, short, skinny, thin, withered), seccare (annoy, bore, bother, get annoyed, get bored, harass, pester, put out, rile, trouble, worry), asciutto (arid, brusque, curt), essiccare (become dray, dehydrate, desiccate, drain, dry up, exsiccate, parch, sap), asciugare (blot, dry up, get dry, mop, wipe, wipe oneself, wipe up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

乾燥 (arid, dehydrated, insipid). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ドライ , さくぜん (desolate), かさかさ (bone dry), かんそう (arid, contemplation, dehydrated, dry grass, hay, hearty send-off, impressions, insipid, meditation, physiognomy, running the race, staying the course, thoughts), かんせい (accomplishment, cheer, complete, completion, control, dryness, government-manufactured, government-regulated organization or facility etc., inertia, perfection, pitfall, quiet, sense, sensitiveness, sensitivity, shout, shout of joy, snoring sound, tranquil, trap), こちこち (frightened, hard, puritanical). (various references)

Korean 

건조한 (Arid, Waterless). (various references)

Lombard

secch. (various references)

Malay

kering. (various references)

Manx

sloateil (abate; drying, abatement, cessation of rain, clearing of weather, slackening of tide), shiastey (sterilization, sterilize), shiast (barren, barren animal, neuter, sedge, sterile), jeen (impermeable, proof, staunch, waterproof, watertight, weatherproof), cuckley (dry off, dry up), creoi (adamant, bitter, bitter of frost, blistering, blistering as language, difficult, distressing, hard, hard-boiled, hard-set, hardy, heartless, near, near with money, neat, obdurate, solid, steely, stiff, stiffen, stubborn, tough), chirrym (arid, dry-bulb, prohibitionist, sapless, waterless), chirmaghey (cure, dessicate, drain). (various references)

Maya

sa'ap (to dry up). (various references)

Norwegian

tørr. (various references)

Occitan

eissut. (various references)

Papiamen

seku, seko, seka. (various references)

Pidgin English

hamartan (dry season). (various references)

Pig Latin

ydray.(various references)

Polish

suszyć, suchy. (various references)

Portuguese

seco (arid, chippy, curt, dabby, dried, hacking, jerky, parched, rainless, sapless, sear, seared, seasoned, sec, sere, stale, thirsty, undamped), secar (blast, blight, desiccate, drain, exsiccate, fork, kipper, peter out, rub down, scorch, sear, shrivel, ted, wipe, wither), enxugar (delete, desiccate, exsiccate, rinse, rub down, wipe, wipe off), árido (barren, chaffy, devastated, dryasdust, dusty, jejune, sterile, thirsty, waste). (various references)

Quechua

ch'aki-mit'a (dry season). (various references)

Romanian

pune la uscat, însetoşat, antialcoolic (anti-alcoholic, antialcoholist, bone dry, teetotaller), şterge (abrade, annex, annihilate, annul, blot out, bunk, cancel, clean, cop, crib, decamp, deface, delete, dim, do a bunk, dull, efface, erase, expunge, filch, guy, make away, make off, mop, obliterate, pack off, pack one's traps, pop off, quit, raze, remove, scratch, shrink away, strike out, sweep, vanish, wipe), coace (bake, broil, cook, fire, gather, hatch, mature, parch, pop, ripen, roast), fãrã apã, neinteresant (arid, dull, dusty, flat, jejune, languorous, uneventful), nud (naked, nude, stripped, unclothed), ofili (die, enervate, sear, wilt, wither), plictisitor (boring, boringly, dead, dreadful, dull, dully, flat, heavy, irksome, jejune, languorous, long winded, long-spun, monotonous, monotonously, pedestrian, pesky, pestersome, pestiferous, repetitious, repetitive, sententious, slow, tedious, tediously, tiresome, trying, weary), însetat (athirst, itching, thirsty), prohibitiv (interdictory, prohibitive, prohibitory), zvântat (aired), reţinut (continent, coy, moderate, reserved, restrained, restrictive), rezervat (cagey, cagily, cautious, cold, distant, offish, reserved, secretive, self contained, shy, stand offish, sullen, unapproachable), sec (bald, barren, cold, dried up, drily, dull, empty, glacial, harshly, hollow, literal, stupid, useless), seca (drain, empty, exhaust, peter out, run dry, torment, torture), secat, secetos (arid, drought-afflicted, droughty), usca (air, desiccate, drain, exsiccate, parch, sap, scorch, sear, season, swelter), uscat (adust, arenaceous, arid, barren, continent, crusty, earth, fleshless, hungry, husky, land, main, mainland, meager, meagre, parched, sear, sere, shore, shrunken, slack, stale, thirsty, well-seasoned, wizened), zbici, zvânta (air, give an airing to, paste), praf (dust, Farina, meal, powder). (various references)

Romansch

lavandaria chemica (dry cleaner). (various references)

Romany

sookyaràv (to dry). (various references)

Russian 

высыхать (desiccate, parch up, run dry), испытывающий жажду, просушивать, бесстрастный (affectionless, cold-livered, dispassionate, frigid, impassible, impassive, passionless, stolid, unemotional), засушивать, засушливый (arid, droughty, rainless), засуха (drought), досуха, вытереть, сухой (arid, brut, dried, droughty, dryasdust, husky, matter of fact, matter-of-fact, sec, sere), холодный (algid, bleak, chill, cold, cold look, cool, frigid, unheated), сохнуть (parch up), скучный (boring, drab, dull, dull beggar, flat, heartbreaking, inanimate, insipid, irksome, jejune, languid, long, long winded, longspun, monotone, ponderous, prolix, tedious, trying, uninspiring, uninteresting, weariful, yawnful), сушить (air, bake, dry up, get dry, parch, torrefy), сушить сухой, сушиться, сухо (aridly, dryly), насухо. (various references)

Scottish

tioram (barren, uninteresting). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

suvoparan (dull), suvo (drily), suv (arid, dried, droughty, lank, sec), sušiti (jerk), sasušiti (parch), prosušiti, osušiti se (get dry, shrink), osušiti (desiccate, dry off, shrivel), obrisati (swab, wipe, wipe away, wipe off, wipe up), antialkoholni, žedan (thirsty). (various references)

Spanish

seco (barren, curt, dead, dried, hacking, parched, rainless, sere, sharp, short, short-spoken, tired), secar (bake, blot, mop up, parch, press, pump dry, season, shrivel, wipe, wipe at), enjugar (clean, delete, mop and mow, wipe, wipe at, wipe off, wipe out). (various references)

Sranan

drey, nati (wet). (various references)

Swahili

-kavu, kavu. (various references)

Swedish

torr (arid, clean, droughty, dryness, jejune, parched, sapless, torrid), torka (aridity, dehydrate, drought, dryness, rough-dry, season, sponge down, wipe). (various references)

Tagalog

tuyô. (various references)

Thai

แห้ง (arid, sere), เย็นชา ((as) cold as charity, cold, cool, hardboiled), ไม่นำกระแสไฟฟ้า, ไม่หวาน, ไม่ดื่มเหล้า, ไม่มีน้ำนม, ทำให้แห้ง (dry off), ฝืด. (various references)

Turkish

sıkıcı (arid, bald, boring, burdensome, constringent, cut and dried, damnable, dead alive, disconcerting, ditch water, ditchwater, drab, dryasdust, dull, dusty, gaunt, gloomy, grave, grotty, humdrum, inanimate, insipid, irksome, oppressive, poky, ponderous, prose, prosy, slow, sluggish, soul-destroying, soulless, stodgy, stuffy, tedious, tiresome, trying, uncongenial, unexeciting, unpleasant, unreadable, unsensational, vapid, waste, watery, wearisome), kart (card, greeting card, map, menu, old, pasteboard, postcard, weazened, wizen, wizened), kurak (arid, droughty, rainless, thirsty), kuraklık (aridness, drought, dryness), kuru (arid, dried, drying, rate, sapless, scarious), kurulamak (dab, wipe), kurumak (desiccate, dry up, get dry, parch, sear, season), içki karşıtı (teetotal), kurutmak (air, bake, corn, cure, dehydrate, deplete, desiccate, drain, dry up, exhaust, parch, scorch, sear, season, shrivel, torrefy, weather, wither), yavan (arid, bald, crude, cut and dried, frail, insipid, jaded, jejune, meager, meagre, milk and water, platitudinous, prosaic, prose, prosy, tasteless, uninspired, vapid, watery), sütü kesilmek, sütten kesilmek, sek (neat, sec, sharp, straight), susamış (athirst, athirst for, longing, thirsty), susatıcı, susuz (anhydrous, dehydrated, droughty, neat, thirsty, waterless), kurumuş (dried, sear, seared, sere, weazened, wizen, wizened). (various references)

Turkmen 

sarykmak, ьrgьn, kepemek (become dry), kakamak (become dry), gury. (various references)

Ukrainian

сухість (aridity, aridness, dryness), сухий (arid, brut, chilly, drained, dried, dryasdust, dusty, saharan, saharian, sear, sere, withered), суша (dereliction, earth, land), сушитися, сушити (air, bake, roast, sap, sear, stove), стриманий (abstemious, abstentious, abstinent, ascetic, chary, chaste, checked, close, collected, composed, continent, coy, demure, discreet, guarded, low key, measured, offish, restrained, reticent, self controlled, self-composed, spartan, stand off, temperate, undemonstrative, well balanced), сохнути (sear, wither), висушений (dried up), витирати (wipe), енамазаний, посуха (drought), посушливий (droughty, rainless). (various references)

Vietnamese 

không thành kiến (fair-minded), cộc lốc; tỉnh khô (drily, dryly), cạn, chưa ráo máu đầu, khát khô cả cổ cạn sữa, khô (drily, dryly, non-aqueous), cụt lủn (drily, dryly), không pha (unmixed), vô vị (arid, banal, drily, dryasdust, dryly, dusty, insipid, milk and water, platitudinarian, platitudinous, savourless, tame, tasteless, unsavoury, watery), không thú vị vô tình (drily, dryly), lãnh đạm (apathetic, drily, dryly, tepid, unconcerned), lạnh lùng; cứng nhắc (drily, dryly), lạnh nhạt (chilly, cold, cold-hearted, coldly, distant, drily, dryly), phớt lạnh không thêm bớt; rành rành khô cứng, sắc cạnh (sharp), không bơ nguyên chất. (various references)

Welsh

sychu (absorb, dry up, wipe, wipe dry), sychlyd, sychedig (parched, thirsty), sych (arid), hysbio, hysb (barren), gwystno (flag, wither), crin (arid, sear, withered), cras (arid, harsh, parched), caledu (harden), caled (arduous, austere, hard, harsh, severe). (various references)

Yucatec

tihsik, tihil. (various references)

austeros, xeros. (various references)

arefaciens, arefaciet, arefacta, arefactae, arefactum, arefecit, asabamque, assas, assaturam, assaverunt, assavit, assiccare, ieiunas, ieiuno, ieiunos, ieiunus, inaquosa, inaquoso, jejunus, sicca, siccabit, siccabitur, siccabo, siccabuntur, siccam, siccans, siccante, siccaque, siccarentur, siccasque, siccasset, siccasti, siccata, siccatio, siccatus, siccaverit, siccavi, siccavit, siccentur, sicci, siccis, sicco, siccum, siccus, sitiens, sitiensque, sitientem, sitientes, sitienti, sitientibus. (various references)

hushanãm. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "dry": dryable, dryad, dryades, dryadic, dryads, dryasdust, dryasdusts, dryer, dryers, dryest, drying, dryish, dryland, drylot, drylots, dryly, dryness, drynesses, dryopithecine, dryopithecines, drypoint, drypoints, drys, drysalter, drysalteries, drysalters, drysaltery, drystone, drywall, drywalls. (additional references)

Words ending with "dry": balladry, bawdry, cuckoldry, foundry, gynandry, haphazardry, heraldry, husbandry, laundry, legendry, misandry, monandry, overdry, polyandry, redry, ribaldry, roughdry, semidry, sundry, tawdry, ultradry, updry, wizardry. (additional references)

Words containing "dry": hamadryad, hamadryades, hamadryads, laundryman, laundrymen, overdrying, redrying, roughdrying, semidrying, sulfhydryl, sulfhydryls, updrying. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adyr, darry, dary, dermy, Deryn, dgry, dgy, dirsy, dirvy, diry, diy, Dly, doy, dre, drey, Dreye, dreyt, drg, dri, Drie, Drieu, drij, drix, driy, driz, dro, drs, dru, drw, drya, drye, dryg, dryq, drys, dryt, dryx, Durey, duri, durry, dury, duy, dwy, dxycp, d'y, d'ya, Dyf, dyr, dyrr, dyv, dyx, Fdry, kry, rdp, rry, ry, Udry, vry, yrd. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

+1 letter: dory, dray, drys, dyer, rynd, yard, yird.

+2 letters: curdy, cyder, dairy, deary, decry, deray, derby, derry, diary, dirty, dorky, dormy, dorty, dowry, drays, drily, dryad, dryer, dryly, dyers, grody, gyred, hardy, hydra, hydro, lardy, lyard, nerdy, pardy, perdy, randy, rayed, ready, redly, redry, redye, reedy, ridgy, rowdy, ruddy, ryked, rynds, tardy, tyred, updry, wordy, yaird, yards, yirds.