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57 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)

— English words —

• dry adj. Free from or lacking moisture.
• dry adj. Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (farming) milk.
• dry adj. (Masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
• dry adj. (Chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
• dry adj. (Figurative) Athirst, eager.
• dry adj. Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
• dry adj. (Law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
• dry adj. Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly…
• dry adj. (Aviation) Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
• dry adj. (Sciences, somewhat derogatory) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
• dry adj. (Of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
• dry adj. Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
• dry adj. (Christianity) Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
• dry n. The process by which something is dried.
• dry n. (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
• dry n. An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
• dry n. (Chiefly Australia, with "the") The dry season.
• dry n. (Australia) An area of waterless country.
• dry n. Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
• dry n. (Britain, UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies…
• dry v. (Intransitive) To lose moisture.
• dry v. (Transitive) To remove moisture from.
• dry v. (Transitive, figurative) To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
• dry v. (Intransitive, informal) For an actor to forget his or her lines while performing.
• Dry prop.n. A surname.
• DRY phr. (Software engineering) Acronym of don’t repeat yourself (“software development principle aimed at reducing…
• DRY adj. (Software engineering) Of code, having the quality of adhering to the principle of DRY; containing as…
• DRY v. (Software engineering) To cause code to become DRY; to remove repetition from code.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Albanian
  • dry n. Lock, bolt.
• Chinese
  • dry adj. (Of a person) lacking sex or romance.
• Middle english
  • dry adj. Alternative form of drye.
• Old english
  • dry n. Wizard, sorcerer.
• Romanian
  • dry adj. Dry (about drinks).
• Welsh
  • dry v. Soft mutation of try.
  • dry- pref. Soft mutation of try-.

— English words, defined in German —

• dry Adj. Trocken.
• dry Adj. Nicht unter, in oder auf Wasser.
• dry Adj. Gleichgültig, emotionslos, kalt.
• DRY Abk. Softwareentwicklung: Don’t Repeat Yourself (zu deutsch Wiederhole dich nicht).

— English word, defined in Dutch —

• dry bijv. Droog.

— English words, defined in French —

• dry adj. (Météorologie) Sec.
• dry adj. Difficile.
• dry n. (Politique) (Familier) Intransigeant.
• dry v. Sécher.
• dry v. Épuiser (dry up).
• DRY n. (Programmation) Bonne pratique consistant à éviter l’antipatron redondance de code.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• dry adj. Seco.
• dry s. Política. Intransigente.
• dry v. Secar.
• dry v. Secarse.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• dry agg. Asciutto, asciugare, secco.

— In Dutch —

• dry bijv. Droog, niet zoet.

— In French —

• dry adj. Sec.
• dry n.m. Désigne un apéritif.
• Dry n.prop. (Géographie) Commune française, située dans le département…

— In Portuguese —

• dry adj. (Estrangeirismo) ver seco.

— In Italian —

• dry agg. (Enologia) (forestierismo) secco, riferito principalmente…

168 English words from 35 English definitions

about Acronym actor adhering afterburners aimed aimed␣at alcohol alcoholic ale Alternative Anhydrous any applied are area Athirst audio Australia Aviation banned become beverages biological bolt Britain Built cause chemical Chemistry Chiefly Christianity code communion complement computations consecration Conservative consummation containing country derogatory Describing development don dried drinks dry dry␣season eager effects embellishment engineering especially exhaust farming figurative for forget form free from ginger ginger␣ale hard hard␣line having her his impotent increased informal injection Intransitive involving lacking Law line lines liquid liquids little Lock lose Masonry mass matter milk moisture mortar mutation neither nor Not Of␣a oil one other particularly performing person petrochemistry policies politics presence principle process produce prohibitionist quality radical rain rather rather␣than recording reducing regardless regardless␣of remove repeat repetition reverb rite romance run run␣dry sales Sciences season service sex sheltered Soft Soft␣mutation software Software␣engineering something somewhat sorcerer sound state strong supported surname sweetness than the the␣quality thrust to␣the Transitive try Unable Unsweetened using usual water water␣injection waterless where which while who with without Wizard work yourself

23 English words from 22 foreign definitions

apéritif auf Bonne code Commune consistant dans département dich Difficile Don Droog dry dry␣up Intransigeant Politique pratique Repeat Sec secco ver Wasser Yourself

1 foreign word from 35 English definitions

water␣in

36 foreign words from 22 foreign definitions

antipatron Asciutto Bonne␣pratique Désigne deutsch emotionslos Enologia Épuiser Estrangeirismo éviter Familier forestierismo française Géographie Gleichgültig Intransigente kalt Météorologie nicht niet oder Política principalmente Programmation redondance riferito Secar Secarse Sécher seco située Softwareentwicklung Trocken unter Wiederhole zoet

377 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

Drye drys Drys dryad dryas Dryas dryer Dryer Dryes dryly dryte dryth drytt dry␣up dryade dryads drybag dry␣bay dry␣bob Dryden dryers Dryers dryest dry␣eye dryfat dry␣fly dry␣fog dry␣hop dry␣ice drying dryish dry-lab dry␣lab Drymen dry␣off dryout dry␣out dry␣pot dryrot dry-rot dry␣rot dry-run dry␣run dry␣sex dryths dry␣wit dryable dryades dryadic dry-aged +327 words

157 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

Andrys Budryk cedryl Madrys Mudryk undry'd Bowdrys Budryks Condrys Gendrya Guidrys Gundrys wild␣rye Beaudrys Chaudrys jet␣dryer Odrysian redrying rendryng undrying updrying airdrying air-drying blowdryer blow-dryer blow␣dryer hairdryer hair-dryer hair␣dryer hamadryad hamadryas hand␣dryer McKendrys medrysone nondrying Odrysians rendrynge spin␣dryer sundryman sundrymen undryable adryamicin benzhydryl blowdryers blow-dryers blow␣dryers blowdrying blow-drying Cowdry␣body drip-drying +107 words

164 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

adry Andry -andry cedry Madry redry undry updry airdry air-dry Baldry bawdry Bowdry Condry fladry fordry goodry Guidry Gundry Hendry Landry lardry Pendry powdry run␣dry sondry sundry sun-dry tawdry tendry Beaudry biandry bled␣dry blowdry blow-dry bonedry bone-dry bone␣dry chandry Chaudry Choudry damp-dry diandry drip-dry Druidry feet␣dry foundry guildry laundry line-dry +114 words

One word-in-word RTL (Word found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

YRD

One anagram (New word found by changing the order of the letters.)

YRD

32 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

adry Byrd Dery dory Dory dray Dray drey Drey Drye drys Drys Dury Dyar dyer Dyer d'yer dyor DYOR fyrd hydr- Rady rudy Rudy Ryde rynd urdy wyrd Wyrd yard Yard yerd

20 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

dr Dr DR dr. Dr. D.R. dy Dy rd RD -rd rd. Rd. R&D -ry Ry. yd yd. Y/D yr

49 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

ary Ary -ary cry day Day dey Dey DIY doy Dra DRA DRC D.R.C. D.␣R.␣C. DRD Dre DRE DRF DRI D.R.I. DRL DRM DRN dro DRO DRP DRR Drs DRs DRS drs. Drs. Dru DRV -ery e'ry fry Fry FRY gry -ory pry Pry sry Sry try Ury wry

10 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

dr Dr DR dr. Dr. D.R. dy Dy -ry Ry.

8 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

Dery dory Dory dray Dray drey Drey Dury

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