Words that start with D

A drawing board is a flat board used for making pictures. People use it to hold paper while they draw.

You can find drawing boards in classrooms, art rooms, and at home. It helps the paper stay still so it is easier to draw on. Some boards have a clip or smooth surface to keep the sheet in place. Larger drawing boards are used by architects and engineers to make plans.

Dreadlocks are like ropes growing in your hair. They form when your hair matts together. Dreadlocks will form on their own if you never comb your hair, but most people encourage dreadlocks to form. Dreadlocks form more easily in people with tightly curled hair.

Dregs is the residue left behind after something else has been taken away. Dregs usually refers to the poorest quality part of something that has been left behind, or the worst of something, as in "the dregs of society".

You are dressed if you are wearing clothes. You usually get dressed in a way that suits something, like you get dressed in a suit or gown to go to a wedding. The little girl in the picture is dressed to go out visiting.

Drew is the past tense of draw.

A drift is a pile of snow that has been blown by the wind. Snow drifts often form along fences, walls, or hills where the wind slows down and drops the snow.

Snow drifts can become much deeper than the snow that originally fell. In strong winds, drifting snow can block roads, cover paths, and build up in large mounds.

A drill is a small machine you hold in your hand. You use it to drill holes in things, or to screw things together or unscrew them. You can change what you can do with a drill by changing the bit that spins around at the end of the drill. Most drill bits are just a thin, sharp rod that spins around to make holes, but some bits are the same as the end of a screwdriver that you can use on different sized screws.

A drinking straw is a small, thin tube that people use to suck drinks out of a glass or cup.

Driving is the word given to controlling a land vehicle, like a car, bus or even a horse-drawn vehicle. To drive something you need to know how to start and stop it, how to steer it, and of course you need to know the road rules to be able to safely drive.

A drone is a small aircraft that flies without a pilot inside it. It is controlled remotely by a person on the ground or programmed to fly automatically.

The word drone began to be used for pilotless aircraft in the early 1900s. The name was inspired by male bees, also called drones, which do not gather food and were used as a metaphor for machines that operate without a human inside.