Crossword-Solution: DRIER 5 letters, 118 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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Drier n. One who, or that which, dries; that which may expel or
absorb moisture; a desiccative; as, the sun and a northwesterly wind
are great driers of the earth.
Drier n. Drying oil; a substance mingled with the oil used in oil
painting to make it dry quickly.
Drier superl. Alt. of Driest

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DRIER anagram DIRER, RIDER

We have 118 clues for the answer “DRIER”

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Any desiccant, e.g. 1 answer
Beauty shop device. 1 answer
Beauty shop necessity. 1 answer
Beauty-shop device 1 answer
Brut, compared to sec 1 answer
Cracking more, say 1 answer
Desiccating device. 1 answer
Device in the beauty salon 1 answer
Having less alcohol 1 answer
Having less vermouth, as a martini 1 answer
Having less vermouth, say 1 answer
Launderette machine 1 answer
Laundry component 1 answer
Less damp 1 answer
Less dank 1 answer
Less drenched 1 answer
Less drippy 1 answer
Less humid 1 answer
Less lively, as prose 1 answer
Less moist 1 answer
Less rainy 1 answer
Less rainy, as a climate 1 answer
Less soaked 1 answer
Less sweet, as wine 1 answer
Less sweet, at a wine tasting 1 answer
Less watery 1 answer
Less wet 1 answer
Like Nevada as compared to Louisiana 1 answer
Like Phoenix vis-a-vis Seattle 1 answer
Like Phoenix, vis-à-vis most cities 1 answer
Like a cabernet vis-à-vis a merlot, usually 1 answer
Like desert climates, comparatively 1 answer
Like prunes vis-à-vis plums 1 answer
Like southern Israel vis-à-vis northern Israel 1 answer
Like the Atacama vis-à-vis the Sonoran Desert 1 answer
Like vinho verde vis-à-vis vin santo 1 answer
Martini comparative 1 answer
More abstemious 1 answer
More brut 1 answer
More chapped, say 1 answer
More deadpan 1 answer
More deadpan, as humor 1 answer
More in need of moisturizer 1 answer
More like Tempe than Tampa 1 answer
More like the Mohave 1 answer
More likely to drink 1 answer
More thirsty 1 answer
More uninteresting 1 answer
Not as damp 1 answer
Not as humid 1 answer
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with DRIER (5)

She knew a dozen places where lions laired, and every drinking hole in the drier country twenty-five miles back from the river.
The Son of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Stryver, already fast shouldering his way to a large and lucrative practice, behind his compeers in this particular, any more than in the drier parts of the legal race.
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994
The older part of the camp consisted almost wholly of trenches, as though this had been the original form of dwellings which was slowly giving way to the drier and airier surface domiciles.
The Lost Continent Edgar Rice Burroughs 1994
The wild sheep is another admirable alpine rover, but comparatively rare in the Oregon mountains, choosing rather the drier ridges to the southward on the Cascades and to the eastward among the spurs of the Rocky Mountain chain.
Steep Trails John Muir 1995
And certain it is, that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another, is drier and purer, than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment; which is ever infused, and drenched, in his affections and customs.
Essays Francis Bacon 1996

Quotes with DRIER (3)

My world today is raw, it is a world of great vital difficulty. Because, more than a star, today I want the thick and black root of the stars, I want the source that always seems dirty, and is dirty, and that is always incomprehensible. It is with pain that I bid farewell even to the beauty of a child - I want the adult who is more primitive and ugly and drier and more difficult, and who became a child-seed that cannot be broken between the teeth.
Clarice Lispector The Passion According to G.H.
I suggest you stand slowly and walk out with my men,” Zrakovi said, tapping a napkin against his lying, two-faced mouth and putting a twenty on the table to cover the drinks. “If you make a scene, innocent humans will be injured. I have a Blue Congress cleanup team in place, however, so if you want to fight in public and damage a few humans, knock yourself out. It will only add to your list of crimes.” I stood slowly, gritting my teeth when Squirrel Chin patted me down while …
Suzanne Johnson Belle Chasse
And they left the mellow light of the dandelion wine and went upstairs to carry out the last few rituals of summer, for they felt that now the final day, the final night had come. As the day grew late they realized that for two or three nights now, porches had emptied early of their inhabitants. The air hard a different, drier smell and Grandma was talking of hot coffee instead of iced tea; the open, white-flutter-curtained windows were closing in the great bays; cold cuts we…
Ray Bradbury Dandelion Wine
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Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 175 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).