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Yes. The word drill is a Scrabble US word. The word drill is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word drill is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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5-letter words (1 found)

DRILL,

4-letter words (3 found)

DILL,DIRL,RILL,

3-letter words (3 found)

ILL,LID,RID,

2-letter words (3 found)

DI,ID,LI,

You can make 10 words from drill according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of drill

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Definitions and meaning of drill

drill

Pronunciation

  • enPR: drĭl, IPA(key): /dɹɪl/, [dɹɪɫ]
  • Rhymes: -ɪl

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch drillen (“bore, move in a circle”).

Verb

drill (third-person singular simple present drills, present participle drilling, simple past and past participle drilled)

  1. (transitive) To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
    Synonyms: excavate, bore, gouge; see also Thesaurus:make a hole
  2. (intransitive) To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
  3. (ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
  4. (transitive) To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
  5. (intransitive, figurative) To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
  6. (transitive) To hit or kick with a lot of power.
  7. (baseball) To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
  8. (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
    Synonyms: plow, poke, root, shaft; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
  9. (slang) To shoot; to kill.
    Synonym: drill up
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Noun

drill (plural drills)

  2. A tool or machine used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
  3. The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
  4. An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.
  5. A short and highly repeatable sports training exercise designed to hone a particular skill that may be useful in competition.
  6. Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx and others, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that make holes in the shells of their prey.
  8. (uncountable, music) A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago. [from 2010s]
Derived terms
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Related terms

  • drill bit
  • twist drill
  • drill press
  • drill down

Further reading

  • Jonathon Green (2024) “drill v.1”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  • drill music on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Ocenebrinae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Etymology 2

Perhaps the same as Etymology 3; compare German Rille which can also mean "small furrow".

Noun

drill (plural drills)

  1. An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
  2. A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
  3. A row of seed sown in a furrow.
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Verb

drill (third-person singular simple present drills, present participle drilling, simple past and past participle drilled)

  1. (transitive) To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
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Etymology 3

Uncertain. Compare the same sense of trill, and German trillen, drillen. Attestation predates Etymology 1.

Noun

drill (plural drills)

  1. (obsolete) A small trickling stream; a rill.
    • c. 1635, George Sandys:
Translations

Verb

drill (third-person singular simple present drills, present participle drilling, simple past and past participle drilled)

  1. (transitive) To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
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Etymology 4

From Middle English drillen (“to delay, defer, put off”), of origin unknown.

Verb

drill (third-person singular simple present drills, present participle drilling, simple past and past participle drilled)

  1. (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To protract, lengthen out; fritter away, spend (time) aimlessly.
  2. (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To entice or allure; to decoy; with on.
    Synonyms: entice, lead on, lure
  3. (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
    • August 28, 1731, letter by Jonathan Swift to John Gay and Catherine Douglas, Duchess of Queensberry
      This cursed accident hath drilled away the whole summer.
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Etymology 5

Probably of African origin; compare mandrill.

Noun

drill (plural drills)

  1. An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.
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Further reading

  • Mandrillus leucophaeus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Mandrillus leucophaeus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • Mandrillus leucophaeus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 6

From German Drillich (“denim, canvas, drill”).

Noun

drill (countable and uncountable, plural drills)

  1. A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.
Synonyms
  • chino
Derived terms
  • khaki drill, KD
Translations

French

Etymology

From English drill.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʁil/

Noun

drill m (plural drills)

  1. drill (tool)

Related terms

  • driller

Further reading

  • “drill”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

German

Pronunciation

Verb

drill

  1. singular imperative of drillen
  2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of drillen

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

drill

  1. imperative of drille

Source: wiktionary.org