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STARENOPST[v. TARRED, TARRING, TARS] [Wiktionary - Sense 11] A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East.
—DRUMS[v. DRUMMED, DRUMMING°, DRUMS] [Wiktionary - Sense 10] To beat a drum.
—FIFEDRS[v. FIFED, FIFING, FIFES] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music
BCFTROCKSY[v. -ED, -ING, -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 33] A style of music characterized by basic drum-beat, generally 4/4 riffs, based on (usually electric) guitar, bass guitar, drums, keyboards (often), and vocals.
GRUFFES[v. -ED, -ING, -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 22] A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruffle.
ATAPS—[v. TAPPED, TAPPING°, TAPS] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed, usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo; the signal is sometimes also given during the funeral of a soldier.
STUCKS[v. -ED, -ING°, -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 20] The beat of a drum.
—BONGOS[n. -GOS or -GOES] [Wiktionary - Sense 2] Either of a pair of small drums of Cuban origin, played by beating with the hands.
—CONGAS[v. -ED, -ING, -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A tall, narrow, single-headed Cuban hand drum of African origin.
—DRUMS—[v. DRUMMED, DRUMMING°, DRUMS] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] plural of drum
—METALS[v. -ALED or -ALLED, -ALING or -ALLING, -ALS] [Wiktionary - Sense 14] Characterized by strong drum-beats and distorted guitars.
—TABERS[v. -ED, -ING, -S] · to tabor «to beat on a small drum» / ----- { taber tabor tabour § tabers tabors tabours § taber tabered tabering tabers tabor tabored taboring tabors tabour taboured tabouring tabours }
—TABLAS[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A pair of tuned hand drums, used in various musical genres of the Indian subcontinent, that are similar to bongos.
—TABORS[v. -ED, -ING, -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A small drum.
—TAIKOS[n. -KOS] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A traditional drum, beaten by yobidashi to announce the beginning of a tournament, and at the end of each day
STRAPS—[v. TRAPPED or TRAPT, TRAPPING°, TRAPS] [Wiktionary - Sense 2] A trap set (drum kit).
—WINCH—[v. -ED, -ING, -ES] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A machine consisting of a drum on an axle, a friction brake or ratchet and pawl, and a crank handle or prime mover (often an electric or hydraulic motor), with or without gearing, to give increased mechanical advantage when hoisting or hauling on a rope or cable.
—ATABALS[n. -S] · a type of drum
—BARRELS[v. -RELED or -RELLED, -RELING or -RELLING, -RELS] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). The word is sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
—BONGOS—[n. -GOS or -GOES] [Wiktionary - Sense 2] Either of a pair of small drums of Cuban origin, played by beating with the hands.
—DHOLAKS[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A North Indian hand drum.
—DJEMBES[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A large, rope-tuned, skin-covered drum played with the bare hands, used in West African and some fusion music.
—DRUMLY—[a. -LIER, -LIEST] · dark and gloomy
—MEAGRER[a. -RER, -REST] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] An edible fish, of species Argyrosomus regius, of the family Sciaenidae, found from the Black Sea to the eastern Atlantic.
—TABERS—[v. -ED, -ING, -S] · to tabor «to beat on a small drum» / ----- { taber tabor tabour § tabers tabors tabours § taber tabered tabering tabers tabor tabored taboring tabors tabour taboured tabouring tabours }
—TABLAS—[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A pair of tuned hand drums, used in various musical genres of the Indian subcontinent, that are similar to bongos.
—TABORS—[v. -ED, -ING, -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A small drum.
—TABOURS[v. -ED, -ING, -S] · to tabor «to beat on a small drum» / ----- { taber tabor tabour § tabers tabors tabours § taber tabered tabering tabers tabor tabored taboring tabors tabour taboured tabouring tabours }
—TAIKOS—[n. -KOS] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A traditional drum, beaten by yobidashi to announce the beginning of a tournament, and at the end of each day
—TATTOOS[v. -ED, -ING, -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 6] A signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters.
—TIMBALES[n. -S] · a large drum / ----- { timbal tymbal § timbals tymbals }
—TOMBAKS[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A type of goblet drum used heavily in Persian music.
—TYMBALS[n. -S] · timbal «a large drum» / ----- { timbal tymbal § timbals tymbals }
—TYMPANAIOSY[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 2] The stretched membrane of a drum.
—ATABALS—[n. -S] · a type of drum
—BODHRANS[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A type of frame drum used in Irish music struck traditionally with an animal bone, or in modern times, with a piece of wood.
—BONGOES—[n. -GOS or -GOES] [Wiktionary - Sense 2] Either of a pair of small drums of Cuban origin, played by beating with the hands.
—CHAMADES[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A signal sounded on a drum or trumpet inviting a parley.
—DHOLAKS—[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A North Indian hand drum.
—DJEMBES—[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A large, rope-tuned, skin-covered drum played with the bare hands, used in West African and some fusion music.
—DRUMMED—[v. DRUMMED, DRUMMING°, DRUMS] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] simple past and past participle of drum
—DRUMMERS[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] One who plays the drums.
—EARDRUMS[n. -S] · the tympanic membrane
—GAMELANS[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A genre of music of Indonesian origin typically featuring metallophones, xylophones, drums, gongs and a bamboo flute (called a suling).
—GOOMBAYS[n. -BAYS] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A type of traditional Bahamian drum.
—PANNISTS[n. -S] · a person who plays a steel drum
—QAWWALIS[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A style of Muslim devotional music, especially among the South Asian Sufis, accompanied by drums and harmonium.
—RIMSHOTS[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A percussive note in which the drumstick hits both the head and the rim of the drum.
—TABERED—[v. -ED, -ING, -S] · to tabor «to beat on a small drum» / ----- { taber tabor tabour § tabers tabors tabours § taber tabered tabering tabers tabor tabored taboring tabors tabour taboured tabouring tabours }
—TABORED—[v. -ED, -ING, -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A small drum.
—TABORERS[n. -S] · one that tabors «to beat on a small drum» / ----- { taborer tabourer § taborers tabourers }
—TABORETS[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A little drum; a tabret.
—TABOURS—[v. -ED, -ING, -S] · to tabor «to beat on a small drum» / ----- { taber tabor tabour § tabers tabors tabours § taber tabered tabering tabers tabor tabored taboring tabors tabour taboured tabouring tabours }
—TAMBOURAS[v. -ED, -ING, -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A small shallow drum.
—TIMBALES[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A drum-shaped mould used to cook food.
—TIMBALS—[n. -S] · a large drum / ----- { timbal tymbal § timbals tymbals }
—TOMBOLAS[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A lottery in which winning tickets are drawn from a revolving drum.
—TYMBALS—[n. -S] · timbal «a large drum» / ----- { timbal tymbal § timbals tymbals }
—TYMPANS—[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 2] The stretched membrane of a drum.
—TYMPANY—[n. -NIES] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] The sound made by beating a drum.
—BODHRANS—[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A type of frame drum used in Irish music struck traditionally with an animal bone, or in modern times, with a piece of wood.
—CHAMADES—[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A signal sounded on a drum or trumpet inviting a parley.
—DRUMBEATS[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] The beating of a drum.
—DRUMFIRES[n. -S] · heavy, continuous gunfire
—DRUMFISH—[n. -ES] · a fish that makes a drumming sound
—DRUMLIKE—[a.] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] Resembling a drum, such as in sound or shape
—DRUMMERS—[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] One who plays the drums.
—DRUMMINGS[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] The act of beating a drum.
—JUNGLISTS[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A dedicated listener to jungle or drum and bass music.
—MRIDANGAMS[n. -S] · a drum of India~
—PANNISTS—[n. -S] · a person who plays a steel drum
—RATAPLANS[v. -PLANNED, -PLANNING, -PLANS] [Wiktionary - Sense 2] To drum repeatedly.
—REVEILLES[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] The sounding of a bugle or drum early in the morning to awaken soldiers.
—RIMSHOTS—[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A percussive note in which the drumstick hits both the head and the rim of the drum.
—STICKING—[v. -ED, -ING, -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 2] A sequence or arrangement of drum notes to be played with drumsticks.
—TABERING—[v. -ED, -ING, -S] · to tabor «to beat on a small drum» / ----- { taber tabor tabour § tabers tabors tabours § taber tabered tabering tabers tabor tabored taboring tabors tabour taboured tabouring tabours }
—TABORERS—[n. -S] · one that tabors «to beat on a small drum» / ----- { taborer tabourer § taborers tabourers }
—TABORETS—[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A little drum; a tabret.
—TABORINES[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A small, shallow drum; a tabor.
—TABORING—[v. -ED, -ING, -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A small drum.
—TABOURED—[v. -ED, -ING, -S] · to tabor «to beat on a small drum» / ----- { taber tabor tabour § tabers tabors tabours § taber tabered tabering tabers tabor tabored taboring tabors tabour taboured tabouring tabours }
—TABOURETS[n. -S] · taboret «a small drum» / ----- { taboret taborin taborine tabouret § taborets taborines taborins tabourets }
—TIMBALES—[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 2] A pair of tunable single-headed, metal-shelled cylindrical drums, used in Latin American music
—TYMPANIC—[a.] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] Of, relating to, or resembling a drum.
—TYMPANUMS[n. -NA or -NUMS] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A drum.
—BAROGRAPHS[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A type of barometer that continuously records air pressure on a sheet or rotating drum
—BLUEGRASS—[n. -ES] [Wiktionary - Sense 2] A subgenre of country music with roots in Scots-Irish Appalachian folk music, blues, and jazz and characterized by banjos, fiddles, acoustic guitars, dobros, and mandolins; but containing no drums, electric guitars, pianos or other keyboard or wind instruments; using a bass fiddle to carry its rhythm.
—DRUMBEATS—[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] The beating of a drum.
—DRUMMINGS—[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] The act of beating a drum.
—DRUMSTICKS[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A stick used to play drums.
—KYMOGRAPHSY[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A device that gives a graphical representation of a variation in a phenomenon such as blood pressure over time, using a pen on a rotating drum.
—MAJORETTES[n. -S] · See drum majorette
—MRIDANGAMS[n. -S] A percussion instrument used in southern Indian~ music.
—MRIDANGAS—[n. -S] · a drum of India~
—SCIAENOIDS[n. -S] · Derivative of sciaenid «of, relating to, or belonging to the Sciaenidae~, a family of mainly tropical and subtropical marine percoid fishes that includes the drums, grunts, and croakers» / ----- { sciaenid sciaenoid § sciaenids sciaenoids § sciaenoid }
—TABORINES—[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A small, shallow drum; a tabor.
—TABOURETS—[n. -S] · taboret «a small drum» / ----- { taboret taborin taborine tabouret § taborets taborines taborins tabourets }
—TABOURING—[v. -ED, -ING, -S] · to tabor «to beat on a small drum» / ----- { taber tabor tabour § tabers tabors tabours § taber tabered tabering tabers tabor tabored taboring tabors tabour taboured tabouring tabours }
—TAMBOURINEGS[n. -S] · © a tambourine «© a small drum, especially a shallow drum with only one skin, played on with the hand, and having bells at the sides; a timbrel» / ----- { tambourin tambourine § tambourines tambourins § tambourine tambourines }
—TATTOOING—[v. -ED, -ING, -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] The act of beating out a rhythm on a drum
—TATTOOISTS[n. -S] · Derivative of tattoo «(formerly) a signal by drum or bugle ordering the military to return to their quarters»
—TYMPANISTS[n. -S] · © one who beats a drum / ----- { timpanist tympanist § timpanists tympanists }
—DRUMBEATERS[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] One who beats a drum.
—DRUMSTICKS—[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A stick used to play drums.
—DUPLICATORS[n. -S] · an apparatus for making replicas of an original, such as a machine using a stencil wrapped on an ink-loaded drum
—KETTLEDRUMS[n. -S] · © a drum made of thin copper in the form of a hemispherical kettle, with parchment stretched over the mouth of it
—MAJORETTES—[n. -S] · See drum majorette
—MIMEOGRAPHS[v. -ED, -ING, -S] · ® an office machine for printing multiple copies of text or line drawings from an inked drum to which a cut stencil is fixed
—PARADIDDLEDS[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A percussive exercise (one of 26 drum rudiments per the National Association of Rudimental Drummers or one of 40 per the Percussive Arts Society) which involves playing four even strokes in the order ‘right left right right’ or ‘left right left left.’
—PERCUSSIONS[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 5] The section of an orchestra or band containing percussion instruments; such instruments considered as a group; in bands, may be separate from drum kits.
—SCIAENOIDS—[n. -S] · Derivative of sciaenid «of, relating to, or belonging to the Sciaenidae~, a family of mainly tropical and subtropical marine percoid fishes that includes the drums, grunts, and croakers» / ----- { sciaenid sciaenoid § sciaenids sciaenoids § sciaenoid }
—TAMBOURINES[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum.
—TAMBOURINS—[n. -S] · © a tambourine «© a small drum, especially a shallow drum with only one skin, played on with the hand, and having bells at the sides; a timbrel» / ----- { tambourin tambourine § tambourines tambourins § tambourine tambourines }
—TATTOOISTS—[n. -S] · Derivative of tattoo «(formerly) a signal by drum or bugle ordering the military to return to their quarters»
—TYMPANISTS—[n. -S] · © one who beats a drum / ----- { timpanist tympanist § timpanists tympanists }
—CHRONOGRAPHSY[n. -S] · © an instrument for measuring or recording intervals of time, upon a revolving drum or strip of paper moved by clockwork. The action of the stylus or pen is controlled by electricity
—DRUMBEATINGS[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A beating of drums.
—DUPLICATORS—[n. -S] · an apparatus for making replicas of an original, such as a machine using a stencil wrapped on an ink-loaded drum
—KETTLEDRUMS—[n. -S] · © a drum made of thin copper in the form of a hemispherical kettle, with parchment stretched over the mouth of it
—MIMEOGRAPHS—[v. -ED, -ING, -S] · ® an office machine for printing multiple copies of text or line drawings from an inked drum to which a cut stencil is fixed
—PARADIDDLES—[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A percussive exercise (one of 26 drum rudiments per the National Association of Rudimental Drummers or one of 40 per the Percussive Arts Society) which involves playing four even strokes in the order ‘right left right right’ or ‘left right left left.’
—TAMBOURINES—[n. -S] [Wiktionary - Sense 1] A percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum.
—CHRONOGRAPHS—[n. -S] · © an instrument for measuring or recording intervals of time, upon a revolving drum or strip of paper moved by clockwork. The action of the stylus or pen is controlled by electricity
—MIMEOGRAPHED—[v. -ED, -ING, -S] · ® an office machine for printing multiple copies of text or line drawings from an inked drum to which a cut stencil is fixed
—MIMEOGRAPHING—[v. -ED, -ING, -S] · ® an office machine for printing multiple copies of text or line drawings from an inked drum to which a cut stencil is fixed

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