Search for crossword answers and clues
Unproductive especially of the expected results
Answer for the clue "Unproductive especially of the expected results ", 5 letters:
drier
Alternative clues for the word drier
Word definitions for drier in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 One who, or that which, dries; a desiccative. 2 (context chiefly British Canadian English) Any substance that accelerates drying. 3 (context chiefly British Canadian English) Catalyst used to promote the drying of paints and varnishes by ...
Usage examples of drier.
But at midnight, just as the drier is drawing the hops, a thunderstorm bursts, and the blue lightning lights up the red cone without, blue as the sulphur flames creeping over the charcoal within.
After passing an afternoon with the drier in the kiln, seated close to a great heap of hops and inhaling the odour, I was in a condition of agreeable excitement all the evening.
The drier garbage is, the less flies will be attracted to it, so first drain it as much as possible.
George would have had an electric box of tricks for regulating the length of exposures, a mass of developing equipment and a drier for drying the finished prints.
With all five in the drier I sat for ages staring into space, thinking disjointed thoughts.
I but reach them they would make at least a drier bed than this of mine, and at that thought, turning over, I found all my muscles as stiff as iron, the sinews of my neck and forearms a mass of agonies and no more fit to swim me to those reedy swamps, which now, as pain and hunger began to tell, seemed to wear the aspects of paradise.
CHAPTER XVIII Hotter and hotter grew that stifling spell, more and more languid man and beast, drier and drier the parching earth.
Conan drew his own weapon as the two of them attained the drier, but still damp stone floor.
She wrapped herself in the cape, which was hardly drier than her own clothing.
Minghy that the drier rattles this whole apartment, but you might as well be whistling in the wind, for all the good that does.
The sound of the drier fit in with that notion, though anyone could have been using it.
Aine, looking more robust now that she was warm and a little drier, jumped in to console her in a way that was so touching it brought a sting to my own eyes.
It enables the planter to produce a drier bean, and one which has, when roasted, a finer flavour, colour, and aroma, than the unfermented.
Barrier Range, whose slopes, while not nearly so steep as those of the Upper Spine Mountains, were far drier and composed of a combination of ancient lava and red sandstone.
Some few remained in the warmer lands, but even they preferred drier or higher lands.