10-Letter Words Starting with D

Diazotize

Dicentric

""A nonpersistent organophosphorous pesticide, C 4 H 7 O 4 Cl 2 P, of low toxicity to humans.""

Dichondra

Dichroism

Salt that is typically red or orange; admit ochre (anagram)

Dichromat

Franglais patients contact policemen about bird

Sparrow-like North American songbird related to the cardinals

English word

English word

Dicrotism

Dictation

Book that's full of meaning (wordplay)

Definitive book (wordplay)

Oxford, for one.

The Golgi apparatus in plant cells.

Dicumarol

""One of a group of extinct reptiles having the jaws armed with a horny beak, as in turtles, and in the genus Dicynodon, supporting also a pair of powerful tusks. Their remains are found in triassic strata of South Africa and India. Dicynodon, supporting also a pair of powerful tusks. Their remains are found in triassic strata of South Africa and India.""

Instructive addict's outburst: 'One state!'

Instructive

Musical instrument from down under

Down Under wind

Wind instrument Down Under

""Pl. didjeridoos or didgeridoos A musical instrument of the Aboriginal peoples of Australia, consisting of a long hollow branch or stick that makes a deep drone when blown into.""

Didynamy

Insulator, derelict IC (anagram)

Dieseling

DIESELIZE

Dieselize

Diestrus

Advisers on girth control

Plate creators variable

Food experts

Food gurus

Of course their work makes the little bird of the boy pass away

What's left of Diversity (wordplay)

End of quip

Disagreement if red fence collapsed

Trouble from iffy cult I'd abandoned

Strain of pig-headed male chromosome

Struggle for fellows in charge last month engaged in do-it-yourself

Modesty, shyness

Shyness - mistrust

Modest shyness

Diffract

Capable of being scattered

Diffusion

Capable of being assimilated

Stop claiming rotten giblets okay to eat

Able to be eaten

Digestion

Appreciate eastern Cornwall town's biscuits

Digitalin

""To record digitally, e. g. on digital tape or compact disks.e. g. on digital tape or compact disks.""

DIGITATE having digits

Digitizer

Adapting a book for the screen, say

Digitonin

Digitoxin

Dignify

Digress

A departure from the main subject

Straying off the subject

Going off course from nameless entrance in Dublin (wordplay)

Tending to ramble

Fancy European ship in waterway almost straying from point

Tatty plaid I see in waste

Ruin unusual plaid Ida Lawrence made

Cause to fall into ruin

Prolixity; diffuse discourse.

With delay; tardily.

DILEMMA a perplexing situation

Dabbler in fine arts.

One who dabbles superficially

Lover of the fine arts.

Art lovers of sorts.

Arty dabblers

Superficial dabblers

Diligence

With meticulous care

With assiduity

Painstakingly replacing lid gradually after one

Drag one's feet

Postpone what one should be doing

Waste time by delay

The quality or state of being dilute.

Box's measurements

Time and others

Length, breadth and height

Dimerize

DIMETHOATE

Part 10 of quote

Like some chords

Declined to get into wrecked car

Entrees skirt = shrinks

Entrees division skirt = shrinks

Goes down

Letting the sound fade away (music)

Decrease in loudness

Letting sound fade away

Obscure union - it might well be weakening

Decrease

Tom, Dick or Harry (wordplay)

Tom, Dick or Harry for example

Four in cast mutinied, like Piglet

""Difference of form between members of the same species, as when a plant has two kinds of flowers, both hermaphrodite (as in the partridge berry), or when there are two forms of one or both sexes of the same species of butterfly.""

""Characterized by dimorphism; occurring under two distinct forms, not dependent on sex; dimorphic.""

Dingdong

Having no dinner.

Grace period (wordplay)

Chef's concern

Seven, for many

Cocktail dress reportedly includes matching glasses

China.

Dipeptide

""A colorless liquid, ClCO 2 CCl 3 , used in organic synthesis. Its vapor was used as a poison gas in World War I.""

Highly infectious throat disease

Immerse the hair for treating disease

Complaint: 'Doctor hit her with iPad'

Sounds of "sounds" and "voices"

Certain vowel sounds

Descended from two ancestral lines or individuals.

""Having two successive sets of teeth (deciduous and permanent), one succeeding the other; as, a diphyodont mammal; diphyodont dentition; opposed to monophyodont. as, a diphyodont mammal; diphyodont dentition; opposed to monophyodont.""

""Pl. diplococci (-k k s , -k k ) Any of various paired spherical bacteria, including those of the genus Diplococcus, some of which are pathogenic.""

Herbivorous sauropod

Lower position defining party, a dinosaur

One had a huge amount of meat after I'd served up nasty cold soup!

Diploidy

Diploma

Diplomate

Tactful negotiator in charge

Prudent to claim foul after drop

College choice for jerk is sensitive

English word

Diplotene

Dipnet

Dipperful

Alcoholism - so dim a pain (anagram)

Problem for A.A.

Sot's cravings

North, south, east and west (wordplay)

The four making news (wordplay)

Game-box reading matter

Rich man concealing anger over court orders

Instructions.

Notices I have to take up the camera for opening first shot

The quality of being direct; straightness; straightforwardness; immediateness.

A woman who directs.

English word

Direness

Ships whose rudders don't touch water

Lighter-than-air craft

Some Goodyear vehicles

Dirigisme

Possibly it is badly restricting one

Disadvantage

Dicky is bad, being a 4 for setting right

Disaccord

Alienates

Disaffirm

Forbidden pasty's finished outside

Did so well, a resitting is not permitted

Stopped keeping pale, just like a wrong put right (wordplay)

Responds to a magician, maybe

Upset, pa's despair fades away

Excited, pa's despair fades away

Let down badly in paid post

Fill with chaGRIN

Let down

Have an unfavourable opinion (of)

Decline to sanction

Take exception to rewriting Ovid's paper

Poor dear gran is upset

Make a mess of

Make untidy

Untidy diary reads badly

You're closing down my speakeasy (wordplay)

Like a bomb, say

Causing great damage

Highly unsuccessful

Repudiations

Disavow

Disband

Procedure for an unethical lawyer

Burundi's barmen trying to comprehend legal ban

Disbar

Disbelief

Have no faith (in)

Refuse to give credit

Question son's disguise in sleazy bar

BENEFIT to obtain an advantage

Disbosom

Disbowel

Disbud

Frees from tax in Norfolk town

Disburser

Laying out

Discant

Discarder

Throwing away

In draw poker, preparing to receive replacements*

Stripped of flesh.

Discept

Discerner

Making out with good taste

Making out, being clever

Showing good judgement

Daughter is accused, but let off

Dismissed detectives accused in the station

Dismissed theologian over one small order

""(d s chärj , d s-chärj ) The act of removing a load or burden.""

""One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.""

What an angry babysitter might do (wordplay)

Sacks

Branch of knowledge; punish

Call on the carpet

Record work in pile in academic field

Disciple

Distanced oneself from

Like a retired insurance agent (wordplay)

Denial of responsibility

Medic rails about refusal to take responsibility

Refusal to admit detective worked miracles

Discloser

Record missing? It's broadcasting

Publishing record being beaten

Woman's so cruel sadly making revelation

Club certain to accommodate large outing

It can be full or partial

Black-and-blue

Discomfit

The uneasiness of party maiden almost 40

Storm if doc creates pain

Club, male bastion, creating irritation

To mention with disapprobation; to blame; to disapprove.

Put out a dance for the 1970s - 2000 ode

Way after party maiden gets put out

Cause (someone) trouble or inconvenience

Perhaps deconstruct music for Rattle (wordplay)

Upset male model after party

Upset married model after dance

Rattle record playing? Sure thing

Put out of underworld union

Prior to musical event duke is upset

CONFIRM to {ratify=v}

Break off an engagement (wordplay)

Divorce adjusted in second court

Detectives and screw pull the plug

Now is the winter of our - (Richard III)

Now is the winter of our - (Rich.III)

Lack of satisfaction

A collector of or specialist in phonograph records.

Quarreling insect (wordplay)

Quarreling insect?

Lacking harmony; conflicting

Discord

Itemized things on a tax return

Not full-price

Like sales day clothing

One's out to make reductions

Cause loss of enthusiasm in (someone)

Iago cursed, getting put off (wordplay)

It's round to our times to put this off

Is series of lectures spanning two days treated formally (wordplay)

One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer.

Bad-mouth the curriculum (wordplay)

Criticize college subjects (wordplay)

Conversations

Detected journalist's halo maybe!

Found during search

How one is round on top of the editor

Talent scout, perhaps

Marie Curie, for radium and polonium

U. S. satellite.

Refuses to accept right correction in records

Adds a warning underneath, as a social media post

Besmirches

Discreet

Prudently involved the city elders

So as to avoid attention

Prudently involved city elders

Record agent and worker not agreeing

Contrary, disagreeing

Inconsistent

Separately; disjunctively.

The better part of valor

Liberty to act at pleasure; prudence

'The better part of valour'

Discrown

Moving from subject to subject

Moving between subjects

Rambling

Person taking part in talks written off as nuts on record

They talk things over

Talking about athletics event, what's bad and good

Talk in field event is about leg

Debate is back on after athletic event

Talk of rock discos in US

Did a sinful move, showing arrogance

Superior papers rejected by lad, if Sun's out

Contemptuous

Turning up one's nose at

Contemptuous

ECONOMY {thrift=n}

Steps ashore

""To pour out or discharge at the mouth, as a stream; to vent; to discharge into an ocean, a lake, etc.""

Draw mob and see wild mayhem

Draw woman's dislocated elbow up to me

See Wimbledon isn't exciting without tennis draw

Free from illusion

Take illusions away

Make someone feel let down

Disendow

ENDOWER one who {endows=v}

Out of gear (wordplay)

Released from a connection or obligation

Free design smeared on grey

Separates

Detaches

Disentail

Tatty tinsel, hard to free from enchantment

Deprive of a right

Thinks slightingly of.

Disfavor

In need of plastic surgery

Disfigure

Disfrock

""To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest.""

Disgorge

Black-eye bringers

Reflecting reproach on

Being unworthy of.

Dragging through the mud

Upset and tired with lungs bursting

Put in bad humor

Cause displeasure when drugs let in another way

Disguiser

Concealing (an identity)

Dig us out and I squeal, being in hiding

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