10-Letter Words Starting with D

Bad-mouth the waiters (wordplay)

Dress I ruined with evil and harmful act

Present employment, on the street

Disserve

Dissever

Opposition to officialdom

Tiananmen Square figures

Those opposed

Man facing two ways, sent out to get protesters

Squandered - debauched

Intemperate

Overindulgent

Wasteful father (wordplay)

Fruit soaking up one's drink, disperses

Breaks up

Separate, disconnect

Capable of being dissolved; having its parts separable by heat or moisture; convertible into a fluid.

""Having power to dissolve power to dissolve a solid body; as, the dissolvent juices of the stomach. as, the dissolvent juices of the stomach.""

Dissolver

In seconds a dreadful lack of harmony

Lack of harmony

Clashing quality of musical notes

Dissuader

""Tending to dissuade or divert from a measure or purpose; dehortatory; as, dissuasive advice. as, dissuasive advice.""

Bird on Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs

Ill humors

Distend

Swelling

""The act of distending; the act of stretching in breadth or in all directions; the state of being Distended; as, the distention of the lungs. as, the distention of the lungs.""

Moonshiner's product.

Said little about concentrated essence

Something produced by condensing vapour

Criticize farmers (wordplay)

Those making whisky

Kentucky capitalists

Mash unit (wordplay)

A spirited enterprise

It raises the spirit

Distinct

Those who bend the facts

Diverted (attention) from (something)

Troubled - ID card test (anagram)

Amused or confused (wordplay)

Distrain

Same as Distrainor. Distrainor.

Upset with shaven head (wordplay)

Like a retired barber (wordplay)

Bald (wordplay)

Upsets

Present praise, on the street

Pass out with Garda's salute

Apparently remove praise from spread

Divided into political boundaries

Divided into zones

Highly suspect

Disturber

Disulfide

Disunity

A word with two syllables.

Stretch/spread apart

Divebomb

Departure of a sort

A branching off

A moving apart

""A receding from each other in moving from a common center; the state of being divergent; as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.""

Different ways to find amusements

501 renditions (wordplay)

Entertainments

The act of stripping or ridding

I mend TV set that's broken for selling off

Gods.

DIVISIVE causing disunity or dissension

Noun (-ence)

Djellabah

Docility

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Longshoreman

Indoor court reportedly 88 degrees

Highest graduate-school degrees

Advanced degrees

DOCTOR to treat medically

Of official papers

Like written material, arranged in column with date

Finish with copper getting mad, giving description of written evidence

Presented evidence for

Set down in black and white by editor behind paper

'Tom ended drunk', copper intervening put down on paper

DOCUMENT to support by conclusive information

Dodecagon

Catch them or you're out

Dogberry

Tabby's friend (wordplay)

Tabby's friend?

Pound worker (wordplay)

Canine tenacity (wordplay)

Persistence

Determination

Doggoned

Dogleg

DOGMATIZE To assert positively; to teach magisterially or with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance.

One who dogmatizes; a bold asserter; a magisterial teacher.

Dogmatize

Dognapper

Doormats where shadows fall on institutions

Dogsled

Susan Butcher, notably

Mush! shouter

"Mush!" shouter

Dogtrot

Dogwatch

Doleful

Little girls' playthings

Good Christmas gifts.

DOLOMITE a mineral

Dominance

Governing; ruling; imperious.

Acted arrogantly

Overpowered.

DOMINICK an American breed of chickens

Dominique

Doneness

An asinine performance (wordplay)

Academic magnum opus nothing but a chore

Laborious part of a task

Donnicker

Defects in scribbled pictures (wordplay)

Mineral-finding devices

Ant lion larvae.

Gizmos

Gadgets

Plural or third person singular

Doomsayer

DOOMSDAY judgement day

Guard of sorts

Reluctant car dealer (wordplay)

One on duty at building's entrance

Doorplate

Dopiness

Dormancy

Dosimeter

An instrument that measures and indicates the amount of x-rays or radiation absorbed in a given period.

The state of being double or doubled.

Doubleton

Northerners who once sympathized with the South

Doughty

Dourness

Fit together nicely

Fitted together skillfully.

Bird becomes neatly joined

""DOVISH seeking peace, also DOVEISH""

Long-billed sandpipers

Sad fine comedian failed

Ruined

Defeated

Changed from A to B, as a credit rating

Lowered the status

Lowered in status

Motorist's concern.

Puts less value on

Demotes

DOWNHILL a downward slope

*Got from the cloud (wordplay)

Something soft and rich confined to one's memory (wordplay)

Softpedaled; de-emphasized

Made light of 24 across and 8 across

Underrated director admitted penning drama

DOWNSCALE

Downscale

Downslide

Downstage

DOWNSTATE

Downstate

Where the eider duck swims (wordplay)

With the current

The current trend, naturally

Line drawn top to bottom

Line made in writing

Various token words may be used by writer

DOWNTOWN the business district of a city

Downtrend

Downwash

Hymns of praise

Hymns.

Doziness

Drabness

""Draftier , draftiest Having or exposed to drafts of air.""

A kind of mint.

What keeps leader back is a plant

Herb with purplish flowers

Trousers with very narrow legs

Tight trousers Ian's ripped badly

Criminal is dapper in trousers

Made play with dames: Triad cut up rough

Overdid a little drink - date is going badly

Adapts dreadful mad satires

Prepares for the stage, funny mad satires

Presented poignantly.

Dramatize

Playwright.

Expression of annoyance about graduate with desire to become playwright

Letting in more air

Having more wind? Hardier gut possibly wanted!

King and I separately welcomed by child needing more protection from blows

An adjustable spanner (wordplay)

Uplifting sight for ships (wordplay)

Card game for artists (wordplay)

Drawerful

""A knife with a handle at each end of the blade, used with a drawing motion to shave a surface. Also called drawshave .""

Drawplate

Drawshave

Freddy Krueger's third? All butchered in an horrific way

Origin of disaster studied completely in a dire way

Detest confinement (wordplay)

Outside study, student ties up long hair

Bob Marely's hairstyle

DREAMFUL {dreamy=adj}

The state of being dreamy.

Fantasy worlds

Dreamtime

Alice's wonderland

Walter Mitty's milieu.

Never-never land.

Nerds arise! Break the monotony

Dismal state

Eat starters of salami and sauerkraut, devouring rump in gloom

The state of being dressy.

Couturier or seamstress, perhaps

Fabric-cutting job

Jenny Wren was one.

Drinkable

Dripstone

Driveline

Excursion by lake has Heather gibbering

DRIVEN

Autonomous, as a car

Fictional band on the TV show "Lost"

Car's torque transmitter

*Torque-providing component

Auto-warranty subject

Gearing bolt found in exhaust

Car's engine-to-wheels connector

Drizzly

Witty Indians (wordplay)

Witty Indians?

Whimsical remarks

Pigskin specialist of yore

Field goal attempter, once

DROPPER a tube for dispensing liquid in drops

DROUGHT a dry period

Drouthy

Semi-sleep state

Dozy feeling

Lethargy, somnolence

Drudgery

Drugmaker

They're pharmaceutical

Carpets ripped in abandoned Dallas pharmacies

They know all about The Cure in New York, as they provide much more than a tonic

Druidess

Figuratively, a publicity man.

Drumfish

""Producing, or pertaining to, drupes; having the form of drupes; as, drupaceous trees or fruits. as, drupaceous trees or fruits.""

Drysalter

""The articles kept by a drysalter; also, the business of a drysalter.""

The drake decamped!

English word

Dulcimore

Dullness

A real drag, man

It's boring, daddy-o

Ho-hum

Dumbness

A little lift for Manuel, maybe

High-rise convenience, perhaps

Inept eatery server (wordplay)

Greatly surprised

Flabbergasted

Chap who won't vote for your candidate

Unconscious chap in parent, wally

Dunce had endured switches...

Dungeon

As a system of counting, doctor aided locum

Pair claimed wrongly to be like Bob of old

Base 12

Duodecimo

Duopsony

DUPLICATE Double; twofold.

Kind of clones

Having scaled it up, turns out copies

Identical sets

Instruments for measuring hardness

Lift prints from lids (wordplay)

Hardback protectors

Potentially shaky power structure

Abstract noun (-ity)

Dynamiter

""An inflammatory disorder of the lower intestinal tract, usually caused by a bacterial, parasitic, or protozoan infection and resulting in pain, fever, and severe diarrhea, often accompanied by the passage of blood and mucus.""

Plural or third person singular

""A condition of not generating or breeding freely; infertility; a form homogenesis in which the hybrids are sterile among themselves, but are fertile with members of either parent race.""

An abnormality in performing voluntary muscle movements.

Adjective (-ic)

Dyspepsia

Dyspepsy

Dyspeptic

Calling a Jaguar XK a jalopy, say