10-Letter Words Starting with D

They have their ears close to the ground

"Wiener dogs"

Wiener dogs

Colorful coral reef dweller

...another of which is bloomin' mean

Such as angler might catch with a dragonfly (wordplay)

DANDYISH suggestive of a dandy

Automotive interior features

Instrument panels

Speedometer locations

Daylight

When blooming well done, done by decapitation

Deadlight

Isn't livestock sold by it (wordplay)

Total load on ship

Total cargo a ship can carry

It might be full of crates

Car sales outlet

They give a hand with it by franchise

Dealfish

Deathblow

Injurious type of 3 down

Vigil kept for a beetle

Lookout killing first crawler

Debauchee

Debaucher

Cue heard by lunatic for wild behaviour

Excessive intemperance

Excessive indulgence in sex, alcohol, or drugs

Debauch

Debouch

Solid figure with ten plane faces

Ten-faced solid

Solid figure having ten faces

Track-and-field competitor in 10 events

Sportsman swinging the lead etc

Rafer Johnson (1934-2020) won an Olympic gold medal as one

Eventful activities (wordplay)

Bruce Jenner's specialties

Olympic contests.

Figured out, in a way

Read; made out

Extracted from code

One who deciphers.

Deckhouse

Diana"s dogs sounded her out

Large hunting dogs

The act of gaping.

Divest of individuality

Make more comfortable, maybe

Remove moisture from (an air or gas)

Clear the air, in a way

There, daddy! (anagram)

With water removed

Lacking water, they add red to brew

Dries and dyes thread in production

HYDRATOR one that {hydrates=v}

Delighter

It's pretty beautiful

Greatly pleasing

Highly pleasing

Brooklyn stage crew's job (wordplay)

Bringing sheer joy

Revelling in making it dark apparently

Flower in spikes (starting with oracle)

Oracle's bloomer (wordplay)

Lined him up to ravage bedded beauty

Population statistics expert's field

Study of populations

Razed to the ground

Defeated in protest march and is held for rioting

Totally refuted line I dropped after protest

""One who, or that which, demolishes; as, a demolisher of towns. as, a demolisher of towns.""

Makes a lot out of, as a building (wordplay)

Wipes out

Depolish

Depolish

Shield able to provide little cover

Hides label awkwardly in insubstantial garment

Naughty Sal I beheld in a state of undress

Little fellow given sticking plaster maybe and sent packing

Despatch

That can be detached.

DETACH to unfasten and separate

DETACHED detach

Indifference for detail

Indifference to detail

Strange men chatted with aloofness

Dethroner

Toppling

DEVILISH {fiendish=adj}

""Of or concerned with phenomena, such as linguistic features, as they change through time.""

Dianthus

Fine and translucent

Light, delicate, translucent

Clear girl's one to fancy a nosh-up

Diaphony

English word

Diaphragm

Of or pertaining to diaphysis.

Pl. diaphyses (-s z ) Anatomy The shaft of a long bone.

""Excessive and frequent evacuation of watery feces, usually indicating gastrointestinal distress or disorder.""

Diarrhoea

""Affording a free passage to heat; as, diathermic substances. as, diathermic substances.""

""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

DIMETHOATE

Part 10 of quote

Like some chords

Declined to get into wrecked car

Entrees skirt = shrinks

Entrees division skirt = shrinks

Goes down

""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.""

""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.""

English word

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

A collector of or specialist in phonograph records.

Free from illusion

Take illusions away

Make someone feel let down

Tatty tinsel, hard to free from enchantment

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

Sloppily dressed

Dish liable to be made without proper dressing

Good-looking girl fit to seduce the Italian with scanty clothing

Garda's union produced conflict

Friction within a group

Detective's union leads to conflict

They dry in the kitchen

Kitchen rags

Dishclout

Demoralise the sardine by cooking!

To take away enthusiasm or courage

Take away courage

Dishelm

Disherit

In disarray

Messy

Unkempt

Pan a Billy Joel classic (wordplay)

Lovely concealing love-nest by deceit

Untrustworthiness, insincerity

Affirmative votes

One who dishonors or disgraces; one who treats another indignity.

Soapstone ring wearer (wordplay)

Appliance used after dinner

Menial role of aerial nut and bolt ring (wordplay)

Dishwater

Deprive of will power (wordplay)

Refuse to leave the house (wordplay)

Solve insider 4 or do 7 down (wordplay)

INHIBIT to restrain or hold back

No longer mended (wordplay)

Radio-active employee

Railroad man.

Boss hid aspects of messages

Sends off messages

Cadetships all at sea in ships

Disposed in two vertical rows; two-ranked.

A mo. in a tizzy (wordplay)

Single good man in drink's raving

Upset drink taking one's time

Lisping shepherd's giddy male sheep?

Impassioned acclaims

Lisping shepherd's giddy male sheep (wordplay)

Djellabah

Physician's function

Tabby's friend (wordplay)

Tabby's friend?

Pound worker (wordplay)

Dogwatch

Little girls' playthings

Good Christmas gifts.

Gizmos

Gadgets

Plural or third person singular

Northerners who once sympathized with the South

Doughty

""DOVISH seeking peace, also DOVEISH""

Long-billed sandpipers

DOWNHILL a downward slope

Downshift

Downwash

A kind of mint.

What keeps leader back is a plant

Herb with purplish flowers

Letting in more air

Having more wind? Hardier gut possibly wanted!

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

Course for artful bartenders

Drawshave

Fictional band on the TV show "Lost"

Car's torque transmitter

*Torque-providing component

Overhead chandeliers

Fly has upset his poor lad

Poorish lad used as subject for genetic research

Fruit fly

DROUGHT a dry period

Drouthy

Drumfish

English word

Chap who won't vote for your candidate

Unconscious chap in parent, wally

Dunce had endured switches...

DWARFISH resembling a {dwarf=n}

""Difficulty in articulating words, caused by impairment of the muscles used in speech.""

Dysphagia

Dysphasia

Dysphasic

Calling a Jaguar XK a jalopy, say

Dysphonia

Dysphoria

""Medicine Of, relating to, or afflicted with dystrophy.""