10-Letter Words Starting with D

Denudate

""The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare.""

ODORIZED odorize

It gets the funk out

Freshens, in a way

Deorbit

OXIDIZED oxidize

""That which removes oxygen; hence, a reducing agent; as, nascent hydrogen is a deoxidizer. as, nascent hydrogen is a deoxidizer.""

Deoxidize

Depaint

Depiction

Removing hair from, as the body

Removal of hair

(Product) for removing unwanted hair

Capable of removing hair

Wax, often

Depletion

To deprive of polarity; to reduce to an unpolarized condition.

Depolish

Depolish

Trustee.

Sadly, pet dog is in for putting down

Putting in

Player's place?

Player's place (wordplay)

It's signed by a witness

Interested parties (wordplay)

People with money in the bank.

Bank's customers.

Place for storage

Storage place

Storage site

Cook created pie to scoff at (wordplay)

Mark down pie created wrongly

Lessen in value.

What Brooklyn dry cleaners do (wordplay)

Brooklyn dry cleaner's chore (wordplay)

Slice-of-life realism...

Slump causing gloom

Dent made by sniper does damage

Black dog's bowl

Tending to flatten or lower

Depurate

A representative body

Deputize

Uproot

Deraign

Bicycle gear-changing mechanism

BICYCLE PART

Mishap on the IRT

Result of a bad jump

#NotAllMen, for instance

By way of derision or mockery.

How a turkey is greeted

Mockingly

A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.

Imitative of the work of another

Possibly a future spin-off

Using other sources

""To alter the chemical composition [of a compound] by a chemical reaction which changes some part of the molecule, leaving most of the molecule unchanged; to prepare a derivative{6} from.""

Plural or third person singular

Skinny redness (wordplay)

Met diarist (anagram)

Diarist met doctor for skin condition

""Pl. dermatoses (-s z) A skin disease, especially one that is not accompanied by inflammation.""

Dermestid

Derogate

Belittling of a good interchange

Belittling.

Old-time pistols.

Pocket pistols

Handguns

Process sea water, brewing ale instead

Make drinkable, in a way

Sweeten recalcitrant ladies with neat scotch (wordplay)

Same as desalinate.desalinate.

Descant

PATRONIZING

The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation.

Describer

Drawing the line on account of this

Giving an account of.

Recoiling from French writing and illustrating

""Computer Science A word, phrase, or alphanumeric character used to identify an item in an information storage and retrieval system.""

Desertion

Deserving

Shield able to provide little cover

Hides label awkwardly in insubstantial garment

Naughty Sal I beheld in a state of undress

Substances which remove moisture

Dried up

Very dry

Desiccate

""One who, or that which, desiccates.""

Things sought for.

Things needed and wanted.

Very necessary things

Regard as essential.

Chosen agents died horribly

Put into a class

Named agents died horribly

Chooses motif on a publication for teachers

Names

Specifies

He nominates doctor, one Greats don

One who classifies or defines

One allocating tasks, for example

""By design; purposely; intentionally; opposed to accidentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently. accidentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently.""

Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention.

Desilver

Desirable

With desire; eagerly.

The act or state of desisting; cessation.

Desolate

Not ideal, so may result in ruin

Isolated after roaming about on ruin

Are you, by the sound of it, in? (Poor you!)

SORPTION the process or sorbing

Despairer

Hopeless couple taken in by bad design

Losing all hope

Giving up broadcasting after Desmond gets quiet

Worthy of keen disapprobation.

Adjective for Bill Sikes

Wretched paid 'celebs' going wild

""In a despicable or mean manner; contemptibly; as, despicably stingy. as, despicably stingy.""

Full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate; malicious.

Feeling or showing despite; malicious; angry to excess; cruel; contemptuous.

Despoiler

Despoil

Despond

Despotism

Destain

Breaking down strange store in 'One Foot in the Grave'

Desugar

DETAILED detail

Period in custody

Enforced delay

Badly tainted fellows being put inside in custody

Detection

TV's Briscoe and Green

A magnum of...

Thursday and Friday.

Detention

Try to stop my old Dutch being resolute

With full strength and concentration

Put off by revolting material in set

Something decisive to put off man in pit

Decision maker

One concluding check on underground worker

Settles, but I need terms re-negotiated

Deem rent is not right, but settles

Decides to scare off with explosives

Detersive

Toppling

Being charitable, embracing an alien setting off

No-one thanks important backer? Blast!

School at first in academic outburst

Loud report.

DETONATE to cause to explode

TOXICANT a poisonous substance

Remove poison from

Detoxify

Detoxify

Belittler's activity

Belittling of the French drawing

Not a direct criminal slander

Criticism means upset editor must get a grip

Tending to detractor draw.

What Brooklyn tech schools do (wordplay)

Getting off scary giant ride takes a little bit of nerve

Drawbacks.

Detrition

Deuterium

Converting (open land) to buildings

Darkroom activity

Blooming old pig never moving without resistance

Deviancy

Sins, in Kremlin parlance.

Deflections

DEVILISH {fiendish=adj}

Devilment

Deviltry

Olive family trees

To deprive of life or vitality.

To make toneless; to deprive of vowel quality.

Violent duo out to get a transfer of power

In county one has nasty lout leading delegation

Duke heading off rebellion with transfer of authority

Like worshipping a TV idol one spoiled

Short prayer service

Used in worship

Dewater

Dewberry

Dewiness

Dezinc

Norse peer

Forging alibi with ' a cold' - wicked!

What you might call hell of a liberty (wordplay)

A bod I call wicked, one inwardly satanic

Diabolism

Diabolist

DIABOLIZE To render diabolical.

Diabolize

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

Deaconships.

Diacritic

DIADROM a vibration

Plural or third person singular

The process of chemical and physical change in deposited sediment during its conversion to rock.

The process of chemical and physical change in deposited sediment during its conversion to rock.

Finding the trouble

Identifying a problem

Identifying backing tune getting help in German

Indicating the nature of an illness

Computer error message

A symptom used to identify a disease

In a diagonal direction.

Diagram

Diagram

Biology

Biology

Arguments of logic.

Relating to a dialogue; dialogistical.

Dialogist

Dialogue

Dialysate

""DIALYZE to use a kidney machine, also DIALYSE""

Dialyzate

Diamond

Dianthus

Diapause

""Pl. diapedeses (-s z) The movement or passage of blood cells, especially white blood cells, through intact capillary walls into surrounding body tissue.""

""The passage of the corpuscular elements of the blood from the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues, without rupture of the walls of the blood vessels.""

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

Diastema

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

Diatomite

Diazonium

""DIAZOTIZE To subject to such reactions or processes that diazo compounds, or their derivatives, shall be produced by chemical exchange or substitution.""

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