10-Letter Words Starting with D

Milk girls touring Madrid, I say

Mary said I'd corrupted farm-girls!

Girls who milk cows

Types spotted at Crufts (wordplay)

Black-and-white pets

They're spotted at fire stations

DAMAGING damage

""Decorated or inlaid with a wavy pattern of different (especially precious) metals; -- of metallic objects; as, a damascened sword.as, a damascened sword.""

About 1.5 million Syrians

Damnation

Damnedest

Damnify

Dampness

Colorful coral reef dweller

...another of which is bloomin' mean

Such as angler might catch with a dragonfly (wordplay)

English word

Went off for a bit, in a way

Went away for a while, as in class

Fantasized

One wandering through school (wordplay)

Visionary, but not at night (wordplay)

Fantasizer, when the sun's up (wordplay)

Deaminase

DEAMINATE

Deaminate

Brent's made peculiar exclusions

Preclusions

Brooklyn storage area (wordplay)

Playroom locale (wordplay)

Playroom locale?

Controversy; deliberation; debate.

Metric measures of length

""DECAMETRE A measure of length in the metric system; ten meters, equal to about 393.7 inches.""

A marching off.

Sudden departure

Mixing damp cement in Split, out of the blue

Pertaining to the decemvirs in Rome.

Decennium

""To reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the currency. as, to decimalize the currency.""

By getting married after the first of December one will be losing one across

After last month start confining the king and killing a lot

Getting married after the first of last month? That's your loss

15 across, with a loss of 10%

This took 1 across in execution

After such a loss last month, I am at one on the end

There are just over three in a foot

Nine of these equal about a yard

Standard units for ship-hull depth

Declaimer

Declaim

Rotten, having erased music (wordplay)

Broke down

Most organic matter, in fact, has broken down

COMPOSER one who writes music

Decompose

To compound or mix with that is already compound; to compound a second time.

Allow to expand

Wind down

Release in chamber for Italian writer and politician in robes

Decrement

Graffiti fade off building material

Cafe Ted and men wrecked in act of vandalism

Damage makes building material fade badly on top

Result of having falsely named one 'fat' and 'round'

Damaging to good reputation

Fed up with romantic casting aspersions

Libelous, say

Defeatism

""FEMINIZE to make womanly, also FEMINISE""

""A team member, as in hockey, who plays a defensive zone or position.""

DEFENCE protection

Goalie in ice hockey

Certain hockey player

One of six teammates

DEFENSE to guard against a specific attack

Deferment

Pollution from pass encountered around North

The act of defining; definition; description.

FORMABLE able to be formed

Divest of individuality

Make more comfortable, maybe

Remove moisture from (an air or gas)

Clear the air, in a way

Dekameter

DEKAMETRE

LAMINATE to compress into a thin plate

Delimiter

Delimit

Flower in spikes (starting with oracle)

Oracle's bloomer (wordplay)

Lined him up to ravage bedded beauty

Demagogy

Demagog

DEMAGOGUE A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious mob orator or political leader.

Power-hungry political leaders

Fiery orators

That may be demanded or claimed.

Demandant

Demantoid

Set boundaries

Bounded

Draws boundaries

Demeanour

Question when catching up with a friend

In a crazed way

Demerger

Demerit

Demimonde

Demission

Small cups

Cups.

Demiworld

""To disorganize, or disband and send home, as troops which have been mobilized. mobilized.""

Party for the Clintons

Enabling the will of the people

One way to vote

MODULATE to {regulate=v}

Population statistics expert's field

Study of populations

Battered eel I seldom miss!

Young lady, in Lyon

Young lady Fr.

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

Licking lemon, idiot idiotic!

Ryan Adams' current album

Light Infantry in degrading defeat

Demoness

""To deprive of current value; to withdraw from use, as money.""

Relating to evil spirits

Evil conflation of love and malice

Raging; frantic

Turning into a devil? That could be me, doing sin

Doing the job of an attack ad

Study of devils does me only good!

'Go on with melody', nuts implore (wordplay)

Throw into mental disarray

Bring down spiritually

Throw into confusion

Demount

Demulcent

Reserved quality

Modesty to take exception over European head

Freighters' delays

Treelike in structure

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) any branching diagram, such as a cladogram, showing the interconnections between treelike organisms""

Mentioned a new label

When beaten, mentioned a name

Emendation (wordplay)

Sign; indication.

final part (of play, etc)

Final resolution (of play, film, etc)

Final part (of film, play)

Noun (-ment)

Tempt nerd with a fizzy Moselle, perhaps

Office would leave me in depression

Sports or payroll

Extensive use of troops (wordplay)

Positioning of troops

Distribution of resources

Schools used to grade pupils in this.

Expel people starting to trash carriage

From outside port, men took bearing

Deprogram

Mishap on the IRT

Result of a bad jump

#NotAllMen, for instance

Plural or third person singular

Skinny redness (wordplay)

Met diarist (anagram)

Diarist met doctor for skin condition

""Nascent epidermis, or external cuticle of plants in a forming condition.""

DERMATOME

Dermatome

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

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

Dermestid

Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention.

DESMOSOME

Desmosome

Despotism

Scale, as fish.

Indifference for detail

Indifference to detail

Strange men chatted with aloofness

Period in custody

Enforced delay

Badly tainted fellows being put inside in custody

Determent

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

Drawbacks.

Deuterium

""The lifeless food matter in the cytoplasm of an ovum or a cell, as distinguished from the active or true protoplasm; yolk substance; yolk.""

Devilment

""The state of being devoted, or set apart by a vow.""

Diabolism

DIADROM a vibration

Diagram

Diagram

Diamond

Diaphragm

Diastema

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

Diatomite

Diazonium

Dichroism

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

Dichromat

English word

English word

Dicrotism

The Golgi apparatus in plant cells.

Dicumarol

Didynamy

DILEMMA a perplexing situation

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.""

Grace period (wordplay)

Chef's concern

Seven, for many

Diploma

Diplomate

Tactful negotiator in charge

Prudent to claim foul after drop

College choice for jerk is sensitive

Alcoholism - so dim a pain (anagram)

Problem for A.A.

Sot's cravings

Dirigisme

Disaffirm

Procedure for an unethical lawyer

Burundi's barmen trying to comprehend legal ban

Disbosom

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

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

CONFIRM to {ratify=v}

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

Thinks slightingly of.

Garda's union produced conflict

Friction within a group

Detective's union leads to conflict

Dishelm

Dislimn

The quality of being dismal; gloominess.

Put through a chop shop, say

Taken to bits

Taken to pieces

Is far from constructive

Takes apart cloaks belonging to Diane

Strips down lens amidst broadcast

Dismast

What an overworked Senate page might do (wordplay)

Heave-hos

The inspector is not there at all

Brushing off

Letting go

""The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury. as, the dismission of the grand jury.""

D is letter pointing to door

Girl's letter is contemptuous

Woman's letter is inconsiderate

Dismount

Act of disowning.

Displume

Concealed one's true feelings.

Feigned

Phoney heartless Blair messed about

Dissemble

Nothing like this

Not like Iris, dismal when drunk

Contradictory girl I had rejected - naughty liar!