10-Letter Words Starting with D

The science relat<?/ to duty or moral obligation.

Deorbit

Depaint

Tempt nerd with a fizzy Moselle, perhaps

Office would leave me in depression

Sports or payroll

Trustworthy, reliable

Trusty writer, expert, put in sign on proof

Ben pleaded to be free, being trustworthy

DEPEND to {rely=v}

Variant of dependence .

Dependant

Bound to be in such a state

It's re lying

Inability to go without something

Country controlled by another

Colony's addiction

Drug addiction in the country

1040 filer's delight

Fine folks around March 15.

Kids, typically

Depiction

Removing hair from, as the body

Removal of hair

Depletion

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

Sadly, pet dog is in for putting down

Putting in

Player's place?

Player's place (wordplay)

It's signed by a witness

Alcohol, for one

Downer of French worker packing iron

Drug reducing nervous activity

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

Depurate

A representative body

Deputize

Uproot

Deraign

Mishap on the IRT

Result of a bad jump

#NotAllMen, for instance

By way of derision or mockery.

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

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

Derogate

Belittling of a good interchange

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

Grandchild, for one

Great-grandson, for one

Issue notes for treble tackling finale

Moving downwards

They've been up

Features of lowercase p's and q's

PATRONIZING

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

Drawing the line on account of this

Giving an account of.

Recoiling from French writing and illustrating

Desertion

Deserving

Substances which remove moisture

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.

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

Hopeless couple taken in by bad design

Losing all hope

Giving up broadcasting after Desmond gets quiet

Despoil

Lacking hope - ten odd pens (anagram)

Down in the dumps

Almost without hope

Despond

Destain

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

Desugar

Indifference for detail

Indifference to detail

Strange men chatted with aloofness

Period in custody

Enforced delay

Badly tainted fellows being put inside in custody

Detection

Detention

A cleansing quality or power.

Restrain guys (wordplay)

Discourage blokes (wordplay)

Cleaners will be put off vulgar men

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

Restraining order, say

Eg, possession of nuclear weapons

The use of fear to dissuade

Checks (wordplay)

Restraints

Hindrances

Dethroner

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

Test on road (anagram)

Fuses

TOXICANT a poisonous substance

Belittler's activity

Belittling of the French drawing

Not a direct criminal slander

Criticism means upset editor must get a grip

What Brooklyn tech schools do (wordplay)

Getting off scary giant ride takes a little bit of nerve

Drawbacks.

Detrition

Converting (open land) to buildings

Darkroom activity

Blooming old pig never moving without resistance

Deviancy

Sins, in Kremlin parlance.

Deflections

Devilment

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

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

Like worshipping a TV idol one spoiled

Short prayer service

Used in worship

Piety

Dewater

Dewiness

English word

Dezinc

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

Deaconships.

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

Biology

Biology

Dialogue

Diamond

Dianthus

Diapause

Fine and translucent

Light, delicate, translucent

Clear girl's one to fancy a nosh-up

Diaphony

Diazonium

Dicentric

Dichondra

English word

Dictation

Book that's full of meaning (wordplay)

Definitive book (wordplay)

Oxford, for one.

""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.""

Didynamy

Dieseling

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

Modesty, shyness

Shyness - mistrust

Modest shyness

Diffusion

Digestion

Digitalin

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)

Prolixity; diffuse discourse.

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

The quality or state of being dilute.

Box's measurements

Time and others

Length, breadth and height

Dimerize

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

Dingdong

Having no dinner.

Grace period (wordplay)

Chef's concern

Seven, for many

Cocktail dress reportedly includes matching glasses

China.

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

Sounds of "sounds" and "voices"

Certain vowel sounds

""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.""

Diploma

Diplotene

Dipnet

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

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

Direness

Dicky is bad, being a 4 for setting right

Let down badly in paid post

Fill with chaGRIN

Let down

Poor dear gran is upset

Make a mess of

Make untidy

Disavow

Disband

Procedure for an unethical lawyer

Burundi's barmen trying to comprehend legal ban

Disbar

BENEFIT to obtain an advantage

Disbud

Frees from tax in Norfolk town

Laying out

Discant

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

Branch of knowledge; punish

Call on the carpet

Record work in pile in academic field

Disciple

Record missing? It's broadcasting

Publishing record being beaten

To mention with disapprobation; to blame; to disapprove.

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

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

Record agent and worker not agreeing

Contrary, disagreeing

Inconsistent

The better part of valor

Liberty to act at pleasure; prudence

'The better part of valour'

Discrown

Person taking part in talks written off as nuts on record

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