10-Letter Words Starting with D

Dampness

DAPPER a bouncing fish bait

Living room pieces.

Says prayers in Hebrew about Portuguese sofas

Showed no expression.

Delivered with no expression

Joked seriously

DEADPAN to act without emotion

It might be full of crates

Car sales outlet

They give a hand with it by franchise

A marching off.

Sudden departure

Mixing damp cement in Split, out of the blue

Head off (wordplay)

Make some heads roll (wordplay)

Make Bill sick (wordplay)

Decapodan

Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed.

Truths (wordplay)

Epic doesn't work with a number of pretences

Tricks

Figured out, in a way

Read; made out

Extracted from code

One who deciphers.

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

DECOUPAGE

Decoupage

Disconnecting two objects

Without youthful vigor

Decrypt

Try PIN code, scrambling a spy's work

Deepness

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

Depaint

Tempt nerd with a fizzy Moselle, perhaps

Office would leave me in depression

Sports or payroll

They can be found on an airport monitor

Airport listings

Readers put off by coy title for obituaries

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

(Product) for removing unwanted hair

Capable of removing hair

Wax, often

DEPLETE to lessen the supply of

Depletion

Repeal bold move? Scandalous!

Lamentable, causing great regret

Inexcusable record in Donegal or fit for purpose (wordplay)

In a deplorable manner.

DEPLOY to position troops for battle

Extensive use of troops (wordplay)

Positioning of troops

Distribution of resources

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

Depolish

Depolish

Force migration from an area

Clear of inhabitants

Get the people out of crumbling Aleppo with duet in a mess

Brooklyn laptop (wordplay)

Schools used to grade pupils in this.

Expel people starting to trash carriage

From outside port, men took bearing

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

In a depraved manner.

""DEPRECATE To pray against, as an evil; to seek to avert by player; to desire the removal of; to seek deliverance from; to express deep regret for; to disapprove of strongly.""

Makes little of a respected doctor

Expresses disapproval of.

Drops in value

Cook created pie to scoff at (wordplay)

Mark down pie created wrongly

Lessen in value.

Sacked peer tormented duke in old hat

Depredate

One who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a robber.

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

Tending to flatten or lower

Sticks on the tongue (wordplay)

Deprogram

Depurate

A representative body

Deputize

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

SORPTION the process or sorbing

Despairer

Hopeless couple taken in by bad design

Losing all hope

Giving up broadcasting after Desmond gets quiet

Little fellow given sticking plaster maybe and sent packing

Despatch

Oater bad guys

Posse's prey

Bonnie and Clyde, for example

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

Lacking hope - ten odd pens (anagram)

Down in the dumps

Almost without hope

Despond

Despotism

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

Trump and colleagues

Quote, part 1

Quote, part 2

Converting (open land) to buildings

Darkroom activity

Blooming old pig never moving without resistance

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.

Tatty plaid I see in waste

Ruin unusual plaid Ida Lawrence made

Cause to fall into ruin

""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.""

Dipeptide

""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.""

""Pl. diplococci (-k k s , -k k ) Any of various paired spherical bacteria, including those of the genus Diplococcus, some of which are pathogenic.""

Herbivorous sauropod

Lower position defining party, a dinosaur

One had a huge amount of meat after I'd served up nasty cold soup!

Diploidy

Diploma

Diplomate

Tactful negotiator in charge

Prudent to claim foul after drop

College choice for jerk is sensitive

English word

Diplotene

Dipnet

Dipperful

Alcoholism - so dim a pain (anagram)

Problem for A.A.

Sot's cravings

Responds to a magician, maybe

Upset, pa's despair fades away

Excited, pa's despair fades away

Let down badly in paid post

Fill with chaGRIN

Let down

Have an unfavourable opinion (of)

Decline to sanction

Take exception to rewriting Ovid's paper

Discept

Branch of knowledge; punish

Call on the carpet

Record work in pile in academic field

Disciple

Perhaps deconstruct music for Rattle (wordplay)

Upset male model after party

Upset married model after dance

A collector of or specialist in phonograph records.

Record agent and worker not agreeing

Contrary, disagreeing

Inconsistent

Made light of

Spoke slightingly

Father was furious after daughter is denigrated

One who disparages or dishonors; one who vilifies or disgraces.

Belittles.

Knocks

Dispart

Freedom from passion; an undisturbed state; apathy.

No longer mended (wordplay)

Radio-active employee

Railroad man.

Boss hid aspects of messages

Sends off messages

Cadetships all at sea in ships

Regularly admit taking turn driving off

How I'd turn to ending 1 across while driving away

Dispend

Hash house (wordplay)

Place where medicines are given out

Boots possibly dressy - pain when moving

Coffee machines, for instance.

Chemists supplying medicines

Doing away with the work of a chemist

Spending is, in a way, sharing

Doctor in digs welcomes writers giving out to the chemist

PEOPLED people

Dispeople

Disseminations

""PERSANT piercing, also PERCEANT, PERSAUNT""

Disperser

Disperse

Scattering of things

Process or state of being scattered

Distributing of novel so inspired

Tending to disperse.

DISPERSE to {scatter=v}

Passed away consuming liquor when low

Suffering from low morale.

Stopped swallowing whisky, perhaps dejected

Full of despite; cruel; spiteful; pitiless.

Taking the place of model splicing ad

Showing someone the door for most of the presentation by Charlie in government

Displant

The District Inspector's in the game. It all goes to show

Angry at having sick around the place

Frowning

Dissatisfies

Displode

Explosion.

Displume

Amusing (oneself)

At play

Such income not permanent (wordplay)

Liquid to be thrown away after use

Designed to throw away after use

Deprive (of land/property)

Deprive (of land or property)

Deprive of land/property

Disposure

PRAISED praise

One who blames or dispraises.

Dispraise

Disprize

Disprove

""Capable of being disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted, or contested; or doubtful certainty or propriety; controvertible; as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or questions. as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or questions.""

DISPUTE to argue about

Engagers in a logomachy

Disrepair

Disrepute

Contempt in crushing spiders, etc.

In action, press cited for contempt

Press cited for spreading contempt

Disrupter

Disrupt

Alternatively, pundits or I get upset

Tepid virus, strangely unsettling

Tending to break up.

Unruly

Squandered - debauched

Intemperate

Overindulgent

Wasteful father (wordplay)

Fruit soaking up one's drink, disperses

Breaks up

Ill humors

Physician's function

Dognapper

Dognap

Guard of sorts

Reluctant car dealer (wordplay)

One on duty at building's entrance

Doorplate

Dopiness

Softpedaled; de-emphasized

Made light of 24 across and 8 across

Underrated director admitted penning drama

Downspout

Trousers with very narrow legs

Tight trousers Ian's ripped badly

Criminal is dapper in trousers

Drawplate

Dripstone

In a drooping manner.

Pigskin specialist of yore

Field goal attempter, once

Overhead chandeliers