10-Letter Words Starting with D

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

Alcohol, for one

Downer of French worker packing iron

Drug reducing nervous activity

Depurate

A representative body

Deputize

Uproot

Mishap on the IRT

Result of a bad jump

#NotAllMen, for instance

Remove restrictions from

Remove controls from

Remove restrictions to put off endlessly holding a gun up

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

""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

Derogate

Belittling of a good interchange

Belittling.

Showing a disrespectful attitude

Edgy orator at work that's critical

Today Roger's awfully insulting

Process sea water, brewing ale instead

Make drinkable, in a way

Sweeten recalcitrant ladies with neat scotch (wordplay)

Descant

Grandchild, for one

Great-grandson, for one

Issue notes for treble tackling finale

Moving downwards

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

Made unholy mess of seed boxed up

(Of a church) violated

Damaged assorted seed was put in boxes

One who desecrates; a profaner.

Soils from broken seed boxes

Pollutes

Profaner

Unchecked

Desertion

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

Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention.

The act or state of desisting; cessation.

Does digress these days, sadly

Some Parisian wanting love recently, feeling loneliness

Desolater

Desolate

Not ideal, so may result in ruin

Isolated after roaming about on ruin

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

Desolator

SORPTION the process or sorbing

Little fellow given sticking plaster maybe and sent packing

Despatch

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

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

Lacking hope - ten odd pens (anagram)

Down in the dumps

Almost without hope

Despotism

Scale, as fish.

Destain

Tin cans, so to speak

Naval vessels for the breakers

The sea story when the deer's around

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

Destruct

Desuetude

That can be detached.

DETACH to unfasten and separate

DETACHED detach

Indifference for detail

Indifference to detail

Strange men chatted with aloofness

DETAILED detail

Period in custody

Enforced delay

Badly tainted fellows being put inside in custody

Detassel

Let cadet be - trouble can be worked out by the officer

Detection

TV's Briscoe and Green

A magnum of...

Thursday and Friday.

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

""-ters , -terring , -terred (tr) to discourage (from acting) or prevent (from occurring), usually by instilling fear, doubt, or anxiety [from Latin dēterrēre, from de- + terrēre to frighten]""

Restraining order, say

Eg, possession of nuclear weapons

The use of fear to dissuade

Checks (wordplay)

Restraints

Hindrances

Detersive

Not quite prevent firm being loathsome

No-good

Abhorrent

Abhorrently.

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

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.

Critical persons

Disparagers

What Brooklyn tech schools do (wordplay)

Getting off scary giant ride takes a little bit of nerve

Drawbacks.

Detrition

DEUTERATE

Deuterate

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.""

Lowered in worth.

Reduces the worth of

The Romans' Chester declared ruined

Chester said to have been ravaged

Laid waste to

Condition to enter Roman town's ruins

Lays waste.

Ravages.

One who lays waste, for example

He lays waste

Destroyer turned back, having sunk vessel

Sins, in Kremlin parlance.

Deflections

Devilment

Deviltry

To deprive of life or vitality.

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

Dewaterer

Dewater

English word

Diabolist

Deaconships.

Diacritic

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

Indicating the nature of an illness

Computer error message

A symptom used to identify a disease

Arguments of logic.

Dialogist

Dialysate

Dialyzate

Dianthus

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

Diastema

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

Diatomite

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

Diazotize

Dicentric

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

Dichromat

Dicrotism

Dictation

Book that's full of meaning (wordplay)

Definitive book (wordplay)

Oxford, for one.

The Golgi apparatus in plant cells.

""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

Insulator, derelict IC (anagram)

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

Trouble from iffy cult I'd abandoned

Strain of pig-headed male chromosome

Struggle for fellows in charge last month engaged in do-it-yourself

Diffract

Capable of being assimilated

Stop claiming rotten giblets okay to eat

Able to be eaten

Digestion

Appreciate eastern Cornwall town's biscuits

Digitalin

""To record digitally, e. g. on digital tape or compact disks.e. g. on digital tape or compact disks.""

DIGITATE having digits

Digitizer

Adapting a book for the screen, say

Digitonin

Digitoxin

Tatty plaid I see in waste

Ruin unusual plaid Ida Lawrence made

Cause to fall into ruin

Prolixity; diffuse discourse.

With delay; tardily.

DILEMMA a perplexing situation

Dabbler in fine arts.

One who dabbles superficially

Lover of the fine arts.

Art lovers of sorts.

Arty dabblers

Superficial dabblers

With meticulous care

With assiduity

Painstakingly replacing lid gradually after one

The quality or state of being dilute.

DIMETHOATE

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

Grace period (wordplay)

Chef's concern

Seven, for many

Dipeptide

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.""

Diplomate

Tactful negotiator in charge

Prudent to claim foul after drop

College choice for jerk is sensitive

Diplotene

Dipnet

North, south, east and west (wordplay)

The four making news (wordplay)

Game-box reading matter

Rich man concealing anger over court orders

Instructions.

Notices I have to take up the camera for opening first shot

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

A woman who directs.

English word

Possibly it is badly restricting one

Disadvantage

Alienates

Let down badly in paid post

Fill with chaGRIN

Let down

Like a bomb, say

Causing great damage

Highly unsuccessful

Procedure for an unethical lawyer

Burundi's barmen trying to comprehend legal ban

BENEFIT to obtain an advantage

Discant

Stripped of flesh.

Discept

Discomfit