10-Letter Words Starting with D

Milk girls touring Madrid, I say

Mary said I'd corrupted farm-girls!

Girls who milk cows

DAMAGING damage

Damnify

Dandify

DANDYISH suggestive of a dandy

English word

DAUNTING daunt

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)

Dayflower

Daylight

In a dazzling manner.

Cue heard by lunatic for wild behaviour

Excessive intemperance

Excessive indulgence in sex, alcohol, or drugs

Society girl broadcasting, extremely lovely, with style

In a luxuriously self-indulgent manner

Corruptly, debasedly

Easy way to win

In conclusive terms.

In a resolute way

Downgrade (a secret document)

Make a document no longer secret

Lift restriction on worship, accepting caste

In a proper manner

Without youthful vigor

Decrypt

Try PIN code, scrambling a spy's work

Constituting or serving as a dedication; complimental.

Damaging to good reputation

Fed up with romantic casting aspersions

Libelous, say

DEFENSE to guard against a specific attack

Lack - want

Shortcoming

Shortfall

Without a doubt

'Of course'

Unquestionably from French (in a limited way)

DEFRAY to pay or settle

Physical and moral decline

State of moral decline

DEGRADED degrade

Make more comfortable, maybe

Remove moisture from (an air or gas)

Clear the air, in a way

There, daddy! (anagram)

With water removed

Lacking water, they add red to brew

Dries and dyes thread in production

HYDRATOR one that {hydrates=v}

In downcast manner

DELECTABLE Highly pleasing; delightful.

In a dainty manner

Way to handle a hot topic

How some situations are handled

DELUSIVE tending to delude

Question when catching up with a friend

In a crazed way

Population statistics expert's field

Study of populations

Study of devils does me only good!

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

Scientific study of only red dog in doubt

Densify

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

DEPEND to {rely=v}

Country controlled by another

Colony's addiction

Drug addiction in the country

(Product) for removing unwanted hair

Capable of removing hair

Wax, often

In a deplorable manner.

DEPLOY to position troops for battle

Extensive use of troops (wordplay)

Positioning of troops

Distribution of resources

Trustee.

Place for storage

Storage place

Storage site

In a depraved manner.

By way of derision or mockery.

How a turkey is greeted

Mockingly

Showing a disrespectful attitude

Edgy orator at work that's critical

Today Roger's awfully insulting

500 severely treated - about 500 - and rightly so!

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

With desire; eagerly.

Does digress these days, sadly

Some Parisian wanting love recently, feeling loneliness

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

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'

DETACH to unfasten and separate

DETACHED detach

DETAILED detail

A cleansing quality or power.

Abhorrently.

DEVILISH {fiendish=adj}

In a diagonal direction.

Dialysate

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

Dialyzate

Of or pertaining to diaphysis.

Pl. diaphyses (-s z ) Anatomy The shaft of a long bone.

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.""

Didynamy

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

DIGITATE having digits

Dignify

With delay; tardily.

With meticulous care

With assiduity

Painstakingly replacing lid gradually after one

Drag one's feet

Postpone what one should be doing

Waste time by delay

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.""

Possibly it is badly restricting one

Disadvantage

Untidy diary reads badly

You're closing down my speakeasy (wordplay)

Prudently involved the city elders

So as to avoid attention

Prudently involved city elders

Separately; disjunctively.

ECONOMY {thrift=n}

Garda's union produced conflict

Friction within a group

Detective's union leads to conflict

Pan a Billy Joel classic (wordplay)

Lovely concealing love-nest by deceit

Untrustworthiness, insincerity

In a disloyal manner.

Traitor's trait

To sly lady I wronged, it's unfaithful behaviour

Lady toils busily around yard changing sides (wordplay)

Recalcitrant ones.

Rebellious

Confused underground worker in hospital

Kind of conduct, in law

Lacking organisation

Hash house (wordplay)

Place where medicines are given out

Boots possibly dressy - pain when moving

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

DISPUTE to argue about

Remove from competition

Render unfit or unsuitable

Exclude underworld leader with pass

""In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. as, he rested disquietly that night.""

Fail to please

Disappoint; disgruntle

Most of the record will not frustrate or fail to gratify

Mash unit (wordplay)

A spirited enterprise

It raises the spirit

Clearly

UTILITY the quality of being useful

Detectives welcoming one black friend's return with spondee, say

A word with two syllables.

Lisping shepherd's giddy male sheep?

Impassioned acclaims

Lisping shepherd's giddy male sheep (wordplay)

""A receding from each other in moving from a common center; the state of being divergent; as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.""

""Professing, or relating to, divination.""

DIVISIVE causing disunity or dissension

DIZZYING dizzy

In a sorrowful way

In a lugubrious way

In a mournful manner

In a controlling way

For the most part

Chiefly, bread found in skip wrapped in newspaper less perfect

An asinine performance (wordplay)

Academic magnum opus nothing but a chore

Laborious part of a task

Melee for singer Osmond (wordplay)

Free-for-all (wordplay)

Free-for-all for Osmond (wordplay)

Gizmos

Gadgets

Doomsayer

One who predicts calamity at every opportunity.

DOOMSDAY judgement day

Full of questions

DOUBTING the act of doubting

Softpedaled; de-emphasized

Made light of 24 across and 8 across

Underrated director admitted penning drama

DOWNWARD from a higher to a lower place

DRAGGING drag

The Thespian art.

Theatrical art

Playwriting

DRAWLING drawl

Freddy Krueger's third? All butchered in an horrific way

Origin of disaster studied completely in a dire way

DREAMFUL {dreamy=adj}

DRIFTING drift

In a drooping manner.

In a drudging manner; laboriously.

Dryasdust

Drysalter

""The articles kept by a drysalter; also, the business of a drysalter.""

Dulcify

Granite state (wordplay)

New dairy built - with quality of something built to last

DWARFISH resembling a {dwarf=n}

DYADIC a sum of mathematical dyads

Abstract noun (-ity)

DYNAMIST an adherent of {dynamism=n}

Dynamiter

Dynamite

Dynamotor

""Difficulty in articulating words, caused by impairment of the muscles used in speech.""

Dyscrasia

""An inflammatory disorder of the lower intestinal tract, usually caused by a bacterial, parasitic, or protozoan infection and resulting in pain, fever, and severe diarrhea, often accompanied by the passage of blood and mucus.""

Plural or third person singular

""A condition of not generating or breeding freely; infertility; a form homogenesis in which the hybrids are sterile among themselves, but are fertile with members of either parent race.""

An abnormality in performing voluntary muscle movements.

Adjective (-ic)

Dyspepsia

Dyspepsy

Dyspeptic

Dysphagia

Dysphasia

Dysphasic

Calling a Jaguar XK a jalopy, say

Dysphonia

Dysphoria

Dysplasia

""Abnormal development or growth of tissues, organs, or cells.""

""An element of the rare earth-group. Symbol Dy; at. wt., 162.5.Dy; at. wt., 162.5.""

""Medicine Of, relating to, or afflicted with dystrophy.""