11-Letter Words Starting with D

How daredevils live (wordplay)

In a perilous manner

In a risky manner

A Communist crime suppressed by quiet heroism

""DARLING a much loved person, also DEARLING""

They're not paying attention

They're in la-la land

Those given to flights of fancy

In another world.

Classroom taboo

The opposite of having night vision (wordplay)

ACTIVATOR any agency bringing about activation; (Biol.) a molecule that increases the activity of an enzyme or a protein that increases the production of a gene product in DNA transcription.

Deadpanner

Deaeration

Lotus positions (wordplay)

Disembarkation.

""The surgical excision of dead, contaminated, or damaged tissue, and foreign matter, especially from a wound.""

Fellows around the City misheard the figures

DECAPITATE To cut off the head of; to behead.

To deprive of carbonic acid.

Green New Deal verb

To deprive of carbon; to remove the carbon from.

Slowed down

Spain alerted to change after last month and slowed down

Decelerate

Brake

The office or term of office of the decemvirs in Rome.

Decenter

CEREBRATE To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

CERTIFIED certify

Decertify

Decipherer

Decipher

Noisy and rhetorical

Rhetorical

It begins: "When in the Course... "

It begins: "When in the Course . . . "

It begins "When in the Course . . . "

Shown

Like some legal judgments

COLORIZED colorize

""Inflected form of COLORIZER Inflected form of COLORIZE to give color to black and white film, also COLORISE""

Decolorize

Decolour

Decomposer

Dismantle (something)

Break down

Churchmen wanting a heavy vehicle reduced time to break down

Honored soldier's collection

Jack-o'-lanterns, for example

Coordinates new colour schemes

""To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull.""

DECREMENT The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss.

""To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt. as, to decrepitate salt.""

Infirmity of old age

Worn-out condition.

State of infirmity

Decrease in loudness (music)

With decreasing loudness (mus.)

(Musically) become quieter

Decryption

Deerberry

Cloth cap (for a hunter?)

Voice of Bambi (wordplay)

Sherlock Holmes accessory

Defalcator

Feel trained to be submissive

Showing respect

Submissive

Deferrable

""To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.""

""DEFLAGRATE To burn with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; also, to snap and crackle with slight explosions when heated, as salt.""

Deflagrate

""The act of deflouring; as, the defloration if a virgin. as, the defloration if a virgin.""

Deflowerer

Deflower

Defoliator

""A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.""

Old author and pop star about right way to ruin the earth

""FORMALIZE To give form, or a certain form, to; to model.""

Alteration of shape

Disfigurement

""FORMATIVE Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts. as, the formative arts.""

Deformity

Went from bad to worse

Forgotten about defect that's returned and grown worse

Worsened

Worsens steadily

Reprobates

Rakes

""Inflected form of GLAMORIZE Inflected form of GLAMOR to bewitch, also GLAMOUR""

Trained a dog to suffer humiliation

Trained a dog that's going off, going off

Humiliation.

DEGRADE to {debase=v}

In a degrading manner.

HYDRATING hydrate

Excessive loss of water from body

Significant loss of water

Dehydrator

True oilseed (anagram) - harmful

Causing harm or damage

Having a harmful effect

Considered carefully

Considered not to be accidental at start of day

Considered

Considers food shop reprimands

Ponders composer taking charge

Considers carefully

Delineator

With wild ecstasy

In a frantic manner

""Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered.""

Burt Reynolds film

Ned Beatty's film debut, 1972

Clever Diane comes to the rescue

A fellow with a round bowler, perhaps

Male who goes round dropping off goods

Courier called up about chauffeur's uniform (wordplay)

Inflected form of LIVERYMEN Inflected form of LIVERY a uniform worn by servants

DELUSION the act of {deluding=v}

Deluster

Rabble-rouser's forte

Rabble-rousing activity

Rabble-rousing behaviour

DEMARCATE To mark by bounds; to set the limits of; to separate; to discriminate.

Boundary

Demerger

DEMIURGIC Pertaining to a demiurge; formative; creative.

Western nations

Give power to the people

Make accessible for everyone

""An electronic device which extracts the modulation from a radio carrier wave, and outputs the original information-bearing signal.""

""The study of the characteristics of human populations, such as size, growth, density, distribution, and vital statistics.""

Relating to the structure of populations

Population-related

Relating to the statistical study of populations

Demolisher

Fiend, say, hogging start of road show

Protest (in public)

Take part in public protest

""Made less hopeful or enthusiastic; rendered pessimistic; as, the demoralized Iraqi ground troops put up little resistance.as, the demoralized Iraqi ground troops put up little resistance.""

MORALIZER One who moralizes.

Demoralize

Denaturant

Dendrogram

""Botany the branch of botany that studies trees. ; dendrologist , n . ; dendrologic, dendrological ,""

DENERVATE

""NERVATION The arrangement of nerves and veins, especially those of leaves; neuration.""

Harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign; -- used of statements.

Calumny? Snarl and ignore it

Unfair criticism

Disparagement

DENIGRATE To blacken thoroughly; to make very black.

Denigrator

Same as denigrating.denigrating.

NITRIFIED nitrify

NITRIFIER An agent employed in nitrification.

Denitrify

It's fractionally down

Lower half of fraction (could be common!)

Brooklyn political convention VIP (wordplay)

Dentifrice

Dentistry

That can be counted.

NUMERABLY

Deodorizer

ODORIZING odorize

Deoxidizer

""A pentose (C5H10O4) in which one of the hydroxyl groups of ribose has been replaced by a hydrogen. In deoxyribonucleic acids, the deoxyribose is D-2-deoxyribose, in which the hydroxyl at the 2 position of ribose is the one which is replaced by hydrogen.C5H10O4) in which one of the hydroxyl groups of ribose has been replaced by a hydrogen. In deoxyribonucleic acids, the deoxyribose is D-2-deoxyribose, in which the hydroxyl at the 2 position of ribose is the one which is replaced by hydrogen.""

Damper tents (anagram)

Divisions within J.C. Penney

Sections of an organisation

To make poor; to impoverish.

In a deploring manner.

POLARIZED polarize

""A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery.""

Depolarize

The expelling of a foreigner from a country

What's patriot done wrong to become exile (wordplay)

Deportment

Detraction; depreciation.

Depravity. [Obs.] Milton. [Obs.] Milton.

Depravity

In a deprecating manner.

The act of deprecating; a praying against evil; prayer that an evil may be removed or prevented; strong expression of disapprobation.

Dismissive of French plundering clubs for date

Disparaging of French before Conservative welcomes accountant

That can be depreciated in value: depreciable assets.

Lost value (over time)

Undervalues

Disparager

Preying upon

Plundering.

Despoilment

Depredator

""Tending or designed to depredate; characterized by depredation; plundering; as, a depredatory incursion. as, a depredatory incursion.""

Certain drugs

Sedatives

(tr) (Psychology) to lower in spirits; make gloomy; deject

Booms' opposites

Depressive

Severe lack of essentials

Deprogram

DERACINATE To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate.

Deracinate

Derailleur

Derailment

Disorder; madness

Madness; disorder

Disorder; insanity

REGULATED regulate

Removes rules from

Neglect before line in speech

Derepress

Derepress

Origins

Derivative

DERIVATIZE to alter the chemical composition

Derivatize

Dermatogen

Science of the skin

Study of skin disorders

Branch of medicine concerned with the skin

Derogation

Inflected form of SACRALIZE Inflected form of SACRAL a vertebra or nerve near the sacrum

Salt remover

That can be described; capable of description.

Do nice strip perhaps showing outline

Portrayal

Classifying without expressing judgement

Graphic in portrayal

Depicting verbally.

Descriptor

Desecrater

DESECRATE To divest of a sacred character or office; to divert from a sacred purpose; to violate the sanctity of; to profane; to put to an unworthy use; the opposite of consecrate. consecrate.

Violently disrespectful treatment

Damage of anything sacred

The offence of considerate vandalism

Desecrator

Abolish racial separation in (a society)

Bus students, for example

Make racially diverse

Desiccator

SIDERATED siderate

Regards as essential.

Something that is needed

Something needed or wanted

Something much wanted

Namers.

Serving to designate; designative; indicating.

Desilver

""A tricyclic antidepressant, C 18 H 22 N 2 , used in the treatment of psychological depression.""

Desorption

Cole Younger, et al.

In the worst way

Leader's type to writhe in anguish

Dreadfully; critically

A rope ends it (wordplay)

Complete lack of hope

Rashness of Iran to speed development

Destruct

Ruin, wreckage

... R-U-I-N

Ruin

Causing ruin

Very damaging

Desulfur

Inflected form of SULFURIZE Inflected form of SULFUR a non metallic element

In a desultory manner; without method; loosely; immethodically.

Do retire, eat freely, and go to pot!

It has 'rot' and 'die' inside

Go downhill and stop, I pontificate

Determinateness.

Serving to determine or limit; determinative.

Fixed, as a number

A tender time (anagram) - fixed

Matter I need to get sorted, being decisive

They decide

Discourage U.M.W. work (wordplay)

What U.M.W. pickets do

Firmly deciding

End-points covered by some Parisian master's original type of philosophy

Put off skimpy attire, good person who has a resigned outlook (wordplay)