9-Letter Words Starting with D

Decolor

Bleaches coloureds when boiled

Hide half what Bach did? Rot!

That's the way to make it all rot

Resolve into constituent parts.

Get rid of stuffiness: get second wind

Clear churchman's joke for an audience

Remove restraints or official authority

Remove restrictions from

Make unregulated

Painted like a warrior (wordplay)

Awarded medal(s)

Smashing do, catered for and honoured

Papers unveiled a secret do

Bestows medals.

Beautifies

Tradesman handing out medals (wordplay)

Authority on interiors.

Hiree after a move

Art coated in varnish

Paper cutouts as a decorative art

Cut-paper decoration

Unlinked

Decouple

Less even (wordplay)

Went down and removed folds

Ironed (wordplay)

Reduction as included in orders

Reduces, as included in orders

Reduces as written in orders

Having things all in order

Must be done on demand

Making pronouncements

Movement of eyes in modest lowering

Amount lost

Reduction, diminution

Decretal

Having the force of an edict.

Established by a decree; definitive; settled.

Decrown

Cracked, and took overground (wordplay)

Deciphered

Cracked

Lying down; prostrate; recumbent.

Decuple

Decurion

Extending downward; said of a leaf whose base extends downward and forms a wing along the stem.

Decurve

""To cross at an acute angle; to cut or divide in the form of X; to intersect; said of lines in geometrical figures, rays of light, nerves, etc.""

Devoted to a cause or ideal 99)

Consecrated - single-minded

Means of one-to-one communication

Elise, for one

Person named early in a book

Elise, for Beethoven's "Fur Elise"

Makes a commitment (to)

Sets aside for some purpose

Names in someone's honor

""One who dedicates; more especially, one who inscribes a book to the favor of a patron, or to one whom he desires to compliment.""

Payment before the insurance kicks in

Possible to figure out

Deduct

Removal from gathering

That's not 25 down, and with reason

Points taken away in the ring

Like evidence-based reasoning

Like Sherlock Holmes's powers

Like "top-down" reasoning

Deemster

Deepener

Changing the channel (wordplay)

Dredging a river or harbor channel

Becoming abstruse

Type of Conrad's seamen.

Serious trouble, so to speak

Area of danger

Morsel for Bambi (wordplay)

Deerfly

Scottish hunting dog

Large dog bred for hunting

Hides in the forest (wordplay)

Frontiersmen's garments

Garments for Cooper characters

Deerweed

Deeryard

Misappropriate the proceeds of facet deal

Embezzle

Defang

Defat

Like a retired seismologist (wordplay)

Indeed it's not 22 across

Indeed it's wrong not to have paid

Lienee, at times

One who fails to pay

He hasn't paid his bills

Defeater

Fed up with being fed with beating

Fed up with winning by wining and dining

Winning victory over

Pessimistic view fades with time maybe

Overeagerness to admit to failure

Pessimistic resignation

If date set (anagram)

Feed poorly, at first being hopeless

He's always expecting to be beaten

Overthrow; defeat.

Defecate

Defecate

Defect

The Berlin Wall's purpose was largely to prevent this

Drunk I've fed, etc is not working

Subject to a recall

Faulty iron, evicted, thrown outside

Kin of apostates

Political asylum seekers

Some exiles

One on trial

One is not to a c.c. 17 across

Plea bargaining party

Stubborn players of faith (wordplay)

Brooklyn auto parts (wordplay)

They are usually at the back

Fed up at last without prosecuting

So fed up with finishing for the accused

Fed up at last with no attack

Defense

For protection, as a weapon

Not a tax like this, by the sound of it

Like a watchful driver

About to join Resistance? Respect!

Submission to will of another

Courteous regard for another's wishes.

Deferent

Stay and calm down (wordplay)

Delay of French Revolution's effect

Stay in midst of students' agitation

Postponements.

Postponements

Procrastinators.

Fed up with sin - so offputting!

With respect, to get so fed-up is wrong

Fed up with putting off being sinful

Defiance

In rebellious way

Fed up and lacking 11 cent

Lacking in it, I fenced poorly

In depression ironclad company becomes inadequate

Defilade

Defilade

""Capable of being defined, limited, or explained; determinable; describable by definition; ascertainable; as, definable limits; definable distinctions or regulations; definable words. as, definable limits; definable distinctions or regulations; definable words.""

DEFINE to state the meaning of

DEFINE to state the meaning of

Pins, to balloons

Letting the air out

Fed up with the classics? Gee, that'll puncture you!

A real let-down!

Decline in general price level

Loss of air

Pessimists, often (wordplay)

Pins and needles (wordplay)

Air releasers

Ridding of pests, in a way

Redirected, perhaps inadvertently

Turned away from intended course

Turned or caused to turn aside

Shield in "Star Trek"

Furnace device

Deflower

Defoamer

Defoam

Defocus

Defocus

Windshield adjuncts

Visibility aids

Defog

Leaves-dropper (wordplay)

Type of chemical sprayed on plants

I don't mess with leaf stripper

Use Agent Orange on

One does this and leaves off

Remove leaves from a tree

Deforce

Converts to pastureland, say

Clears (land) of trees.

Builds an apartment complex in the Amazon, perhaps

Deformer

Disfiguring

Corruption of god's taking shape

Lack of proper shape

Imperfection or defect of the body

Cheated (of cash)

Swindled

Cheated

One who defrauds; a cheat; an embezzler; a peculator.

Costs incurred by scuffle during trades

Costs incurred as result of wear during transactions

Defrayer

Benefactor's activity

Bearing the expenses of

Deposed from the priesthood

Like former fathers

Deposed from priesthood

Readied for roasting, perhaps

A poet in action thawed out

Did freezer maintenance

Ice-melting device

Rear window grid

Ridder of ice

Removing financial support from

Degasser

Degas

Cleared, as a drive

Erased, as videotape

DEGAUSS to demagnetize

Neutralizes a magnetic field

Degerm

Deglaze

Degrader

Demeaning, humiliating

Causing humiliation

Small cucumber

Degrease

Cleaning material, for example Gunk

Engine treatment

Degrease

Degum

Degust

The man's tucked in - fit to burst!

Bursting: bot.

Emerging forcefully from hot Irish capital in fall

Dehisce

Dehorner

Rendering harmless, in a way

Dehort

Make heated and dry (wordplay)

Deprive of water

Remove moisture from, make dry

Deionize

An apparatus used to remove ions from a solution; a common variant contains a mixture of cation exchange resin in the acid form and anion exchange resin in the hydroxyl form inside a replaceable cartridge; ions in aqueous solution are exchanged for the elements of water by passing the solution through the mixed resin.

Deionize

""Pertaining to, savoring of, or consisting in, deism; as, a deistic writer; a deistical book.as, a deistic writer; a deistical book.""

Deject

Low spirits of a number getting dismissal

Despondency

Sadness ... or, read another way, what five puzzle answers have in common

Dejeuner

Units equal to 0.3527 ounces

Same as Decaliter. Decaliter.

Same as Decameter. Decameter.

Delation

Delead

Deleave

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy or an agent.

Took off one's plate

Assigned, as tasks

Assigned authority

Agent

Representatives or deputies

Assigns jobs to club representatives

Signers of the Declaration

LEGATOR one that {legates=v}

Crossings-out; cancellations

Files in a recycle bin

Nose around the tile for removals

Moved leftward, eastern pots

Blue-and-white pottery

Rotterdam pots

Washables requiring special care

Table treats, of old

Undies

Variety of apple.

High quality apple.

Very pleasant to taste

So pleased to be in the dark, perhaps

Not longer lit up, glad to say

Very happy to be blonde indeed!

One who gives pleasure

Set the boundaries of

Tag at the beginning or end of computer data

Portray precisely - teen ideal (anagram)

Show by drawing

Explain in detail

Bouncing off the walls

Really out of it

Top-ten Prince hit

Delirium

Delist

Indeed, organ is saved!

Something done about meat supplied

Brought to a destination

Paperboy, for one

One with redeeming qualities (wordplay)

One with redeeming qualities?

Fumigation experts

That'll be getting the bugs out of it

Nitpicking (wordplay)

Ridding of lice

English word

False beliefs of French in souls transformed

By the sound of them, Miss gets taken as they are

They will profoundly mislead you, unless I do otherwise

Deluster

Demagog

By way of being a teacher

Rabble-rousing

Agog in half a hundred like any schoolmaster

Emotion-arousing politico

Incite-ful orator

Political agitator.

One who demands; the plaintiff in a real action; any plaintiff.

Nagging ones

Asking is difficult

Maddening disposition of the importunate

A tough marathon course will be this

""A yellowgreen, transparent variety of garnet found in the Urals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster, whence the name.""

Establish escort eats whipped cream

Bound, as ground.

Mark boundaries.

Changes of policy, as in diplomacy

Policy changes

Demark

Demast

Lowering in dignity as in endgame

Humiliating, lowering in respect

Lowering in reputation as in end game

Facial appearances

Outward attitudes

Bearings

Energy low inside gloomy carriage

Unusually enamoured by one's appearance

Manner of behaving towards others

DEMENTIA a mental illness

Losses of sharpness

Symptoms of a mad, mad world.

Mad conditions

Dement

Demerara

Demerger

Demerge

Demerit

Bulbous, narrow-necked bottles

Bottles of a kind.

Narrow-necked bottles

Demilune

A shady hemisphere (wordplay)

Amber's class, forever (wordplay)

Low-prestige circle

""The act of demitting, or the state of being demitted; a letting down; a lowering; dejection.""

Moore's coffee cup (wordplay)

Pour out mug inside of French coffee

One may go with a saucer

Withdrawing from office

Demiurge

Pertaining to a demiurge; formative; creative.

Demivolt

See demimonde .

Demob

Rule of the people

Form of government.

McCoy read novel, The Common People

Their sights are set on '54

Certain party men.

US political party