9-Letter Words Starting with D

Dabbling

Dabchick

Long for a dog (wordplay)

Small dog (from Germany?)

Slinky in "Toy Story," for example

Dacker

Dacoity

Dactylic

Descriptive of Arp's art

Like some early 20th-century abstract art

Varieties of Narcissus plants

Golden spring flowers

Wordsworth's flowers

Dagger

Dahabeah

Dahabiah

Dahabieh

Dahabiya

Daiker

Daily occurence.

Most delicate

Most petite

Most delicate

They may be served frozen

Bar offerings

Change for a quid at the 'Flag' from drinks

Dairying

Has she got an udder job (wordplay)

Midday air (anagram)

Girl perhaps making butter or cheese

Daishiki

Dakerhen

Dakoity

Flirtation? Daughter wants union!

Brief affair of union supporting Germany

Playing thus is all one in the ball

Croatian dog (wordplay)

A mad Latin (anagram)

Dog (from Croatia?)

Dalmatic

Syrian capitalist (wordplay)

Ananias, for one

Crafted canes made by a Syrian

Damask

Damewort

To hell with such a matriarchal people!

Oh dear, it's a matriarchy!

Curses motherland (wordplay)

Dooming to damnation; condemnatory.

Damndest

Utmost

Damnify

Damnify

DAMNING damn

Laundry devices

Moisteners

Dampen

American Rubyspot, for one

Long-winged insect

Maiden with knowing little creature

Adjective describing some party music

Leo's lawn invader (wordplay)

Your lawn guy (wordplay)

Leo's lawn invader?

Dander

Adjective (-al)

Dandify

Dandify

Dandriff

Dandruff

""DANDRUFF a scurf that forms on the scalp, also DANDRIFF""

Dandyism

Danegeld

Daneweed

Danewort

Danger

It's risky showing rage in party (US)

Like high voltage areas

Unsafe organ used for transplant

Female ballet dancers

Ballerinas the sorry Danes employs

Frequent Degas subjects

Most stylish

Karl Wallenda, for one

Stunt performer, say

Evel Knievel for one

Darkener

Man in defiance is becoming more obscure

Darkly

Photographers'quarters

Photographers' quarters.

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

Darndest

Utmost, informally

Utmost

Chairman's target (wordplay)

Bedtime target (wordplay)

An old one is riddled with holes

Speed counter goes on here (wordplay)

Car's instrument panel

Bolt to piece of wood, forming panel

Showily

Mean to be paternal (?) about celebrity

Mean and cowardly

Word for villain's deeds

Stores of information

Info holders

Record collections (wordplay)

They may be relational

Collections of files on computers

DATED date

Dateline

News story starts

Starts of many news stories

What checks have.

Daubery

Lear's trio

/Part of D.A.R./

Issues of a feminine nature

Daunder

Invulnerable to fear

Boldly determined

Boldly undeterred

Dauphine

Napping spot Iowa (nonverbal)

Lindsay, a Wimbledon champion

Napping spot in Iowa (wordplay)

""A hydrous carbonate of alumina and soda, occuring in white, bladed crustals.""

*Firmest lights

Dawns on one what the sad bakery has become

Dawns

'Rome will be a -' (W. H. Auden)

Flights of fancy

Does some woolgathering

Stared off into space

Let one's thoughts wander

Did some woolgathering

Purplish bloom

As knocked out of boxers (wordplay)

Dawn's innards (wordplay)

*Wits, when scared out of you

Short-lived blooms

DAZED daze

ACIDIFY to make {acid=adj}

Protestant Church position

Female lay official of the church

Female church worker

Deacon

Down-and-outs

Down-and-outs, sound moribund

Sponges of a sort.

Security devices needed as a dodo flies (wordplay)

Sound suppressers

Desensitising, numbing

Soundproofing

Deadfall

Fans of a certain jam band

Touch of Grey fans

Drives back empty

Derek Underwood at his best!

Most pernicious

Least safe

Deadlift

Ship's cabin window.

Joy gets hold of Bill, maybe for protective cover

Ghost's speech in "Hamlet" (wordplay)

Times set to complete projects

Reporter's worries

No getting out of these hairs of late

Lifeless hair matters where there's no solution

Stalemates

Deadwood

Deaerate

Deaerate

Boiler maintenance apparatus

Like some rock music

Intolerably loud

Clamorous sound persistently enveloping each swamp

ALATION the state of having wings

""Any of a class of enzymes that catalyze the removal, usually by hydrolysis, of the amino group NH 2 from an amino compound.""

DEAMINATE

Ecclesiastic residences

They accommodate some in church, as needier after conversion

Deanship

Deathbed

Who tabled amendment - it's a killer!

Poor old hat web gets the coup de grace

Doctor hated smack - it's a killer

Poisonous mushrooms

Immortal, as some prose (wordplay)

That never gets to the finish

'Never dye this, by the sound of it (9)'

Old-time executioner.

DEATHS death

Debark

Ban girl coming out with topless dress

Legal exclusion

Prohibition making some Stateside barmen testy

Bishop wearing expensive jewellery keeping away

Having two sides, perhaps

Verdict for discussion!

Open to question

Dissolute beach dude in trouble

Corrupt young woman longed to get posh

Degenerate

Rake beach ground with due energy

One indulging in depravity

Libertine, one who is morally unrestrained

""One who debauches or corrupts others; especially, a seducer to lewdness.""

Sullies

Debeak

One throwing a ball (wordplay)

Poet takes pipe back for new one

Coming-out party honoree

Debutant

A falling away.

Corruption of French intonation

Moral or cultural decline

Decline in sporting behaviour around the present era

Decadent

Metric measurements

Pl. decahedrons or decahedra (-dr ) A polyhedron with ten faces.

Deprive of lime, as a bone

DECAL a design made to be transferred

The Ten Commandments

Moses' tablets

Moses' armload

Metric length

393.70 inches, metric

32 feet, 9 inches

Splitting from French river, Napoleon perhaps bears north

Ornamental glass bottles.

The wine bottles have sad centre, oddly

Decorative wine bottles

Producing a downpour

Of or relating to the Decapoda or a decapod.

Latched on to jockey - it's eventful!

Ten out of ten for the all-rounder!

Summer Olympics event

Last month is dying away as one is dying away

At last the month is getting slack and dying away

Happening every tenth year

Lend a nice outfit every ten years

Capable of being decided; determinable.

""Possessed of, or characterized by, a decidua.""

Decigram

By tens; by means of decimals.

State of Manawatu on Tuesday!

Destroyed a large part of.

Destroyed most of

Married tithers (wordplay)

Nearly wipes out

After the first of the month one takes ten per cent from one's colleagues

Swabbing crew many, many (nonverbal)

Sailors playing cards repeatedly

Crew

Renounced (wordplay)

Harangued eccentric medical journalist

Indeed one may say it at the top of one's voice

Speech-maker got back, having switched ends

Orator

U.S. citizen-to-be

They face dummies

Dummies' other halves

Bidders in bridge.

Revealing that glider can fly

Proclaiming

Lowered in status

Lowers in rank.

Social outcasts Fr.

Making less threatening

Separate the sheets, maybe

Separate computer printouts

Behead

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

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

Decretal

""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.""

Type of Conrad's seamen.

Serious trouble, so to speak

Area of danger

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

One on trial

One is not to a c.c. 17 across

Plea bargaining party

Postponements.

Postponements

Defiance

In rebellious way

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

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

Defoamer

Defoam