9-Letter Words Starting with D

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

Flirtation? Daughter wants union!

Brief affair of union supporting Germany

Playing thus is all one in the ball

Dalmatic

Syrian capitalist (wordplay)

Ananias, for one

Crafted canes made by a Syrian

Adjective describing some party music

Adjective (-al)

ACIDIFY to make {acid=adj}

Protestant Church position

Female lay official of the church

Female church worker

Deacon

No getting out of these hairs of late

Lifeless hair matters where there's no solution

Stalemates

Poisonous mushrooms

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

Debouch

Emerges

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

Decedent

Not to be trusted

Deft clue I misjudged? It's misleading

Cue lifted for swerving? False

Wolves in sheep's clothing.

Two-timers

Masters recalling Balthasar's description of what men always were (wordplay)

Deliberately misleading

Decemvir

Decemvir

Decency

Happening every tenth year

Lend a nice outfit every ten years

A period of ten years.

Makes eccentric.

Decent

Decentre

Decentre

'Code' with inept resolution is cunning

For such trickery one must need cop it

Smoke, from a magician

So are David Blaine's appearances

Seems that M. is leading this

Not straight

Decern

CERTIFY to declare as true

Capable of being decided; determinable.

Undoubted winner of 1962 Derby?

Undoubted winner of 1962 Derby (wordplay)

Without question

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

Losing leaves periodically

Losing leaves annually

Bare in winter

Decigram

About 3.38 fluid ounces

One followed by 33 zeros

1 followed by 33 zeros.

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

DECIME an old French coin

Decodes or interprets

What everyone has to make.

They are often unanimous

They are not always unanimous

Swabbing crew many, many (nonverbal)

Sailors playing cards repeatedly

Crew

Naval architect's creation

Ship superstructure

Choked, spoiling exercise in navigator's cabin (wordplay)

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

Decliner

Going downhill

Slumping, needing reinforcement at end of month

Downward slope

City lived in turmoil; it's a downward slope

Decoct

Nice doctor shortly produced a pharmacological essence

Separate the sheets, maybe

Separate computer printouts

Behead

Having a low neckline, from French

Low neckline cut round half of bust

Adjective for some evening gowns

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

Misappropriate the proceeds of facet deal

Embezzle

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

About to join Resistance? Respect!

Submission to will of another

Courteous regard for another's wishes.

Defiance

Fed up and lacking 11 cent

Lacking in it, I fenced poorly

In depression ironclad company becomes inadequate

Redirected, perhaps inadvertently

Turned away from intended course

Turned or caused to turn aside

Shield in "Star Trek"

Furnace device

Defocus

Defocus

Deforce

Deposed from the priesthood

Like former fathers

Deposed from priesthood

The man's tucked in - fit to burst!

Bursting: bot.

Emerging forcefully from hot Irish capital in fall

Dehisce

""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

Washables requiring special care

Table treats, of old

Undies

Variety of apple.

High quality apple.

Very pleasant to taste

By way of being a teacher

Rabble-rousing

Agog in half a hundred like any schoolmaster

Establish escort eats whipped cream

Bound, as ground.

Mark boundaries.

Changes of policy, as in diplomacy

Policy changes

Pertaining to a demiurge; formative; creative.

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

Demoniac

Fiendish

""Softening; mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is demulcent. as, oil is demulcent.""

""DENDRITE a branched part of a nerve cell, also DENDRON""

Spoke ill of

Condemned big cat in lair died

Openly rebuked

One making a public accusation

One condemns squalid quarters used by wild cat, right (wordplay)

Condemns; informs on

Makes accusations about study on weights

Speaks ill of dental exchange for 10 oz.

Small teeth.

Depicter

Depict

Drawing EP, in a manner of speaking

Representation in art

Delivery contains record of picture

Depictor

Belittle tatty carpet kept by woman

Feel and express disapproval of

Express disapproval of

Ones neglecting their duties

They've been abandoned by society

Skid Row people

Descant

Got down to it at last at last

Sloped downward.

Went down

Line below the main part of type.

Orpheus, in search of Eurydice

Lowercase-letter part

Gave details of

Portrayed in words

Represented in words

Writer interrupting the German reporter

Gives the appearance of, perhaps

Gives an account of

Works with a sketch artist

Discoverers.

Seeing that this has Desmond in tears

Seeing that Desmond's in tears

Catching sight of Desmond in tears

Seer acted badly to abuse sacred object

Defile, as something sacred

Harm a church

Clicks again, possibly

Cancels, as in an online order form

Cancels a choice

Extra capsule in a pill bottle

Do not eat substance

Dryer found in freak accidents

Preserve by drying (eg coconut)

Preserve by removing all liquids from

Preserve by removing all liquids

Demolishes

Detacher

Coming back in pain, Ted is not getting stuck with it

It's up to Ted not to be stuck with what makes him sore

Radar and sonar Var.

Radar and sonar variable

Detect

Uncovering deceit? Not difficult!

What sleuthing is all about

Police work cited note in question

Spade, for one

Busy at work (wordplay)

Poirot, for one

Devices for locating submarines.

Radar and sonar.

Sensors, essentially

Deticker

Detick

Took value away (from)

Deprived of one's land (wordplay)

Took away (from)

Brooklyn trailer hauler (wordplay)

One who is critical

One disparages or belittles

Deviance

Devoice

Dezinc

Dezinc

Ones with insulin resistance

Diacetyl

""Time the study and description of the change or development in the structural systems of a language over a stated period of time. Also called historical linguistics . Cf. synchronic linguistics . ; diachronic , adj . Linguistics""

Dick Dudgeon was the devil's

Act on idea put out by clerical office

Maybe grave judge backs withdrawing help

Help over judge's accent (wordplay)

There's one in Quebec

Adjective (-ic)

Relating to regional speech

Science of logic

Method of logic.

Relating to discourse

Absolutely opposed to as matricide

In direct opposition

Completely opposed

Diarchy

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