9-Letter Words Starting with D

Dabbling

Dabchick

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

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

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

Damask

To hell with such a matriarchal people!

Oh dear, it's a matriarchy!

Curses motherland (wordplay)

Damnify

Damnify

DAMNING damn

Dampen

Leo's lawn invader (wordplay)

Your lawn guy (wordplay)

Leo's lawn invader?

Dander

Adjective (-al)

Dandify

Dandify

Dandriff

Dandyism

Danger

Karl Wallenda, for one

Stunt performer, say

Evel Knievel for one

Man in defiance is becoming more obscure

Darkly

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

Showily

Dateline

News story starts

Starts of many news stories

What checks have.

Daubery

Dauphine

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

As knocked out of boxers (wordplay)

Dawn's innards (wordplay)

*Wits, when scared out of you

Short-lived blooms

ACIDIFY to make {acid=adj}

Deacon

Desensitising, numbing

Soundproofing

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

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

Debark

Bishop wearing expensive jewellery keeping away

Debeak

Debride

Stripped bare (wordplay)

Questioned (after a mission)

Interrogated with pants down (wordplay)

Debruise

Debruise

Removing wiretaps

Fixing code

Finding fault with moving divan back and embracing while husband's away

Showing as false

Mythbusters' specialty

This seems able to get you out of bed and get rid of the 16 down

Deprive of lime, as a bone

DECAL a design made to be transferred

Splitting from French river, Napoleon perhaps bears north

Producing a downpour

Last month is dying away as one is dying away

At last the month is getting slack and dying away

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.

'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

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

Revealing that glider can fly

Proclaiming

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

Having things all in order

Must be done on demand

Making pronouncements

Having the force of an edict.

Decuple

Decurion

Decurve

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

Changing the channel (wordplay)

Dredging a river or harbor channel

Becoming abstruse

Deerfly

Hides in the forest (wordplay)

Frontiersmen's garments

Garments for Cooper characters

Defang

Defat

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

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

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

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

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

Ridding of pests, in a way

Defoam

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

Disfiguring

Corruption of god's taking shape

Lack of proper shape

Imperfection or defect of the body

Benefactor's activity

Bearing the expenses of

Removing financial support from

Degas

Degerm

Deglaze

Demeaning, humiliating

Causing humiliation

Small cucumber

Degum

Degust

The man's tucked in - fit to burst!

Bursting: bot.

Emerging forcefully from hot Irish capital in fall

Dehisce

Rendering harmless, in a way

Dehort

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

Same as Decaliter. Decaliter.

Delation

Delead

Deleave

Crossings-out; cancellations

Files in a recycle bin

Nose around the tile for removals

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?

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

By way of being a teacher

Rabble-rousing

Agog in half a hundred like any schoolmaster

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.""

Demark

Demast

Lowering in dignity as in endgame

Humiliating, lowering in respect

Lowering in reputation as in end game

DEMENTIA a mental illness