9-Letter Words Starting with D

Dabbling

Long for a dog (wordplay)

Small dog (from Germany?)

Slinky in "Toy Story," for example

Dacker

Dagger

Daiker

Daily occurence.

Most delicate

Most petite

Most delicate

Dairying

Dakerhen

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?)

Syrian capitalist (wordplay)

Ananias, for one

Crafted canes made by a Syrian

Damask

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

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

Darkener

Man in defiance is becoming more obscure

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

Darndest

Utmost, informally

Utmost

Showily

Stores of information

Info holders

DATED date

Dateline

News story starts

Starts of many news stories

What checks have.

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.""

DAZED daze

Protestant Church position

Female lay official of the church

Female church worker

Deacon

Sound suppressers

Desensitising, numbing

Soundproofing

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

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

Debeak

Certificate of debt.

Long-term security issued by a company

IOU for time between rivers

Debride

Removing wiretaps

Fixing code

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

Debunker

Showing as false

Mythbusters' specialty

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

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

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

Deliberately misleading

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

Decern

One followed by 33 zeros

1 followed by 33 zeros.

What everyone has to make.

They are often unanimous

They are not always unanimous

Swabbing crew many, many (nonverbal)

Sailors playing cards repeatedly

Crew

U.S. citizen-to-be

Revealing that glider can fly

Proclaiming

Making less threatening

Decliner

Going downhill

Slumping, needing reinforcement at end of month

Decoct

Nice doctor shortly produced a pharmacological essence

Get rid of stuffiness: get second wind

Clear churchman's joke for an audience

Remove restraints or official authority

Remove restrictions from

Make unregulated

Having things all in order

Must be done on demand

Making pronouncements

Movement of eyes in modest lowering

Amount lost

Reduction, diminution

Decrown

Lying down; prostrate; recumbent.

Decuple

Decurion

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

Decurve

Deduct

Removal from gathering

That's not 25 down, and with reason

Points taken away in the ring

Deepener

Changing the channel (wordplay)

Dredging a river or harbor channel

Becoming abstruse

Scottish hunting dog

Large dog bred for hunting

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

Defect

The Berlin Wall's purpose was largely to prevent this

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

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

""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

Deforce

Disfiguring

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

Dehorner

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

Deject

Low spirits of a number getting dismissal

Despondency

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

Dejeuner

Delation

Delead

Deleave

Crossings-out; cancellations

Files in a recycle bin

Nose around the tile for removals

Portray precisely - teen ideal (anagram)

Show by drawing

Explain in detail

Delist

That'll be getting the bugs out of it

Nitpicking (wordplay)

Ridding of lice

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

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.""

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

Demerge

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.""

Withdrawing from office

Demob

Demoniac

Fiendish