9-Letter Words Starting with D

Dactylic

Dahabiya

Dairying

Has she got an udder job (wordplay)

Midday air (anagram)

Girl perhaps making butter or cheese

Dooming to damnation; condemnatory.

DAMNING damn

American Rubyspot, for one

Long-winged insect

Maiden with knowing little creature

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

Dandyism

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

Showily

Mean to be paternal (?) about celebrity

Mean and cowardly

Word for villain's deeds

*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

ACIDIFY to make {acid=adj}

Decline in sporting behaviour around the present era

Deprive of lime, as a bone

CERTIFY to declare as true

Undoubted winner of 1962 Derby?

Undoubted winner of 1962 Derby (wordplay)

Without question

By tens; by means of decimals.

Downward slope

City lived in turmoil; it's a downward slope

Established by a decree; definitive; settled.

Cracked, and took overground (wordplay)

Deciphered

Cracked

Morsel for Bambi (wordplay)

Deeryard

In rebellious way

DEFINE to state the meaning of

Corruption of god's taking shape

Lack of proper shape

Imperfection or defect of the body

Costs incurred by scuffle during trades

Costs incurred as result of wear during transactions

Defrayer

Benefactor's activity

Bearing the expenses of

Make heated and dry (wordplay)

Deprive of water

Remove moisture from, make dry

Rule of the people

Form of government.

McCoy read novel, The Common People

Make easier to understand

Clear things up

""To deprive of, or free from, nitrogen.""

The filling field (wordplay)

Field of canines (wordplay)

Study of minor car accidents (wordplay)

In the manner of one denies a request.

Placing, as troops.

Placing troops in battle formation

Distributing strategically

Immoral act(s) - wickedness

Theological word for original sin

Moral corruption

Seeing that this has Desmond in tears

Seeing that Desmond's in tears

Catching sight of Desmond in tears

In a desirable manner.

Tore the defence apart

Put an end to

Damaged irreparably, ruined

The Caine, for one

Noaj for one

Does Terry turn killer (wordplay)

Half-hearted duels over a Conservative

With neither plan nor purpose

Lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm

""Tending to deviate; devious; as, deviatory motion. as, deviatory motion.""

Behind someone's back

To deprive of glasslike character; to take away vitreous luster and transparency from.

Love Teddy Askew with commitment

Skill in handling things

Skill of manipulation

Nimbleness of the gymnast

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""

""DIALYSE to use a kidney machine, also DIALYZE""

Dialyser

Dialyse

The material subjected to dialysis.

Dialyzer

Dialyze

Bones

An abnormal prolongation of the axis of inflorescence.

Heat treatment

Are unsure about blood group ahead of extremely messy treatment

""The condition of certain species of plants, in which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can never fertilize themselves.""

Division into two parts or kinds

Division into two parts

Dual nature

Dicycly

Didymium

Of or relating to diet.

In a diffuse manner.

With the fingers

Using fingers or employing electronic equipment (wordplay)

How calculations can be done, with or without computer (wordplay)

Ambassador, for example

Person of high rank

Terribly tiring day for somebody

Dihybrid

DILATE to make {larger=adj}

Dimethyl

Diphenyl

First word of an Isaac Goldberg quote

Mad policy ruined tact

Game featuring war negotiation

Book with numbers of numbers.

No longer 192 in Britain

Book listing phone numbers

Its full of dread and full of ire

States of confusion

Makes chaotic

Confusions

Thing found (or the finding)

Henry Hudson ship

"Eureka" record? Nothing much

Free spirits (wordplay)

Some biddy (anagram)

Divest of reality.

Apt to appal

Behaved naughtily

Committed insubordination

Is the inspector weeping, perhaps, at not having been dutiful (wordplay)

Rebel

It makes a great difference

Difference

Inequality

Indian's centre spread shown

Shown publicly

Sidney got back in the side, but just for the show

With reserve

Disyoke

Maiden featured in special birthday poem

Ecstatic choral hymn

Short, impassioned poem

Daily; every day.

In different ways; differently; variously.

Become more varied

One way to reduce risk

Branch out

Search committee goal

How I'd sit very variously with this

Having many different kinds, a variety

Separately; in a divided manner.

Derived from two separately fertilised eggs

DOBSON an aquatic insect lava

Ship maintenance areas

Measures following cut in naval establishments

In court and in prisons or whatever floats your boat (wordplay)

How Robbie Savage plays for Rovers (wordplay)

DOLEFUL {mournful=adj}

DOLLISH {pretty=adj}

In a stupid way

Domesday

DONNISH scholarly

Thingamajig (#8 on the list)

What-do-you-call-it

What-you-may-call-it.

DOOMFUL {ominous=adj}

Pessimist is more so, with day going wrong

During exit, May's wrangling with European alarmist

Times to be judged

Sentencing times

Frontage plots

Dirty room (anagram)

Dirty room (wordplay)

Apt anagram of 'dirty room' (wordplay)

""Measurement of doses; specif., a system of therapeutics which uses but few remedies, mostly alkaloids, and gives them in doses fixed by certain rules.""

Tommies' WWI allies

American soldiers of WWI

Pillsbury mascots

In a doughty manner.

Doesn't make much of blue stage shows

Diminishes in importance

Makes seem less important

Puff's pants part (wordplay)

Insect trail on sole inhibits foot

Bore just netting female insect

They lead to garages

Parking places

Garage entrances

Caravansary visitor (wordplay)

Featured creature (four letters)

Lawrence's mount

DRONING drone

Extremely enthusiastically supports alcoholic in his normal manner of behaving

Like DAD's lectures (wordplay)

Parched literary friend of an antiquary

More than dull

Dryness

Drypoint

Dealer in kippered herring, etc. Eng.

Was it his business not to get soaked, but just pickled (wordplay)

With skepticism

Call promise to pay cunning, in suspicious manner

The property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments.

DULLISH somewhat dull

The two-facedness of Janus (wordplay)

Means of betrayal

Hypocritical cunning

Obediently

Duvetyne

Dyarchy

Tinters' needs

Coloring matter

Colouring substances

Forceful young fellow holding 101 lots up

Backward boy, about first century, with a lot ... with a lot of energy

Dynamism

Forceful types reject any director's first films

Believers in force using Military Intelligence to infiltrate rulers

D made tiny if blown up

Might Mandy get tied in a knot or blown up (wordplay)

My trade: in explosive

Demolition expert

Trade in my model for one of those with an explosive edge

Blows up 10 with dismay, perhaps

Levels with sticks (wordplay)

A large number gets blown up in the tides

DYNAMITE to blow up with a powerful explosive

Electrical machine with two armature windings

They have long rules

Lines for the sandy site

Ming and Hapsburg, for example

Dynatron

An ill habit or state of the constitution; formerly regarded as dependent on a morbid condition of the blood and humors.

A case of perpetual motion

One source of perpetual motion

Perpetual motion may prove fatal

Dyslexia

Ones having a rough spell (wordplay)

Ones who exchange rials for liras (wordplay)

Remedy sipped, say, for indigestion

Sipped, say, stew causing stomach upset

Stomach upset - spied a spy (anagram)

Having indigestion

Bad-tempered Syd held up savings scheme on credit nearly

Disease and Illness

Disorder marked by difficulty in expressing thoughts in words

""Impairment of speech and verbal comprehension, especially when associated with brain injury.""

""Difficulty in speaking, usually evidenced by hoarseness.""

Impatience under affliction; morbid restlessness; dissatisfaction; the fidgets.

""An emotional state characterized by anxiety, depression, or unease.""

Jockey displays a growth abnormality

Dyspnoea

Dystaxia

Dystocia

Dystonia

"Hunger Games" descriptor

Like "The Hunger Games" society

Like 'The Hunger Games' society

Nightmare worlds

Disorder involving wasting of muscle tissue etc.