9-Letter Words Starting with DE

Deflower

Defoamer

Defoam

Defocus

Defocus

Windshield adjuncts

Visibility aids

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

Converts to pastureland, say

Clears (land) of trees.

Builds an apartment complex in the Amazon, perhaps

Deformer

Disfiguring

Corruption of god's taking shape

Lack of proper shape

Imperfection or defect of the body

Cheated (of cash)

Swindled

Cheated

One who defrauds; a cheat; an embezzler; a peculator.

Costs incurred by scuffle during trades

Costs incurred as result of wear during transactions

Defrayer

Benefactor's activity

Bearing the expenses of

Deposed from the priesthood

Like former fathers

Deposed from priesthood

Readied for roasting, perhaps

A poet in action thawed out

Did freezer maintenance

Ice-melting device

Rear window grid

Ridder of ice

Removing financial support from

Degasser

Degas

Cleared, as a drive

Erased, as videotape

DEGAUSS to demagnetize

Neutralizes a magnetic field

Degerm

Deglaze

Degrader

Demeaning, humiliating

Causing humiliation

Small cucumber

Degrease

Cleaning material, for example Gunk

Engine treatment

Degrease

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

Make heated and dry (wordplay)

Deprive of water

Remove moisture from, make dry

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

Dejeuner

Units equal to 0.3527 ounces

Same as Decaliter. Decaliter.

Same as Decameter. Decameter.

Delation

Delead

Deleave

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy or an agent.

Took off one's plate

Assigned, as tasks

Assigned authority

Agent

Representatives or deputies

Assigns jobs to club representatives

Signers of the Declaration

LEGATOR one that {legates=v}

Crossings-out; cancellations

Files in a recycle bin

Nose around the tile for removals

Moved leftward, eastern pots

Blue-and-white pottery

Rotterdam pots

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?

Fumigation experts

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

Deluster

Demagog

By way of being a teacher

Rabble-rousing

Agog in half a hundred like any schoolmaster

Emotion-arousing politico

Incite-ful orator

Political agitator.

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.""

Establish escort eats whipped cream

Bound, as ground.

Mark boundaries.

Changes of policy, as in diplomacy

Policy changes

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

Demerara

Demerger

Demerge

Demerit

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.""

Moore's coffee cup (wordplay)

Pour out mug inside of French coffee

One may go with a saucer

Withdrawing from office

Demiurge

Pertaining to a demiurge; formative; creative.

Demivolt

See demimonde .

Demob

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

Action taken around start of week is vilified

Demonise

Demonism

They know hellish things

Turned into an evil spirit

Demonize

Military punishments

Rank reductions

March into conflict with squadron leader after positional losses

Demotist

Demount

Dempster

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

Detention in port

Object and go mad about the Bank's cut in gold transactions

How one may object to fury, yet have to pay for it after some delay

Demurral

Legal objections from murderers

Legal objections

They object

Demur

Make easier to understand

Clear things up

Like alcohol that's unfit for drinking

Unfit to drink.

How a turn is twisted indeed for a change

Renders unfit to drink.

Doctors date nurse foolishly

Changes the character of area in false set

Dendrite

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

NERVATE having veins

Say bad things of French granite pieces

Put down one jar after study

Blacken the name of.

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

Denizen

Formed from a noun

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.

Antithesis of brilliance

Dunce's quality

Not sparse stupidity

Densify

Densify

Mass-to-volume ratios

Amount-per-unit sizes

Population statistics

""A genus of marine mollusks belonging to the Scaphopoda, having a tubular conical shell.""

Small teeth.

Having the form of a tooth or of teeth; toothshaped.

The filling field (wordplay)

Field of canines (wordplay)

Study of minor car accidents (wordplay)

Linda or Dale

Make a hole in it with one on for the teeth

I intend to manipulate development of teeth

Possessing teeth; toothed.

DENTURE a set of teeth

Denudate

Denudate

In the manner of one denies a request.

Sure thing (wordplay)

Underarm spray, perhaps

Secret stuff (wordplay)

Render inoffensive, in a way

Freshen

Deorbit

To deprive of oxygen; to reduce from the state of an oxide.

Depaint

Departee

Taking a hike

It's just no go

It's just no go for the leaves

One of a sort of leaves (wordplay)

Going on leave

Leaving for something new

Dented pan? (anagram)

One's kept earring of Parisian seen first

One needs support ot kill the insect at last

Relying/contingent (on)

One kind of asset at income tax time

April 15th asset.

It's all this hanging on

Relying on this, the last comes last

Relying on deputy finishing off

Deperm

Depicter

Depict

Drawing EP, in a manner of speaking

Representation in art

Delivery contains record of picture

Depictor

Depilate

Strips down and regularly does gentle exercise

Getting off a DC-6.

Taking away from

Causing to run out

Draining

Reduction in total value (of a resource)

Ozone layer issue

Reduction in quantity

Able or fitted to deplete.

Deplorer

Being sorry about.

Placing, as troops.

Placing troops in battle formation

Distributing strategically

Deplume

Witnesses giving written testimony

Vice unit given odd notes by witnesses

Out-of-court testifiers

National personae non gratae

Lucky Luciano and others.

They've been expelled

Expelling (from country)

Laid down naturally (like silt)

Placed for safekeeping

Put into an account

Saver made half the penniless sit inside

Bank account holder

One putting money into a bank account

Depraver

Leading down the primrose path

Immoral act(s) - wickedness

Theological word for original sin

Moral corruption

Belittle tatty carpet kept by woman

Feel and express disapproval of

Express disapproval of

Plunder, old style.

Prey upon.

Rob and Pete dread being made to look silly

Gloomy journalists, indeed!

In a low mood

Urge going into action when feeling low

Gets and holds down

Takes the starch out of

Cheapens

Doctor's instrument

Muscle of a certain kind.

Instrument for the tongue

Deprival

Depriver

Stripping