10-Letter Words Containing D

Drum roll, as soldier meets con

Syncopated drumbeats

Basic drumming sequence - dip a ladder (anagram)

PARADISE a place of extreme beauty and delight

Often Paradise The Garden of Eden.

PARADISE a place of extreme beauty and delight

Paraffin

Was analogous to

Was similar to

Followed a similar course

Dr. Salk and Dr. Spock (wordplay)

Two physicians (wordplay)

People who rush into danger

Suffering mental delusions

PARAPODIA

One of the lateral appendages of an annelid; called also foot tubercle. foot tubercle.

Like fleas and ticks

""PARBUCKLE A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.""

Capable of being forgiven

Cat on island about to be excused

Minor enough to excuse

In a manner admitting of pardon; excusably.

Mum and Dad are in such a state!

Robin's role as a father (wordplay)

End of question

PARODIST one who {parodies=v}

Hero on the Rue de Rivoli?

Hero on the Rue de Rivoli (wordplay)

Parricide

Dozen given by a true love (wordplay)

"Pear tree" Christmas carol birds

Pear tree Christmas carol birds

Public mockery

Lampoon

Lampoon.

PASSIVATE

Paper-towel tube material

Business-card paper stock

Defeat those running the company? Just the ticket!

Pastedown

A circuit board where circuits are completed and modified by making connections with patchcords.

One who shows the way forward

Guide through unexplored territory

Subject of a novel by Cooper.

Of or pertaining to patricide; parricidal.

Oedipus and others

Quislings

Went regularly but aspired not to change

Was customer treated scornfully (wordplay)

Frequented

Gave one's trade to.

Condescended

""PAUPERIZE To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry. as, to pauperize the peasantry.""

Pavilion

PEAKED peak

Ice-cold alp collapsed? It's a sin!

Trifling fault - I called cop (anagram)

Minor sin or fault

Plantation in the musical 'Mame'

Plantation in the musical "Mame"

The science or art of teaching; the principles and rules of teaching; pedagogy.

Pedagogy

They have pupils

Teachers striving ultimately to cut rampant dope usage

Now it is a reworking of Heart of Darkness

Nitpicks

Peddlery

Of or pertaining to pederasty.

Pedestal

Train speed pathetically slow (wordplay)

One on foot (Wordsworth)

Dull figure in subway (wordplay)

Dr. Spock's field

Branch of medicine

Hospital department

Variant of pediatrician .

Lousy, literally

Pedicular.

Pedicure

Person who treats corns, bunions etc

Having the shape of a low-pitched gable.

Having a triangular gable.

PEDIMENT a triangular architectural part

Pedology

""Soil the branch of medical science that studies the physical and psychological events of childhood. ; pedologist , ; pedological , adj . Children""

Step counters

Pedophile

""A sexual perversion in which children rather than adults most strongly excite sexual desire, and are used as sexual partners.""

PEDOPHILE A person who has pedophilia.

Of the stalk of a solitary flower

Pelecypod

PELLETISE

PELLETIZE

How translucently clear Pelly comes over all lucid

Transparently.

Pendency

The portion of a vault by means of which the square space in the middle of a building is brought to an octagon or circle to receive a cupola.

Treated badly at prison, sank in

Gained a share of

Got through prison, badly treated

Jail cells (wordplay)

Pl. pentahedrons or pentahedra (-dr ) A solid having five plane faces.

Having five haploid sets of chromosomes.

Pentoxide

""The condition of being a people or one of a people: "As symbols go, few are as national and sectarian as the menorah. It is the symbol of Jewish peoplehood" (Charles Krauthammer).""

Peptidase

Brewed by a torero (wordplay)

Filtered.

Perdition

Eternal, lasting

PERDURE to continue to exist

Pereiopod

PERENNATE

Deceitful, untrustworthy

Outwardly devout, nameless friend turned treacherous

Moved to tears (wordplay)

Pierced like a sheet of stamps

Like a sheet of stamps

Pl. pericardia (-d - ) The membranous sac filled with serous fluid that encloses the heart and the roots of the aorta and other large blood vessels.

Rock containing olivine

Time, for one

Newsstand purchase, perhaps

Time, perhaps, for police raid

PERIWIG a wig

Any of a group of enzymes that occur especially in plant cells and catalyze the oxidation of a substance by a peroxide.

Peroxide

Perpend

Persistently harassed

Tormented

Kept at it, no matter what

A golfer, once embarrassed, struggled on

Carried on with exercises - runs cut

PERSONATE To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

""The state or condition of being a person, especially having those qualities that confer distinct individuality: "finding her own personhood as a campus activist" (Walter Shapiro).""

Ones trying to sway

Ones urging and arranging pressure about the commercial

Persuade

Pesticide

Petalody

Made a request.

Formally requested.

Collected names

Owners of church seats

Phantasy

Phasedown

A layer of green parenchimatous cells formed on the inner side of the phellogen.

PHENOLATE A compound of phenol analogous to a salt.

Phenoxide

* It's not some guy's name

Puts it about a bit

*Plays around (4 & 6)

Phosphide

Sensor in a CD player

Light used by pro cameramen

PHOTOLYZE

""A petiole dilated into the form of a blade, and usually with vertical edges, as in the Australian acacias.""

Picaroon

Picofarad

Endoscopic shot in very little time

Short time

PICTURIZE To picture.

PIDGINIZE

Pidginize

Pigstick

Pinfold

""Divided in a pinnate manner, with the divisions not reaching to the midrib.""

Zeroed in on

Located exactly

Precisely found

Pinprick

Pinwheel

""An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine. C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine.""

Took a spin, arranging trip with short detour around Spain

Pitapat

PITCHPOLE

Behaving as if mentally unbalanced; very eccentric.

Placard

The quality or state of being placid.

Plaister

Planeload

Kuiper belt objects, for example

All around the world

All over the world

Thread of protoplasm connecting cells

""A jellylike mass of free protoplasm, without any union of am\'d2boid cells, and endowed with life and power of motion.""

PLASTID a structure in plant cells

PLATINIZE To cover or combine with platinum.

Contents of commonplace book (wordplay)

Cook stipulated chestnuts

Soothing words

Playfield

Outdoor place for fun and games

24s here, getting freedom crushed

Theatre (wordplay)

Work steadily, with inner guidance, making earnest entreaty

Plenitude

English word

PLODDING the act of plodding

Plunderer

Spoliative.

Pillaging

PLUNDER to rob by force

Like men, women and children

Made multiple

Like the surface of the moon

Podiatry

Corny guy (wordplay)

Treater of foot disorders

Authority on foot faults

English word

PODZOLIZE

Podzolize

POETICIZE

Oops! Now I must be off, having lobbied erratically for 5's book

Endless voting one expressed approval of - and tried to secure votes (wordplay)

Pollard

Fertilized, botanically speaking.

Fertilised (flowers)

(Of flower) fertilised

Polyamide

DACTYL a certain poetic rhythm pattern

Excessive thirst

Excessive or abnormal thirst.

Having many faces

With many plane faces

Plane-faced solid

Solid figure that usually has more than six faces

Polyploid

PLOIDY the number of chromosomes in a cell

Polypody

Hair styles worn since Louis XV.

High styles

Hairdos

Having appreciable significance

Having weight

Ponderosa

Poniard

PONYTAIL a hair-style

Poppyhead

Warning that drink is coming to an end

Signalling opening and finishing

Indicating in advance demise of harbour (wordplay)

Put in proper place.

Put in place

Put one by one in pots I'd prepared

Social activity on a military base (wordplay)

POSTDEBATE

Postform

Cancelled in a way

In a late 20th-century style

Like some criticism

Of late twentieth century arts style

Postsync

Order to breeder coming round after time assumed

Assumed (something) as the basis for reasoning

Suggested all the letters from university disposed of by department

Describing the anatomy of a stove?

With a protruding stomach

Paunchy Petty Officer billeted out

Potlatch

""POUSSETTE A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance.""

POWDER to reduce to fine dust-like particles

Adjective meaning resembling

Praelect

""(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a variant spelling of presidium PRESSWOMAN (esp Brit: = reporter ) → Zeitungsfrau f , → Pressefrau f (Typ) → Druckerin f PRESSWOMEN (esp Brit: = reporter ) → Zeitungsfrau f , → Pressefrau f (Typ) → Druckerin f PRIMAQUINE (Medicine / Pharmacology) a synthetic drug used in the treatment of malaria. Formula: C 15 H 21 N 3 O [from prima-, from Latin prīmus first + quin ( olin ) e ]""

Preadapt

Preadopt

Preaver

Canon's turn to enter form of prayer

Brandy peer is offering drunken clergyman

Clergyman with prayer designed to catch crook

Prebind

Prebless

The order to be observed by protocol

Pecking-order right

Superiority in rank.

""The act or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another.as, one event has precedence of another.""

Relevant earlier cases, in law

Cases in point

Such examples end respect for revision

Precheck

Prechill

Preclean

Preclear