9-Letter Words Starting with DE

ACIDIFY to make {acid=adj}

Protestant Church position

Female lay official of the church

Female church worker

Deacon

Down-and-outs

Down-and-outs, sound moribund

Sponges of a sort.

Security devices needed as a dodo flies (wordplay)

Sound suppressers

Desensitising, numbing

Soundproofing

Deadfall

Fans of a certain jam band

Touch of Grey fans

Drives back empty

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

No getting out of these hairs of late

Lifeless hair matters where there's no solution

Stalemates

Deadwood

Deaerate

Deaerate

Boiler maintenance apparatus

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

Deathbed

Who tabled amendment - it's a killer!

Poor old hat web gets the coup de grace

Doctor hated smack - it's a killer

Poisonous mushrooms

Immortal, as some prose (wordplay)

That never gets to the finish

'Never dye this, by the sound of it (9)'

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

Having two sides, perhaps

Verdict for discussion!

Open to question

Dissolute beach dude in trouble

Corrupt young woman longed to get posh

Degenerate

Rake beach ground with due energy

One indulging in depravity

Libertine, one who is morally unrestrained

""One who debauches or corrupts others; especially, a seducer to lewdness.""

Sullies

Debeak

Certificate of debt.

Long-term security issued by a company

IOU for time between rivers

Debouch

Emerges

Debride

Stripped bare (wordplay)

Questioned (after a mission)

Interrogated with pants down (wordplay)

Debruise

Debruise

Debugger

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

Metric measurements

Pl. decahedrons or decahedra (-dr ) A polyhedron with ten faces.

Deprive of lime, as a bone

DECAL a design made to be transferred

The Ten Commandments

Moses' tablets

Moses' armload

Metric length

393.70 inches, metric

32 feet, 9 inches

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

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.

Makes eccentric.

Decent

Decentre

Decentre

'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

Swabbing crew many, many (nonverbal)

Sailors playing cards repeatedly

Crew

Naval architect's creation

Ship superstructure

Choked, spoiling exercise in navigator's cabin (wordplay)

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

U.S. citizen-to-be

They face dummies

Dummies' other halves

Bidders in bridge.

Revealing that glider can fly

Proclaiming

Lowered in status

Lowers in rank.

Social outcasts Fr.

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

Separate the sheets, maybe

Separate computer printouts

Behead

Having a low neckline, from French

Low neckline cut round half of bust

Adjective for some evening gowns

Decolor

Bleaches coloureds when boiled

Hide half what Bach did? Rot!

That's the way to make it all rot

Resolve into constituent parts.

Get rid of stuffiness: get second wind

Clear churchman's joke for an audience

Remove restraints or official authority

Remove restrictions from

Make unregulated

Painted like a warrior (wordplay)

Awarded medal(s)

Smashing do, catered for and honoured

Papers unveiled a secret do

Bestows medals.

Beautifies

Tradesman handing out medals (wordplay)

Authority on interiors.

Hiree after a move

Art coated in varnish

Paper cutouts as a decorative art

Cut-paper decoration

Unlinked

Decouple

Less even (wordplay)

Went down and removed folds

Ironed (wordplay)

Reduction as included in orders

Reduces, as included in orders

Reduces as written in orders

Having things all in order

Must be done on demand

Making pronouncements

Movement of eyes in modest lowering

Amount lost

Reduction, diminution

Decretal

Having the force of an edict.

Established by a decree; definitive; settled.

Decrown

Cracked, and took overground (wordplay)

Deciphered

Cracked

Lying down; prostrate; recumbent.

Decuple

Decurion

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

Decurve

""To cross at an acute angle; to cut or divide in the form of X; to intersect; said of lines in geometrical figures, rays of light, nerves, etc.""

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

Deemster

Deepener

Changing the channel (wordplay)

Dredging a river or harbor channel

Becoming abstruse

Type of Conrad's seamen.

Serious trouble, so to speak

Area of danger

Morsel for Bambi (wordplay)

Deerfly

Scottish hunting dog

Large dog bred for hunting

Hides in the forest (wordplay)

Frontiersmen's garments

Garments for Cooper characters

Deerweed

Deeryard

Misappropriate the proceeds of facet deal

Embezzle

Defang

Defat

Like a retired seismologist (wordplay)

Indeed it's not 22 across

Indeed it's wrong not to have paid

Lienee, at times

One who fails to pay

He hasn't paid his bills

Defeater

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

Overthrow; defeat.

Defecate

Defecate

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

Kin of apostates

Political asylum seekers

Some exiles

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

Postponements.

Postponements

Procrastinators.

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

Pins, to balloons

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

Pessimists, often (wordplay)

Pins and needles (wordplay)

Air releasers

Ridding of pests, in a way

Redirected, perhaps inadvertently

Turned away from intended course

Turned or caused to turn aside

Shield in "Star Trek"

Furnace device