9-Letter Words That Start With: DECL

• To surgically remove a cats claws; onychectomy.

• To make harmless.

• The surgical removal of claws; onychectomy

• recite in elocution

• speak against in an impassioned manner

• state emphatically and authoritatively

• announce publicly or officially

• state firmly

• declare to be

• authorize payments of

• designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand

• make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official

• proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against

• change toward something smaller or lower

• a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline

• a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current

• a downward slope or bend

• grow worse

• not accept as true

• show unwillingness towards

• grow smaller

• go down

• fall in value

• inflect for number, gender, case, etc.

• To lower the class or social standing of.

• To remove from a class.

• A person who makes a formal declaration or statement

• the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps

• someone who claims to speak the truth