2-Letter Words Starting with D

Like good causes

Worthy of favourable treatment

Worthy undoing a waiter's work (wordplay)

Extra capsule in a pill bottle

Do not eat substance

Dryer found in freak accidents

Preserve by drying (eg coconut)

Preserve by removing all liquids from

Preserve by removing all liquids

Assign or appoint

Choose to throw giants' pants in river

Appoint gent with ideas, at work

Designee

Artists of a kind.

Web-page architects

Fath, Patou, etc.

Edith Dombey's disposition.

What a devious way to be removing one's signature!

Acting in a calculating and deceitful way

Desilver

Sought-after - rebel aids (anagram)

Worth swiping right on

Pleasing; agreeable.

In a desirable manner.

Calling it quits

How I give pain to Desmond by the stoppage

That's the boy I give pain to, without going on with it

Tied to sedentary work

Vault below lectern offering no escape from office

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) Cytology a structure in the cell membranes of adjacent cells that binds them together

Like ghost towns

With no one around

Made extremely sad

Ravager

Does least (anagram)

Leaves forlorn.

Forsakes

Volunteers misplace gun without retreating. One's devastated!

Desorb

Was without hope (of).

Gave up hope of cooking dried peas

Lacked hope

Hopeless one.

Road speed (anagram)

Billy the Kid, for one

Speed trick Radio 1 dropped? Bravo!

Adept seer (anagram)

Extremely dangerous (situation)

Crazy speed and more speed? Reckless!

Misogynists, for example

Contemnors

Haters

Loathing pigs, Enid's going mad!

Hating with every inch of one's body

Disdaining, scorning

Despite

Ravaged

Sherman at Atlanta

Thief.

Thief

Despond

Do miss pet (anagram)

Tyranny makes its mark in religion

System espoused by tyrants

Cleaned up a microscopic specimen, for example

Perhaps very small boys are fated to have them

The fate of little Desmond and all the little ones

Lots.

Destine

Very poor and innocent, perhaps

Without money or resources

Penniless, without any means

Destrier

Tore the defence apart

Put an end to

Damaged irreparably, ruined

The Caine, for one

Noaj for one

Does Terry turn killer (wordplay)

Demolishes

State of disuse

Lack of use

State of inactivity

Desugar

Desulfur

Half-hearted duels over a Conservative

With neither plan nor purpose

Lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm

Detacher

Coming back in pain, Ted is not getting stuck with it

It's up to Ted not to be stuck with what makes him sore

Auto pinstripers, for example

They itemize

Fine-tuning a car

Professional car cleaning process

Giving particulars of French following

Ones being grilled, maybe

They're not going anywhere

People held in custody

Legal writs

Keeping in custody

Detassel

Radar and sonar Var.

Radar and sonar variable

Detect

Uncovering deceit? Not difficult!

What sleuthing is all about

Police work cited note in question

Spade, for one

Busy at work (wordplay)

Poirot, for one

Devices for locating submarines.

Radar and sonar.

Sensors, essentially

Punishment for a class cut-up, maybe

It need not give rise to punishment

After-school punishment

Discourage a nice bloke (wordplay)

Put man off soap (wordplay)

Get tender (anagram)

Deterger

Cleansing.

Hindrance.

Resolve to put my one off, perhaps

Judgmental winner of 1954 Derby?

Resolve to put my one off (wordplay)

Long sentence, for one

It puts off cleaner? Right for good!

That which restrains.

Deterrer

Putting off, tree'd with a round

It's so off-putting for the boy to be up to sin

Getting the boy up is wrong and off-putting

Cleansing; detergent.

Those who loathe

Bigots, for example

Hateful ones

Brooklyn teacher job (wordplay)

Doing this, there's nothing like it!

Not being able to stand

Toppled, in a way

No longer the champion

Deposed champion

One in three-D version: King Stephen, say

Causes a power outage (wordplay)

Displaces the reds on top (wordplay)

Removes from power

Deticker

Detick

That can be detonated: detonable warheads; detonable bombs.

Noted date had switched and set off

Set off from school in old hat

Set off dynamite

Sets off, as a bomb

Causes an explosion

Sets off with girlfriends to tour the school

Do not tear off to get a primer!

Fuse, for example

Set off with this

Detour

Took value away (from)

Deprived of one's land (wordplay)

Took away (from)

Brooklyn trailer hauler (wordplay)

One who is critical

One disparages or belittles

Got off a Pullman

Got off the coach tired, on Eastern time

Stopped outside Denver's terminal and got off the choo-choo

State of being harmed or damaged

Damage part of watch around edge

Harm or loss

A wearing off or away.

Detrude

DEUTERATE

Laser element

Reactor isotope

Very small things not reused, chucked

Lessen the worth of

Lower the price of.

Lessen the worth of, as money

Depreciating

Lay waste to old Chester, say

What tornadoes do

Overwhelm, as with grief

Devein

Wanted to get a negative result

Turned out in a negative sort of way

As it turned out with a negative result

One with lots to talk about

Photo lab chemical

Real estate speculator

Develope

Devest

Deviance

Going off the track

Erring and straying (wordplay)

A turning aside from a certain course

Departure from accepted standards

Non-U eats, the first with a plate getting in - they go another way

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

Manta or octopus

Ray's plate holding bad piece of fruit

Undersea animal with a monstrous name

Imps

Devil

Frolicsome or mischievous conduct

Reckless mischief

Was up and reportedly intended to cause mischief

Devilry

""A kind of tree (Osmanthus Americanus), allied to the European olive. Osmanthus Americanus), allied to the European olive.""

Behind someone's back

""Capable of being devised, invented, or contrived.""

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

Devoice

Devolve

Love Teddy Askew with commitment

Religious observ-ances

That's prayers for Devon, so it is

Religious observances.

Devourer

You phone at last while I'm eating

What I've been so eager to eat has got mostly ground

Most reverent.

Dewater

WATERER one that {waters=v}

Having loose skin under the throat, as a lizard

Dewool

Dewormer

Deworm

Skill in handling things

Skill of manipulation

Nimbleness of the gymnast

Ragged-trousered unknown exposed right away, which is skilful

Adroit

Dextrine

Dextrose

Dezinc

Dezinc

Ones with insulin resistance

Evil magic

Satanic activity

Magic roll I had shortly before heartless louse tucked into a brie

""Character, action, or principles appropriate to the devil.""

DIABOLISE

To render diabolical.

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""

Dick Dudgeon was the devil's

Act on idea put out by clerical office

Maybe grave judge backs withdrawing help

Help over judge's accent (wordplay)

There's one in Quebec

Crowning

Variant of dieresis .

Mark of two dots over a vowel

Symbol similar to an umlaut

Pronunciation dots

Adjective (-ic)

Identified

Doctor agonised over second opinions

Identifies problem of San Diego's poor

Doctors' determinations

Result of an exam

Physician's conclusion

Identification of a disease

They show a bias

Virgules or twills

Geometry lines

Diagram

Instruments for drawing figures.

Relating to regional speech

Science of logic

Method of logic.

Relating to discourse

Diallage

Dialling

Diallist

Dialoger

Dialog

Plato was one

Conversation writer

Held colloquy.

Works by Plato

Late talk recorded by King and Lyttleton

Two-person talks

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

Dialyser

Dialyse

The material subjected to dialysis.

Dialyzer

Dialyze

Rhinestones

Widths of circular objects

They're found in circles that read Times

I'm in wards off the Circle Lines

Pertaining to a diameter; diametrical.

Absolutely opposed to as matricide

In direct opposition

Completely opposed

13 with ice (wordplay)

Pipe organ stops

Diapause

Diapause

Diaper

Diaphone

It separates the thorax from the abdomen

Stop here for photography

Vibrating part of a microphone

Bones

An abnormal prolongation of the axis of inflorescence.

Diarchy

DIARRHEA looseness of the bowels

Diarrhea

""Excessive and frequent evacuation of watery feces, usually indicating gastrointestinal distress or disorder.""

Administer a horrid enema to be purged of this (wordplay)

Motions not welcomed from her radio broadcast at one

Polish in Chicago and Italians in Argentina

Diaspore

Diastase

Relating to diastase; having the properties of diastase; effecting the conversion of starch into sugar.

Diastole

Part of a heart rhythm

I slid coat off, relaxed after being pumped up (wordplay)

Injecting iodine into clot aids dispersing of cardiac dilation

Heat treatment

Are unsure about blood group ahead of extremely messy treatment

Disease and Illness

""Bodily condition or constitution, esp. a morbid habit which predisposes to a particular disease, or class of diseases.""

""Pertaining to, or dependent on, a diathesis or special constitution of the body; as, diathetic disease. as, diathetic disease.""

Algae remains

Verbal attacks when bride is at work

Dakota, Iroquois, Arapaho

Bitter denunciations.

Diazepam

Diazinon

""Any of various compounds, especially an aromatic hydrocarbon, containing the cation N 2 attached to an organic group.""

""To subject to such reactions or processes that diazo compounds, or their derivatives, shall be produced by chemical exchange or substitution.""

Flowers also called bleeding hearts

Adjective (-ic)

""Pl. dichasia (-z - , -zh - , -zh ) A cyme having two lateral flowers or branches originating from opposite points beneath a terminal flower.""

""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.""

A small creeping herb (Dichondra micrantha) commercially cultivated as a substitute for lawn grass.