2-Letter Words Starting with D

Gym-shower items

Shower-room items

They're used for walking over wet ground

The drake decamped!

English word

A little lift for Manuel, maybe

High-rise convenience, perhaps

Inept eatery server (wordplay)

Chap who won't vote for your candidate

Unconscious chap in parent, wally

Dunce had endured switches...

As a system of counting, doctor aided locum

Pair claimed wrongly to be like Bob of old

Base 12

DUPLICATE Double; twofold.

Kind of clones

Having scaled it up, turns out copies

Identical sets

Business machine.

Granite state (wordplay)

New dairy built - with quality of something built to last

Duralumin

Potentially shaky power structure

DWARFISH resembling a {dwarf=n}

DYADIC a sum of mathematical dyads

Abstract noun (-ity)

DYNAMIST an adherent of {dynamism=n}

Dynamiter

Dynamite

Dynamotor

""Difficulty in articulating words, caused by impairment of the muscles used in speech.""

Dyscrasia

An abnormality in performing voluntary muscle movements.

Dyspepsia

Dysphagia

Dysphasia

Dysphasic

Dysphonia

Dysphoria

Dysplasia

""Abnormal development or growth of tissues, organs, or cells.""

The art of communicating ideas by certain movements and positions of the fingers; -- a method of conversing practiced by the deaf and dumb.

Dailiness

DAMASCENE Of or relating to Damascus.

Insects beginning to leap in new-style photos taken by mother

How daredevils live (wordplay)

In a perilous manner

In a risky manner

A Communist crime suppressed by quiet heroism

""DARLING a much loved person, also DEARLING""

Datedness

Daunomycin

Dauntless

They're not paying attention

They're in la-la land

Those given to flights of fancy

In another world.

Classroom taboo

The opposite of having night vision (wordplay)

Daylight

Dazedness

ACIDIFIED acidify

Deacidify

Deaconess

Mine might be switched off!

Deactivate

ACTIVATOR any agency bringing about activation; (Biol.) a molecule that increases the activity of an enzyme or a protein that increases the production of a gene product in DNA transcription.

Deadening

Traveling in a bomber just for the ride

Tidying up after flowering

Deadlift

Deadlock

Deadpanner

Deadpan

Deadweight

Deaeration

Deafening

Lotus positions (wordplay)

DEAMINATE

DEAMINATE

Deathless

Disembarkation.

Debasement

Debatement

Argued about one on fire becoming weakened

Debilitate

Decadency

Fellows around the City misheard the figures

CALCIFIED calcify

Decalcify

Bivouac break-ups

""The act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another.""

Beheaded

Decapitate

DECAPITATE To cut off the head of; to behead.

To deprive of carbonic acid.

Green New Deal verb

To deprive of carbon; to remove the carbon from.

Decathlete

Slowed down

Spain alerted to change after last month and slowed down

Decelerate

Brake

The office or term of office of the decemvirs in Rome.

Decennial

DECEPTION The act of deceiving or misleading.

CEREBRATE To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

""DECIMALIZE To reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the currency. as, to decimalize the currency.""

Decimalize

Decimation

""The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students. as, the practice declamation by students.""

Noisy and rhetorical

Rhetorical

It begins: "When in the Course... "

It begins: "When in the Course . . . "

It begins "When in the Course . . . "

Shown

Like some legal judgments

""The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. as, declination of the head.""

COLLATING collate

The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist.

Low neckline on a dress

More of the quip

Low-cut neckline

Honored soldier's collection

Jack-o'-lanterns, for example

Coordinates new colour schemes

""To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull.""

DECOUPAGE

DECREMENT The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss.

""To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt. as, to decrepitate salt.""

""DECUSSATE 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.""

""Act of crossing at an acute angle, or state of being thus crossed; an intersection in the form of an X; as, the decussation of lines, nerves, etc. as, the decussation of lines, nerves, etc.""

Dedicated

Cite Addison inaccurately in inscriptions

Cloth cap (for a hunter?)

Voice of Bambi (wordplay)

Sherlock Holmes accessory

Damages to external appearance

""DEFALCATE To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc.""

A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; setoff.

Defalcator

Defamation

Defeasance

Defecation

Feel trained to be submissive

Showing respect

Submissive

Deferrable

""To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.""

""Pl. definientia (- n sh - , -sh ) The word or words serving to define another word or expression, as in a dictionary entry.""

""DEFLAGRATE To burn with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; also, to snap and crackle with slight explosions when heated, as salt.""

Deflagrate

Capable of being deflected.

""The act of deflouring; as, the defloration if a virgin. as, the defloration if a virgin.""

Action that makes leaves leave

The separation of ripened leaves from a branch or stem; the falling or shedding of the leaves.

Defoliator

""FORMALIZE To give form, or a certain form, to; to model.""

Alteration of shape

Disfigurement

""FORMATIVE Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts. as, the formative arts.""

Went from bad to worse

Forgotten about defect that's returned and grown worse

Worsened

Worsens steadily

Reprobates

Rakes

GLACIATED glaciate

""Inflected form of GLAMORIZE Inflected form of GLAMOR to bewitch, also GLAMOUR""

Trained a dog to suffer humiliation

Trained a dog that's going off, going off

Humiliation.

DEGRADE to {debase=v}

In a degrading manner.

Tasting; the appreciation of sapid qualities by the taste organs.

HUMANIZED humanize

Dehumanize

HYDRATING hydrate

Excessive loss of water from body

Significant loss of water

Dehydrator

Making a god of

After the manner of deists.

LAMINATED laminate

Delaminate

Delectable

Eaten cold it could provide enjoyment

Election date endlessly changed for amusement

Enjoyment of naughty cat in act of destruction

Convention groups.

Convention groups

Considered carefully

Considered not to be accidental at start of day

Considered

Considers food shop reprimands

Ponders composer taking charge

Considers carefully

DELINEATE Delineated; portrayed.

Vivid verbal description

Sketch

DELINEATE Delineated; portrayed.

Delineator

""Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered.""

Burt Reynolds film

Ned Beatty's film debut, 1972

Clever Diane comes to the rescue

A fellow with a round bowler, perhaps

Male who goes round dropping off goods

Courier called up about chauffeur's uniform (wordplay)

LOCALIZED localize

Delocalize

DELPHIC like an oracle

DELUSION the act of {deluding=v}

Render a credit card useless, e.g

Render a credit card useless, for example

Rabble-rouser's forte

Rabble-rousing activity

Rabble-rousing behaviour

DEMAGOGUE A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious mob orator or political leader.

Demanding

DEMARCATE To mark by bounds; to set the limits of; to separate; to discriminate.

Boundary

DEMIURGIC Pertaining to a demiurge; formative; creative.

Western nations

Give power to the people

Make accessible for everyone

MODULATED modulate

Demodulate

""An electronic device which extracts the modulation from a radio carrier wave, and outputs the original information-bearing signal.""

""The study of the characteristics of human populations, such as size, growth, density, distribution, and vital statistics.""

Relating to the structure of populations

Population-related

Relating to the statistical study of populations

Demonical

Fiend, say, hogging start of road show

Protest (in public)

Take part in public protest

""Made less hopeful or enthusiastic; rendered pessimistic; as, the demoralized Iraqi ground troops put up little resistance.as, the demoralized Iraqi ground troops put up little resistance.""

MORALIZER One who moralizes.

Demoralize

""Capable of being dismounted; -- said of a form of rim, for an automobile wheel, which can be removed with its tire from the wheel.""

Denaturant

Denazify

Dendrogram

Denegation

DENERVATE

""NERVATION The arrangement of nerves and veins, especially those of leaves; neuration.""

Possible to contradict or declare untrue: deniable accusations.

Harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign; -- used of statements.

Calumny? Snarl and ignore it

Unfair criticism

Disparagement

DENIGRATE To blacken thoroughly; to make very black.

Denigrator

Same as denigrating.denigrating.

NOMINATED nominate

Names

Names.

It's fractionally down

Lower half of fraction (could be common!)

Brooklyn political convention VIP (wordplay)

Denotation