2-Letter Words Starting with D

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.

DECAPITATE To cut off the head of; to behead.

Brake

Cloth cap (for a hunter?)

Voice of Bambi (wordplay)

Sherlock Holmes accessory

""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.""

MORALIZER One who moralizes.

It's fractionally down

Lower half of fraction (could be common!)

Brooklyn political convention VIP (wordplay)

""A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery.""

Disparager

Salt remover

""An instrument for measuring the dilatation or expansion of a substance, especially of a fluid.""

One who disapproves.

One who discourages.

One who writers a dissertation; one who discourses.

Ace in the hole business (wordplay)

Person who barks (wordplay)

Overseer of private practice

Power-measuring instrument

Instrument for measuring force

Engine output measuring machine

""He who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.""

""A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees.""

""MAGNETIZER One who, or that which, imparts magnetism.""

DEMOCRATIZE To render democratic.

Dealer's test drive vehicle

Car wearing dealer plates, often

Participant in a public protest

""Inflected form of PROGRAMMER Inflected form of PROGRAMME That which is written or printed as a public notice or advertisement; a scheme; a prospectus; especially, a brief outline or explanation of the order to be pursued, or the subjects embraced, in any public exercise, performance, or entertainment; a preliminary sketch.""

One who determines.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Phonograph Records

""One who, or that which, disenchants.""

One who spreads (something) widely

One who dissimulates; a dissembler.

Pertaining to a diverticulum.

Ghostly double of a live person

Living person's double

Ghostly lookalike of a human

Back-to-back baseball games

July 4th tradition.

Marathon at Camden Yards

Medical device for stabilising the heart

Device applying current to the chest or heart

Electronic device for restoring normal heart rhythm

""MINERALIZER An element which is combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. Thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer. mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer.""

DOCTRINAIRISM (anagram)

A distinguishing characteristic

A machine for grinding or pulverizing by percussion.

Doublespeak

""Inflected form of CONTAMINATOR Inflected form of CONTAMINATE To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.""

Quick note from Edward Elgar (wordplay)

Note death, note tremble!

Brief note (wordplay)

""(Physics / General Physics) Physics an instrument used in studying diffraction, as in the determination of crystal structure by diffraction of X-rays""

""(Chemistry) Chem a type of isomer that differs in the spatial arrangement of atoms in the molecule, but is not a mirror image; a stereoisomer that is not an enantiomer""