2-Letter Words Starting with D

Made unholy mess of seed boxed up

(Of a church) violated

Damaged assorted seed was put in boxes

One who desecrates; a profaner.

Soils from broken seed boxes

Pollutes

Profaner

Unchecked

Substances which remove moisture

Dried up

Very dry

Desiccate

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

The act or state of desisting; cessation.

Little fellow given sticking plaster maybe and sent packing

Despatch

Worthy of keen disapprobation.

Adjective for Bill Sikes

Wretched paid 'celebs' going wild

""In a despicable or mean manner; contemptibly; as, despicably stingy. as, despicably stingy.""

Destruct

That can be detached.

DETACH to unfasten and separate

DETACHED detach

Indifference for detail

Indifference to detail

Strange men chatted with aloofness

Let cadet be - trouble can be worked out by the officer

Detection

TV's Briscoe and Green

A magnum of...

Thursday and Friday.

A cleansing quality or power.

Restraining order, say

Eg, possession of nuclear weapons

The use of fear to dissuade

TOXICANT a poisonous substance

Remove poison from

Belittler's activity

Belittling of the French drawing

Not a direct criminal slander

Criticism means upset editor must get a grip

Tending to detractor draw.

Critical persons

Disparagers

Deviancy

To make toneless; to deprive of vowel quality.

Dezinc

Forging alibi with ' a cold' - wicked!

What you might call hell of a liberty (wordplay)

A bod I call wicked, one inwardly satanic

""Of or concerned with phenomena, such as linguistic features, as they change through time.""

Deaconships.

Diacritic

The process of chemical and physical change in deposited sediment during its conversion to rock.

Indicating the nature of an illness

Computer error message

A symptom used to identify a disease

Arguments of logic.

Relating to a dialogue; dialogistical.

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

""Affording a free passage to heat; as, diathermic substances. as, diathermic substances.""

Dicentric

""A nonpersistent organophosphorous pesticide, C 4 H 7 O 4 Cl 2 P, of low toxicity to humans.""

Dichondra

Dichroism

Salt that is typically red or orange; admit ochre (anagram)

Dichromat

Franglais patients contact policemen about bird

Sparrow-like North American songbird related to the cardinals

English word

English word

Dicrotism

Dictation

Book that's full of meaning (wordplay)

Definitive book (wordplay)

Oxford, for one.

The Golgi apparatus in plant cells.

Dicumarol

""One of a group of extinct reptiles having the jaws armed with a horny beak, as in turtles, and in the genus Dicynodon, supporting also a pair of powerful tusks. Their remains are found in triassic strata of South Africa and India. Dicynodon, supporting also a pair of powerful tusks. Their remains are found in triassic strata of South Africa and India.""

Instructive addict's outburst: 'One state!'

Instructive

Insulator, derelict IC (anagram)

Advisers on girth control

Plate creators variable

Food experts

What's left of Diversity (wordplay)

End of quip

Disagreement if red fence collapsed

Trouble from iffy cult I'd abandoned

Strain of pig-headed male chromosome

Struggle for fellows in charge last month engaged in do-it-yourself

Modesty, shyness

Shyness - mistrust

Modest shyness

Diffract

DILEMMA a perplexing situation

Diligence

Descended from two ancestral lines or individuals.

""Pl. diplococci (-k k s , -k k ) Any of various paired spherical bacteria, including those of the genus Diplococcus, some of which are pathogenic.""

Herbivorous sauropod

Lower position defining party, a dinosaur

One had a huge amount of meat after I'd served up nasty cold soup!

Tactful negotiator in charge

Prudent to claim foul after drop

College choice for jerk is sensitive

North, south, east and west (wordplay)

The four making news (wordplay)

Game-box reading matter

Rich man concealing anger over court orders

Instructions.

Notices I have to take up the camera for opening first shot

The quality of being direct; straightness; straightforwardness; immediateness.

A woman who directs.

English word

Disaccord

Alienates

Discant

Discarder

Throwing away

In draw poker, preparing to receive replacements*

Stripped of flesh.

Discept

Discerner

Making out with good taste

Making out, being clever

Showing good judgement

Daughter is accused, but let off

Dismissed detectives accused in the station

Dismissed theologian over one small order

""(d s chärj , d s-chärj ) The act of removing a load or burden.""

""One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.""

What an angry babysitter might do (wordplay)

Sacks

Branch of knowledge; punish

Call on the carpet

Record work in pile in academic field

Disciple

Distanced oneself from

Like a retired insurance agent (wordplay)

Denial of responsibility

Medic rails about refusal to take responsibility

Refusal to admit detective worked miracles

Discloser

Record missing? It's broadcasting

Publishing record being beaten

Woman's so cruel sadly making revelation

Club certain to accommodate large outing

It can be full or partial

Black-and-blue

Discomfit

The uneasiness of party maiden almost 40

Storm if doc creates pain

Club, male bastion, creating irritation

To mention with disapprobation; to blame; to disapprove.

Put out a dance for the 1970s - 2000 ode

Way after party maiden gets put out

Cause (someone) trouble or inconvenience

Perhaps deconstruct music for Rattle (wordplay)

Upset male model after party

Upset married model after dance

Rattle record playing? Sure thing

Put out of underworld union

Prior to musical event duke is upset

CONFIRM to {ratify=v}

Break off an engagement (wordplay)

Divorce adjusted in second court

Detectives and screw pull the plug

Now is the winter of our - (Richard III)

Now is the winter of our - (Rich.III)

Lack of satisfaction

A collector of or specialist in phonograph records.

Quarreling insect (wordplay)

Quarreling insect?

Lacking harmony; conflicting

Discord

Itemized things on a tax return

Not full-price

Like sales day clothing

One's out to make reductions

Cause loss of enthusiasm in (someone)

Iago cursed, getting put off (wordplay)

It's round to our times to put this off

Is series of lectures spanning two days treated formally (wordplay)

One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer.

Bad-mouth the curriculum (wordplay)

Criticize college subjects (wordplay)

Conversations

Detected journalist's halo maybe!

Found during search

How one is round on top of the editor

Talent scout, perhaps

Marie Curie, for radium and polonium

U. S. satellite.

Refuses to accept right correction in records

Adds a warning underneath, as a social media post

Besmirches

Discreet

Prudently involved the city elders

So as to avoid attention

Prudently involved city elders

Record agent and worker not agreeing

Contrary, disagreeing

Inconsistent

Separately; disjunctively.

The better part of valor

Liberty to act at pleasure; prudence

'The better part of valour'

Discrown

Moving from subject to subject

Moving between subjects

Rambling

Person taking part in talks written off as nuts on record

They talk things over

Talking about athletics event, what's bad and good

Talk in field event is about leg

Debate is back on after athletic event

Talk of rock discos in US

ECONOMY {thrift=n}

Free from illusion

Take illusions away

Make someone feel let down

Disfrock

Black-eye bringers

Reflecting reproach on

Being unworthy of.

Dragging through the mud

They dry in the kitchen

Kitchen rags

Dishclout

Hear this slope with hundreds is reluctant

Cleans up CID fitness to operate

Sterilises ruined cities and finds one is lost

Disject

Daughter is found out

Out of order.

You couldn't even find your own butt on a Waze app

Moves out of a normal position

Injures, as a bone

Inconveniences

No longer mended (wordplay)

Radio-active employee

Railroad man.

Boss hid aspects of messages

Sends off messages

Cadetships all at sea in ships

Taking the place of model splicing ad

Showing someone the door for most of the presentation by Charlie in government

Contempt in crushing spiders, etc.

In action, press cited for contempt

Press cited for spreading contempt

Analyzer's activity

Biology-class task

Closely examining assortment of insects found in archaeological site

Some analytical piecework (wordplay)

Senior policeman opening special branch enquiry

Cutting up middle slice of dessert, in manner of speaking

Dissector

Bad-mouth the waiters (wordplay)

Dress I ruined with evil and harmful act

Present employment, on the street

Opposition to officialdom

Separate, disconnect

In seconds a dreadful lack of harmony

Lack of harmony

Clashing quality of musical notes

Distance

Disposed in two vertical rows; two-ranked.

Distinct

Clearly

Diverted (attention) from (something)

Troubled - ID card test (anagram)

Amused or confused (wordplay)

Divided into political boundaries

Divided into zones

Detectives welcoming one black friend's return with spondee, say

Stretch/spread apart

Departure of a sort

A branching off

A moving apart

""A receding from each other in moving from a common center; the state of being divergent; as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.""

Noun (-ence)

Docility

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Longshoreman

Indoor court reportedly 88 degrees

Highest graduate-school degrees

Advanced degrees

DOCTOR to treat medically

Physician's function

A drum's coda might indicate such factions

Of official papers

Like written material, arranged in column with date

Finish with copper getting mad, giving description of written evidence

Presented evidence for

Set down in black and white by editor behind paper

'Tom ended drunk', copper intervening put down on paper

DOCUMENT to support by conclusive information

Dodecagon

Tabby's friend (wordplay)

Tabby's friend?

Pound worker (wordplay)

Opinionated

Dictatorial.

Dogwatch

Domicil

Dominance

DOMINICK an American breed of chickens

Donnicker

Gizmos

Gadgets

Plural or third person singular

Dormancy

Doronicum

An instrument that measures and indicates the amount of x-rays or radiation absorbed in a given period.

Northerners who once sympathized with the South

Long-billed sandpipers

DOWNSCALE

Downscale

Detest confinement (wordplay)

Outside study, student ties up long hair

Bob Marely's hairstyle

Pigskin specialist of yore

Field goal attempter, once

Pests on a rhythm instrument (wordplay)

Chicken leg portions

Beats bloodsucker's upper legs

""Producing, or pertaining to, drupes; having the form of drupes; as, drupaceous trees or fruits. as, drupaceous trees or fruits.""

Gym-shower items

Shower-room items

They're used for walking over wet ground

The drake decamped!

Dulcify

Dulcimore

Speechless with amazement

Amazed as mum refused to work

Astounded by stupid son on lorry