2-Letter Words Starting with D

As a system of counting, doctor aided locum

Pair claimed wrongly to be like Bob of old

Base 12

Duodecimo

DUPLICATE Double; twofold.

Kind of clones

Having scaled it up, turns out copies

Identical sets

Business machine.

Lift prints from lids (wordplay)

Hardback protectors

DYADIC a sum of mathematical dyads

DYNAMIST an adherent of {dynamism=n}

Dyscrasia

""An inflammatory disorder of the lower intestinal tract, usually caused by a bacterial, parasitic, or protozoan infection and resulting in pain, fever, and severe diarrhea, often accompanied by the passage of blood and mucus.""

Adjective (-ic)

Dyspeptic

Dysphasic

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

""Medicine Of, relating to, or afflicted with dystrophy.""

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

DAMASCENE Of or relating to Damascus.

Daunomycin

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.

Deadlock

Valley outlet

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

With intent to deceive.

Deceiving

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

Decenter

DECEPTION The act of deceiving or misleading.

So as to mislead

In a false fashion*

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

CERTIFIED certify

Decertify

DECIDED decide

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

Decimalize

Decimation

Decipherer

Decipher

Decision

""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

Declension

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

Downward slopes

Moderately steep.

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

COLONIZED colonize

Decolonize

COLORIZED colorize

""Inflected form of COLORIZER Inflected form of COLORIZE to give color to black and white film, also COLORISE""

Decolorize

Decolour

Decomposer

Breaking down

""CONDITION Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength, etc.; predicament; rank; position, estate.""

Decongest

Dismantle (something)

Break down

Churchmen wanting a heavy vehicle reduced time to break down

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.""

Infirmity of old age

Worn-out condition.

State of infirmity

Decrease in loudness (music)

With decreasing loudness (mus.)

(Musically) become quieter

Decryption

""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

Interest and contributions, for example

Take off 4 and see with logic

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

Defeasance

Defecation

Defective

Deficient

Capable of being deflected.

Deflection

Defocus

""A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.""

GLACIATED glaciate

Dehiscence

Making a god of

Plural noun or verb form

After the manner of deists.

Delectable

Eaten cold it could provide enjoyment

Election date endlessly changed for amusement

Enjoyment of naughty cat in act of destruction

""Delightfully; as, to feed deliciously; to be deliciously entertained. as, to feed deliciously; to be deliciously entertained.""

Misdeeds, often juvenile

Failure in duty; crime

Early criminal behaviour

Capital mission, one might say, changed state

Deliquesce

Burt Reynolds film

Ned Beatty's film debut, 1972

Clever Diane comes to the rescue

LOCALIZED localize

Delocalize

DELPHIC like an oracle

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

Relating to the structure of populations

Population-related

Relating to the statistical study of populations

Demonical

""Botany the branch of botany that studies trees. ; dendrologist , n . ; dendrologic, dendrological ,""

DENTICULATE

Dentifrice

Dependance

Conditional states

Trusts.

In a deprecating manner.

The act of deprecating; a praying against evil; prayer that an evil may be removed or prevented; strong expression of disapprobation.

Dismissive of French plundering clubs for date

Disparaging of French before Conservative welcomes accountant

That can be depreciated in value: depreciable assets.

Lost value (over time)

Undervalues

Disparager

DERACINATE To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate.

Deracinate

Neglect before line in speech

Inflected form of SACRALIZE Inflected form of SACRAL a vertebra or nerve near the sacrum

People in a line

Holds forth about the purpose of posterity

More than one follower in family and sect ends badly

"Everything Sucks" punk icons

Admitting descent; capable of being descended.

Descension

That can be described; capable of description.

Do nice strip perhaps showing outline

Portrayal

Classifying without expressing judgement

Graphic in portrayal

Depicting verbally.

Descriptor

Desecrater

DESECRATE To divest of a sacred character or office; to divert from a sacred purpose; to violate the sanctity of; to profane; to put to an unworthy use; the opposite of consecrate. consecrate.

Violently disrespectful treatment

Damage of anything sacred

The offence of considerate vandalism

Desecrator

Deselect

""DESICCATE To dry up; to deprive or exhaust of moisture; to preserve by drying; as, to desiccate fish or fruit. as, to desiccate fish or fruit.""

""The act of desiccating, or the state of being desiccated.""

Drying; tending to dry.

Desiccator

Desistance

Despatch

Despondency.

The blues

Destruct

Ruin, wreckage

... R-U-I-N

Ruin

Causing ruin

Very damaging

Disengagements of military units

Determinateness.

Deterrence

Detoxicant

DETOXICATE to remove poison from.

Detoxicate

Calumnies

""TUMESCENT Slightly tumid; swollen, as certain moss capsules.""

VOCALIZED vocalize

Devocalize

Diachrony

""That separates or distinguishes; -- applied to points or marks used to distinguish letters of similar form, or different sounds of the same letter, as, \'be, <acr/, \'84, <omac/, <ocr/, etc.""

Medical study of unbeliever in Hades ...

Techniques for identifying illness

Branch of medicine indentifying illnesses

Logically peculiar manner of speaking to supporter

Pertaining to dialectics; logical; argumental.

DIALOGIST A speaker in a dialogue.

""Pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, diamagnetism; taking, or being of a nature to take, a position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force. See Paramagnetic. Paramagnetic.""

Girl returned damaged article, opposed like 5 across and 25, 6 and 24 etc

See title (wordplay)

... for a herpetologist (wordplay)

Type of terrapin

A medicine or agent which promotes perspiration.

""Geology the process of movement that causes the earth&#x2019;s crust to form continents, mountains, oceans, etc. ; diastrophe , n . ; diastrophic , adj . Earth""

Dichogamy

Manifesting dichogamy.

Dichotomy

One who dichotomizes.

To cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect.

""Regularly dividing by pairs from bottom to top; as, a dichotomous stem. as, a dichotomous stem.""

Dichromate

Having or exhibiting two colors.

An instrument for examining the dichroism of crystals.