2-Letter Words Starting with D

With meticulous care

With assiduity

Painstakingly replacing lid gradually after one

Prudently involved the city elders

So as to avoid attention

Prudently involved city elders

Separately; disjunctively.

ECONOMY {thrift=n}

Pan a Billy Joel classic (wordplay)

Lovely concealing love-nest by deceit

Untrustworthiness, insincerity

Confused underground worker in hospital

Kind of conduct, in law

Lacking organisation

Hash house (wordplay)

Place where medicines are given out

Boots possibly dressy - pain when moving

""In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. as, he rested disquietly that night.""

Mash unit (wordplay)

A spirited enterprise

It raises the spirit

""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.""

DIVISIVE causing disunity or dissension

Freddy Krueger's third? All butchered in an horrific way

Origin of disaster studied completely in a dire way

DREAMFUL {dreamy=adj}

""The articles kept by a drysalter; also, the business of a drysalter.""

Abstract noun (-ity)

How daredevils live (wordplay)

In a perilous manner

In a risky manner

A Communist crime suppressed by quiet heroism

Dauntless

Deadening

Deafening

Deathless

With intent to deceive.

Deceiving

Decennial

So as to mislead

In a false fashion*

Noisy and rhetorical

Rhetorical

Like some legal judgments

Dedicated

Take off 4 and see with logic

Defective

So as to avoid criticism

Deficient

In a degrading manner.

After the manner of deists.

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

With delight; gladly.

Misdeeds, often juvenile

Failure in duty; crime

Early criminal behaviour

With wild ecstasy

In a frantic manner

DELPHIC like an oracle

DELUSION the act of {deluding=v}

Rabble-rouser's forte

Rabble-rousing activity

Rabble-rousing behaviour

Demanding

Demonical

Possible to contradict or declare untrue: deniable accusations.

Same as denigrating.denigrating.

NUMERABLY

In a dependent manner.

In a deploring manner.

Dismissive of French plundering clubs for date

Disparaging of French before Conservative welcomes accountant

""Tending or designed to depredate; characterized by depredation; plundering; as, a depredatory incursion. as, a depredatory incursion.""

Science of the skin

Study of skin disorders

Branch of medicine concerned with the skin

Serving to designate; designative; indicating.

In the worst way

Leader's type to writhe in anguish

Dreadfully; critically

The blues

In a desultory manner; without method; loosely; immethodically.

Determinateness.

In a restraining manner

With an assured touch

Logically peculiar manner of speaking to supporter

The quality of being diaphanous; transparency; pellucidness.

In a different manner; variously.

In a diffident manner.

In a diffusive manner.

Digestive

An instrument used to measure thermal expansion and dilation in solids and liquids.

Vulgar Slang A piece of dried feces caught in the hair around the anus.

The property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive to sounds coming from one direction than from another.

ASSEMBLY the act of {assembling=v}

In a manner to be discerned; perceptibly; visibly.

A rude lack of consideration for others

A rudeness, snub

Lack of consideration for others

Variance of facts, disagreement

Failure to correspond

Bankbook balancer's problem

Disguised

Disgusted

In an underhanded way

In an untrustworthy manner

Untrustworthily

Disparate

Dispersed

In a dissolute manner.

Absence or defect of symmetry; asymmetry.

Divergent

Factual programme or film

Factual TV programme

Ken Burns-style program

""Relating to, composed in, or consisting of twelve-tone music.""

Family life? It's comedy, it is funny

Focus for Marie Kondo and Hygge enthusiasts

Unquestionably.

Army led effectively around to a smaller extent without night vision (wordplay)

The art or process of measuring forces doing work.

Evel Knievel's forte

""(may take a clause or an infinitive as object; when intr, sometimes foll by on or about) to reach a decision decide what you want he decided to go""

Decorative

Decreasing

In a definitive manner.

Tending to reduce prices in the economy

In a degenerate manner; unworthily.

Degressive

Consciously and intentionally

Aggravated by lie altered on purpose

Bet die really rolls slowly

In a very pleasing manner

In a pleasing way

So as to fail in duty.

In a demoniacal manner.

In a demonstrable manner; incontrovertibly; clearly.

Measuring the optical density of a substance by shining light through it and measuring the intensity of the transmitted light.

""Characterized by or containing a denunciation; minatory; accusing; threatening; as, severe and denunciatory language. as, severe and denunciatory language.""

Tending to depreciate; undervaluing; depreciative.

In a depressing manner.

Depressive

Derivative

In a derogatory manner; disparagingly.

Attractiveness

Desolating

Despairing

Despiteful

Despitefully.

Dejectedly, hopelessly

How Ivan the Terrible ruled

TERMINABLY

In a determined manner; with determination.

Abstract noun (-ity)

Detractive

In a devotional manner; toward devotion.

See Dextrotatory. Dextrotatory.

That branch of philology which is devoted to the consideration of dialects.

In a dietetical manner.

By way of digression.

In a diminutive manner.

In a disagreeable manner; unsuitably; offensively.

In a discerning manner; with judgment; judiciously; acutely.

Discrepant

Discursive

Disjointed

Dismissive

Disordered

Girl with something to tell? Writes article in that medical book

Dispersive

Dispirited

In a disreputable manner.

Disruptive

Dissipated

Dissuasive

Disjointedly; madly.

DIURETIC a drug which increases urinary discharge

Intended to distract attention

Programme in radio's very distracting

Like some tactics journal containing one account

In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs.

Abstract noun (-ity)

The act of driving.

The art or process of producing pictures by method of Daguerre.

""Harm or injury to property or a person, resulting in loss of value or the impairment of usefulness.""

By distinct assertion; not impliedly; in the form of a declaration.

""That can be deducted, especially with respect to income taxes: deductible expenses.""

""FEASIBILITY The quality of being feasible; practicability; also, that which is feasible; as, before we adopt a plan, let us consider its feasibility. as, before we adopt a plan, let us consider its feasibility.""

Defenseless

Capability of being defended.

In a servile manner

Greatly pleasing; delightful.

Deleterious

Demagogical

Trustworthiness

Deprecating

Deprecatory

Descriptive

In a ruinous manner

""DESTRUCTIVE Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth. of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth.""

""(tr) to disengage and separate or remove, as by pulling; unfasten; disconnect""

Abstract noun (-ity)

In a determinate manner; definitely; ascertainably.

Abstract noun (-ity)

In a damaging manner

Tried out with the mind, causing loss (wordplay)

Stupidly tried using brain, in a way that's harmful

Adverb

Devastating

DEVOLUTION The act of rolling down.

In a dialectical manner.

How opposite can you get (wordplay)

How things at opposite extremes are positioned

Absolutely

Summary provides half the responsibility? It suggests it can be put away!

""DIGRESSION The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject.""

Dimensional

CREDITABLY In a creditable manner; reputably; with credit.

Left to good judgement

Not obligatory

Up to you to record conservative's current departure

Disgraceful

In a disjunctive manner; separately.

Showing defiant behaviour

Disquieting

Distasteful

With distinction; plainly.

Distressful

Distressing

Documentary

Domineering

In a dejected manner

Dyspeptical

In a deliberative manner; circumspectly; considerately.

""(mainly tr) to carry (goods, etc.) to a destination, esp to carry and distribute (goods, mail, etc.) to several places to deliver letters our local butcher delivers""

The way our country is run

By popular vote

Demoralizing

NUMERABILITY

Daydream (wordplay)

Describing how France is divided, become absent-minded (wordplay)

Leave old boys before match, as college's organised, perhaps

Depreciating

Turning clockwise

DIAGENETIC

In the way of differentiation.

Measurement related

DIMENSIONAL Pertaining to dimension.

The property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive to signal arriving from one direction than from another.

""DISAPPOINTED Defeated of expectation or hope; balked; as, a disappointed person or hope. as, a disappointed person or hope.""