2-Letter Words Starting with D

Dehort

Finds pleasure (in)

Joys of French windows

Slighted by pleasures

Kiki's got some spring in her step!

Diplomatic measure or initiative

A diplomatic initiative

Jo's bottle (wordplay)

Large bottle for half-Jack (wordplay)

Narrow-necked bottle.

Knock down (a building)

Knock down (building)

Knock down, say a building

To remove the gloss from

Send out - chest pad (anagram)

Send out of cash dept

Send off, kill

Separated from - maybe a house

Free kind of house (wordplay)

Retired, Edward longed to be free

One that {detaches=v}

Unscrews or unglues

Uses a perforation

Works a perforation

Arrange to end her rule (wordplay)

Leave without power (wordplay)

Take the championship from

He's livid, agitated yet mischievous

Very difficult to deal with

Extreme inhumanity in beauty

Dhooly

Dhootie

Dhourra

Dhurrie

Drawing instrument.

Drafting tool

Plant of the pink family

Row in this way accommodates a plant

Genus including pinks and carnations

A low-pitched foghorn

A system of rules for scientific investigation

""Governed by two powers, also DIARCHAL, DYARCHAL""

It's going fast

Flower clusters

Affecting the two ears differently

Having two colours

You'll get no change out of them

They're stubborn to the end

Stick-to-it-ive types

Diether

Dight

Starts of "white" and "Christmas," to a linguist

Upward inclination of a plane's wings

Two-faced male doctor has external face

Criminal held raid using two different planes

Double pyramid

The child of parents with differing genes

Containing two hydroxyl radicals

{ethane=n}

Reduce in size

Make or become smaller

Get little beauty outside car

Dimorph

Sound travels quickly in boats

Rings round to run boats

Small rowing boats

""Having two phases, also DIPHASE""

A hydrocarbon

Two-paneled paintings

Paintings on two folding surfaces

Paintings on two folding panels

Dishelm

Deprive of birthright

Ruffle (for example hair)

Bowl woman left for jumble

The woman entering dodgy bar left untidy

Dishful

Dishy

Resembling a platter

Bring shame upon

Worst fate for a Klingon

Use calumny

Sources of unglamorous hands, perhaps

Joy-filled sink basins (wordplay)

After-meals cleaning receptacles

Cloths by the sink

Kitchen cloths

Kitchen cleaners

Pfaltzgraff products

Military report (sent in haste?)

Send off, goods perhaps

Send off (mail)

Couplets

Pick-and-shovel workers

Shovel specialists

Abandoning trench construction

Truant activity

Abandoning

Belief in two coequal gods

An adherent of {ditheism=n}

Acted nervously irresolute

Hesitated to have died about the R

Vacillated, was indecisive

Irresolute person agitates the rider

Indecisive person

Flustered one

Worker next to the ship

Long-shoreman

Stevedore.

""The office of a doge, also DOGATE, DOGEATE""

In which boxers do combat (wordplay)

Canine struggle (wordplay)

Heightened clash of brawling boxers, say

Residence for one in disfavor

Place for one out of favor

'Location' for one in disfavor

Canine canines, for example

Mouldings in later Norman architecture

Canine's canines

Check canines (wordplay)

Canine of a sort

Architectural ornament

Animal's timepiece (wordplay)

Lookout time, at sea

The last shift

Small sociable whales

They entertain people on cruises.

Graceful, intelligent sea creatures

Dorhawk

Douche

A soldier with money? Wow!

Money man in the making (wordplay)

World War I soldier

More like paste

Small ring-shaped cake

Small circular cake

Deep fried snack

Somewhat dowdy

A rope for hauling down sails

Not ascending Mourne (wordplay)

Kind of skier or racer

County in Croke Park is not on the up

Airstream, in aeronautics.

Earthward airstream

Current that's forced lower in blue rinse

Dozenth

Silver coins of ancient Greece

Coins that have left circulation twice

Chair made to shake - I extracted old coins

Drachma

Greek tax payments (wordplay)

Erstwhile Greek coinage

Money Mercouri carried

{drafty=adj}

Pub, old style.

Bar serving alcohol

Board game with huffing

Checkers, in Britain.

Drinks provided for men on board

Thirsty, will swallow anything cool

Letting in currents of cold air

Letting the wind in

Somewhat dreggy

Soaking, sopping wet

Caught without an umbrella

Caught in a cloudburst

Fireman, at times

Torrential rain, for example

Soaking downpour

Soaks, douses

Makes wet

Soaks

A convertible car

Andy Murray's choice sinks in

Ball that just clears the net

Short return of hot tears at first

Phenomena of the Dust Bowl.

Dry spells

Should follow the doctor to start 23 down

Parched

A fish that makes a drumming sound

Percussion instrument membrane

Musical membrane

Timpani surface

Preference, so to speak

Chance to choose

First choice

In the manner of a dude

A stupid person

The height of waste (wordplay)

Pile of droppings

Farmyard refuse heap

Rubbish pile

Flyer of opera (wordplay)

The Flying - (Wagner)

Hieronymus Bosch, for one

Juliana's ships.

Europeans munched nuts around square

Go to net her lands to get them

Unusually small (in stature)

Draw obtuse angle, rather small

Of very small stature

Pertaining to a {dyarchy=n}

Dabchick

Long for a dog (wordplay)

Small dog (from Germany?)

Slinky in "Toy Story," for example

Dahabeah

Dahabiah

Dahabieh

Dahabiya

Daishiki

Dakerhen

Speed counter goes on here (wordplay)

Car's instrument panel

Bolt to piece of wood, forming panel

Showily

Lear's trio

/Part of D.A.R./

Issues of a feminine nature

Dauphine

As knocked out of boxers (wordplay)

Dawn's innards (wordplay)

*Wits, when scared out of you

Fans of a certain jam band

Touch of Grey fans

Drives back empty

Ship's cabin window.

Joy gets hold of Bill, maybe for protective cover

Deanship

Deathbed

Who tabled amendment - it's a killer!

Poor old hat web gets the coup de grace

Doctor hated smack - it's a killer

Poisonous mushrooms

Immortal, as some prose (wordplay)

That never gets to the finish

'Never dye this, by the sound of it (9)'

Old-time executioner.

DEATHS death

Dissolute beach dude in trouble

Corrupt young woman longed to get posh

Degenerate

Rake beach ground with due energy

One indulging in depravity

Libertine, one who is morally unrestrained

""One who debauches or corrupts others; especially, a seducer to lewdness.""

Sullies

Debouch

Emerges

Pl. decahedrons or decahedra (-dr ) A polyhedron with ten faces.

Latched on to jockey - it's eventful!

Ten out of ten for the all-rounder!

Summer Olympics event

Decodes or interprets

Swabbing crew many, many (nonverbal)

Sailors playing cards repeatedly

Crew

Naval architect's creation

Ship superstructure

Choked, spoiling exercise in navigator's cabin (wordplay)

Scottish hunting dog

Large dog bred for hunting

The man's tucked in - fit to burst!

Bursting: bot.

Emerging forcefully from hot Irish capital in fall

Dehisce

Dehorner

Rendering harmless, in a way

Dehort

Make heated and dry (wordplay)

Deprive of water

Remove moisture from, make dry

So pleased to be in the dark, perhaps

Not longer lit up, glad to say

Very happy to be blonde indeed!

One who gives pleasure

Changes of policy, as in diplomacy

Policy changes

Bulbous, narrow-necked bottles

Bottles of a kind.

Narrow-necked bottles

Having no depth; shallow.

Whirling ones

Whirling figures

Moslem whirlers

Detacher

Coming back in pain, Ted is not getting stuck with it

It's up to Ted not to be stuck with what makes him sore

Toppled, in a way

No longer the champion

Deposed champion

One in three-D version: King Stephen, say

Causes a power outage (wordplay)

Displaces the reds on top (wordplay)

Removes from power

Manta or octopus

Ray's plate holding bad piece of fruit

Undersea animal with a monstrous name

""Time the study and description of the change or development in the structural systems of a language over a stated period of time. Also called historical linguistics . Cf. synchronic linguistics . ; diachronic , adj . Linguistics""

Instruments for drawing figures.

Diaphone

It separates the thorax from the abdomen

Stop here for photography

Vibrating part of a microphone

Bones

An abnormal prolongation of the axis of inflorescence.

Diarchy

DIARRHEA looseness of the bowels

Diarrhea

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

Administer a horrid enema to be purged of this (wordplay)

Motions not welcomed from her radio broadcast at one

Heat treatment

Are unsure about blood group ahead of extremely messy treatment

Disease and Illness

""Bodily condition or constitution, esp. a morbid habit which predisposes to a particular disease, or class of diseases.""

""Pertaining to, or dependent on, a diathesis or special constitution of the body; as, diathetic disease. as, diathetic disease.""

""Pl. dichasia (-z - , -zh - , -zh ) A cyme having two lateral flowers or branches originating from opposite points beneath a terminal flower.""

""The condition of certain species of plants, in which the stamens and pistil do not mature simultaneously, so that these plants can never fertilize themselves.""

A small creeping herb (Dichondra micrantha) commercially cultivated as a substitute for lawn grass.

Division into two parts or kinds

Division into two parts

Dual nature

""The property of presenting different colors by transmitted light, when viewed in two different directions, the colors being unlike in the direction of unlike or unequal axes.""

English word

Of or pertaining to a digraph.

Dihedral

Dihedron

Dihybrid

Dimethyl

Having the property of dimorphism; dimorphous.

Diphenyl

Ou, for example.

A couple of characters sticking together

Tongue-moving vowel sound

Perform for free (wordplay)

Fire (gun); sack (worker)

Fire - or let off (wordplay)

It's used in washing up

Kitchen worker's rag

Kitchen item

A dishcloth.

Dishelm

Disherit

Makes a mess of

It's lying by the plate, one's tea, say

Deceitful - hedonists (anagram)

Hedonists turned out to be deceptive

Mashes

Stains

Dishware

Dirty washing-up liquid (wordplay)

What might be filled with Joy (wordplay)

Weak or soiled liquid

""Want of relish; dislike (of the palate or of the mind); distaste; a slight degree of disgust; as, a disrelish for some kinds of food. as, a disrelish for some kinds of food.""

Ditheism

Ditheist

Slowpokes

Hemming and hawing

Seeming unsure, I'd upped cycle

Flapping, hesitating

Maiden featured in special birthday poem

Ecstatic choral hymn

Short, impassioned poem

Begin to work in specialist area with hospital providing cover for 14 (wordplay)