2-Letter Words Starting with D

Defilade

Defilade

""Capable of being defined, limited, or explained; determinable; describable by definition; ascertainable; as, definable limits; definable distinctions or regulations; definable words. as, definable limits; definable distinctions or regulations; definable words.""

DEFINE to state the meaning of

DEFINE to state the meaning of

Letting the air out

Fed up with the classics? Gee, that'll puncture you!

A real let-down!

Decline in general price level

Loss of air

Ridding of pests, in a way

Defoam

Defog

Leaves-dropper (wordplay)

Type of chemical sprayed on plants

I don't mess with leaf stripper

Use Agent Orange on

One does this and leaves off

Remove leaves from a tree

Deforce

Disfiguring

Corruption of god's taking shape

Lack of proper shape

Imperfection or defect of the body

Benefactor's activity

Bearing the expenses of

Removing financial support from

Degas

Degerm

Deglaze

Demeaning, humiliating

Causing humiliation

Small cucumber

Degum

Degust

The man's tucked in - fit to burst!

Bursting: bot.

Emerging forcefully from hot Irish capital in fall

Dehisce

Rendering harmless, in a way

Dehort

Deionize

An apparatus used to remove ions from a solution; a common variant contains a mixture of cation exchange resin in the acid form and anion exchange resin in the hydroxyl form inside a replaceable cartridge; ions in aqueous solution are exchanged for the elements of water by passing the solution through the mixed resin.

Deionize

""Pertaining to, savoring of, or consisting in, deism; as, a deistic writer; a deistical book.as, a deistic writer; a deistical book.""

Deject

Low spirits of a number getting dismissal

Despondency

Sadness ... or, read another way, what five puzzle answers have in common

Same as Decaliter. Decaliter.

Delation

Delead

Deleave

Crossings-out; cancellations

Files in a recycle bin

Nose around the tile for removals

Washables requiring special care

Table treats, of old

Undies

Variety of apple.

High quality apple.

Very pleasant to taste

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

Set the boundaries of

Tag at the beginning or end of computer data

Portray precisely - teen ideal (anagram)

Show by drawing

Explain in detail

Bouncing off the walls

Really out of it

Top-ten Prince hit

Delirium

Delist

Indeed, organ is saved!

Something done about meat supplied

Brought to a destination

Paperboy, for one

One with redeeming qualities (wordplay)

One with redeeming qualities?

That'll be getting the bugs out of it

Nitpicking (wordplay)

Ridding of lice

English word

False beliefs of French in souls transformed

By the sound of them, Miss gets taken as they are

They will profoundly mislead you, unless I do otherwise

By way of being a teacher

Rabble-rousing

Agog in half a hundred like any schoolmaster

Asking is difficult

Maddening disposition of the importunate

A tough marathon course will be this

""A yellowgreen, transparent variety of garnet found in the Urals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster, whence the name.""

Demark

Demast

Lowering in dignity as in endgame

Humiliating, lowering in respect

Lowering in reputation as in end game

DEMENTIA a mental illness

Losses of sharpness

Symptoms of a mad, mad world.

Mad conditions

Dement

Demerge

Demerit

Bulbous, narrow-necked bottles

Bottles of a kind.

Narrow-necked bottles

Demilune

A shady hemisphere (wordplay)

Amber's class, forever (wordplay)

Low-prestige circle

""The act of demitting, or the state of being demitted; a letting down; a lowering; dejection.""

Moore's coffee cup (wordplay)

Pour out mug inside of French coffee

One may go with a saucer

Withdrawing from office

Demiurge

Pertaining to a demiurge; formative; creative.

Demivolt

See demimonde .

Demob

Demoniac

Fiendish

Action taken around start of week is vilified

Demonise

Demonism

They know hellish things

Turned into an evil spirit

Demonize

Military punishments

Rank reductions

March into conflict with squadron leader after positional losses

Demotist

Demur

Make easier to understand

Clear things up

Dendrite

""DENDRITE a branched part of a nerve cell, also DENDRON""

Say bad things of French granite pieces

Put down one jar after study

Blacken the name of.

""To deprive of, or free from, nitrogen.""

Denizen

Formed from a noun

Densify

Densify

Mass-to-volume ratios

Amount-per-unit sizes

Population statistics

""A genus of marine mollusks belonging to the Scaphopoda, having a tubular conical shell.""

Small teeth.

Having the form of a tooth or of teeth; toothshaped.

The filling field (wordplay)

Field of canines (wordplay)

Study of minor car accidents (wordplay)

Linda or Dale

Make a hole in it with one on for the teeth

I intend to manipulate development of teeth

DENTURE a set of teeth

In the manner of one denies a request.

Render inoffensive, in a way

Freshen

Deorbit

To deprive of oxygen; to reduce from the state of an oxide.

Depaint

Taking a hike

It's just no go

It's just no go for the leaves

It's all this hanging on

Relying on this, the last comes last

Relying on deputy finishing off

Deperm

Depicter

Depict

Drawing EP, in a manner of speaking

Representation in art

Delivery contains record of picture

Depictor

Depilate

Strips down and regularly does gentle exercise

Getting off a DC-6.

Taking away from

Causing to run out

Draining

Reduction in total value (of a resource)

Ozone layer issue

Reduction in quantity

Able or fitted to deplete.

Being sorry about.

Placing, as troops.

Placing troops in battle formation

Distributing strategically

Deplume

Expelling (from country)

Laid down naturally (like silt)

Placed for safekeeping

Put into an account

Saver made half the penniless sit inside

Bank account holder

One putting money into a bank account

Leading down the primrose path

Immoral act(s) - wickedness

Theological word for original sin

Moral corruption

Deprival

Depriver

Stripping

Deputize

Authorizes as an official.

Pins a star on

Deraign

Throwing off-track

Turn red, get sick, being off the track

One line I found in terrible danger, this action becoming possibility (wordplay)

Making mad with gardening

Derat

Ones neglecting their duties

They've been abandoned by society

Skid Row people

Deringer

Derision

Inferable

Derivate

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any beetle of the family Dermestidae, whose members are destructive at both larval and adult stages to a wide range of stored organic materials such as wool, fur, feathers, and meat. They include the bacon ( or larder), cabinet, carpet, leather, and museum beetles [from New Latin dermestida, from Greek dermēstēs, from derma skin + esthiein to eat]""

Many moons (wordplay)

Buns or bums

Rear ends

Short-barrelled American pistol

Short-barreled pistol.

Making a mistake in the German gun

Whirling ones

Whirling figures

Moslem whirlers

Desalt

Desand

Gave details of

Portrayed in words

Represented in words

Writer interrupting the German reporter

Gives the appearance of, perhaps

Gives an account of

Works with a sketch artist

Discoverers.

Seeing that this has Desmond in tears

Seeing that Desmond's in tears

Catching sight of Desmond in tears

Making it dry, perhaps, so abandoning it

Leaving it dry with gin

Leaving Sahara after Carol is beheaded

That's leaving things in a barren state

Grounds for divorce.

Don Revie was accused of this

Like good causes

Worthy of favourable treatment

Worthy undoing a waiter's work (wordplay)

Extra capsule in a pill bottle

Do not eat substance

Dryer found in freak accidents

Preserve by drying (eg coconut)

Preserve by removing all liquids from

Preserve by removing all liquids

Assign or appoint

Choose to throw giants' pants in river

Appoint gent with ideas, at work

Designee

Artists of a kind.

Web-page architects

Fath, Patou, etc.

Edith Dombey's disposition.

What a devious way to be removing one's signature!

Acting in a calculating and deceitful way

Desilver

Sought-after - rebel aids (anagram)

Worth swiping right on

Pleasing; agreeable.

In a desirable manner.

Calling it quits

How I give pain to Desmond by the stoppage

That's the boy I give pain to, without going on with it

Desorb

Was without hope (of).

Gave up hope of cooking dried peas

Lacked hope

Hopeless one.

Misogynists, for example

Contemnors

Haters

Loathing pigs, Enid's going mad!

Hating with every inch of one's body

Disdaining, scorning

Despite

Ravaged

Sherman at Atlanta

Thief.

Thief

Do miss pet (anagram)

Tyranny makes its mark in religion

System espoused by tyrants

Cleaned up a microscopic specimen, for example

Perhaps very small boys are fated to have them

The fate of little Desmond and all the little ones

Lots.

Destine

Very poor and innocent, perhaps

Without money or resources

Penniless, without any means

Destrier

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

Auto pinstripers, for example

They itemize

Fine-tuning a car

Professional car cleaning process

Giving particulars of French following

Ones being grilled, maybe

They're not going anywhere

People held in custody

Legal writs

Keeping in custody

Detect

Uncovering deceit? Not difficult!

What sleuthing is all about

Police work cited note in question

Spade, for one

Busy at work (wordplay)

Poirot, for one

Punishment for a class cut-up, maybe

It need not give rise to punishment

After-school punishment

Cleansing.

Resolve to put my one off, perhaps

Judgmental winner of 1954 Derby?

Resolve to put my one off (wordplay)

Putting off, tree'd with a round

It's so off-putting for the boy to be up to sin

Getting the boy up is wrong and off-putting

Cleansing; detergent.

Brooklyn teacher job (wordplay)

Doing this, there's nothing like it!

Not being able to stand

Deticker

Detick

Detour

Got off a Pullman

Got off the coach tired, on Eastern time

Stopped outside Denver's terminal and got off the choo-choo

State of being harmed or damaged

Damage part of watch around edge

Harm or loss