2-Letter Words Starting with D

Drag one's feet

Postpone what one should be doing

Waste time by delay

Possibly it is badly restricting one

Disadvantage

Prudently involved the city elders

So as to avoid attention

Prudently involved city elders

Separately; disjunctively.

ECONOMY {thrift=n}

Garda's union produced conflict

Friction within a group

Detective's union leads to conflict

Pan a Billy Joel classic (wordplay)

Lovely concealing love-nest by deceit

Untrustworthiness, insincerity

In a disloyal manner.

Traitor's trait

To sly lady I wronged, it's unfaithful behaviour

Lady toils busily around yard changing sides (wordplay)

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

DISPUTE to argue about

Remove from competition

Render unfit or unsuitable

Exclude underworld leader with pass

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

Fail to please

Disappoint; disgruntle

Most of the record will not frustrate or fail to gratify

Mash unit (wordplay)

A spirited enterprise

It raises the spirit

Clearly

UTILITY the quality of being useful

""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.""

""Professing, or relating to, divination.""

DIVISIVE causing disunity or dissension

DIZZYING dizzy

In a controlling way

For the most part

Chiefly, bread found in skip wrapped in newspaper less perfect

DOUBTING the act of doubting

DRAGGING drag

DRAWLING drawl

DRIFTING drift

In a drooping manner.

In a drudging manner; laboriously.

Granite state (wordplay)

New dairy built - with quality of something built to last

DWARFISH resembling a {dwarf=n}

DYADIC a sum of mathematical dyads

Abstract noun (-ity)

A Communist crime suppressed by quiet heroism

Deadening

Deafening

With intent to deceive.

Deceiving

Decennial

So as to mislead

In a false fashion*

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}

Demanding

Demonical

Possible to contradict or declare untrue: deniable accusations.

Same as denigrating.denigrating.

In a deploring manner.

Serving to designate; designative; indicating.

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

Determinateness.

Logically peculiar manner of speaking to supporter

The quality of being diaphanous; transparency; pellucidness.

Dictional

In a different manner; variously.

With difficulty.

In a diffident manner.

In a diffusive manner.

""Tendency to become diffused; tendency, as of heat, to become equalized by spreading through a conducting medium.""

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.

Thus spake peace conferees

ASSEMBLY the act of {assembling=v}

In a manner to be discerned; perceptibly; visibly.

Catalogue of (performer's) recordings

Catalogue of a performer's recordings

State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency.

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

Dismaying

Disparate

Dispersed

To diminish the quantity of; to lessen.

In a dissolute manner.

Dissonant

Absence or defect of symmetry; asymmetry.

Divergent

In a doctrinal manner or for; by way of teaching or positive direction.

Family life? It's comedy, it is funny

Focus for Marie Kondo and Hygge enthusiasts

DOMICILE to establish in a residence

Downright

Abstract noun (-ity)

DRASTIC a severe purgative

The act of driving.

Drizzling

In accordance with the principles of dynamics or moving forces.

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

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.

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.

How Ivan the Terrible ruled

TERMINABLY

In a determined manner; with determination.

Abstract noun (-ity)

Detractive

In a devotional manner; toward devotion.

In devilish manner

In a devilish manner

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

In the manner or nature of a dialogue.

Translucently.

In a diatonic manner.

DICHOTIC affecting the two ears differently

In a didactic manner.

In a dietetical manner.

By way of digression.

""The quality of being dilatable, or admitting expansion; opposed to contractibility. contractibility.""

In a diminutive manner.

In a disagreeable manner; unsuitably; offensively.

Disastrous

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

Relating to rules of conduct

Revulsive love photos in journal about correction

Discordant

Discrepant

Discursive

Disdainful

Disgustful

Disgusting

Shameful way to leave the service

Disjointed

Dismissive

Disordered

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

Dispersive

Dispirited

In a disreputable manner.

Disruptive

In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style.

Dissipated

Dissuasive

Disjointedly; madly.

Distraught

Tending to distribute or be distributed; that distributes; distributive.

Disturbing

DIURETIC a drug which increases urinary discharge

Intended to distract attention

Programme in radio's very distracting

Like some tactics journal containing one account

The quality of being divisible; the property of bodies by which their parts are capable of separation.

In an arrogant way.

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

Excitingly, it's a play with jerk close to friend

Scene from Rising? It is caught by friend theatrically!

Silly Tracy, maid hugging everyone in exaggerated fashion

Abstract noun (-ity)

Abstract noun (-ity)

Suitable or fit for drinking; potable: drinkable water.

The act of driving.

Dynastical

""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.""

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

Devastating

DEVOLUTION The act of rolling down.

In a dialectical manner.