2-Letter Words Starting with D

Moonshiner's product.

Said little about concentrated essence

Something produced by condensing vapour

Criticize farmers (wordplay)

Those making whisky

Kentucky capitalists

Mash unit (wordplay)

A spirited enterprise

It raises the spirit

Distill

Clearly

Disulfide

""A drug used in the treatment of alcoholism that interferes with the metabolic degradation of alcohol, producing an unpleasant reaction when even a small quantity of alcohol is consumed.""

""A pale yellow, highly toxic systemic insecticide, C 8 H 19 O 2 PS 3 , used for some vegetables and flowers.""

UTILITY the quality of being useful

Disvalue

Detectives welcoming one black friend's return with spondee, say

A word with two syllables.

Someone beautiful in face, in parts

Departmental.

DIVISIVE causing disunity or dissension

Noun (-ence)

DIZZYING dizzy

Djellabah

Docility

DOCTOR to treat medically

Of official papers

Like written material, arranged in column with date

Finish with copper getting mad, giving description of written evidence

Catch them or you're out

Dogleg

Opinionated

Dictatorial.

Dogsled

Susan Butcher, notably

Mush! shouter

"Mush!" shouter

Doleful

Little girls' playthings

Good Christmas gifts.

DOLOMITE a mineral

In a sorrowful way

In a lugubrious way

In a mournful manner

Domicil

In a controlling way

For the most part

Chiefly, bread found in skip wrapped in newspaper less perfect

Defects in scribbled pictures (wordplay)

Mineral-finding devices

Ant lion larvae.

Doorplate

The state of being double or doubled.

Doubleton

Full of questions

DOUBTING the act of doubting

Fit together nicely

Fitted together skillfully.

Bird becomes neatly joined

Sad fine comedian failed

Ruined

Defeated

DOWNHILL a downward slope

*Got from the cloud (wordplay)

Something soft and rich confined to one's memory (wordplay)

Softpedaled; de-emphasized

Made light of 24 across and 8 across

Underrated director admitted penning drama

DOWNSCALE

Downscale

Downslide

DOWNWARD from a higher to a lower place

Hymns of praise

Hymns.

DRAGGING drag

Drawerful

DRAWLING drawl

Drawplate

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

Origin of disaster studied completely in a dire way

Detest confinement (wordplay)

Outside study, student ties up long hair

Bob Marely's hairstyle

DREAMFUL {dreamy=adj}

Fantasy worlds

Alice's wonderland

Walter Mitty's milieu.

Never-never land.

DRIFTING drift

Drinkable

Driveline

Excursion by lake has Heather gibbering

Autonomous, as a car

Drizzly

Witty Indians (wordplay)

Witty Indians?

Whimsical remarks

In a drooping manner.

Overhead chandeliers

DROPPER a tube for dispensing liquid in drops

Fly has upset his poor lad

Poorish lad used as subject for genetic research

Fruit fly

In a drudging manner; laboriously.

Drysalter

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

The drake decamped!

Dulcify

Dulcimore

Dullness

A real drag, man

It's boring, daddy-o

Ho-hum

As a system of counting, doctor aided locum

Pair claimed wrongly to be like Bob of old

Base 12

DUPLICATE Double; twofold.

Kind of clones

Having scaled it up, turns out copies

Identical sets

Business machine.

Granite state (wordplay)

New dairy built - with quality of something built to last

Duralumin

DWARFISH resembling a {dwarf=n}

DYADIC a sum of mathematical dyads

Abstract noun (-ity)

Dysplasia

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

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

Dailiness

Insects beginning to leap in new-style photos taken by mother

How daredevils live (wordplay)

In a perilous manner

In a risky manner

A Communist crime suppressed by quiet heroism

""DARLING a much loved person, also DEARLING""

Dauntless

Daylight

Deadening

Deadlift

Deadlock

Deafening

Lotus positions (wordplay)

Deathless

Argued about one on fire becoming weakened

Debilitate

CALCIFIED calcify

Decalcify

Decathlete

With intent to deceive.

Deceiving

Slowed down

Spain alerted to change after last month and slowed down

Decelerate

Brake

Decennial

DECEPTION The act of deceiving or misleading.

So as to mislead

In a false fashion*

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

Decimalize

""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

DECREMENT The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss.

Dedicated

Interest and contributions, for example

Take off 4 and see with logic

Cloth cap (for a hunter?)

Voice of Bambi (wordplay)

Sherlock Holmes accessory

""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

Defective

Unprotected

So as to avoid criticism

Feel trained to be submissive

Showing respect

Submissive

Deferrable

Deficient

Defilement

""DEFLAGRATE To burn with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; also, to snap and crackle with slight explosions when heated, as salt.""

Deflagrate

Capable of being deflected.

Deflection

""The act of deflouring; as, the defloration if a virgin. as, the defloration if a virgin.""

Deflowerer

Deflower

Action that makes leaves leave

The separation of ripened leaves from a branch or stem; the falling or shedding of the leaves.

Defoliator

""FORMALIZE To give form, or a certain form, to; to model.""

GLACIATED glaciate

""Inflected form of GLAMORIZE Inflected form of GLAMOR to bewitch, also GLAMOUR""

The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing.

In a degrading manner.

After the manner of deists.

LAMINATED laminate

Delaminate

Delectable

Eaten cold it could provide enjoyment

Election date endlessly changed for amusement

Enjoyment of naughty cat in act of destruction

Convention groups.

Convention groups

True oilseed (anagram) - harmful

Causing harm or damage

Having a harmful effect

Considered carefully

Considered not to be accidental at start of day

Considered

Considers food shop reprimands

Ponders composer taking charge

Considers carefully

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

With delight; gladly.

Very pleasing; delightful.

DELINEATE Delineated; portrayed.

Vivid verbal description

Sketch

DELINEATE Delineated; portrayed.

Delineator

Misdeeds, often juvenile

Failure in duty; crime

Early criminal behaviour

Young hooligans

Queen regularly insulted reformed offenders

Capital mission, one might say, changed state

Deliquesce

With wild ecstasy

In a frantic manner

""Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered.""

Burt Reynolds film

Ned Beatty's film debut, 1972

Clever Diane comes to the rescue

A fellow with a round bowler, perhaps

Male who goes round dropping off goods

Courier called up about chauffeur's uniform (wordplay)

Inflected form of LIVERYMEN Inflected form of LIVERY a uniform worn by servants

LOCALIZED localize

Delocalize

DELPHIC like an oracle

Delphinium

DELUSION the act of {deluding=v}

Deluster

Demanding

DEMIURGIC Pertaining to a demiurge; formative; creative.

MOBILIZED mobilize

Demobilize

MODULATED modulate

Demodulate