2-Letter Words Starting with D

Dueller

Fighting among two with deadly weapons

In a contest of honour

He usually has a second helping

Fighter with epees

Expected still to retrain as a fighter

In melodious tones

Open diapason organ stop

Pipe-organ stop.

Sweet-toned organ stop

Opposite of a strong boil (wordplay)

Musical instrument - lime curd (anagram)

Instrument of Xanadu damsel (Coleridge)

Man of La Mancha song

Don Quixote's lady

Literary word for a sweetheart

They're no brainiacs

They're not very bright

Intellectuals' opposites

Lecturer's avoidance, hopefully

State of being boring or not bright

Dreary quality

Piece of lifting equipment

Weight, or lightweight

Fitness aid for boxer lacking ring

Store fish - for the stew (wordplay)

Landfill in a toy city (wordplay)

Ball of dough

Relating to a dunce

An area having many dunes

Resembling a Sahara formation

The height of waste (wordplay)

Pile of droppings

Farmyard refuse heap

Of part of small intestine

Like some ulcers

Relating to part of the small intestine

Talk for two

Screenplay for two actors, for example

Tete-a-tete

Duplex

System allowing use of same aerial for transmission and reception

Apartments with rooms on two floors

Divided houses

Goods likely to long-wearing

Nonperishable goods

Consumer goods that are not destroyed by use

Clean.

Resembling dust

Subject to customs

Not free of tax but ideal otherwise

Liable for tax on importation

Mushroom layer of a beef Wellington

Seasoning made from chopped mushrooms, onions and parsley

Inhabitants

Residents

Occupants

Staying at home (wordplay)

House flooding after start of deluge

Beginning of deluge flooding home

Became less by degrees

Petered out

Approached zero

Gradually becomes smaller

Gradually goes down

Grows smaller, shrinks

Source of a character flaw (wordplay)

Poor character analysis (wordplay)

Character issue (wordplay)

Having difficulty with reading words

Suffering from a form of word-blindness

Reading-impaired, in a way

Pertaining to {dyspnea=n}

Dabbling

Dactylic

Varieties of Narcissus plants

Golden spring flowers

Wordsworth's flowers

Daily occurence.

Flirtation? Daughter wants union!

Brief affair of union supporting Germany

Playing thus is all one in the ball

Croatian dog (wordplay)

A mad Latin (anagram)

Dog (from Croatia?)

Dalmatic

DAMNING damn

American Rubyspot, for one

Long-winged insect

Maiden with knowing little creature

Adjective describing some party music

Leo's lawn invader (wordplay)

Your lawn guy (wordplay)

Leo's lawn invader?

Adjective (-al)

Danegeld

Karl Wallenda, for one

Stunt performer, say

Evel Knievel for one

Darkly

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

Showily

Mean to be paternal (?) about celebrity

Mean and cowardly

Word for villain's deeds

Dateline

News story starts

Starts of many news stories

What checks have.

Invulnerable to fear

Boldly determined

Boldly undeterred

Purplish bloom

As knocked out of boxers (wordplay)

Dawn's innards (wordplay)

*Wits, when scared out of you

Short-lived blooms

Security devices needed as a dodo flies (wordplay)

Deadfall

Derek Underwood at his best!

Most pernicious

Least safe

Deadlift

Ship's cabin window.

Joy gets hold of Bill, maybe for protective cover

Ghost's speech in "Hamlet" (wordplay)

Times set to complete projects

Reporter's worries

No getting out of these hairs of late

Lifeless hair matters where there's no solution

Stalemates

ALATION the state of having wings

Who tabled amendment - it's a killer!

Poor old hat web gets the coup de grace

Doctor hated smack - it's a killer

Immortal, as some prose (wordplay)

That never gets to the finish

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

Having two sides, perhaps

Verdict for discussion!

Open to question

Deprive of lime, as a bone

DECAL a design made to be transferred

The Ten Commandments

Moses' tablets

Moses' armload

Latched on to jockey - it's eventful!

Ten out of ten for the all-rounder!

Summer Olympics event

Not to be trusted

Deft clue I misjudged? It's misleading

Cue lifted for swerving? False

Happening every tenth year

Lend a nice outfit every ten years

Capable of being decided; determinable.

Undoubted winner of 1962 Derby?

Undoubted winner of 1962 Derby (wordplay)

Without question

About 3.38 fluid ounces

One followed by 33 zeros

1 followed by 33 zeros.

By tens; by means of decimals.

Renounced (wordplay)

Harangued eccentric medical journalist

Indeed one may say it at the top of one's voice

Speech-maker got back, having switched ends

Orator

U.S. citizen-to-be

They face dummies

Dummies' other halves

Bidders in bridge.

Revealing that glider can fly

Proclaiming

Lowered in status

Lowers in rank.

Social outcasts Fr.

Making less threatening

Decliner

Going downhill

Slumping, needing reinforcement at end of month

Downward slope

City lived in turmoil; it's a downward slope

Separate the sheets, maybe

Separate computer printouts

Behead

Having a low neckline, from French

Low neckline cut round half of bust

Adjective for some evening gowns

Decolor

Bleaches coloureds when boiled

Remove restraints or official authority

Remove restrictions from

Make unregulated

Unlinked

Decouple

Decretal

Decuple

Payment before the insurance kicks in

Possible to figure out

Deerfly

Misappropriate the proceeds of facet deal

Embezzle

Like a retired seismologist (wordplay)

Indeed it's not 22 across

Indeed it's wrong not to have paid

Lienee, at times

One who fails to pay

He hasn't paid his bills

Postponements.

Postponements

In rebellious way

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

Pins, to balloons

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

Pessimists, often (wordplay)

Pins and needles (wordplay)

Air releasers

Ridding of pests, in a way

Redirected, perhaps inadvertently

Turned away from intended course

Turned or caused to turn aside

Shield in "Star Trek"

Furnace device

Deflower

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

Costs incurred by scuffle during trades

Costs incurred as result of wear during transactions

Deglaze

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

Same as Decaliter. Decaliter.

Delation

Delead

Deleave

A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy or an agent.

Took off one's plate

Assigned, as tasks

Assigned authority

Agent

Representatives or deputies

Assigns jobs to club representatives

Signers of the Declaration

LEGATOR one that {legates=v}

Crossings-out; cancellations

Files in a recycle bin

Nose around the tile for removals

Moved leftward, eastern pots

Blue-and-white pottery

Rotterdam pots

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?

Fumigation experts

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

Deluster

DEMENTIA a mental illness

Demilune

Demivolt

See demimonde .

Fiendish

""Softening; mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is demulcent. as, oil is demulcent.""

Demurral

Formed from a noun

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

Small teeth.

Possessing teeth; toothed.

In the manner of one denies a request.

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.

Deplorer

Being sorry about.

Placing, as troops.

Placing troops in battle formation

Distributing strategically

Deplume

Deprival

Having no depth; shallow.

Throwing off-track

Turn red, get sick, being off the track

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

Ones neglecting their duties

They've been abandoned by society

Skid Row people

Inferable

Desalter

Desalt

Clicks again, possibly

Cancels, as in an online order form

Cancels a choice

Desilver

Sought-after - rebel aids (anagram)

Worth swiping right on

Pleasing; agreeable.

In a desirable manner.

Like ghost towns

With no one around

Made extremely sad

Ravager

Does least (anagram)

Leaves forlorn.

Forsakes

Volunteers misplace gun without retreating. One's devastated!

Ravaged

Sherman at Atlanta

Thief.

Thief

Desulfur

Half-hearted duels over a Conservative

With neither plan nor purpose

Lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm

Auto pinstripers, for example

They itemize

Fine-tuning a car

Professional car cleaning process

Giving particulars of French following

Detassel

That can be detonated: detonable warheads; detonable bombs.

Lessen the worth of

Lower the price of.

Lessen the worth of, as money

Depreciating

Wanted to get a negative result

Turned out in a negative sort of way

As it turned out with a negative result

One with lots to talk about

Photo lab chemical

Real estate speculator

Develope