2-Letter Words Starting with D

Something decisive to put off man in pit

Decision maker

One concluding check on underground worker

Settles, but I need terms re-negotiated

Deem rent is not right, but settles

Decides to scare off with explosives

Drawbacks.

Deuterium

""The lifeless food matter in the cytoplasm of an ovum or a cell, as distinguished from the active or true protoplasm; yolk substance; yolk.""

Devilment

""The state of being devoted, or set apart by a vow.""

Diabolism

DIADROM a vibration

Diagram

Diagram

Diamond

Diaphragm

Diastema

""Affording a free passage to heat; as, diathermic substances. as, diathermic substances.""

Diatomite

Diazonium

Dichroism

Salt that is typically red or orange; admit ochre (anagram)

Dichromat

English word

English word

Dicrotism

The Golgi apparatus in plant cells.

Dicumarol

Didynamy

DILEMMA a perplexing situation

Box's measurements

Time and others

Length, breadth and height

Dimerize

DIMETHOATE

Part 10 of quote

Like some chords

Declined to get into wrecked car

Entrees skirt = shrinks

Entrees division skirt = shrinks

Goes down

Letting the sound fade away (music)

Decrease in loudness

Letting sound fade away

Obscure union - it might well be weakening

Decrease

Tom, Dick or Harry (wordplay)

Tom, Dick or Harry for example

Four in cast mutinied, like Piglet

""Difference of form between members of the same species, as when a plant has two kinds of flowers, both hermaphrodite (as in the partridge berry), or when there are two forms of one or both sexes of the same species of butterfly.""

""Characterized by dimorphism; occurring under two distinct forms, not dependent on sex; dimorphic.""

Grace period (wordplay)

Chef's concern

Seven, for many

Diploma

Diplomate

Tactful negotiator in charge

Prudent to claim foul after drop

College choice for jerk is sensitive

Alcoholism - so dim a pain (anagram)

Problem for A.A.

Sot's cravings

Dirigisme

Disaffirm

Procedure for an unethical lawyer

Burundi's barmen trying to comprehend legal ban

Disbosom

Distanced oneself from

Like a retired insurance agent (wordplay)

Denial of responsibility

Medic rails about refusal to take responsibility

Refusal to admit detective worked miracles

Discomfit

The uneasiness of party maiden almost 40

Storm if doc creates pain

Club, male bastion, creating irritation

To mention with disapprobation; to blame; to disapprove.

Put out a dance for the 1970s - 2000 ode

Way after party maiden gets put out

Cause (someone) trouble or inconvenience

Perhaps deconstruct music for Rattle (wordplay)

Upset male model after party

Upset married model after dance

CONFIRM to {ratify=v}

ECONOMY {thrift=n}

Steps ashore

""To pour out or discharge at the mouth, as a stream; to vent; to discharge into an ocean, a lake, etc.""

Draw mob and see wild mayhem

Draw woman's dislocated elbow up to me

See Wimbledon isn't exciting without tennis draw

Thinks slightingly of.

Garda's union produced conflict

Friction within a group

Detective's union leads to conflict

Dishelm

Dislimn

The quality of being dismal; gloominess.

Put through a chop shop, say

Taken to bits

Taken to pieces

Is far from constructive

Takes apart cloaks belonging to Diane

Strips down lens amidst broadcast

Dismast

What an overworked Senate page might do (wordplay)

Heave-hos

The inspector is not there at all

Brushing off

Letting go

""The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury. as, the dismission of the grand jury.""

D is letter pointing to door

Girl's letter is contemptuous

Woman's letter is inconsiderate

Dismount

Act of disowning.

Displume

Concealed one's true feelings.

Feigned

Phoney heartless Blair messed about

Dissemble

Nothing like this

Not like Iris, dismal when drunk

Contradictory girl I had rejected - naughty liar!

Ill humors

""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.""

Lisping shepherd's giddy male sheep?

Impassioned acclaims

Lisping shepherd's giddy male sheep (wordplay)

Divebomb

The act of stripping or ridding

I mend TV set that's broken for selling off

Comparative adjective or agent noun

A drum's coda might indicate such factions

Of official papers

Like written material, arranged in column with date

Finish with copper getting mad, giving description of written evidence

Presented evidence for

Set down in black and white by editor behind paper

'Tom ended drunk', copper intervening put down on paper

DOCUMENT to support by conclusive information

Opinionated

Dictatorial.

Dogmatism

Certain people crash Tim's stag do

Opinionated ones

Overbearing types

DOGMATIZE To assert positively; to teach magisterially or with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance.

One who dogmatizes; a bold asserter; a magisterial teacher.

Dogmatize

DOLOMITE a mineral

Domicil

Dominance

In a controlling way

For the most part

Chiefly, bread found in skip wrapped in newspaper less perfect

Commanding, influencing

Present compiler's back in control

I am held back by present government

Exercise of mastery.

Governing; ruling; imperious.

Rulers cheat, endlessly threatening society

Alphas

Whipper snapper (wordplay)

Woman with a whip (wordplay)

Whip wielder

Acted arrogantly

Overpowered.

DOMINICK an American breed of chickens

Dominique

Doomsayer

One who predicts calamity at every opportunity.

DOOMSDAY judgement day

Dormancy

Doronicum

Dosimeter

An instrument that measures and indicates the amount of x-rays or radiation absorbed in a given period.

Where the eider duck swims (wordplay)

With the current

The current trend, naturally

Made play with dames: Triad cut up rough

Overdid a little drink - date is going badly

Adapts dreadful mad satires

Prepares for the stage, funny mad satires

Ones earning play money (wordplay)

Play fellows (wordplay)

Anthony and Peter Shaffer

Presented poignantly.

Dramatize

Playwright.

Expression of annoyance about graduate with desire to become playwright

Dramaturg

The Thespian art.

Theatrical art

Playwriting

DREAMFUL {dreamy=adj}

The state of being dreamy.

Fantasy worlds

Dreamtime

Alice's wonderland

Walter Mitty's milieu.

Never-never land.

Couturier or seamstress, perhaps

Fabric-cutting job

Jenny Wren was one.

Drugmaker

Figuratively, a publicity man.

Drumfish

Pests on a rhythm instrument (wordplay)

Chicken leg portions

Beats bloodsucker's upper legs

Dulcimore

Dumbfound

Dumbness

Speechless with amazement

Amazed as mum refused to work

Astounded by stupid son on lorry

A little lift for Manuel, maybe

High-rise convenience, perhaps

Inept eatery server (wordplay)

Greatly surprised

Flabbergasted

As a system of counting, doctor aided locum

Pair claimed wrongly to be like Bob of old

Base 12

Duodecimo

Duralumin

Instruments for measuring hardness

Potentially shaky power structure

DYNAMIST an adherent of {dynamism=n}

Dynamiter

Dynamite

Dynamotor

Calling a Jaguar XK a jalopy, say

""An element of the rare earth-group. Symbol Dy; at. wt., 162.5.Dy; at. wt., 162.5.""

DAMASCENE Of or relating to Damascus.

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

Daunomycin

They're not paying attention

They're in la-la land

Those given to flights of fancy

In another world.

Classroom taboo

The opposite of having night vision (wordplay)

DEAMINATE

DEAMINATE

Debasement

Debatement

Valley outlet

""The surgical excision of dead, contaminated, or damaged tissue, and foreign matter, especially from a wound.""

Bivouac break-ups

The office or term of office of the decemvirs in Rome.

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

Decimalize

Decimation

""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

Decomposer

Breaking down

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

Damages to external appearance

Defamation

FEMINIZED feminize

Defeminize

Defilement

Definement

Pl. definienda (-d ) A word or expression that is being defined.

""A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.""

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

Alteration of shape

Disfigurement

""FORMATIVE Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts. as, the formative arts.""

Deformity

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

HUMANIZED humanize

Dehumanize

LAMINATED laminate

Delaminate

Very pleasing; delightful.

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

Delphinium

Render a credit card useless, e.g

Render a credit card useless, for example

Rabble-rouser's forte

Rabble-rousing activity

Rabble-rousing behaviour

DEMAGOGUE A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious mob orator or political leader.

Demanding

DEMARCATE To mark by bounds; to set the limits of; to separate; to discriminate.

Boundary

Demerger

Half-divine female

DEMIURGIC Pertaining to a demiurge; formative; creative.