2-Letter Words Starting with D

Dutch islands in Banda Sea

Island group in Banda Sea.

Island of Indonesia.

Take exception (to)

Voice an objection (to)

Be objective (wordplay)

Nickeland petty sort

Nickeland cheapskate

Lay down one's life over Mike and Romeo in chemical compound

Gum resin

Resin

""A hard resin, also DAMMAR""

He may use faint praise

Denouncer

Moister bread (wordplay)

Piano or furnace part.

One of the piano pedals

Light switch, of sorts

Light switcher (wordplay)

Light switch of sorts

Window projecting from sloping roof

Window in many loft conversions

Type of window.

Hullo, straight home!

More dull-witted

Not so clever

Failure's location (wordplay)

Trash handler, often

Device for unloading freight.

A hurricane, for instance

Impairer.

Injurer.

Vicious rumormonger, sometimes

One libeling

Slanderous one

More modest and reserved

Not so outgoing

More sedate.

Two-foot verse

Line of two feet

Verse of two metrical feet.

Mitty, for one

King of America, 3 in song

Don Quixote, for example

One producing hit for band (wordplay)

Ringo, for one

Gene Krupa, say

More short and stout

More run-down

Shorter and shorter.

Roman co-magistrate

Damned

Moist kind of depressant (wordplay)

A thing that deadens

One having an inhibiting effect

One of the ten Roman magistrates

One of a group of ten Roman lawmakers

Old magistrate, one of ten preoccupied with twelve tables

Isle of Man judge

Manx judge, or novel by Hall Caine.

Novel by Hall Caine (with "The").

Chemical that removes suds

One that {deforms=v}

A gold-digger, for instance.

Peremptory claimant.

Insistent one

Behavior or air

Outward behavior

Outward manner

""To remove a division from a corporation, also DEMERGE""

Eliot's wife-beater somehow deters MP

Murderer entering mild objection

Lawyer's objection

Legal objection about murderer

Distance across, maybe

Paying back (of money)

Pizza slice (wordplay)

Creator of shaping tools

Tool craftsman

Dimply

One who takes your gun

Pacifist admires negotiated end to war

Charming one

Dismal

Be a bad boss (wordplay)

Tyrannize quarry caught by activist

Bully leading batting order in game

Old Scots court crier.

One predicting disaster

More head-in-the-clouds

I err, made drunk and getting more vague

More swoon-worthy

Drumly

Opposite of a strong boil (wordplay)

Musical instrument - lime curd (anagram)

Instrument of Xanadu damsel (Coleridge)

Metric length

393.70 inches, metric

32 feet, 9 inches

DECIME an old French coin

Speech-maker got back, having switched ends

Orator

Same as Decameter. Decameter.

Tag at the beginning or end of computer data

Energy low inside gloomy carriage

Unusually enamoured by one's appearance

Manner of behaving towards others

Divide up (organisation)

Gee, Peel might make ground this way!

Tear limb from limb

Complaint affecting setter (wordplay)

Confounding me, striped paint!

Fido's upset the paint!

Alpha male, for example

With "the," nickname of NHL goalie Hacek

America's mightiest bomber.

Pessimist is more so, with day going wrong

During exit, May's wrangling with European alarmist

Device measuring absorbed radiation

Radiation detection device

New G. I. "dog tag" warning of radiation

Comparative adjective or agent noun

""An instrument for measuring the degree of hardness; especially, an instrument for testing the relative hardness of steel rails and the like.""

My trade: in explosive

Demolition expert

Trade in my model for one of those with an explosive edge

Electrical machine with two armature windings

One wandering through school (wordplay)

Visionary, but not at night (wordplay)

Fantasizer, when the sun's up (wordplay)

COMPOSER one who writes music

""One who, or that which, demolishes; as, a demolisher of towns. as, a demolisher of towns.""

Something decisive to put off man in pit

Decision maker

One concluding check on underground worker

Denial of responsibility

Medic rails about refusal to take responsibility

Refusal to admit detective worked miracles

Phoney heartless Blair messed about

Nothing like this

Not like Iris, dismal when drunk

Contradictory girl I had rejected - naughty liar!

Comparative adjective or agent noun

DOCUMENT to support by conclusive information

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

DOMINICK an American breed of chickens

DOOMSDAY judgement day

Couturier or seamstress, perhaps

Fabric-cutting job

Jenny Wren was one.

Figuratively, a publicity man.

A little lift for Manuel, maybe

High-rise convenience, perhaps

Inept eatery server (wordplay)

""An electronic device which extracts the modulation from a radio carrier wave, and outputs the original information-bearing signal.""

""The study of the characteristics of human populations, such as size, growth, density, distribution, and vital statistics.""

MORALIZER One who moralizes.

It's fractionally down

Lower half of fraction (could be common!)

Brooklyn political convention VIP (wordplay)

""An instrument for measuring the dilatation or expansion of a substance, especially of a fluid.""

Free from busmen drunk with cider

To fail to remember; to forget.

Ace in the hole business (wordplay)

Person who barks (wordplay)

Overseer of private practice

Dumbfound

Power-measuring instrument

Instrument for measuring force

Engine output measuring machine

Device for reducing moisture content of the atmosphere

""MAGNETIZER One who, or that which, imparts magnetism.""

DEMOCRATIZE To render democratic.

Dealer's test drive vehicle

Car wearing dealer plates, often

Participant in a public protest

""An instrument for determining optical or photographic density. A variety capable of measuring optical density of a sample at a number of different wavelengths, is called a spectrophotometer.spectrophotometer.""

""Inflected form of PROGRAMMER Inflected form of PROGRAMME That which is written or printed as a public notice or advertisement; a scheme; a prospectus; especially, a brief outline or explanation of the order to be pursued, or the subjects embraced, in any public exercise, performance, or entertainment; a preliminary sketch.""

One who determines.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

One who spreads (something) widely

One who dissimulates; a dissembler.

""MINERALIZER An element which is combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. Thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer. mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer.""

MULTIPLEXER multiplex

DOCTRINAIRISM (anagram)

A distinguishing characteristic

""Inflected form of CONTAMINATOR Inflected form of CONTAMINATE To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.""

Quick note from Edward Elgar (wordplay)

Note death, note tremble!

Brief note (wordplay)

""MYTHOLOGIZER One who, or that which, mythologizes.""

""(Physics / General Physics) Physics an instrument used in studying diffraction, as in the determination of crystal structure by diffraction of X-rays""

""(Chemistry) Chem a type of isomer that differs in the spatial arrangement of atoms in the molecule, but is not a mirror image; a stereoisomer that is not an enantiomer""