2-Letter Words Starting with D

Deglaze

Demeaning, humiliating

Causing humiliation

Small cucumber

Degum

Degust

The man's tucked in - fit to burst!

Bursting: bot.

Emerging forcefully from hot Irish capital in fall

Dehisce

Dehorner

Rendering harmless, in a way

Dehort

Deionize

An apparatus used to remove ions from a solution; a common variant contains a mixture of cation exchange resin in the acid form and anion exchange resin in the hydroxyl form inside a replaceable cartridge; ions in aqueous solution are exchanged for the elements of water by passing the solution through the mixed resin.

Deionize

Deject

Low spirits of a number getting dismissal

Despondency

Sadness ... or, read another way, what five puzzle answers have in common

Dejeuner

Delation

Delead

Deleave

Crossings-out; cancellations

Files in a recycle bin

Nose around the tile for removals

Portray precisely - teen ideal (anagram)

Show by drawing

Explain in detail

Delist

That'll be getting the bugs out of it

Nitpicking (wordplay)

Ridding of lice

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

One who demands; the plaintiff in a real action; any plaintiff.

Nagging ones

Asking is difficult

Maddening disposition of the importunate

A tough marathon course will be this

""A yellowgreen, transparent variety of garnet found in the Urals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster, whence the name.""

Demark

Demast

Lowering in dignity as in endgame

Humiliating, lowering in respect

Lowering in reputation as in end game

Facial appearances

Outward attitudes

Bearings

Energy low inside gloomy carriage

Unusually enamoured by one's appearance

Manner of behaving towards others

DEMENTIA a mental illness

Losses of sharpness

Symptoms of a mad, mad world.

Mad conditions

Dement

Demerge

Bulbous, narrow-necked bottles

Bottles of a kind.

Narrow-necked bottles

Demilune

A shady hemisphere (wordplay)

Amber's class, forever (wordplay)

Low-prestige circle

""The act of demitting, or the state of being demitted; a letting down; a lowering; dejection.""

Withdrawing from office

Demob

Demoniac

Fiendish

Action taken around start of week is vilified

Demonise

Demonism

They know hellish things

Turned into an evil spirit

Demonize

Military punishments

Rank reductions

March into conflict with squadron leader after positional losses

Demount

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

Demur

Like alcohol that's unfit for drinking

Unfit to drink.

How a turn is twisted indeed for a change

Renders unfit to drink.

Doctors date nurse foolishly

Changes the character of area in false set

Dendrite

""DENDRITE a branched part of a nerve cell, also DENDRON""

NERVATE having veins

Say bad things of French granite pieces

Put down one jar after study

Blacken the name of.

""To deprive of, or free from, nitrogen.""

Denizen

Formed from a noun

Spoke ill of

Condemned big cat in lair died

Openly rebuked

One making a public accusation

One condemns squalid quarters used by wild cat, right (wordplay)

Condemns; informs on

Makes accusations about study on weights

Speaks ill of dental exchange for 10 oz.

Antithesis of brilliance

Dunce's quality

Not sparse stupidity

Densify

Densify

Mass-to-volume ratios

Amount-per-unit sizes

Population statistics

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

Small teeth.

Having the form of a tooth or of teeth; toothshaped.

The filling field (wordplay)

Field of canines (wordplay)

Study of minor car accidents (wordplay)

Linda or Dale

Make a hole in it with one on for the teeth

I intend to manipulate development of teeth

Possessing teeth; toothed.

DENTURE a set of teeth

Denudate

Denudate

In the manner of one denies a request.

Sure thing (wordplay)

Underarm spray, perhaps

Secret stuff (wordplay)

Depaint

Taking a hike

It's just no go

It's just no go for the leaves

Dented pan? (anagram)

One's kept earring of Parisian seen first

One needs support ot kill the insect at last

Relying/contingent (on)

One kind of asset at income tax time

April 15th asset.

It's all this hanging on

Relying on this, the last comes last

Relying on deputy finishing off

Deperm

Depict

Drawing EP, in a manner of speaking

Representation in art

Delivery contains record of picture

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

Being sorry about.

Placing, as troops.

Placing troops in battle formation

Distributing strategically

Deplume

Witnesses giving written testimony

Vice unit given odd notes by witnesses

Out-of-court testifiers

Expelling (from country)

Leading down the primrose path

Stripping

Deraign

Throwing off-track

Turn red, get sick, being off the track

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

Making mad with gardening

Derat

Deringer

Derision

Short-barrelled American pistol

Short-barreled pistol.

Making a mistake in the German gun

Desalt

Desand

Descant

Got down to it at last at last

Sloped downward.

Went down

Line below the main part of type.

Orpheus, in search of Eurydice

Lowercase-letter part

Seeing that this has Desmond in tears

Seeing that Desmond's in tears

Catching sight of Desmond in tears

Making it dry, perhaps, so abandoning it

Leaving it dry with gin

Leaving Sahara after Carol is beheaded

That's leaving things in a barren state

Grounds for divorce.

Don Revie was accused of this

Like good causes

Worthy of favourable treatment

Worthy undoing a waiter's work (wordplay)

Extra capsule in a pill bottle

Do not eat substance

Dryer found in freak accidents

Assign or appoint

Choose to throw giants' pants in river

Appoint gent with ideas, at work

Designee

Artists of a kind.

Web-page architects

Fath, Patou, etc.

Edith Dombey's disposition.

What a devious way to be removing one's signature!

Acting in a calculating and deceitful way

Calling it quits

How I give pain to Desmond by the stoppage

That's the boy I give pain to, without going on with it

Tied to sedentary work

Vault below lectern offering no escape from office

Desorb

Loathing pigs, Enid's going mad!

Hating with every inch of one's body

Disdaining, scorning

Despite

Despond

Cleaned up a microscopic specimen, for example

Perhaps very small boys are fated to have them

The fate of little Desmond and all the little ones

Lots.

Destine

Coming back in pain, Ted is not getting stuck with it

It's up to Ted not to be stuck with what makes him sore

Fine-tuning a car

Professional car cleaning process

Giving particulars of French following

Ones being grilled, maybe

They're not going anywhere

People held in custody

Legal writs

Keeping in custody

Detect

Uncovering deceit? Not difficult!

What sleuthing is all about

Police work cited note in question

Punishment for a class cut-up, maybe

It need not give rise to punishment

After-school punishment

Discourage a nice bloke (wordplay)

Put man off soap (wordplay)

Get tender (anagram)

Cleansing.

Hindrance.

Resolve to put my one off, perhaps

Judgmental winner of 1954 Derby?

Resolve to put my one off (wordplay)

Long sentence, for one

It puts off cleaner? Right for good!

That which restrains.

Putting off, tree'd with a round

It's so off-putting for the boy to be up to sin

Getting the boy up is wrong and off-putting

Brooklyn teacher job (wordplay)

Doing this, there's nothing like it!

Not being able to stand

Toppled, in a way

No longer the champion

Deposed champion

One in three-D version: King Stephen, say

Causes a power outage (wordplay)

Displaces the reds on top (wordplay)

Removes from power

Detick

That can be detonated: detonable warheads; detonable bombs.

Noted date had switched and set off

Set off from school in old hat

Set off dynamite

Sets off, as a bomb

Causes an explosion

Sets off with girlfriends to tour the school

Do not tear off to get a primer!

Fuse, for example

Set off with this

Detour

Got off a Pullman

Got off the coach tired, on Eastern time

Stopped outside Denver's terminal and got off the choo-choo

State of being harmed or damaged

Damage part of watch around edge

Harm or loss

A wearing off or away.

Detrude

Very small things not reused, chucked

Depreciating

Devein

Devest

Deviance

Going off the track

Erring and straying (wordplay)

A turning aside from a certain course

Departure from accepted standards

Imps

Devil

Frolicsome or mischievous conduct

Reckless mischief

Was up and reportedly intended to cause mischief

Devoice

Devolve

Religious observ-ances

That's prayers for Devon, so it is

Religious observances.

You phone at last while I'm eating

What I've been so eager to eat has got mostly ground

Dewool

Deworm

Dextrine

Dezinc

Dezinc

""Time the study and description of the change or development in the structural systems of a language over a stated period of time. Also called historical linguistics . Cf. synchronic linguistics . ; diachronic , adj . Linguistics""

Dick Dudgeon was the devil's

Act on idea put out by clerical office

Crowning

Identified

Doctor agonised over second opinions

Identifies problem of San Diego's poor

Doctors' determinations

Result of an exam

Physician's conclusion

Identification of a disease

They show a bias

Virgules or twills

Geometry lines

Dialling

Dialog

Dialyse

Dialyze

Rhinestones

13 with ice (wordplay)

Pipe organ stops

Diaper

Diaphone

Diazinon

""Any of various compounds, especially an aromatic hydrocarbon, containing the cation N 2 attached to an organic group.""

Flowers also called bleeding hearts

Adjective (-ic)

A small creeping herb (Dichondra micrantha) commercially cultivated as a substitute for lawn grass.

Dickens

Dicker

Dicliny