2-Letter Words Starting with D

Having the stamens and pistils in separate flowers.

Speaking to a secretary (wordplay)

Boss's timesaver

Imposing, as rules

Get this at in a manner of speaking

Take it down from this

Speaking of words to be taken down

DICTION manner of enunciation

Dieldrin

Diesel

I incited a bent authority on food

He'll tell you what to have, of course

One guides you, as a matter of course

Food expert to stop working with artist

One helping with servings

Specialist in the study of nutrition

What Kipling's Kangaroo wanted to be.

Part 3 of the phrase

Unlike Clemo's percussionist

Differ

Shy old copper, if well outside sanctum

Shy, unlike papers ousting Queen

Reluctant to come forward

What the rear axle is not concentrating on doing (wordplay)

I would back loud form of jazz spreading

Osmosis, for example

Dispersal

Zoology 1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) of or relating to digenesis

Thinking over.

Gut reaction (wordplay)

span>Fizzy gin and it

Process of assimilating food

Drug for fingernail treatment

Ailing, I'd start to take new drug

Approve of European cutting out a drug

English word

""A steroid glycoside, one of the cardiotonic chemical substances which is extracted from the foxglove. It is a white, crystalline substance (C41H64O13), and is a 3-substituted triglucoside of a steroid, related structurally to digitalin and digoxin. It is used as a cardiotonic for treatment of certain heart conditions, such as congestive heart failure. Chemically it is (3. The related compounds digitalin and digoxin are also extracted from the foxglove (Digitalis lanata and Digitalis purpurea). The class of steroid glycosides having cardiotonic properties are refered to as the cardiac glycoside group.steroid glycoside, one of the cardiotonic chemical substances which is extracted from the foxglove. It is a white, crystalline substance (C41H64O13), and is a 3-substituted triglucoside of a steroid, related structurally to digitalin and digoxin. It is used as a cardiotonic for treatment of certain heart conditions, such as congestive heart failure. Chemically it is (3. The related compounds <er>digitalin</er> and <er>digoxin</er> are also extracted from the foxglove (<spn>Digitalis lanata</spn> and <spn>Digitalis purpurea</spn>). The class of steroid glycosides having cardiotonic properties are refered to as the <isa><ecol><b>cardiac glycoside</b></ecol></isa> group.""

Of stately bearing

Plough in back meadow's left out for August

Composed or serious and worthy of respect

Ennobles

Ambassador, for example

Person of high rank

Terribly tiring day for somebody

Dignity

Dihedron

DILATE to make {larger=adj}

Dilatant

Eye-opening experiences (wordplay)

Latin, so I'd make them swell

Pupil enlargements.

Beehive state (wordplay)

Application for transport

Coach shows dedication

They're never 11 across

Weakening processes

Diluvion

I'm done! Sin horrendous in magnitude!

Time, for one

Length or breadth, say

Dimness

Sound effects of schooldays.

Belfry sounds

Battles that make the ears ring (wordplay)

What goes with a dong will start with a noise to be drab

Crreatures found underground (wordplay)

Layers of jumbo eggs

Big lizards of yore

Diobolon

Diocesan

Diolefin

Diphenyl

Ou, for example.

A couple of characters sticking together

Tongue-moving vowel sound

DIPLONT an organism with a particular chromosomal structure

""The fourth stage of the prophase of meiosis, when the paired chromosomes being to separate. This stage follows the pachytene.pachytene.""

Dipnet

Dipteran

One of Joseph Mankiewicz's talents

Making a film of it with a straight gin

Pointing the way; controlling

Course of a free-kick (wordplay)

Telling the way to go (wordplay)

Management's right, perhaps

The state of being dirty; filthiness; foulness; nastiness; baseness; sordidness.

Is bad fish putting one out of action (wordplay)

Deactivating

Crippling debt in such a bank loan, interest not greedy to begin with

Disannul

Is amputation so irresistible (wordplay)

Propitiatory, preventing from firing

Renouncing weapons and winning

Failed to welcome second group and split up

Broken up

Supply bride's undies, 50% off or free

Rubens did work for free

Underbids in order to offload

Discant

Discase

Made out it was forcibly rescinded

Distinguished, made out

Round object made without a saw

""One who, or that which, discerns, distinguishes, perceives, or judges; as, a discerner of truth, of right and wrong. as, a discerner of truth, of right and wrong.""

What a jealous baron might do (wordplay)

Cuts the price of

Sales come-ons

Discrown

Refused to recognize

Treated with scorn

Treated with contempt

Disease

Disendow

Release from attachment

Put in neutral

Separate, release, detach

To free from entailment.

It's lying by the plate, one's tea, say

Deceitful - hedonists (anagram)

Hedonists turned out to be deceptive

Mashes

Stains

Clean scent if I'd showered (wordplay)

Doctor finds Ice-T free of germs

Use Lysol on

INFEST to invade and swarm over

Digs up

Exhumes

Dispose of shares

Sell shares small boy put up, not wearing a shirt (wordplay)

Vice in its place - good guy is to withdraw backing

INVITE to request the presence of

Disjoin

Disjoint

Disjunct

Not taking kindly to

Feeling distaste for

Aversion

Dislimn

Take defence apart with his help!

Put down a Yankees legend (wordplay)

Take to pieces

Apt to appal

Gets off (a horse, etc)

Parts of high bar routines

Gymnastic finishes

Puzzle Editor's in muddle!

Confuse the team at Leyton (wordplay)

Confuse at Brisbane Road!

Denying having supper, eating pig

Repudiation lies in PM's street

Repudiating

Dispend

Gave out medicines

Did without, with "with"

Did without, with 'with'

Paper-cup container for vending machines

Little girl meets poet in the chemist

It delivers if I press end roughly

Prepares and distributes, medicine say

Provides

Displant

Dispose

Shown to be false.

Demonstrated to be false

Drips spilled on cooker shown to be a mistake

He may argue policeman's set on worker

One who argues

Argumentative one.

It's a Russian head that's in there, in the argument

What Russians are ill-advised to do? Leader in general challenging

Disrate

*Baring all

In Sherwood, is Robin gently preparing to make love (wordplay)

Stripping

Dissave

""SEISIN legal possession of land, also SEIZIN""

The act of disseizing; an unlawful dispossessing and ouster of a person actually seized of the freehold.

Word with prefix dis-

Just said nay

Didn't go along

Felt differently

One not agreeing

One who differs among residents

Sen. Morse's GOP status.

Insets did for one who opposes authority

Opposer of official line

One casting a "no" vote

Off-key and cacophonous

Lacking harmony

Clashing unmelodiously.

Distain

Outdid, as in a marathon

Kept away, with "oneself"

The position taken in did set one apart from

Middle ones, perhaps

Long ones, perhaps

Chains, rods, et al.

With reserve

Ignored (wordplay)

Swollen with pressure

Stretched out.

Having a special air Fr

Sidney gets up, gets fit and and has a seizure, perhaps

I'd had back injury before start of the seizure

Discovery of dirt stain causes seizure of goods

Germany? First to accept coach's seizure ordered by court

Disunion

One sided wrangle about getting divorced

Split

Separated

Unsettles Leeds, perhaps

Disyoke

Hemming and hawing

Seeming unsure, I'd upped cycle

Flapping, hesitating

Dittany

Daily; every day.

Guy in scuba gear (wordplay)

Not the same frogman (wordplay)

Separating from masked man (wordplay)

Going every which way

Differing in opinion.

Turning off

Little girl's type of entertainment

Bypass papers reviewed for adaptation

Category of many movies.

Sleazy bar given classification 'not ace fun'

Delightful.

How one starts to take the plunge to be entertaining

Bust on a scuba outing (wordplay)

Depriving of authority.

Preshower activity

What you might be paid (finally!)

One kind of income.

Apportioned profits.

Divinise

Divinise

Divinize

Divinize

They may strengthen or weaken an army

They're commanded by major generals.

Battle units

Divorce

Disclosing, revealing

Revealing

State of reeling

Giddy sensation

Vertigo

DOBSON an aquatic insect lava

Docket

Dockhand

East London area

E. London area

Area of East London, near the Thames

Doctor

Relating to beliefs

Like matters of orthodoxy

By dint of coral, can you get to anything so believable (wordplay)

Schools of thought

Teachings

Diplomas, deeds and such

Pieces of written matter

Makes a paper trail

Moving shakily

Unsteady

Feeble

Twelve-sided figure

Good movement with dance figure

12-sided figure

DODGE to {evade=v}

Dogear

Doggone

Doggone

Dognaper

Dognap

Dognap

Person who takes pointers from others (wordplay)

Dollop

Power (over others)

Influence (over others)

I condemn a terrible authority

Party man isn't silly so-and-so (wordplay)

Doted about the main mixture and was on top of it

Held sway

Do what's grand in a boy and you'll have got him under your thumb

End Taoism perhaps (now holds sway)

Cleans up at "Mario Kart," perhaps

Is top dog in Maidstone

Alpha male, for example

With "the," nickname of NHL goalie Hacek

America's mightiest bomber.

Lords it over

Has control over.

Acts like a control freak

The Lord's party, a small one, to call for curtailment

Dominick

Authorities swindle underdogs

Authorities party with underlings

Spheres of influence

Jackson of "Pose"

Dominium

What the generous make

Contributions to charities, for example

What activists may make

Donative

DONNE a given piece of data

Donniker

DONNISH scholarly

Handles books don ordered about queen

Latch releasers

They're banned in Vancouver in new housing

Symbols of death (wordplay)

Choice of salon treatments (wordplay)

Large-headed studdings

Dopamine

""A plant of the genus Doronicum, which includes the leopard's bane.""

Dotation

""Dottier , dottiest a. Mentally unbalanced; crazy.""

Bridge suit holding

Two cards of a suit in a hand

Blonde out (anagram) - two cards

Pirate's coins

Old gold

Money mad types (wordplay)

Non-dieter's breakfast (wordplay)

Banker's breakfast?

Doupioni

Opposite of chic

Dull appearance

Perhaps flat round ordinary rods

Performing nicely in joint fixture

There's nothing in the house for the carpenter to do

Certain strokes by Mehta

""An extremely powerful downward air current from a cumulonimbus cloud, typically associated with thunderstorm activity.""

Downcast

Downcome

""In basketball, in a direction towards the basket, also UPCOURT""

Vertical air movement

Spoiler of a smooth plane ride

Air pocket

Trips from penthouse to poorhouse

Trips from penthouse to poorhouse

Ruinous failures

Lesley-Ann and Sally in enemy territory (wordplay)

A+ for a successful Hail Mary (wordplay)

Feather quality (wordplay)

Reduce in importance

Downhaul

Downhill

Undulating treeless regions.

Satellite to earth signal paths

Semis full of feathers (wordplay)

Transfers on a PC

iTunes deliveries

Downpipe

Doesn't make much of blue stage shows

Diminishes in importance

Makes seem less important

Downpour

; adj. In a direction away from the launch site and along the flight line of a missile test range: landed a thousand miles downrange; the downrange target area.

Totally blue and Tory!

Germany have the side? Absolutely!

Absolutely miserable, agreed (wordplay)

He steers, taking hold, towards the sea

From source to mouth

Admit into golf club closer to the sea

On the cheap end

Not luxurious

Move from "D" to "L" (4,5)

Move to a lower gear

Slow without braking

Independent school's negative aspects

Less appealing aspects of some Ulster teams

Underneaths

Cut the deadwood

Smaller now, in corporate-speak

Cut back, in corporate-speak

Hands out pink slips

Scales back, or a hint to the starts of the starred answers