2-Letter Words Starting with D

Progress in a mountain of work, say

Pounded-out flaw, perhaps

Run into, maybe

By - of (due to)

(By) means (of)

By - of (owing to)

Cavalcade of Stars network

Make shake, maybe

Puff out one's chest at, say

Make shake maybe

One in a baker's dozen, perhaps

Hole food (wordplay)

Brief coffee gowith perhaps

Pour off (liquid)

Pour into a carafe, say

Take (wine) off lees

Dressed? That's nice of you!

Ready to receive company, say

Ready for viewing, say

My Life singer Iris

Make crazy, old-style

"My Life" singer Iris

Catch in a lock.

A catch or pawl.

A metal catch, as in a clock.

Museum volunteer, perhaps

Image consultant, at times (wordplay)

Museum tour guide

Electronic impurity

Trace impurity inserted into a semiconductor to alter its properties

Elizabeth I, for one

Kim Jong-il, for one

Kim Jong-un, for one

Most cold and damp

Most unpleasantly damp

Most humid

Boldly resistant - fainted (anagram)

Upset at fiend showing teeth (wordplay)

Unwilling to stay in line

No longer existing or functioning

Dead time after month full of enjoyment

Out of fashion, dead

Remove from exhibition musical recording with short tune that's discordant

One in a dunce cap, perhaps

Slowest on the uptake

Most slow-witted

Drill master (wordplay)

One who crowns (wordplay)

Down-in-the-mouth sort (wordplay)

To {depict=v}

Sung part 'notedly superior' (wordplay)

Highest range (eg of a 10)

Treble melody above the main melody

Pepe Le Pew's problem (wordplay)

Comedown (of ancestry?)

Way to go to hell (wordplay)

Strange Roman way going into hollow

Nowhere near the norm

Diverging from the norm or from truth

It thins things out

Thinning agent

Watering down

Thingummy - bind tag (anagram)

Silly billy - it'd bang (anagram)

Punish Masterson (wordplay)

An organism with a particular chromosomal structure

""To sing, also DESCANT""

Minority report (wordplay)

Don't go along

Difference of opinion.

Does the tint get sad? Far from it!

Like Antarctica, say, cold

Not the start of 17 down? Far from it!

Distended

""Stupid, dazed, also DONNARD, DONNART, DONNERD, DONNERED""

Sleeping or inactive, say volcano

Sleeping party worker takes room inside

Beetle having married insect is sleeping

Street sweep (wordplay)

Systematic search (for criminals)

Friday night series (wordplay)

Dun

Utmost

Hunky-dory to the max

Swellest ever

Nattiest.

Eurasian shrub having serrated leaves and white flowers

Type of things kids say (wordplay)

Level best

One beginning a career

Actor in his or her first role

Actor playing his first part.

Dec. lining (wordplay)

Immoral act ended in stir (wordplay)

Showing moral decline

Will writer, at a will reading

Silent partner in a will fight

Will's writer

Humble before Newton, having expert around

Respectful

One who believes in demons

One making a statement under oath

Person giving testimony opened unusual New Testament

Smashed open in Germany with old books for someone making a deposition

Terminating

""Something that enlarges, also DILATER""

Cover up for one man in particular

Painstaking - I tingled (anagram)

Unlike a slacker

Most dark and dirty

Sound to start with, but most depressing

Most grimy

Dinky

Nullifying

Ignore incentive to buy (wordplay)

Take no notice of sales ploy (wordplay)

Ignore sales ploy (wordplay)

Make incoherent

Come apart

Having deep constrictions between the different sections of the body (zoology)

Get off one's high horse perhaps

Get down from (a horse)

Get off (bike)

To {dislodge=v}

Easy to perceive

How Lily hops into a deal

Definite and unmistakeable

A chemical element with a valency of two

Most wonderful.

Diploma, for one

Don cut me (anagram)

Report duke? Count me out!

Like an alpha male

Refrain from taking out main ruling

Most important or influential

{asleep=adj}

Small ring-shaped cake

Small circular cake

Deep fried snack

Gloomy round of an Ulster cop (wordplay)

Conductor's cue, maybe

Understated unhappy defeat

Unhappy players at Bangor (wordplay)

Gloomy players near Belfast (wordplay)

Ulster actors depressed (wordplay)

Most fluffy

Brightly colored fish

Brightly colored marine fish

Trawl collects ordinary fish

Most inebriated

Most under the influence in wild Turk's den

Engraving of laconic fieldsman

Steel needle for engraving

Etching needle.

Dark purplish-red

Aperitif made with quinine

Tub on end (anagram) - aperitif

Dungy

Durned

Believer in an immanent force

Heard Dinah found watery film of one believing in energy

Andrew spinning something a bit foggy as a sort of philosopher

Most delicate

Most petite

Most delicate

Utmost

Utmost, informally

Utmost

Napping spot Iowa (nonverbal)

Lindsay, a Wimbledon champion

Napping spot in Iowa (wordplay)

Ban girl coming out with topless dress

Legal exclusion

Prohibition making some Stateside barmen testy

Decent

U.S. citizen-to-be

Get rid of stuffiness: get second wind

Clear churchman's joke for an audience

Movement of eyes in modest lowering

Amount lost

Reduction, diminution

Lying down; prostrate; recumbent.

Extending downward; said of a leaf whose base extends downward and forms a wing along the stem.

One on trial

One is not to a c.c. 17 across

Plea bargaining party

Stay and calm down (wordplay)

Delay of French Revolution's effect

Stay in midst of students' agitation

Fed up and lacking 11 cent

Lacking in it, I fenced poorly

In depression ironclad company becomes inadequate

Leaves-dropper (wordplay)

Type of chemical sprayed on plants

I don't mess with leaf stripper

The man's tucked in - fit to burst!

Bursting: bot.

Emerging forcefully from hot Irish capital in fall

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

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

DENTURE a set of teeth

Sure thing (wordplay)

Underarm spray, perhaps

Secret stuff (wordplay)

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.

Extra capsule in a pill bottle

Do not eat substance

Dryer found in freak accidents

Discourage a nice bloke (wordplay)

Put man off soap (wordplay)

Get tender (anagram)

Hindrance.

Long sentence, for one

It puts off cleaner? Right for good!

That which restrains.

State of being harmed or damaged

Damage part of watch around edge

Harm or loss

Frolicsome or mischievous conduct

Reckless mischief

Was up and reportedly intended to cause mischief

What Kipling's Kangaroo wanted to be.

Part 3 of the phrase

Unlike Clemo's percussionist

Shy old copper, if well outside sanctum

Shy, unlike papers ousting Queen

Reluctant to come forward

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

Deceitful - hedonists (anagram)

Hedonists turned out to be deceptive

Clean scent if I'd showered (wordplay)

Doctor finds Ice-T free of germs

Use Lysol on

INFEST to invade and swarm over

Dispose of shares

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

Vice in its place - good guy is to withdraw backing

Puzzle Editor's in muddle!

Confuse the team at Leyton (wordplay)

Confuse at Brisbane Road!

He may argue policeman's set on worker

One who argues

Argumentative one.

Insets did for one who opposes authority

Opposer of official line

One casting a "no" vote

Off-key and cacophonous

Lacking harmony

Clashing unmelodiously.

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

Guy in scuba gear (wordplay)

Not the same frogman (wordplay)

Separating from masked man (wordplay)

Doggone

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

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

Vertical air movement

Spoiler of a smooth plane ride

Air pocket

Totally blue and Tory!

Germany have the side? Absolutely!

Absolutely miserable, agreed (wordplay)

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

Move to a lower gear

Slow without braking

A vertical pipe for carrying rainwater down from a roof gutter.

Durned

Brooklyn storage area (wordplay)

Playroom locale (wordplay)

Playroom locale?

Controversy; deliberation; debate.

A marching off.

Sudden departure

Mixing damp cement in Split, out of the blue

Waning, as the moon

Graffiti fade off building material

Cafe Ted and men wrecked in act of vandalism

Damage makes building material fade badly on top

Pollution from pass encountered around North

The act of defining; definition; description.

One with no class (wordplay)

Offender, maybe juvenile

Failing to do one's duty.

English word

Sign; indication.

final part (of play, etc)

Final resolution (of play, film, etc)

Final part (of film, play)

Noun (-ment)

Tempt nerd with a fizzy Moselle, perhaps

Office would leave me in depression

Sports or payroll

Extensive use of troops (wordplay)

Positioning of troops

Distribution of resources

Schools used to grade pupils in this.

Expel people starting to trash carriage

From outside port, men took bearing

Alcohol, for one

Downer of French worker packing iron

Drug reducing nervous activity

Mishap on the IRT

Result of a bad jump

#NotAllMen, for instance

Grandchild, for one

Great-grandson, for one

Issue notes for treble tackling finale

Moving downwards

Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention.

Lacking hope - ten odd pens (anagram)

Down in the dumps

Almost without hope

Indifference for detail

Indifference to detail

Strange men chatted with aloofness

Period in custody

Enforced delay

Badly tainted fellows being put inside in custody

TOXICANT a poisonous substance

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

""One of a group of extinct reptiles having the jaws armed with a horny beak, as in turtles, and in the genus Dicynodon, supporting also a pair of powerful tusks. Their remains are found in triassic strata of South Africa and India. Dicynodon, supporting also a pair of powerful tusks. Their remains are found in triassic strata of South Africa and India.""

""Having two successive sets of teeth (deciduous and permanent), one succeeding the other; as, a diphyodont mammal; diphyodont dentition; opposed to monophyodont. as, a diphyodont mammal; diphyodont dentition; opposed to monophyodont.""

Let down badly in paid post

Fill with chaGRIN

Let down

Procedure for an unethical lawyer

Burundi's barmen trying to comprehend legal ban

BENEFIT to obtain an advantage

Rattle record playing? Sure thing

Put out of underworld union

Prior to musical event duke is upset

Break off an engagement (wordplay)

Divorce adjusted in second court

Detectives and screw pull the plug

Now is the winter of our - (Richard III)

Now is the winter of our - (Rich.III)

Lack of satisfaction

Quarreling insect (wordplay)

Quarreling insect?

Lacking harmony; conflicting

Record agent and worker not agreeing

Contrary, disagreeing

Inconsistent

Person taking part in talks written off as nuts on record

Free from illusion

Take illusions away

Make someone feel let down

Deprive of will power (wordplay)

Refuse to leave the house (wordplay)

Solve insider 4 or do 7 down (wordplay)

INHIBIT to restrain or hold back

Act of disowning.

""PERSANT piercing, also PERCEANT, PERSAUNT""

""Having power to dissolve power to dissolve a solid body; as, the dissolvent juices of the stomach. as, the dissolvent juices of the stomach.""

The act of stripping or ridding

I mend TV set that's broken for selling off

Valley outlet

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

Dismantle (something)

Break down

Churchmen wanting a heavy vehicle reduced time to break down

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

Depravity. [Obs.] Milton. [Obs.] Milton.

Disorder; madness

Madness; disorder

Disorder; insanity

A despising.

Despoliation.

Serving to determine or limit; determinative.

Put off skimpy attire, good person who has a resigned outlook (wordplay)

""(Transport / Railways) to leave or cause to leave a railway train, as passengers, etc. detrainment   n""

""TUMESCENT Slightly tumid; swollen, as certain moss capsules.""

Process of growth

Cluster of apartment houses

New product/idea; state of growth

Deprivation of ability; incapacity.

Topic for the summit.

Reduction in military forces and weapons

Reduction in military forces

The breaking up of a group

Perceptiveness - good taste

One's discriminating power

Keen perception or judgement

Detachment resident? It's off!

State of impartiality

State of being impartial

The forcing from a fixed position

Going against instructions

Insubordinate, spreading sedition around base

Naughty daughter isn't accepting order to stop working

Act of disporting; diversion; play.

Not concurring

Detest sin in awkward believer with different views

A separating tissue; a partition; a septum.

Distinct

""An advocate of disunion, specifically, of disunion of the United States.""

DIVISION the act of dividing

Dissolution of the marriage tie; divorce; separation.

Doggoned

Red and tough (anagram); battleship

Aden drought affected battleship

Famous British battleship.

The act of deciphering.

Medicine to unblock the nose

Medicine clearing airways

Catarrh reliever

Becoming liquid

Demolition.

""One who writes on, or is versed in, demonology.""

Good tendrils could excite this type of plant expert

Conclusion is to include North Carolina in the criticism

Conclusion is to include North Carolina for criticism

One versed in deontology.

Toppling of a king

Removal from power

Removal of bishop from the highest seat in the land (wordplay)