2-Letter Words Starting with D

FOCUSING focus

Defocus

Defocus

Defoliant

Leaves off (wordplay)

Leaves without leaves

Jungle warfare weapon

Deforest

FORMABLE able to be formed

Severe punishment for a priest

Depriving of priestly status

Defroster

Leaving on the counter, perhaps

What Brooklyn bakeries apply (wordplay)

Thawing out

HYDRATOR one that {hydrates=v}

Deionizer

Deionize

Dejection

Commission special Donegal tie

U. N. General Assembly group.

Convention group from a state

They don't do it all themselves

""One who, or that which, delineates; a sketcher.""

""LOCALIZE to confine or limit to a certain place, also LOCALISE""

DELTOID a shoulder muscle

Living a fantasy

Refusing to face reality

Believing unreal things

Demagogy

Demagog

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.

Power-hungry political leaders

Fiery orators

Demantoid

Demeanour

Demimonde

Demission

Demiworld

""To disorganize, or disband and send home, as troops which have been mobilized. mobilized.""

Party for the Clintons

Enabling the will of the people

One way to vote

MODULATE to {regulate=v}

Population statistics expert's field

Study of populations

Battered eel I seldom miss!

Young lady, in Lyon

Young lady Fr.

Razed to the ground

Defeated in protest march and is held for rioting

Totally refuted line I dropped after protest

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

Makes a lot out of, as a building (wordplay)

Wipes out

Licking lemon, idiot idiotic!

Ryan Adams' current album

Light Infantry in degrading defeat

Demoness

""To deprive of current value; to withdraw from use, as money.""

Relating to evil spirits

Evil conflation of love and malice

Raging; frantic

Turning into a devil? That could be me, doing sin

Doing the job of an attack ad

Study of devils does me only good!

'Go on with melody', nuts implore (wordplay)

Throw into mental disarray

Bring down spiritually

Throw into confusion

Demount

Treelike in structure

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) any branching diagram, such as a cladogram, showing the interconnections between treelike organisms""

Scientific study of only red dog in doubt

Denial.

One who defames

Character assassin

Mentioned a new label

When beaten, mentioned a name

Emendation (wordplay)

The marking off or separation of anything.

Having power to denote; designating or marking off.

Sign; indication.

final part (of play, etc)

Final resolution (of play, film, etc)

Final part (of film, play)

Denouncer

Denounce

Dentition

""The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare.""

Bans, for example

Sticks in the medicine cabinet (wordplay)

ODORIZED odorize

It gets the funk out

Freshens, in a way

The science relat<?/ to duty or moral obligation.

Deorbit

OXIDIZED oxidize

""That which removes oxygen; hence, a reducing agent; as, nascent hydrogen is a deoxidizer. as, nascent hydrogen is a deoxidizer.""

Deoxidize

Depiction

Removal of hair

(Product) for removing unwanted hair

Capable of removing hair

Wax, often

Depletion

Repeal bold move? Scandalous!

Lamentable, causing great regret

Inexcusable record in Donegal or fit for purpose (wordplay)

In a deplorable manner.

DEPLOY to position troops for battle

Extensive use of troops (wordplay)

Positioning of troops

Distribution of resources

To deprive of polarity; to reduce to an unpolarized condition.

Depolish

Depolish

Force migration from an area

Clear of inhabitants

Get the people out of crumbling Aleppo with duet in a mess

Brooklyn laptop (wordplay)

Schools used to grade pupils in this.

Expel people starting to trash carriage

From outside port, men took bearing

Trustee.

Sadly, pet dog is in for putting down

Putting in

Player's place?

Player's place (wordplay)

It's signed by a witness

Interested parties (wordplay)

People with money in the bank.

Bank's customers.

Place for storage

Storage place

Storage site

One who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a robber.

Slump causing gloom

Dent made by sniper does damage

Black dog's bowl

Sticks on the tongue (wordplay)

Deprogram

A representative body

A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.

""Nascent epidermis, or external cuticle of plants in a forming condition.""

DERMATOME

Dermatome

""Pl. dermatoses (-s z) A skin disease, especially one that is not accompanied by inflammation.""

""Pl. dermatoses (-s z) A skin disease, especially one that is not accompanied by inflammation.""

Derogate

Belittling of a good interchange

Belittling.

Showing a disrespectful attitude

Edgy orator at work that's critical

Today Roger's awfully insulting

The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation.

""Computer Science A word, phrase, or alphanumeric character used to identify an item in an information storage and retrieval system.""

Profaner

Desertion

""One who, or that which, desiccates.""

He nominates doctor, one Greats don

One who classifies or defines

One allocating tasks, for example

With desire; eagerly.

DESMOSOME

Desmosome

Does digress these days, sadly

Some Parisian wanting love recently, feeling loneliness

Desolater

Desolate

Not ideal, so may result in ruin

Isolated after roaming about on ruin

Are you, by the sound of it, in? (Poor you!)

Desolator

SORPTION the process or sorbing

Oater bad guys

Posse's prey

Bonnie and Clyde, for example

Feeling or showing despite; malicious; angry to excess; cruel; contemptuous.

Despoiler

Despoil

Lacking hope - ten odd pens (anagram)

Down in the dumps

Almost without hope

Despond

Despotism

Tin cans, so to speak

Naval vessels for the breakers

The sea story when the deer's around

Breaking down strange store in 'One Foot in the Grave'

Detection

Detention

Dethroner

Toppling

Being charitable, embracing an alien setting off

No-one thanks important backer? Blast!

School at first in academic outburst

Loud report.

DETONATE to cause to explode

Test on road (anagram)

Fuses

TOXICANT a poisonous substance

Remove poison from

Detoxify

Detoxify

Belittling of the French drawing

Not a direct criminal slander

Criticism means upset editor must get a grip

Critical persons

Disparagers

Detrition

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

One who lays waste, for example

He lays waste

Destroyer turned back, having sunk vessel

Trump and colleagues

Quote, part 1

Quote, part 2

Converting (open land) to buildings

Darkroom activity

Blooming old pig never moving without resistance

Sins, in Kremlin parlance.

Deflections

Olive family trees

To make toneless; to deprive of vowel quality.

Violent duo out to get a transfer of power

In county one has nasty lout leading delegation

Duke heading off rebellion with transfer of authority

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

Like worshipping a TV idol one spoiled

Short prayer service

Used in worship

Piety

Forging alibi with ' a cold' - wicked!

What you might call hell of a liberty (wordplay)

A bod I call wicked, one inwardly satanic

Diabolism

Diabolist

DIABOLIZE To render diabolical.

Diabolize

""Of or concerned with phenomena, such as linguistic features, as they change through time.""

Deaconships.

DIADROM a vibration

Finding the trouble

Identifying a problem

Identifying backing tune getting help in German

Indicating the nature of an illness

Computer error message

A symptom used to identify a disease

In a diagonal direction.

Relating to a dialogue; dialogistical.

Dialogist

Dialogue

Diamond

Fine and translucent

Light, delicate, translucent

Clear girl's one to fancy a nosh-up

Diaphony

English word

Diarrhoea

Diatomite

Diazonium

""DIAZOTIZE To subject to such reactions or processes that diazo compounds, or their derivatives, shall be produced by chemical exchange or substitution.""

Diazotize

""A nonpersistent organophosphorous pesticide, C 4 H 7 O 4 Cl 2 P, of low toxicity to humans.""

Dichondra

Dichroism

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

Dichromat

English word

English word

Dicrotism

Dictation

Book that's full of meaning (wordplay)

Definitive book (wordplay)

Oxford, for one.

The Golgi apparatus in plant cells.

Dicumarol

""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.""

Musical instrument from down under

Down Under wind

Wind instrument Down Under

""Pl. didjeridoos or didgeridoos A musical instrument of the Aboriginal peoples of Australia, consisting of a long hollow branch or stick that makes a deep drone when blown into.""

Diffusion

Digestion

Digitonin

Digitoxin

A departure from the main subject

Straying off the subject

Going off course from nameless entrance in Dublin (wordplay)

Prolixity; diffuse discourse.

With delay; tardily.