2-Letter Words Starting with D

Box's measurements

Time and others

Length, breadth and height

DIMETHOATE

Letting the sound fade away (music)

Decrease in loudness

Letting sound fade away

Obscure union - it might well be weakening

Decrease

""Difference of form between members of the same species, as when a plant has two kinds of flowers, both hermaphrodite (as in the partridge berry), or when there are two forms of one or both sexes of the same species of butterfly.""

""Characterized by dimorphism; occurring under two distinct forms, not dependent on sex; dimorphic.""

Dingdong

""A colorless liquid, ClCO 2 CCl 3 , used in organic synthesis. Its vapor was used as a poison gas in World War I.""

Sounds of "sounds" and "voices"

Certain vowel sounds

""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.""

""Pl. diplococci (-k k s , -k k ) Any of various paired spherical bacteria, including those of the genus Diplococcus, some of which are pathogenic.""

Herbivorous sauropod

Lower position defining party, a dinosaur

One had a huge amount of meat after I'd served up nasty cold soup!

Diploidy

Diploma

Diplomate

Tactful negotiator in charge

Prudent to claim foul after drop

College choice for jerk is sensitive

English word

Diplotene

Alcoholism - so dim a pain (anagram)

Problem for A.A.

Sot's cravings

North, south, east and west (wordplay)

The four making news (wordplay)

Game-box reading matter

Disaccord

Forbidden pasty's finished outside

Did so well, a resitting is not permitted

Stopped keeping pale, just like a wrong put right (wordplay)

Let down badly in paid post

Fill with chaGRIN

Let down

Have an unfavourable opinion (of)

Decline to sanction

Take exception to rewriting Ovid's paper

Like a bomb, say

Causing great damage

Highly unsuccessful

Repudiations

Disavow

Disbosom

Disbowel

Discloser

Record missing? It's broadcasting

Publishing record being beaten

Woman's so cruel sadly making revelation

Club certain to accommodate large outing

It can be full or partial

Black-and-blue

Discomfit

The uneasiness of party maiden almost 40

Storm if doc creates pain

Club, male bastion, creating irritation

To mention with disapprobation; to blame; to disapprove.

Put out a dance for the 1970s - 2000 ode

Way after party maiden gets put out

Cause (someone) trouble or inconvenience

Perhaps deconstruct music for Rattle (wordplay)

Upset male model after party

Upset married model after dance

Rattle record playing? Sure thing

Put out of underworld union

Prior to musical event duke is upset

CONFIRM to {ratify=v}

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

A collector of or specialist in phonograph records.

Quarreling insect (wordplay)

Quarreling insect?

Lacking harmony; conflicting

Discord

Itemized things on a tax return

Not full-price

Like sales day clothing

One's out to make reductions

Cause loss of enthusiasm in (someone)

Iago cursed, getting put off (wordplay)

It's round to our times to put this off

Is series of lectures spanning two days treated formally (wordplay)

One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer.

Bad-mouth the curriculum (wordplay)

Criticize college subjects (wordplay)

Conversations

Detected journalist's halo maybe!

Found during search

How one is round on top of the editor

Talent scout, perhaps

Marie Curie, for radium and polonium

U. S. satellite.

The better part of valor

Liberty to act at pleasure; prudence

'The better part of valour'

Discrown

Talk in field event is about leg

Debate is back on after athletic event

Talk of rock discos in US

ECONOMY {thrift=n}

""To pour out or discharge at the mouth, as a stream; to vent; to discharge into an ocean, a lake, etc.""

Draw mob and see wild mayhem

Draw woman's dislocated elbow up to me

See Wimbledon isn't exciting without tennis draw

Disendow

ENDOWER one who {endows=v}

Disfavor

Disfrock

Disgorge

Garda's union produced conflict

Friction within a group

Detective's union leads to conflict

They dry in the kitchen

Kitchen rags

Dishclout

Pan a Billy Joel classic (wordplay)

Lovely concealing love-nest by deceit

Untrustworthiness, insincerity

Affirmative votes

One who dishonors or disgraces; one who treats another indignity.

Disjoin

Lacking a coherent sequence

Lacking continuity

Dijon's diet crumble! Is that mixed up (wordplay)

Daughter is found out

Out of order.

You couldn't even find your own butt on a Waze app

Moves out of a normal position

Injures, as a bone

Inconveniences

Knocking out of place

In a disloyal manner.

Traitor's trait

To sly lady I wronged, it's unfaithful behaviour

Lady toils busily around yard changing sides (wordplay)

""The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury. as, the dismission of the grand jury.""

Dismount

Recalcitrant ones.

Rebellious

OBLIGED oblige

Disoblige

Thrown into confusion.

Confused police officer's given command

Confused, untidy

Confused underground worker in hospital

Kind of conduct, in law

Lacking organisation

Disorient

Act of disowning.

Freedom from passion; an undisturbed state; apathy.

PEOPLED people

Dispeople

Scattering of things

Process or state of being scattered

Distributing of novel so inspired

DISPERSE to {scatter=v}

Full of despite; cruel; spiteful; pitiless.

Displode

Explosion.

Amusing (oneself)

At play

Such income not permanent (wordplay)

Liquid to be thrown away after use

Designed to throw away after use

Deprive (of land/property)

Deprive (of land or property)

Deprive of land/property

Disposure

Disprove

Disroot

Alternatively, pundits or I get upset

Some analytical piecework (wordplay)

Senior policeman opening special branch enquiry

Cutting up middle slice of dessert, in manner of speaking

Dissector

Disseisor

I send SOS in trouble and strife

Disagreement leading to discord

Discord, disagreement

DISSENT to {disagree=v}

Separate, disconnect

Capable of being dissolved; having its parts separable by heat or moisture; convertible into a fluid.

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

Dissolver

Breaking up

In seconds a dreadful lack of harmony

Lack of harmony

Clashing quality of musical notes

The use of deterrence

Deterrence

What deters wandering Saudis? Promised land (wordplay)

Swelling

""The act of distending; the act of stretching in breadth or in all directions; the state of being Distended; as, the distention of the lungs. as, the distention of the lungs.""

Disposed in two vertical rows; two-ranked.

Those who bend the facts

Deceitfully altering, as facts

Wide-angle lens concern

Travesty of a sort

A twisting out of shape

One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels.

""A pale yellow, highly toxic systemic insecticide, C 8 H 19 O 2 PS 3 , used for some vegetables and flowers.""

What could get one avoiding a subject ultimately (wordplay)

Divebomb

Different ways to find amusements

501 renditions (wordplay)

Entertainments

Occult art

Get a share for the Sioux by telling the future

Prediction of small return on investment by state

""Professing, or relating to, divination.""

Someone beautiful in face, in parts

Departmental.

Docility

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Longshoreman

Indoor court reportedly 88 degrees

Highest graduate-school degrees

Advanced degrees

DOCTOR to treat medically

Physician's function

A drum's coda might indicate such factions

Of official papers

Like written material, arranged in column with date

Finish with copper getting mad, giving description of written evidence

Presented evidence for

Set down in black and white by editor behind paper

'Tom ended drunk', copper intervening put down on paper

DOCUMENT to support by conclusive information

Dodecagon

Catch them or you're out

Dogberry

Tabby's friend (wordplay)

Tabby's friend?

Pound worker (wordplay)

Canine tenacity (wordplay)

Persistence

Determination

Doggoned

Dogleg

Opinionated

Dictatorial.

Dogmatism

Certain people crash Tim's stag do

Opinionated ones

Overbearing types

DOGMATIZE To assert positively; to teach magisterially or with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance.

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

Dogmatize

Dognapper

Dognap

Doormats where shadows fall on institutions

Dogsled

Susan Butcher, notably

Mush! shouter

"Mush!" shouter

Dogtrot

Dogwatch

Doleful

Little girls' playthings

Good Christmas gifts.

DOLOMITE a mineral

In a sorrowful way

In a lugubrious way

In a mournful manner

Domicil

Dominance

In a controlling way

For the most part

Chiefly, bread found in skip wrapped in newspaper less perfect

Commanding, influencing

Present compiler's back in control

I am held back by present government

Exercise of mastery.

Governing; ruling; imperious.

Rulers cheat, endlessly threatening society

Alphas

Whipper snapper (wordplay)

Woman with a whip (wordplay)

Whip wielder

Acted arrogantly

Overpowered.

DOMINICK an American breed of chickens

Dominique

Doneness

An asinine performance (wordplay)

Academic magnum opus nothing but a chore

Laborious part of a task

Donnicker

Melee for singer Osmond (wordplay)

Free-for-all (wordplay)

Free-for-all for Osmond (wordplay)

Defects in scribbled pictures (wordplay)

Mineral-finding devices

Ant lion larvae.

Gizmos

Gadgets

Plural or third person singular

Doomsayer

One who predicts calamity at every opportunity.

DOOMSDAY judgement day

Guard of sorts

Reluctant car dealer (wordplay)

One on duty at building's entrance

Doorplate

Dopiness

Dormancy

Doronicum

Dosimeter

An instrument that measures and indicates the amount of x-rays or radiation absorbed in a given period.

The state of being double or doubled.

Doubleton

Full of questions

DOUBTING the act of doubting

Northerners who once sympathized with the South

Doughty

Dourness

Fit together nicely

Fitted together skillfully.

Bird becomes neatly joined

""DOVISH seeking peace, also DOVEISH""

Long-billed sandpipers