2-Letter Words Starting with D

Downburst

What beer drinkers do (wordplay)

Sad fine comedian failed

Ruined

Defeated

Changed from A to B, as a credit rating

Lowered the status

Lowered in status

Motorist's concern.

Puts less value on

Demotes

DOWNHILL a downward slope

*Got from the cloud (wordplay)

Something soft and rich confined to one's memory (wordplay)

Softpedaled; de-emphasized

Made light of 24 across and 8 across

Underrated director admitted penning drama

DOWNSCALE

Downscale

Downshift

Activity of duvet makers (wordplay)

Reducing workforce by redundancy

Cause of unemployment

Downslide

Downspout

Downstage

Perhaps a level below sad street songs

On ground floor (or in basement)

Where scullions knew their place

DOWNSTATE

Downstate

Where the eider duck swims (wordplay)

With the current

The current trend, naturally

Line drawn top to bottom

Line made in writing

Various token words may be used by writer

Downswing

DOWNTOWN the business district of a city

Downtrend

DOWNWARD from a higher to a lower place

Downwash

Hymns of praise

Hymns.

Doziness

A kind of mint.

What keeps leader back is a plant

Herb with purplish flowers

Putting the arm on

Drawnwork

Detest confinement (wordplay)

Outside study, student ties up long hair

Bob Marely's hairstyle

Alice's wonderland

Walter Mitty's milieu.

Never-never land.

Driftwood

Dripstone

Witty Indians (wordplay)

Witty Indians?

Whimsical remarks

In a drooping manner.

Pigskin specialist of yore

Field goal attempter, once

Overhead chandeliers

DROPPER a tube for dispensing liquid in drops

Fly has upset his poor lad

Poorish lad used as subject for genetic research

Fruit fly

DROUGHT a dry period

Drouthy

Semi-sleep state

Dozy feeling

Lethargy, somnolence

They're pharmaceutical

Carpets ripped in abandoned Dallas pharmacies

They know all about The Cure in New York, as they provide much more than a tonic

""Producing, or pertaining to, drupes; having the form of drupes; as, drupaceous trees or fruits. as, drupaceous trees or fruits.""

Act of doubting; doubt.

Gym-shower items

Shower-room items

They're used for walking over wet ground

Dulcimore

Dumbfound

Greatly surprised

Flabbergasted

Dungeon

As a system of counting, doctor aided locum

Pair claimed wrongly to be like Bob of old

Base 12

Duodecimo

Duopsony

Business machine.

Instruments for measuring hardness

Lift prints from lids (wordplay)

Hardback protectors

Dynamotor

Dysphonia

Dysphoria

""An element of the rare earth-group. Symbol Dy; at. wt., 162.5.Dy; at. wt., 162.5.""

""Medicine Of, relating to, or afflicted with dystrophy.""

The art of communicating ideas by certain movements and positions of the fingers; -- a method of conversing practiced by the deaf and dumb.

How daredevils live (wordplay)

In a perilous manner

In a risky manner

Daunomycin

Deaconess

ACTIVATOR any agency bringing about activation; (Biol.) a molecule that increases the activity of an enzyme or a protein that increases the production of a gene product in DNA transcription.

Deadlock

Deaeration

DEAMINATE

Disembarkation.

Valley outlet

Fellows around the City misheard the figures

""The act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another.""

DECAPITATE To cut off the head of; to behead.

To deprive of carbonic acid.

Green New Deal verb

Brake

DECEPTION The act of deceiving or misleading.

Decimation

Decision

""The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students. as, the practice declamation by students.""

Noisy and rhetorical

Rhetorical

It begins: "When in the Course... "

It begins: "When in the Course . . . "

It begins "When in the Course . . . "

Like some legal judgments

Declension

""The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. as, declination of the head.""

Moderately steep.

COLLATING collate

The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist.

Low neckline on a dress

More of the quip

Low-cut neckline

COLONIZED colonize

Decolonize

COLORIZED colorize

""Inflected form of COLORIZER Inflected form of COLORIZE to give color to black and white film, also COLORISE""

Decolorize

Decolour

Decomposer

Breaking down

""CONDITION Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength, etc.; predicament; rank; position, estate.""

Decongest

Dismantle (something)

Break down

Churchmen wanting a heavy vehicle reduced time to break down

Honored soldier's collection

Jack-o'-lanterns, for example

Coordinates new colour schemes

""To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull.""

DECOUPAGE

Decrease in loudness (music)

With decreasing loudness (mus.)

(Musically) become quieter

Decryption

""Act of crossing at an acute angle, or state of being thus crossed; an intersection in the form of an X; as, the decussation of lines, nerves, etc. as, the decussation of lines, nerves, etc.""

Cite Addison inaccurately in inscriptions

A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; setoff.

Defalcator

Defamation

Defecation

Quip, Part 4

Deflection

""The act of deflouring; as, the defloration if a virgin. as, the defloration if a virgin.""

Deflowerer

Deflower

Defocus

Action that makes leaves leave

The separation of ripened leaves from a branch or stem; the falling or shedding of the leaves.

Defoliator

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

Old author and pop star about right way to ruin the earth

""FORMALIZE To give form, or a certain form, to; to model.""

Alteration of shape

Disfigurement

""FORMATIVE Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts. as, the formative arts.""

Deformity

""Inflected form of GLAMORIZE Inflected form of GLAMOR to bewitch, also GLAMOUR""

The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing.

Trained a dog to suffer humiliation

Trained a dog that's going off, going off

Humiliation.

Tasting; the appreciation of sapid qualities by the taste organs.

Excessive loss of water from body

Significant loss of water

Dehydrator

Making a god of

Plural noun or verb form

Eaten cold it could provide enjoyment

Election date endlessly changed for amusement

Enjoyment of naughty cat in act of destruction

Convention groups.

Convention groups

True oilseed (anagram) - harmful

Causing harm or damage

Having a harmful effect

""Delightfully; as, to feed deliciously; to be deliciously entertained. as, to feed deliciously; to be deliciously entertained.""

Very pleasing; delightful.

Vivid verbal description

Sketch

Delineator

With wild ecstasy

In a frantic manner

LOCALIZED localize

Delocalize

DELUSION the act of {deluding=v}

Rabble-rouser's forte

Rabble-rousing activity

Rabble-rousing behaviour

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.

Boundary

Half-divine female

MOBILIZED mobilize

Demobilize

Western nations

Give power to the people

Make accessible for everyone

MODULATED modulate

Demodulate

""An electronic device which extracts the modulation from a radio carrier wave, and outputs the original information-bearing signal.""

""The study of the characteristics of human populations, such as size, growth, density, distribution, and vital statistics.""

Relating to the structure of populations

Population-related

Relating to the statistical study of populations

Demoiselle

Demolisher

Demolish

Derby draw

MONETIZED monetize

Demonetize

Demonical

Fiend, say, hogging start of road show

Protest (in public)

Take part in public protest

""Made less hopeful or enthusiastic; rendered pessimistic; as, the demoralized Iraqi ground troops put up little resistance.as, the demoralized Iraqi ground troops put up little resistance.""

MORALIZER One who moralizes.

Demoralize

""Capable of being dismounted; -- said of a form of rim, for an automobile wheel, which can be removed with its tire from the wheel.""

Dendrogram

""Botany the branch of botany that studies trees. ; dendrologist , n . ; dendrologic, dendrological ,""

Denegation

""NERVATION The arrangement of nerves and veins, especially those of leaves; neuration.""

Calumny? Snarl and ignore it

Unfair criticism

Disparagement

Denigrator

Same as denigrating.denigrating.

NOMINATED nominate

Names

Names.

It's fractionally down

Lower half of fraction (could be common!)

Brooklyn political convention VIP (wordplay)

Denotation

Denotement

Novel windups

Denudation

Deodorizer

ODORIZING odorize

The act or process of reducing from the state of an oxide.

Deoxidizer

OXIDIZING oxidize

Turn biomass to fuel, for example

O gee! Next day possibly the gas is to be extracted

""A pentose (C5H10O4) in which one of the hydroxyl groups of ribose has been replaced by a hydrogen. In deoxyribonucleic acids, the deoxyribose is D-2-deoxyribose, in which the hydroxyl at the 2 position of ribose is the one which is replaced by hydrogen.C5H10O4) in which one of the hydroxyl groups of ribose has been replaced by a hydrogen. In deoxyribonucleic acids, the deoxyribose is D-2-deoxyribose, in which the hydroxyl at the 2 position of ribose is the one which is replaced by hydrogen.""

Depilation

In a deploring manner.

Deployment

POLARIZED polarize

""A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery.""

Depolarize

Depolish