2-Letter Words Starting with D

Removed the dads (wordplay)

Depopulate

The expelling of a foreigner from a country

What's patriot done wrong to become exile (wordplay)

Deportment

Courtroom testimony.

Detraction; depreciation.

The act of deprecating; a praying against evil; prayer that an evil may be removed or prevented; strong expression of disapprobation.

Dismissive of French plundering clubs for date

Disparaging of French before Conservative welcomes accountant

Disparager

Plundering.

Despoilment

Depredator

""Tending or designed to depredate; characterized by depredation; plundering; as, a depredatory incursion. as, a depredatory incursion.""

Booms' opposites

Severe lack of essentials

Deprogram

Deputation

Neglect before line in speech

Origins

Dermatogen

Science of the skin

Study of skin disorders

Branch of medicine concerned with the skin

Derogation

Salt remover

Descension

Do nice strip perhaps showing outline

Portrayal

Descriptor

Violently disrespectful treatment

Damage of anything sacred

The offence of considerate vandalism

Desecrator

""The act of desiccating, or the state of being desiccated.""

Desiccator

Official title or description

Appointment

Term Democrat used for Republican in giving up office

Namers.

Serving to designate; designative; indicating.

Desolation

Desorption

Cole Younger, et al.

A rope ends it (wordplay)

Complete lack of hope

Rashness of Iran to speed development

Despoliation.

Despondency.

The blues

Distant one I set out for (wordplay)

Where one is going

Place to which one is travelling

Recompense initially withheld by duke - result, penury

Poverty

Ruin, wreckage

... R-U-I-N

Ruin

In a desultory manner; without method; loosely; immethodically.

Do retire, eat freely, and go to pot!

It has 'rot' and 'die' inside

Go downhill and stop, I pontificate

Hating to be almost put off before Crewe, perhaps

Loathing

Hatred

DETONATE to cause to explode

Detonation

Detoxicant

DETOXICATE to remove poison from.

Detoxicate

Detoxify

Calumnies

A form of colorblindness characterized by insensitivity to green.

DEUTERATE

Deutoplasm

Diminution of worth.

Currency maneuver

Destruction of old Chester depot

Great damage or grief

Ruin, destruction

Devastator

Capable of being developed.

Process of growth

Cluster of apartment houses

New product/idea; state of growth

Scheming nature

VOCALIZED vocalize

Devocalize

Devolution

DEVOTED devote

Devotement

Devotional

With an assured touch

DIABOLIZE To render diabolical.

Diachrony

Of or pertaining to the class Diadelphia; having the stamens united into two bodies by their filaments (said of a plant or flower); grouped into two bundles or sets by coalescence of the filaments (said of stamens).

DIAGNOSE to identify a disease by symptoms

Medical study of unbeliever in Hades ...

Techniques for identifying illness

Branch of medicine indentifying illnesses

To transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix.

DIALOGIST A speaker in a dialogue.

See title (wordplay)

... for a herpetologist (wordplay)

Type of terrapin

Diaphorase

Plural or third person singular

""Perspiration, or an increase of perspiration.""

A medicine or agent which promotes perspiration.

Colour slide

""Pl. diarthroses (-s z) Any of several types of bone articulation permitting free motion in a joint, as that of the shoulder or hip.""

A form of articulation which admits of considerable motion; a complete joint; abarticulation. See Articulation. Articulation.

""Geology the process of movement that causes the earth’s crust to form continents, mountains, oceans, etc. ; diastrophe , n . ; diastrophic , adj . Earth""

The interval of a fourth.

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

Dichogamy

Manifesting dichogamy.

Dichotomy

One who dichotomizes.

To cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect.

""Regularly dividing by pairs from bottom to top; as, a dichotomous stem. as, a dichotomous stem.""

Dichromate

Having or exhibiting two colors.

An instrument for examining the dichroism of crystals.

""A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating.""

Dicoumarin

Dicoumarol

Given to telling others what to do

Riot Act laid out getting autocratic

Autocratic

Dictional

Dictyosome

English word

Dicynodont

Native Australian winds

Didjeridoo

""The deflection and decomposition of light in passing by the edges of opaque bodies or through narrow slits, causing the appearance of parallel bands or fringes of prismatic colors, as by the action of a grating of fine lines or bars.""

""DIFFUSION The act of diffusing, or the state of being diffused; a spreading; extension; dissemination; circulation; dispersion.""

Digression

Dilatation

""An instrument for measuring the dilatation or expansion of a substance, especially of a fluid.""

An instrument used to measure thermal expansion and dilation in solids and liquids.

Word after two or three

Order online: ad is about male concerned with length (wordplay)

Having dimensions.

Antidote to arsenic or mercury poisoning

Dimethoate

Diminuendo

Diminution

Dimorphism

Dingdong

One of the Dinosauria.

Diphosgene

DIPHOSPHATE

English word

Relating or belonging to a diphthong; having the nature of a diphthong.

A form of micrococcus in which cocci are united in a binary manner. See Micrococcus. Micrococcus.

Tactful affairs

Representative abroad

One's certificate is in abstinence - from candour (wordplay)

Diplophase

Hard drinker

An alcoholic

Habitual drinker

Dipsomania

English word

Of or pertaining to direction (definition 2).

People on board created riot at sea

Section of government department

Board members show way to make a speech

Face tackling minister, beginning to irritate in the role of boss

Dreadful opening in Cannes, one's first in competition of film-makers

They have white pages

Phone books

Fails to protect single clergyman from Guides

Disaccord

To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom.

Ruling out

Treating as invalid approve keeping, having unhealthy complexion, at home

Topspin aids playing and is frustrating

Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.

Gave a thumbs-down to

One who disapproves.

Disapprove

Able to be disavowed.

Disbosom

Disbowel

Disbowel

Discuss role played by revelations

Catalogue of (performer's) recordings

Catalogue of a performer's recordings

Discolor

Made uneasy

Discomfort

Discommend

DISCOMMODE To put inconvenience; to incommode; to trouble.

Discommode

Inclined to house Communist, however unsettled

Upset

Discompose

Puts off performance in East Anglian town

Disconfirm

Breaks a link

Uncouples

Impossible-to-please ones

Stop making (an item)

Stop doing or making

Put an end to

Discophile

Lack of harmony.

Conflict; lack of harmony

Inharmonious sound

State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency.

Night spot, modern style.

Where a go-go goes.

Night club that plays records.

Discounter

Reducing in price

Put off by type of music argued about

Depressed as our old record goes first

Went mad to support music event university put off

One who discourages.

Pog or platter + sharer's word + matures

Puts off

Cools

Discourser

COURSING the pursuit of game by hounds

A rude lack of consideration for others

A rudeness, snub

Lack of consideration for others

Sleuths, at times

Early explorers

Unexpected finds

Working out grids, novice exploded

Discretion

Discrown

Definition of an egotist (Part 3)

Divested of a body; ceased to be corporal; incorporeal.

Disembody

EMBOGUED embogue

Disembogue

Sides with Marxist leader below ground - shows guts

Disendower

Disendow

Disfavor

Disfrock

FUNCTION to perform or act

In an underhanded way

In an untrustworthy manner

Untrustworthily

Dishonorer

Dishonor

Disappointing loss of an ideal

Present magic act, on the street

Disjoint

""The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; as, the disjunction of soul and body.as, the disjunction of soul and body.""

LOCATING locate

Where we be (wordplay)

Disturbance of the normal position

Shoulder injury

The forcing from a fixed position

Dismission