2-Letter Words Starting with D

Naysayers

Debaters.

It's a Russian head that's in there, in the argument

What Russians are ill-advised to do? Leader in general challenging

Sorry state of ruin (wordplay)

Duke is to retire in ruin

Dilapidated state is hell to put right

Priest due to convert? Shame!

About to be trapped in quarrel - shame!

State of being held in low public esteem

Threw into turmoil

Got in the way of

Was no longer in order to have died around the spurt

Troublemaker.

Waste (money/energy)

Exhaust insult I spread

Be dispelled/dispersed

Complaint affecting setter (wordplay)

Confounding me, striped paint!

Fido's upset the paint!

Dogeship

Dognaper

Dognap

Dognap

Person who takes pointers from others (wordplay)

Dollop

It identifies an exec's office

Entrance appurtenance.

Item on which an office worker's name is printed

Doorpost

Where to find some babes

Spots for some jack-o'-lanterns

Porch adjuncts

Re-purposed fruitcakes, perhaps

Bricks, iron dogs, etc

Hardware for the household.

Dopamine

Dopehead

Ones giving winner forecasts

Ones making sports predictions

Racetrack worthies.

Doupioni

Douzeper

Downpipe

Doesn't make much of blue stage shows

Diminishes in importance

Makes seem less important

Downpour

A downward slope.

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

Dragrope

It's attached to a sink (2 words)

Attachment to a sink.

The way to waste

Dramshop

DRAPE to arrange in graceful folds

Window dressings

""A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.""

Driftpin

Drippy

Dripping

Stalactite

It throws water off where rough patch in seaway breaks over

Most forlorn

Least spirited

Drophead

Old-fashioned field goal attempts

Flying moves provide a little excitement

Old field goal attempts

Lamp on an adjustable cord

The smallest quantity of liquid heavy enough to fall in a spherical mass. See Table at measurement .

Guano, basically

What clumsy bartenders do

Surprise court actions

Soft returns, in tennis

Afflicted in Paris - cold, shivering

Dropwort

Drupelet

Drypoint

No-brainers (wordplay)

Dumpcart

Short and stout quality

Sanitary engineer's treat?

Sanitary engineer's treat (wordplay)

Why give the fish away if you can get some dough for them (wordplay)

Duopoly

Duplexer

Duplex

Bridge match (wordplay)

Copy - teacup lid (anagram)

Double up refashioning citadel walls

The two-facedness of Janus (wordplay)

Means of betrayal

Hypocritical cunning

Dustheap

Remedy sipped, say, for indigestion

Sipped, say, stew causing stomach upset

Stomach upset - spied a spy (anagram)

Having indigestion

Bad-tempered Syd held up savings scheme on credit nearly

Disease and Illness

Disorder marked by difficulty in expressing thoughts in words

""Impairment of speech and verbal comprehension, especially when associated with brain injury.""

""Difficulty in speaking, usually evidenced by hoarseness.""

Impatience under affliction; morbid restlessness; dissatisfaction; the fidgets.

""An emotional state characterized by anxiety, depression, or unease.""

Jockey displays a growth abnormality

Dyspnoea

"Hunger Games" descriptor

Like "The Hunger Games" society

Like 'The Hunger Games' society

Nightmare worlds

Disorder involving wasting of muscle tissue etc.

Dampness

DAPPER a bouncing fish bait

Living room pieces.

Says prayers in Hebrew about Portuguese sofas

Showed no expression.

Delivered with no expression

Joked seriously

DEADPAN to act without emotion

It might be full of crates

Car sales outlet

They give a hand with it by franchise

A marching off.

Sudden departure

Mixing damp cement in Split, out of the blue

Head off (wordplay)

Make some heads roll (wordplay)

Make Bill sick (wordplay)

Decapodan

Belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed.

Truths (wordplay)

Epic doesn't work with a number of pretences

Tricks

Figured out, in a way

Read; made out

Extracted from code

One who deciphers.

Rotten, having erased music (wordplay)

Broke down

Most organic matter, in fact, has broken down

COMPOSER one who writes music

Decompose

To compound or mix with that is already compound; to compound a second time.

Allow to expand

Wind down

Release in chamber for Italian writer and politician in robes

DECOUPAGE

Decoupage

Disconnecting two objects

Without youthful vigor

Decrypt

Try PIN code, scrambling a spy's work

Deepness

Flower in spikes (starting with oracle)

Oracle's bloomer (wordplay)

Lined him up to ravage bedded beauty

Population statistics expert's field

Study of populations

Depaint

Tempt nerd with a fizzy Moselle, perhaps

Office would leave me in depression

Sports or payroll

They can be found on an airport monitor

Airport listings

Readers put off by coy title for obituaries

Trustworthy, reliable

Trusty writer, expert, put in sign on proof

Ben pleaded to be free, being trustworthy

DEPEND to {rely=v}

Variant of dependence .

Dependant

Bound to be in such a state

It's re lying

Inability to go without something

Country controlled by another

Colony's addiction

Drug addiction in the country

1040 filer's delight

Fine folks around March 15.

Kids, typically

Depiction

Removing hair from, as the body

Removal of hair

(Product) for removing unwanted hair

Capable of removing hair

Wax, often

DEPLETE to lessen the supply of

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

In a depraved manner.

""DEPRECATE To pray against, as an evil; to seek to avert by player; to desire the removal of; to seek deliverance from; to express deep regret for; to disapprove of strongly.""

Makes little of a respected doctor

Expresses disapproval of.

Drops in value

Cook created pie to scoff at (wordplay)

Mark down pie created wrongly

Lessen in value.

Sacked peer tormented duke in old hat

Depredate

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

Alcohol, for one

Downer of French worker packing iron

Drug reducing nervous activity

What Brooklyn dry cleaners do (wordplay)

Brooklyn dry cleaner's chore (wordplay)

Slice-of-life realism...

Slump causing gloom

Dent made by sniper does damage

Black dog's bowl

Tending to flatten or lower

Sticks on the tongue (wordplay)

Deprogram

Depurate

A representative body

Deputize

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

SORPTION the process or sorbing

Despairer

Hopeless couple taken in by bad design

Losing all hope

Giving up broadcasting after Desmond gets quiet

Little fellow given sticking plaster maybe and sent packing

Despatch

Oater bad guys

Posse's prey

Bonnie and Clyde, for example

Worthy of keen disapprobation.

Adjective for Bill Sikes

Wretched paid 'celebs' going wild

""In a despicable or mean manner; contemptibly; as, despicably stingy. as, despicably stingy.""

Full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate; malicious.

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

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

Trump and colleagues

Quote, part 1

Quote, part 2

Converting (open land) to buildings

Darkroom activity

Blooming old pig never moving without resistance

Diapause

""Pl. diapedeses (-s z) The movement or passage of blood cells, especially white blood cells, through intact capillary walls into surrounding body tissue.""

""The passage of the corpuscular elements of the blood from the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues, without rupture of the walls of the blood vessels.""

Fine and translucent

Light, delicate, translucent

Clear girl's one to fancy a nosh-up

Diaphony

English word

Diaphragm

Of or pertaining to diaphysis.

Pl. diaphyses (-s z ) Anatomy The shaft of a long bone.

Tatty plaid I see in waste

Ruin unusual plaid Ida Lawrence made

Cause to fall into ruin

""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.""

Dipeptide

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

Highly infectious throat disease

Immerse the hair for treating disease

Complaint: 'Doctor hit her with iPad'

Sounds of "sounds" and "voices"

Certain vowel sounds

Descended from two ancestral lines or individuals.

""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

Dipnet

Dipperful

Alcoholism - so dim a pain (anagram)

Problem for A.A.

Sot's cravings

Responds to a magician, maybe

Upset, pa's despair fades away

Excited, pa's despair fades away

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

Discept

Branch of knowledge; punish

Call on the carpet

Record work in pile in academic field

Disciple