2-Letter Words Starting with D

Settles, but I need terms re-negotiated

Deem rent is not right, but settles

Decides to scare off with explosives

""-ters , -terring , -terred (tr) to discourage (from acting) or prevent (from occurring), usually by instilling fear, doubt, or anxiety [from Latin dēterrēre, from de- + terrēre to frighten]""

Restraining order, say

Eg, possession of nuclear weapons

The use of fear to dissuade

Checks (wordplay)

Restraints

Hindrances

Detersive

Dethroner

Toppling

Test on road (anagram)

Fuses

Belittler's activity

Belittling of the French drawing

Not a direct criminal slander

Criticism means upset editor must get a grip

Tending to detractor draw.

Critical persons

Disparagers

What Brooklyn tech schools do (wordplay)

Getting off scary giant ride takes a little bit of nerve

Drawbacks.

Detrition

DEUTERATE

Deuterate

Deuterium

One who lays waste, for example

He lays waste

Destroyer turned back, having sunk vessel

Trump and colleagues

Quote, part 1

Quote, part 2

Deviltry

Dewaterer

Dewater

Dewberry

English word

Norse peer

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

Diacritic

DIADROM a vibration

Diagram

Diagram

English word

Diaphragm

""Excessive and frequent evacuation of watery feces, usually indicating gastrointestinal distress or disorder.""

Diarrhoea

""Affording a free passage to heat; as, diathermic substances. as, diathermic substances.""

Dicentric

""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

Book that's full of meaning (wordplay)

Definitive book (wordplay)

Oxford, for one.

Dicumarol

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.""

Insulator, derelict IC (anagram)

Diestrus

What's left of Diversity (wordplay)

End of quip

Disagreement if red fence collapsed

Diffract

Digitizer

Digress

A departure from the main subject

Straying off the subject

Going off course from nameless entrance in Dublin (wordplay)

Tending to ramble

Fancy European ship in waterway almost straying from point

With delay; tardily.

Dimerize

""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.""

Having no dinner.

Grace period (wordplay)

Chef's concern

Seven, for many

Cocktail dress reportedly includes matching glasses

China.

Highly infectious throat disease

Immerse the hair for treating disease

Complaint: 'Doctor hit her with iPad'

Dipperful

North, south, east and west (wordplay)

The four making news (wordplay)

Game-box reading matter

Rich man concealing anger over court orders

Instructions.

Notices I have to take up the camera for opening first shot

The quality of being direct; straightness; straightforwardness; immediateness.

A woman who directs.

English word

Direness

Ships whose rudders don't touch water

Lighter-than-air craft

Some Goodyear vehicles

Dirigisme

Disaccord

Disaffirm

Responds to a magician, maybe

Upset, pa's despair fades away

Excited, pa's despair fades away

Have an unfavourable opinion (of)

Decline to sanction

Take exception to rewriting Ovid's paper

Poor dear gran is upset

Make a mess of

Make untidy

Untidy diary reads badly

You're closing down my speakeasy (wordplay)

Like a bomb, say

Causing great damage

Highly unsuccessful

Procedure for an unethical lawyer

Burundi's barmen trying to comprehend legal ban

Disbar

Frees from tax in Norfolk town

Disburser

Laying out

Discarder

Throwing away

In draw poker, preparing to receive replacements*

Stripped of flesh.

Discerner

Making out with good taste

Making out, being clever

Showing good judgement

Daughter is accused, but let off

Dismissed detectives accused in the station

Dismissed theologian over one small order

""(d s chärj , d s-chärj ) The act of removing a load or burden.""

""One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.""

What an angry babysitter might do (wordplay)

Sacks

Denial of responsibility

Medic rails about refusal to take responsibility

Refusal to admit detective worked miracles

Discloser

Woman's so cruel sadly making revelation

Club certain to accommodate large outing

It can be full or partial

Black-and-blue

The uneasiness of party maiden almost 40

Storm if doc creates pain

Club, male bastion, creating irritation

Rattle record playing? Sure thing

Put out of underworld union

Prior to musical event duke is upset

CONFIRM to {ratify=v}

Quarreling insect (wordplay)

Quarreling insect?

Lacking harmony; conflicting

Discord

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.

Refuses to accept right correction in records

Adds a warning underneath, as a social media post

Besmirches

Discreet

Prudently involved the city elders

So as to avoid attention

Prudently involved city elders

Record agent and worker not agreeing

Contrary, disagreeing

Inconsistent

Separately; disjunctively.

The better part of valor

Liberty to act at pleasure; prudence

'The better part of valour'

Discrown

Moving from subject to subject

Moving between subjects

Rambling

They talk things over

Steps ashore

ENDOWER one who {endows=v}

Tatty tinsel, hard to free from enchantment

Disfavor

In need of plastic surgery

Disfigure

Disfrock

""To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest.""

Disgorge

Black-eye bringers

Reflecting reproach on

Being unworthy of.

Dragging through the mud

Upset and tired with lungs bursting

Put in bad humor

Cause displeasure when drugs let in another way

Disguiser

Garda's union produced conflict

Friction within a group

Detective's union leads to conflict

Demoralise the sardine by cooking!

To take away enthusiasm or courage

Take away courage

Disherit

Affirmative votes

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

Soapstone ring wearer (wordplay)

Appliance used after dinner

Menial role of aerial nut and bolt ring (wordplay)

Dishwater

Deprive of will power (wordplay)

Refuse to leave the house (wordplay)

Solve insider 4 or do 7 down (wordplay)

What an overworked Senate page might do (wordplay)

Recalcitrant ones.

Thrown into confusion.

Confused police officer's given command

Confused, untidy

Confused underground worker in hospital

Kind of conduct, in law

Lacking organisation

Disorient

Made light of

Spoke slightingly

Father was furious after daughter is denigrated

One who disparages or dishonors; one who vilifies or disgraces.

Belittles.

Knocks

Dispart

Radio-active employee

Railroad man.

Hash house (wordplay)

Place where medicines are given out

Boots possibly dressy - pain when moving

Coffee machines, for instance.

Chemists supplying medicines

Disseminations

""PERSANT piercing, also PERCEANT, PERSAUNT""

Disperser

Disperse

Scattering of things

Process or state of being scattered

Distributing of novel so inspired

Tending to disperse.

DISPERSE to {scatter=v}

Passed away consuming liquor when low

Suffering from low morale.

Stopped swallowing whisky, perhaps dejected

Amusing (oneself)

At play

Disposure

PRAISED praise

One who blames or dispraises.

Dispraise

Disprize

Disprove

Ignores

Unconnected

Disrepair

Disrepute

Contempt in crushing spiders, etc.

In action, press cited for contempt

Press cited for spreading contempt

Disroot

Disrupter

Disrupt

Alternatively, pundits or I get upset

Tepid virus, strangely unsettling

Tending to break up.

Unruly

Dissector

Disseisor

Phoney heartless Blair messed about

Kobe rebels have old currency?

Kobe rebels have old currency (wordplay)

They don't hold the majority opinion

Discourse at length

Discourse formally

Dissert

Bad-mouth the waiters (wordplay)

Dress I ruined with evil and harmful act

Present employment, on the street

Disserve

Dissever

Nothing like this

Not like Iris, dismal when drunk

Contradictory girl I had rejected - naughty liar!

Wasteful father (wordplay)

Dissolver

Dissuader

Ill humors

Criticize farmers (wordplay)

Those making whisky

Kentucky capitalists

Mash unit (wordplay)

A spirited enterprise

It raises the spirit

Distinct

Those who bend the facts

Deceitfully altering, as facts

Wide-angle lens concern

Travesty of a sort

A twisting out of shape

Diverted (attention) from (something)

Troubled - ID card test (anagram)

Amused or confused (wordplay)

Distrain