2-Letter Words Starting with D

Same as Distrainor. Distrainor.

One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels.

Distraint

A mo. in a tizzy (wordplay)

Single good man in drink's raving

Upset drink taking one's time

Upset with shaven head (wordplay)

Like a retired barber (wordplay)

Bald (wordplay)

Upsets

Present praise, on the street

Pass out with Garda's salute

Apparently remove praise from spread

Divided into political boundaries

Divided into zones

Highly suspect

Disturber

Worrying girl's finding ladder finally in hose

It could be unsettling playing tiring Dubs

Upsetting

""A drug used in the treatment of alcoholism that interferes with the metabolic degradation of alcohol, producing an unpleasant reaction when even a small quantity of alcohol is consumed.""

Lisping shepherd's giddy male sheep?

Impassioned acclaims

Lisping shepherd's giddy male sheep (wordplay)

Stretch/spread apart

Departure of a sort

A branching off

A moving apart

""A receding from each other in moving from a common center; the state of being divergent; as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.""

Different ways to find amusements

501 renditions (wordplay)

Entertainments

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

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

DOCUMENT to support by conclusive information

Dogberry

Tabby's friend (wordplay)

Tabby's friend?

Pound worker (wordplay)

Doggoned

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

Dognapper

Susan Butcher, notably

Mush! shouter

"Mush!" shouter

Dogtrot

Doleful

In a sorrowful way

In a lugubrious way

In a mournful manner

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

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)

Doomsayer

DOOMSDAY judgement day

Guard of sorts

Reluctant car dealer (wordplay)

One on duty at building's entrance

Doorplate

Dormancy

Doronicum

Dosimeter

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

Dourness

Long-billed sandpipers

Downburst

What beer drinkers do (wordplay)

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

Perhaps a level below sad street songs

On ground floor (or in basement)

Where scullions knew their place

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

DOWNTOWN the business district of a city

Downtrend

DOWNWARD from a higher to a lower place

Drabness

""Draftier , draftiest Having or exposed to drafts of air.""

DRAGGING drag

A kind of mint.

What keeps leader back is a plant

Herb with purplish flowers

Putting the arm on

Trousers with very narrow legs

Tight trousers Ian's ripped badly

Criminal is dapper in trousers

Made play with dames: Triad cut up rough

Overdid a little drink - date is going badly

Adapts dreadful mad satires

Prepares for the stage, funny mad satires

Ones earning play money (wordplay)

Play fellows (wordplay)

Anthony and Peter Shaffer

Presented poignantly.

Dramatize

Playwright.

Expression of annoyance about graduate with desire to become playwright

Dramaturg

The Thespian art.

Theatrical art

Playwriting

Letting in more air

Having more wind? Hardier gut possibly wanted!

King and I separately welcomed by child needing more protection from blows

Course for artful bartenders

An adjustable spanner (wordplay)

Uplifting sight for ships (wordplay)

Card game for artists (wordplay)

Drawerful

""A knife with a handle at each end of the blade, used with a drawing motion to shave a surface. Also called drawshave .""

DRAWLING drawl

Drawnwork

Drawplate

Drawshave

Sketch some cylindrical cheese (wordplay)

Pouch feature

Drapery need

Freddy Krueger's third? All butchered in an horrific way

Origin of disaster studied completely in a dire way

Detest confinement (wordplay)

Outside study, student ties up long hair

Bob Marely's hairstyle

DREAMFUL {dreamy=adj}

The state of being dreamy.

Fantasy worlds

Dreamtime

Alice's wonderland

Walter Mitty's milieu.

Never-never land.

Nerds arise! Break the monotony

Dismal state

Eat starters of salami and sauerkraut, devouring rump in gloom

The state of being dressy.

Couturier or seamstress, perhaps

Fabric-cutting job

Jenny Wren was one.

DRIFTING drift

Driftwood

Drinkable

Dripstone

Driveline

Excursion by lake has Heather gibbering

DRIVEN

Autonomous, as a car

Fictional band on the TV show "Lost"

Car's torque transmitter

*Torque-providing component

Auto-warranty subject

Gearing bolt found in exhaust

Car's engine-to-wheels connector

Drizzly

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

Drudgery

In a drudging manner; laboriously.

Drugmaker

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

Druidess

Figuratively, a publicity man.

Drumfish

Pests on a rhythm instrument (wordplay)

Chicken leg portions

Beats bloodsucker's upper legs

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

Dryasdust

Drysalter

""The articles kept by a drysalter; also, the business of a drysalter.""

Gym-shower items

Shower-room items

They're used for walking over wet ground

Dulcimore

Speechless with amazement

Amazed as mum refused to work

Astounded by stupid son on lorry

A little lift for Manuel, maybe

High-rise convenience, perhaps

Inept eatery server (wordplay)

Chap who won't vote for your candidate

Unconscious chap in parent, wally

Dunce had endured switches...

Business machine.

Granite state (wordplay)

New dairy built - with quality of something built to last

Duralumin

Instruments for measuring hardness

Lift prints from lids (wordplay)

Hardback protectors

Potentially shaky power structure

DWARFISH resembling a {dwarf=n}

Dynamiter

Dynamotor

""Difficulty in articulating words, caused by impairment of the muscles used in speech.""

Dyscrasia

""An inflammatory disorder of the lower intestinal tract, usually caused by a bacterial, parasitic, or protozoan infection and resulting in pain, fever, and severe diarrhea, often accompanied by the passage of blood and mucus.""

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.""

How daredevils live (wordplay)

In a perilous manner

In a risky manner

A Communist crime suppressed by quiet heroism

""DARLING a much loved person, also DEARLING""

They're not paying attention

They're in la-la land

Those given to flights of fancy

In another world.

Classroom taboo

The opposite of having night vision (wordplay)

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.

Deadpanner

Deaeration

Lotus positions (wordplay)

Disembarkation.

""The surgical excision of dead, contaminated, or damaged tissue, and foreign matter, especially from a wound.""

Fellows around the City misheard the figures

DECAPITATE To cut off the head of; to behead.

To deprive of carbonic acid.

Green New Deal verb

To deprive of carbon; to remove the carbon from.

Slowed down

Spain alerted to change after last month and slowed down

Decelerate

Brake

The office or term of office of the decemvirs in Rome.

Decenter

CEREBRATE To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

CERTIFIED certify

Decertify

Decipherer

Decipher

Noisy and rhetorical

Rhetorical

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

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

It begins "When in the Course . . . "

Shown

Like some legal judgments

COLORIZED colorize

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

Decolorize

Decolour

Decomposer

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.""

DECREMENT The state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss.

""To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt. as, to decrepitate salt.""

Infirmity of old age

Worn-out condition.

State of infirmity

Decrease in loudness (music)

With decreasing loudness (mus.)

(Musically) become quieter

Decryption

Deerberry

Cloth cap (for a hunter?)

Voice of Bambi (wordplay)

Sherlock Holmes accessory

Defalcator

Feel trained to be submissive

Showing respect

Submissive

Deferrable

""To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.""

""DEFLAGRATE To burn with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; also, to snap and crackle with slight explosions when heated, as salt.""

Deflagrate