2-Letter Words Starting with D

Fix a heel, perhaps

Blast! There's a cover over the hole!

Oh, come on!

Mortimer Snerd expletive.

Rustic cuss word.

Cowpoke's oath

Daughter perhaps showers in ditch

Exhaust (of liquid)

Snake's spot (wordplay)

What The Roots "Guns are" (wordplay)

Depicted (as being lined?)

Tense, and ending in stalemate, say

Pour too much syrup on, perhaps

Audibly overwhelm (with "out")

Pour too much syrup on perhaps

Throw shade at (wordplay)

Dim the lights

Grow less light

Decree in Scotland

Distinguish clearly.

Distinguish

Take two points off (wordplay)

Make safer, as livestock

Make safer, on the ranch

A herbicide

""Abscisic* acid, a plant hormone, also ABSCISIN, ABSCISSIN""

One shooting from the mouth (wordplay)

Puff for one

Fafnir, for one

Urges or conveyed, perhaps in car

Highly motivated (informal)

Hungry for success, say

""A large fast-sailing medieval galley, also DROMOND""

Fruit in Thai cuisine

Foul-smelling spiny fruit of SE Asia

Tropical fruit with offensive smell

Asian tree

Hindu blessing conferred by seeing or touching a holy person

To {depose=v}

Nerve cell part

Tree Comb. form.

Tree: Comb. form.

To dispute a claim

Alight! I daren't move!

Get off at Grand Central, say

Alight from French TGV (wordplay)

A substitute for blood plasma

Rid Next of awful gummy mixture

A circuitry design that uses diodes

Understand the difference

Cinders (anagram)

Spot Cinders acting up

One with an entry-level job (wordplay)

Entry-level job (wordplay)

Hotel employee, perhaps

Entry-level employees (wordplay)

Hotel swingers (wordplay)

Whistlers outside hotels

Soldier of British "Guards."

Soldier's round embedded in battleaxe

Doctor previously dealing with pressure

Reader of 'Cart & Driver' (wordplay)

Reader of "Cart and Driver" (wordplay)

Hauler of goods

Mule wagon drivers

Carters have to measure up people

Some horse cart operators

Small elongated oval hill, in Cavan, say

Small glacier-formed hill

Small hill, common in Cavan and Monaghan

The worst kind of drivers (wordplay)

Intoxicated, frequently so

Slurred, perhaps

Rude man fabricated wood

Heartwood.

Heartwood, central core of dark hardwood in tree-trunks

Purveyor of "Jersey juice"

Butter, cheese maker

Neat worker repaired mainyard

Jersey boys (wordplay)

Jersey owners, maybe

Many ride out with such farmworkers

A European bird

A commander of a decury

Elk, for example (wordplay)

Red Ken is let loose? Hide!

Bambi's pelt (wordplay)

Laughing stock in side or out (wordplay)

What tomatoes are thrown in (wordplay)

Inside or away for ridicule

Nucleus of hydrogen isotope, mass 2

Nucleus comprising a proton and a neutron

An insecticide, now widely banned

Double pyramid

Gym period beset by noise coming from insect

""A two-winged insect, also DIPTERAN, DIPTERA""

Remove symbol of royalty from record, with name below line

Legally seize (property)

I'd raised pressure to grab property

If Sidney comes back by rail, sieze him

Maybe Bangor's act is in decline

Unhappy with change into recession

Feathers go into decline

Lizard bites a master interpreter

Tourists' guide in the East.

Full of energy, play with new guide

Travelers' guide, in the Near East.

Near East guides.

Arabian guides

Reduction of military strength

Deplete steadily

A metal pin for securing timbers

Around it (anagram)

Length (of time)

For this for now

Vacuum tube

That's leaving things in a barren state

Grounds for divorce.

Don Revie was accused of this

A wearing off or away.

Course of a free-kick (wordplay)

Telling the way to go (wordplay)

Management's right, perhaps

Supply bride's undies, 50% off or free

Rubens did work for free

Underbids in order to offload

Shown to be false.

Demonstrated to be false

Drips spilled on cooker shown to be a mistake

Little girl's type of entertainment

Bypass papers reviewed for adaptation

Category of many movies.

Very severe medic with a look over Scot

Very harsh like severe laws

Incan road (anagram) - extremely harsh

Bartender (wordplay)

One who draws up legal documents

Architect's aide

Some architecture firm workers

Metal found in mud deposit round Russian river

AERATION exposure to the action of air

Solid figure with ten plane faces

Ten-faced solid

Solid figure having ten faces

Coordinate new colour scheme (wordplay)

Prize for painting (wordplay)

Bunting (in honour of a brave man?)

Try PIN code, scrambling a spy's work

Slump causing gloom

Dent made by sniper does damage

Black dog's bowl

A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.

""Nascent epidermis, or external cuticle of plants in a forming condition.""

Belittling of a good interchange

SORPTION the process or sorbing

Belittling of the French drawing

Not a direct criminal slander

Criticism means upset editor must get a grip

English word

A departure from the main subject

Straying off the subject

Going off course from nameless entrance in Dublin (wordplay)

The better part of valor

Liberty to act at pleasure; prudence

'The better part of valour'

Demoralise the sardine by cooking!

To take away enthusiasm or courage

Take away courage

Scattering of things

Process or state of being scattered

Distributing of novel so inspired

Alternatively, pundits or I get upset

Wide-angle lens concern

Travesty of a sort

A twisting out of shape

Auto-warranty subject

Gearing bolt found in exhaust

Car's engine-to-wheels connector

Disembarkation.

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

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

It begins "When in the Course . . . "

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

Alteration of shape

Disfigurement

Trained a dog to suffer humiliation

Trained a dog that's going off, going off

Humiliation.

Excessive loss of water from body

Significant loss of water

A fellow with a round bowler, perhaps

Male who goes round dropping off goods

Courier called up about chauffeur's uniform (wordplay)

Inflected form of LIVERYMEN Inflected form of LIVERY a uniform worn by servants

Boundary

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

Calumny? Snarl and ignore it

Unfair criticism

Disparagement

The expelling of a foreigner from a country

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

Detraction; depreciation.

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

Plundering.

Despoilment

Severe lack of essentials

Neglect before line in speech

Do nice strip perhaps showing outline

Portrayal

Violently disrespectful treatment

Damage of anything sacred

The offence of considerate vandalism

A rope ends it (wordplay)

Complete lack of hope

Rashness of Iran to speed development

Ruin, wreckage

... R-U-I-N

Ruin

DEUTERATE

The interval of a fourth.

""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.""

One of the Dinosauria.

RELATION an association between people or things

It stops one concentrating

Agitated mental state

Extreme agitation

Oppressed, being under 11 (wordplay)

Oppressed, badly treated

Oppressed by those in power

""An antibiotic obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces peuceticus, used as an anticancer drug.""

One skilled at drawing

Technical plan maker

Chap who makes plans as potential king

Drawers needed for board-games

Those on the board who make plans

English word

A slowing down

Reduction in the going rate

Slowing of velocity

Burning away of a substance

Worsening state of French breeding

Decline of French production

Decline of French age group

Considering rearrest (wordplay)

Long and careful consideration

Thought on the continent of freedom

DENATURE to deprive of natural qualities

It never goes up in financial crash

Gradual loss of value

Loss in value

Act of uprooting

I worried about body of people being uprooted

Removal of restrictions

Restrictions being removed? Lie around and get sozzled

Derepress

""A surgical procedure designed to remove skin imperfections, such as scars, by abrading the surface of the skin with fine sandpaper or wire brushes.""

Longing for something

Converted into a desired, longed-for object

It makes a fool disappear

Sweet to make love with one from the canteen

It's sweet to make love together, lying perhaps on the table

English word

""DIMERIZE to make into a dimer, also DIMERISE""

Essay may be seen as sanitised rot

Essay for a degree or diploma

To a degree you have to defend it

Most of the issue is charged and leads to handouts

Apportionment

Give out to missing Egyptian leader on charge of supplying demand

A separation into two parts or branches; a forking; a divergence.

Twelve-faced solid

Any polyhedron having 12 plane faces

Hooded dancer in motion revealing solid figure

A skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines.

CARBONATION

""CEREBRATION Action of the brain, whether conscious or unconscious.""

Cause of sickness if sudden

Reduction in air pressure

""The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat.""

""The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting.""

The act or process of depriving of fibrin.

Asteroid often crashed clearing a lot of trees

Change of trees into a wasteland, ultimately (wordplay)

Author filing first of reports on rank destruction of natural resources

""GRANULATION The act or process of forming or crystallizing into grains; as, the granulation of powder and sugar. as, the granulation of powder and sugar.""

Upset, stand it no more - protest!

How-to event

Picket villain's timeshare

""The act of depriving of odor, especially of offensive odors resulting from impurities.""

""REALIZATION The act of realizing, or the state of being realized.""

The ending of racial separation

Process of worsening

Decline to put off one formal speech

A progressive worsening

24 put off people crossing motorway

Firmness of purpose

Resolution to get legal decision

The act of changing the natural color

Lack of pleasing relation between parts of a whole

One that makes documentaries or a documentary.

Same as dramatization.dramatization.

Screenplay, for one

This is how it might have happened (nonverbal)

""CHLORINATION The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.""

COLORIZATION

CONSECRATION The act or ceremony of consecrating; the state of being consecrated; dedication.

Method of critical analysis of literary texts

Label that released hits by M-People, Kylie Minogue etc.

Act of ejecting someone through a window

Act of throwing out of a window

Ejection from a window

FIBRILLATION The state of being reduced to fibers.

""The act of corrupting or subverting morals. Especially: The act of corrupting or subverting discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in discipline, courage, etc.; as, the demoralization of an army or navy. as, the demoralization of an army or navy.""

""The act of depriving of polarity, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarized condition.""

DERIVATIZE to alter the chemical composition

The separation of an aggregate body into its component parts.

Intense moral disapproval

One keeping strict control

One who exercises firm control

Martinet

Target of satire in Dr. Seuss's "The Sneetches"

Target of satire in Dr. Seuss's 'The Sneetches'

With record margin, one people showing good judgment

The act of disembarking.

Girl's part of a dancing set-up? That's a lie

Process of breaking up

Breaking up rioting detains reprobate

Sense of confusion

CARBOXYLATION

""The act, process, or result of decarburizing.""

CERTIFICATION The act of certifying.

Act of deconcentrating.

GLAMORIZATION

""The act or process or freeing from hydrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of hydrogen.""

DEMOCRATIZE To render democratic.

""The act or process of freeing from nitrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of nitrogen.""

SACRALIZATION

Dust-bowl action

DESULFURIZE SULFURIZE SULFUR a non metallic element

The act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living.

""The act or process of devitrifying, or the state of being devitrified. Specifically, the conversion of molten glassy matter into a stony mass by slow cooling, the result being the formation of crystallites, microbites, etc., in the glassy base, which are then called devitrification products. devitrification products.""

Distinction between multiple things

Mathematical process

Something A-level maths student does to achieve distinction

ARTICULATION A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton.

Lack of systematic arrangement.

Confusion

One objective of fund management

Business practice stressing variety

Portfolio manager's quest