2-Letter Words Starting with D

Went from second to first, say

Worked a manual transmission

Downstater

Lines drawn from higher to lower positions

Downtowner

Four-winged fliers

Part three of the quip

So-called devil's darning needles [2000]

Dragonhead

DRAMATISE

Theater consultants of sorts

Theater consultants shot at eggs

Playwrights.

DRASTIC a severe purgative

""Draughtier , draughtiest US , draftier draftiest characterized by or exposed to draughts of air draughtily   US , draftily adv""

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

What artists at the castle do (wordplay)

What an art engineer can do

They're mechanically inclined

Board gamer's fasteners (wordplay)

Cords used to close bags

Assignment for a guitar magazine illustrator (wordplay)

Army led effectively around to a smaller extent without night vision (wordplay)

Escapists' abodes.

Dressmaker

Fashioning clothes

Ace in the hole business (wordplay)

Person who barks (wordplay)

Overseer of private practice

Driveshaft

Metal pin stuck in parts of sinks

Transmission connections

Drollness

Emirs adored racing camels

Arabian animals

Camels in divine house, one of twelve outside capital

Dropkicker

Dropperful

Drosophila

Superlative adjective

Drumbeater

It'll be illegal on the Internet (PC Computing, 1994)

Inebriation

State of being dubious.

Dubitation

Ductility

Duennaship

Dullsville

Mute domestics

Kitchen contraptions

Dumpiness

They're dense

Huns - dreaded maybe, though really quite stupid people

Plural or third person singular

Duodecimal

Trade () Translations

Mimeographs, for example

Duplicity

Idol is cut up about being underhand

Deceitful, double- dealing

Double-dealing

""Power of lasting, enduring, or resisting; durability.""

Duskiness

Dustiness

DUTIFUL {obedient=adj}

Ruling partnerships

Dwarfness

Dysarthria

Dysentery

Abnormal operation

Dyskinesia

Unfavorable; not commendatory; opposed to eulogistic. eulogistic.

Dysphemism

Dysprosium

""An abnormality in an otherwise normal rhythmic pattern, as of brain waves being recorded by an electroencephalograph.""

""An abnormality in an otherwise normal rhythmic pattern, as of brain waves being recorded by an electroencephalograph.""

Dystrophy

Daintiness

The state or quality of deserving damnation; execrableness.

Damselfish

Dapperness

Daringness

DAUGHTER a female {child=n}

Daylighting

Deactivator

DEADLINESS The quality of being deadly.

Deamination

Deathwatch

Debarkation

Debauchery

The quality of being debonair; good humor; gentleness; courtesy.

Debouchment

Debridement

Decantation

Decapitator

Decarbonate

Decarbonize

Decarburize

Having ten syllables

A line of verse having ten syllables.

Decelerator

Decemvirate

Decerebrate

Ability to settle issues

Ability to quickly settle issues

Declamation

Assertions from Aldi: 'Tesco ran badly'

Announcements made when there are enough on the board

Having a security classification removed so as to be open to public inspection; -- of documents or information.

Declassify

Belonging to declension.

Declination

Decollation

Decolletage

Decolorizer

Body that busted a Brooklyn gangster

Take (eg, a warship) out of operation

Promise not to fire editor coming back to ask journalist to say something

""COMPENSATE To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompence; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses. as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.""

Gloomy supporting party, Green politician: 'Cuts can be broken down'

Decompress

Decompress

Decondition

Medicine to unblock the nose

Medicine clearing airways

Catarrh reliever

Decongest

Decongest

Decongest

A cut in churchman's city rank gives cause to become secular

Deconstruct

DECOROUS {proper=adj}

Decorticate

Decreasing

Decrepitate

Decrepitude

Decrescendo

Decussation

Men hunting wild elks arrested

Defalcation

Throw someone out of a window

Throw from a window

Throw out of a window

Defibrinate

Deficiency

The state of being definite; determinateness; precision; certainty.

Defloration

Defoliation

Deforcement

Deformalize

Deformation

Degeneracy

Deglamorize

Deglutition

Degradation

Degressive

Uncommon tastings pre-pared, got us instead

Dehumidify

Dehydration

Deification

Lowness of spirits

Delectation

Not 1 across (as in selected outlets)

Mayo clinic (wordplay)

Tender foreign money around second shop

Delineation

Becoming liquid

LIQUESCING liquesce

Deliverance

DELUSIVE tending to delude

Demagnetize

Boundaries of specific areas

Mental deterioration of organic or functional origin.

Democratize

Demodulator

Demographer

Auto marketing strategy statistics

Data on population structures

Demography

Demolition.

Demonology

""One who writes on, or is versed in, demonology.""

Able to be proved

Verified animal registered in beasty home

It's evident, devil gets last sinner in firm

In a demonstrable manner; incontrovertibly; clearly.

Proven expert said to welcome head of research

Established validity of protest by deputy head

Fiend scolded after saint made public protest

Shows Tate Modern's bizarre point

Fanatics review opening in art gallery's shows

Devil on street with nasty stare kicks up a fuss

Dealer's test drive vehicle

Car wearing dealer plates, often

Participant in a public protest

Demoralizer

Demureness

Demystify

Dendrology

Good tendrils could excite this type of plant expert

Denervation

Denigration

Denitrifier

Parts of fractions below the line

Math term.

""An instrument for determining optical or photographic density. A variety capable of measuring optical density of a sample at a number of different wavelengths, is called a spectrophotometer.spectrophotometer.""

Measuring the optical density of a substance by shining light through it and measuring the intensity of the transmitted light.

Deontology

One versed in deontology.

Deoxidation

Deoxygenate

Deoxyribose

Dependency

Depilatory

Depolarizer

Deportation

Depositary

POSITIONAL Of or pertaining to position.

Depository

Depravation

Depravity.

Depravement

Deprecation

Depreciator

Depredation

In a depressing manner.

Depressive

Inflected form of PRESSURIZE Inflected form of PRESSURE to apply force to

Deprivation

Derangement

Dereliction

Derepress

Derepress

""DERISIVE expressing derision, also DERISORY""

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

Plural or third person singular

Dermatitis

Inflected form of SACRALIZED Inflected form of SACRALIZE