2-Letter Words Starting with D

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

Overhead chandeliers

DROUGHT a dry period

Drouthy

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

Figuratively, a publicity man.

Pests on a rhythm instrument (wordplay)

Chicken leg portions

Beats bloodsucker's upper legs

Dryasdust

Drysalter

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

Act of doubting; doubt.

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)

DUPLICATE Double; twofold.

Kind of clones

Having scaled it up, turns out copies

Identical sets

Business machine.

Granite state (wordplay)

New dairy built - with quality of something built to last

Instruments for measuring hardness

Lift prints from lids (wordplay)

Hardback protectors

Potentially shaky power structure

Abstract noun (-ity)

DYNAMIST an adherent of {dynamism=n}

Dynamiter

Dynamite

Dynamotor

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

""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.""

Adjective (-ic)

Dyspeptic

""Abnormal development or growth of tissues, organs, or cells.""

""Medicine Of, relating to, or afflicted with dystrophy.""

The art of communicating ideas by certain movements and positions of the fingers; -- a method of conversing practiced by the deaf and dumb.

Datedness

Dauntless

Daylight

Mine might be switched off!

Deactivate

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.

Deadlift

Deadweight

Deaeration

DEAMINATE

DEAMINATE

Deathless

Disembarkation.

Debasement

Debatement

Argued about one on fire becoming weakened

Debilitate

Valley outlet

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

Bivouac break-ups

""The act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another.""

Beheaded

Decapitate

DECAPITATE To cut off the head of; to behead.

To deprive of carbonic acid.

Decathlete

With intent to deceive.

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

DECEPTION The act of deceiving or misleading.

So as to mislead

In a false fashion*

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

CERTIFIED certify

Decertify

Decimation

""The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students. as, the practice declamation by students.""

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

""The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. as, declination of the head.""

Downward slopes

Moderately steep.

COLLATING collate

The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist.

Low neckline on a dress

More of the quip

Low-cut neckline

""CONDITION Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength, etc.; predicament; rank; position, estate.""

Decongest

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

Decryption

""DECUSSATE To cross at an acute angle; to cut or divide in the form of X; to intersect; said of lines in geometrical figures, rays of light, nerves, etc.""

""Act of crossing at an acute angle, or state of being thus crossed; an intersection in the form of an X; as, the decussation of lines, nerves, etc. as, the decussation of lines, nerves, etc.""

Dedicated

Cite Addison inaccurately in inscriptions

Interest and contributions, for example

Take off 4 and see with logic

Cloth cap (for a hunter?)

Voice of Bambi (wordplay)

Sherlock Holmes accessory

Damages to external appearance

""DEFALCATE To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc.""

A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; setoff.

Defalcator

Defamation

Defecation

Defective

Feel trained to be submissive

Showing respect

Submissive

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

Deficient

Defilement

Definement

""Pl. definientia (- n sh - , -sh ) The word or words serving to define another word or expression, as in a dictionary entry.""

Quip, Part 4

Definitive

DEFINITIZE

Definitize

Definitude

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

Deflagrate

Capable of being deflected.

Deflection

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

Action that makes leaves leave

The separation of ripened leaves from a branch or stem; the falling or shedding of the leaves.

Defoliator

""A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.""

Old author and pop star about right way to ruin the earth

Alteration of shape

Disfigurement

""FORMATIVE Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts. as, the formative arts.""

Deformity

Went from bad to worse

Forgotten about defect that's returned and grown worse

Worsened

Worsens steadily

Reprobates

Rakes

GLACIATED glaciate

The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing.

Trained a dog to suffer humiliation

Trained a dog that's going off, going off

Humiliation.

DEGRADE to {debase=v}

Tasting; the appreciation of sapid qualities by the taste organs.

HYDRATING hydrate

Excessive loss of water from body

Significant loss of water

Dehydrator

Making a god of

After the manner of deists.

LAMINATED laminate

Delaminate

Delectable

Eaten cold it could provide enjoyment

Election date endlessly changed for amusement

Enjoyment of naughty cat in act of destruction

Convention groups.

Convention groups

True oilseed (anagram) - harmful

Causing harm or damage

Having a harmful effect

Considered carefully

Considered not to be accidental at start of day

Considered

Considers food shop reprimands

Ponders composer taking charge

Considers carefully

With delight; gladly.

Very pleasing; delightful.

DELINEATE Delineated; portrayed.

Vivid verbal description

Sketch

DELINEATE Delineated; portrayed.

Delineator

Young hooligans

Queen regularly insulted reformed offenders

Deluster

Render a credit card useless, e.g

Render a credit card useless, for example

DEMARCATE To mark by bounds; to set the limits of; to separate; to discriminate.

Boundary

Give power to the people

Make accessible for everyone

MODULATED modulate

Demodulate

""An electronic device which extracts the modulation from a radio carrier wave, and outputs the original information-bearing signal.""

Derby draw

MONETIZED monetize

Demonetize

Fiend, say, hogging start of road show

Protest (in public)

Take part in public protest

""Capable of being dismounted; -- said of a form of rim, for an automobile wheel, which can be removed with its tire from the wheel.""

MYSTIFIED mystify

Demystify

Denaturant

Denegation

DENERVATE

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

Possible to contradict or declare untrue: deniable accusations.

Harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign; -- used of statements.

Calumny? Snarl and ignore it

Unfair criticism

Disparagement

DENIGRATE To blacken thoroughly; to make very black.

Denigrator

Same as denigrating.denigrating.

NITRIFIED nitrify

NITRIFIER An agent employed in nitrification.

Denitrify

NOMINATED nominate

Names

Names.

It's fractionally down

Lower half of fraction (could be common!)

Brooklyn political convention VIP (wordplay)

Denotation

Denotement

Novel windups

DENTICULATE

Dentifrice

Dentistry

Denudation

Denudement

The act or process of reducing from the state of an oxide.

Turn biomass to fuel, for example

O gee! Next day possibly the gas is to be extracted

Damper tents (anagram)

Divisions within J.C. Penney

Sections of an organisation

To make poor; to impoverish.