2-Letter Words Starting with D

In a dependent manner.

Depilation

Deployment

Removed the dads (wordplay)

Depopulate

The expelling of a foreigner from a country

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

Deportment

Courtroom testimony.

Detraction; depreciation.

Depravity. [Obs.] Milton. [Obs.] Milton.

Depravity

In a deprecating manner.

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

Dismissive of French plundering clubs for date

Disparaging of French before Conservative welcomes accountant

Lost value (over time)

Undervalues

Disparager

Preying upon

Plundering.

Despoilment

Depredator

""Tending or designed to depredate; characterized by depredation; plundering; as, a depredatory incursion. as, a depredatory incursion.""

Certain drugs

Sedatives

Severe lack of essentials

Deputation

DERACINATE To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate.

Deracinate

Derailment

Disorder; madness

Madness; disorder

Disorder; insanity

REGULATED regulate

Removes rules from

Neglect before line in speech

Origins

Derivative

DERIVATIZE to alter the chemical composition

Derivatize

Dermatogen

Science of the skin

Study of skin disorders

Branch of medicine concerned with the skin

Derogation

""DESALINATE to remove the salt from, especially from water; as, it is necessary to desalinate sea water to make it fit to drink.as, it is necessary to desalinate sea water to make it fit to drink.""

Removes salt from

Salt remover

People in a line

Holds forth about the purpose of posterity

More than one follower in family and sect ends badly

"Everything Sucks" punk icons

Do nice strip perhaps showing outline

Portrayal

Classifying without expressing judgement

Graphic in portrayal

Depicting verbally.

Descriptor

Desecrater

DESECRATE To divest of a sacred character or office; to divert from a sacred purpose; to violate the sanctity of; to profane; to put to an unworthy use; the opposite of consecrate. consecrate.

Violently disrespectful treatment

Damage of anything sacred

The offence of considerate vandalism

Desecrator

Abolish racial separation in (a society)

Bus students, for example

Make racially diverse

Deselect

To rendered insensitive or less sensitive. Opposite of sensitize.sensitize.

""DESICCATE To dry up; to deprive or exhaust of moisture; to preserve by drying; as, to desiccate fish or fruit. as, to desiccate fish or fruit.""

""The act of desiccating, or the state of being desiccated.""

Drying; tending to dry.

Desiccator

SIDERATED siderate

Regards as essential.

Something that is needed

Something needed or wanted

Something much wanted

DESIGNATE Designated; appointed; chosen.

Official title or description

Appointment

Term Democrat used for Republican in giving up office

Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.

Namers.

Serving to designate; designative; indicating.

Designment

Desistance

Desolation

Desorption

Despatch

In the worst way

Leader's type to writhe in anguish

Dreadfully; critically

A rope ends it (wordplay)

Complete lack of hope

Rashness of Iran to speed development

A despising.

Despoliation.

""DESQUAMATE To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases.""

Desquamate

Inflected form of STABILIZE Inflected form of STABILE a stationary abstract sculpture

Distant one I set out for (wordplay)

Where one is going

Place to which one is travelling

Recompense initially withheld by duke - result, penury

Poverty

Destruct

Ruin, wreckage

... R-U-I-N

Ruin

Causing ruin

Very damaging

In a desultory manner; without method; loosely; immethodically.

Disengagements of military units

Detainment

Detassel

Detassel

Do retire, eat freely, and go to pot!

It has 'rot' and 'die' inside

Go downhill and stop, I pontificate

Determinateness.

Serving to determine or limit; determinative.

Fixed, as a number

A tender time (anagram) - fixed

Matter I need to get sorted, being decisive

They decide

Discourage U.M.W. work (wordplay)

What U.M.W. pickets do

Firmly deciding

End-points covered by some Parisian master's original type of philosophy

Put off skimpy attire, good person who has a resigned outlook (wordplay)

Deterrence

In a restraining manner

Hating to be almost put off before Crewe, perhaps

Loathing

Hatred

DETONATE to cause to explode

Detonation

Detoxicant

DETOXICATE to remove poison from.

Detoxicate

Detoxify

Calumnies

""(Transport / Railways) to leave or cause to leave a railway train, as passengers, etc. detrainment   n""

To cause (members of a tribe) to lose their cultural identity and adopt other customs.

Harmful; admit, relent (anagram)

Tired out, unstable and causing harm

Tending to cause harm

""TUMESCENT Slightly tumid; swollen, as certain moss capsules.""

A form of colorblindness characterized by insensitivity to green.

DEUTERATE

DEUTERATE

Deutoplasm

VALUATING valuate

Diminution of worth.

Currency maneuver

Destructive - impressive

Its advantage, first off, could be most effective

Destruction of old Chester depot

Great damage or grief

Ruin, destruction

DEVASTATE To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.

Devastator

Process of growth

Cluster of apartment houses

New product/idea; state of growth

""Formed from a verb, such as the noun worker derived from the verb work.""

VITALIZED vitalize

Devitalize

VITRIFIED vitrify

Devitrify

Devolution

DEVOTED devote

Devotement

Devotional

Dexterity

With an assured touch

Dextranase

""That separates or distinguishes; -- applied to points or marks used to distinguish letters of similar form, or different sounds of the same letter, as, \'be, <acr/, \'84, <omac/, <ocr/, etc.""

Medical study of unbeliever in Hades ...

Techniques for identifying illness

Branch of medicine indentifying illnesses

Logically peculiar manner of speaking to supporter

Pertaining to dialectics; logical; argumental.

DIALOGIST A speaker in a dialogue.

""Pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, diamagnetism; taking, or being of a nature to take, a position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force. See Paramagnetic. Paramagnetic.""

Girl returned damaged article, opposed like 5 across and 25, 6 and 24 etc

The quality of being diaphanous; transparency; pellucidness.

A medicine or agent which promotes perspiration.

Colour slide

""Pl. diarthroses (-s z) Any of several types of bone articulation permitting free motion in a joint, as that of the shoulder or hip.""

A form of articulation which admits of considerable motion; a complete joint; abarticulation. See Articulation. Articulation.

""Geology the process of movement that causes the earth&#x2019;s crust to form continents, mountains, oceans, etc. ; diastrophe , n . ; diastrophic , adj . Earth""

The interval of a fourth.

Diathermy

""DIAZOTIZE To subject to such reactions or processes that diazo compounds, or their derivatives, shall be produced by chemical exchange or substitution.""

Dichotomy

One who dichotomizes.

To cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect.

""Regularly dividing by pairs from bottom to top; as, a dichotomous stem. as, a dichotomous stem.""

Dichromate

Having or exhibiting two colors.

""A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating.""

Given to telling others what to do

Riot Act laid out getting autocratic

Autocratic

Dictional

Dictyosome

English word

Dicynodont

Pedantic teaching

Dielectric

Distinguishing mark

Distinguishing property or mark, in logic.

In a different manner; variously.

With difficulty.

In a diffident manner.

Diffract

""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.""

""Tendency to become diffused; tendency, as of heat, to become equalized by spreading through a conducting medium.""

Digestive

Digitalise

""DIGITALIZE to record digitally, e. g. on digital tape or compact disks.e. g. on digital tape or compact disks.""

Digitalize

Walking on the toes; distinguished from plantigrade. plantigrade.

Important or influential people

Neglected girl on knees one took out

Broken down and falling to bits

Run-down, neglected

Dilapidate

Dilatancy

Dilatation

""An instrument for measuring the dilatation or expansion of a substance, especially of a fluid.""

An instrument used to measure thermal expansion and dilation in solids and liquids.

Amateurs who pretend to be knowledgeable

Dabblers

Amateurs.

Dimethoate

Diminution

Diminutive

Dinnertime

An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of dipeptides into their constituent amino acids.

DIPHOSPHATE

""DIPHTHERIA A very dangerous contagious disease in which the air passages, and especially the throat, become coated with a false membrane, produced by the solidification of an inflammatory exudation. Cf. Group. Group.""

Diphtheria

English word

Relating or belonging to a diphthong; having the nature of a diphthong.

Representative abroad

One's certificate is in abstinence - from candour (wordplay)

English word

Of or pertaining to direction (definition 2).

The property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive to sounds coming from one direction than from another.

People on board created riot at sea

Section of government department

Board members show way to make a speech

Face tackling minister, beginning to irritate in the role of boss

Dreadful opening in Cannes, one's first in competition of film-makers

They have white pages

Phone books

Fails to protect single clergyman from Guides

Directrice