2-Letter Words Starting with D

Cleaned up a microscopic specimen, for example

Perhaps very small boys are fated to have them

The fate of little Desmond and all the little ones

Lots.

Destine

Very poor and innocent, perhaps

Without money or resources

Penniless, without any means

Destrier

Tore the defence apart

Put an end to

Damaged irreparably, ruined

The Caine, for one

Noaj for one

Does Terry turn killer (wordplay)

Demolishes

State of disuse

Lack of use

State of inactivity

Half-hearted duels over a Conservative

With neither plan nor purpose

Lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm

Detacher

Coming back in pain, Ted is not getting stuck with it

It's up to Ted not to be stuck with what makes him sore

Auto pinstripers, for example

They itemize

Fine-tuning a car

Professional car cleaning process

Giving particulars of French following

Ones being grilled, maybe

They're not going anywhere

People held in custody

Legal writs

Keeping in custody

Detassel

Radar and sonar Var.

Radar and sonar variable

Detect

Uncovering deceit? Not difficult!

What sleuthing is all about

Police work cited note in question

Spade, for one

Busy at work (wordplay)

Poirot, for one

Devices for locating submarines.

Radar and sonar.

Sensors, essentially

Punishment for a class cut-up, maybe

It need not give rise to punishment

After-school punishment

Discourage a nice bloke (wordplay)

Put man off soap (wordplay)

Get tender (anagram)

Deterger

Cleansing.

Hindrance.

Resolve to put my one off, perhaps

Judgmental winner of 1954 Derby?

Resolve to put my one off (wordplay)

Long sentence, for one

It puts off cleaner? Right for good!

That which restrains.

Deterrer

Putting off, tree'd with a round

It's so off-putting for the boy to be up to sin

Getting the boy up is wrong and off-putting

Cleansing; detergent.

Those who loathe

Bigots, for example

Hateful ones

Brooklyn teacher job (wordplay)

Doing this, there's nothing like it!

Not being able to stand

Toppled, in a way

No longer the champion

Deposed champion

One in three-D version: King Stephen, say

Causes a power outage (wordplay)

Displaces the reds on top (wordplay)

Removes from power

Deticker

Detick

That can be detonated: detonable warheads; detonable bombs.

Noted date had switched and set off

Set off from school in old hat

Set off dynamite

Sets off, as a bomb

Causes an explosion

Sets off with girlfriends to tour the school

Do not tear off to get a primer!

Fuse, for example

Set off with this

Detour

Took value away (from)

Deprived of one's land (wordplay)

Took away (from)

Brooklyn trailer hauler (wordplay)

One who is critical

One disparages or belittles

Got off a Pullman

Got off the coach tired, on Eastern time

Stopped outside Denver's terminal and got off the choo-choo

State of being harmed or damaged

Damage part of watch around edge

Harm or loss

A wearing off or away.

Detrude

DEUTERATE

Laser element

Reactor isotope

Very small things not reused, chucked

Lessen the worth of

Lower the price of.

Lessen the worth of, as money

Lay waste to old Chester, say

What tornadoes do

Overwhelm, as with grief

Devest

Going off the track

Erring and straying (wordplay)

A turning aside from a certain course

Departure from accepted standards

Non-U eats, the first with a plate getting in - they go another way

""Tending to deviate; devious; as, deviatory motion. as, deviatory motion.""

Frolicsome or mischievous conduct

Reckless mischief

Was up and reportedly intended to cause mischief

To deprive of glasslike character; to take away vitreous luster and transparency from.

Love Teddy Askew with commitment

Religious observ-ances

That's prayers for Devon, so it is

Religious observances.

Most reverent.

Dewater

WATERER one that {waters=v}

Skill in handling things

Skill of manipulation

Nimbleness of the gymnast

Ragged-trousered unknown exposed right away, which is skilful

Adroit

Dextrine

Dextrose

Ones with insulin resistance

DIABOLISE

Diacetyl

Dick Dudgeon was the devil's

Act on idea put out by clerical office

Maybe grave judge backs withdrawing help

Help over judge's accent (wordplay)

There's one in Quebec

Adjective (-ic)

Relating to regional speech

Science of logic

Method of logic.

Relating to discourse

Diallist

Plato was one

Conversation writer

""DIALYSE to use a kidney machine, also DIALYZE""

The material subjected to dialysis.

Rhinestones

Widths of circular objects

They're found in circles that read Times

I'm in wards off the Circle Lines

Pertaining to a diameter; diametrical.

Absolutely opposed to as matricide

In direct opposition

Completely opposed

Diastase

Relating to diastase; having the properties of diastase; effecting the conversion of starch into sugar.

Diastole

Part of a heart rhythm

I slid coat off, relaxed after being pumped up (wordplay)

Injecting iodine into clot aids dispersing of cardiac dilation

Heat treatment

Are unsure about blood group ahead of extremely messy treatment

Disease and Illness

""Bodily condition or constitution, esp. a morbid habit which predisposes to a particular disease, or class of diseases.""

""Pertaining to, or dependent on, a diathesis or special constitution of the body; as, diathetic disease. as, diathetic disease.""

Algae remains

Verbal attacks when bride is at work

Dakota, Iroquois, Arapaho

Bitter denunciations.

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

Flowers also called bleeding hearts

Adjective (-ic)

Division into two parts or kinds

Division into two parts

Dual nature

English word

A condition in which there are two beats or waves of the arterial pulse to each beat of the heart.

Speaking to a secretary (wordplay)

Boss's timesaver

Imposing, as rules

Get this at in a manner of speaking

Take it down from this

Speaking of words to be taken down

Their word is law

Drastic action to put in autocrats

Correspondence men.

DICTION manner of enunciation

The art or science of teaching.

Diestock

""In female mammals, a short period of sexual quiescence between two estrus periods, during which the uterus is prepared for a fertilized ovum.""

Diestrum

Fixed allowances of food.

Regulated food quantities

Weight loss regimes

Of or relating to diet.

Nutritionist's science.

Study this as a matter of course

Science of nutrition

I incited a bent authority on food

He'll tell you what to have, of course

One guides you, as a matter of course

Food expert to stop working with artist

One helping with servings

Specialist in the study of nutrition

What Kipling's Kangaroo wanted to be.

Part 3 of the phrase

Unlike Clemo's percussionist

Requiring much effort

Hard, not easy

Tricky, like Boyd's youth

Shy old copper, if well outside sanctum

Shy, unlike papers ousting Queen

Reluctant to come forward

Diffract

Digamist

Muscle that helps in lowering lower jaw

Zoology 1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) of or relating to digenesis

Digester

Thinking over.

Gut reaction (wordplay)

span>Fizzy gin and it

Process of assimilating food

Biscuit gives diet variety

Like some tracts

Kind of tract

Digestor

Drug for fingernail treatment

Ailing, I'd start to take new drug

Approve of European cutting out a drug

Medicinal cardiac stimulant

Its leaves are used as a heart stimulant

Heart drug prepared from foxglove leaves

With the fingers

Using fingers or employing electronic equipment (wordplay)

How calculations can be done, with or without computer (wordplay)

Digitize

""DIGITIZE to put into digital form, also DIGITISE""

Scans and converts into a PDF, say

Scans into a computer

Converts analog material for computer use

English word

""A steroid glycoside, one of the cardiotonic chemical substances which is extracted from the foxglove. It is a white, crystalline substance (C41H64O13), and is a 3-substituted triglucoside of a steroid, related structurally to digitalin and digoxin. It is used as a cardiotonic for treatment of certain heart conditions, such as congestive heart failure. Chemically it is (3. The related compounds digitalin and digoxin are also extracted from the foxglove (Digitalis lanata and Digitalis purpurea). The class of steroid glycosides having cardiotonic properties are refered to as the cardiac glycoside group.steroid glycoside, one of the cardiotonic chemical substances which is extracted from the foxglove. It is a white, crystalline substance (C41H64O13), and is a 3-substituted triglucoside of a steroid, related structurally to digitalin and digoxin. It is used as a cardiotonic for treatment of certain heart conditions, such as congestive heart failure. Chemically it is (3. The related compounds <er>digitalin</er> and <er>digoxin</er> are also extracted from the foxglove (<spn>Digitalis lanata</spn> and <spn>Digitalis purpurea</spn>). The class of steroid glycosides having cardiotonic properties are refered to as the <isa><ecol><b>cardiac glycoside</b></ecol></isa> group.""

Ambassador, for example

Person of high rank

Terribly tiring day for somebody

Dignity

A top back on board's possible to enlarge

DILATE to make {larger=adj}

Dilatant

Eye-opening experiences (wordplay)

Latin, so I'd make them swell

Pupil enlargements.

They're never 11 across

Weakening processes

Dimethyl

Dimply

Dioptase

A peptide that is composed of two amino acid molecules linked by a peptide bond.

Ou, for example.

A couple of characters sticking together

Tongue-moving vowel sound

Diploma

One qualified to dive - look to partner

Tactful officials (wordplay)

People at the U. N.

Grady, Dunn, Muccio, et al.

DIPLONT an organism with a particular chromosomal structure

""The fourth stage of the prophase of meiosis, when the paired chromosomes being to separate. This stage follows the pachytene.pachytene.""

Dipnet

Motor-oil level testers

Pickpockets - parasites and fools

Fools swim hellish river, we hear

Dipteran

For a fly to fly on two wings

Direct

One of Joseph Mankiewicz's talents

Making a film of it with a straight gin

Pointing the way; controlling

Course of a free-kick (wordplay)

Telling the way to go (wordplay)

Management's right, perhaps

Vet and I cried out for order

Criminal tried vice in Fiat

I have to follow dreadful court order

Abbott, Mann, Lewis, etc

Members of the board.

Board day is inspiring cleric

Book with numbers of numbers.

No longer 192 in Britain

Book listing phone numbers

Female member of a board

Preferring state control of economic and social matters

The state of being dirty; filthiness; foulness; nastiness; baseness; sordidness.

Decaff? It's designed to put you off

Resolution to face duke (fist), or turn away (wordplay)

Make discontented having detective inspector's influence

Major cleanups follow them

Blows showing girl's bloomers

Hurricanes, fires, etc.

Discant

Discept

Make uneasy or embarrassed

Rattle male in party with sudden attack

Sweet daughter is first to perplex

What a jealous baron might do (wordplay)

Cuts the price of

Sales come-ons

Shame! Say it's wrong

Loss of reputation

Refuse to believe

To free from entailment.

Want of respect is seen on estate when judge goes around

Saying 'Eww!,' say

Saying "Eww!," say

Fed up, in a way.

It's used in washing up

Kitchen worker's rag

Kitchen item

A dishcloth.

Disherit

It's lying by the plate, one's tea, say

Deceitful - hedonists (anagram)

Hedonists turned out to be deceptive

Dirty washing-up liquid (wordplay)

What might be filled with Joy (wordplay)

Weak or soiled liquid

Clean scent if I'd showered (wordplay)

Doctor finds Ice-T free of germs

Use Lysol on

INFEST to invade and swarm over

Digs up

Exhumes

Dispose of shares

Sell shares small boy put up, not wearing a shirt (wordplay)

Vice in its place - good guy is to withdraw backing

INVITE to request the presence of

Disject

Disjoint

Disjunct

Dated storage

Remove from a socket (wordplay)

Developing Aldi: Tesco put out

Put out of place.

Dismal

Take defence apart with his help!

Put down a Yankees legend (wordplay)

Take to pieces

Dismast

Gets off (a horse, etc)

Parts of high bar routines

Gymnastic finishes

Puzzle Editor's in muddle!

Confuse the team at Leyton (wordplay)

Confuse at Brisbane Road!

Despair at match being unequal

Various ideas, part worked out

Contrasting, random pairs in age

It makes a great difference

Difference

Inequality

Dispart