2-Letter Words Starting with D

Make more comfortable, maybe

Remove moisture from (an air or gas)

Clear the air, in a way

It's pretty beautiful

Greatly pleasing

Highly pleasing

One with no class (wordplay)

Offender, maybe juvenile

Failing to do one's duty.

Liquefy by absorbing water from the air

(Of a solid) liquefy by absorbing air's moisture

Flower in spikes (starting with oracle)

Oracle's bloomer (wordplay)

Lined him up to ravage bedded beauty

DELTOID a shoulder muscle

Living a fantasy

Refusing to face reality

Believing unreal things

DELUSIVE tending to delude

Deluster

DEMAGOGUE A leader of the rabble; one who attempts to control the multitude by specious or deceitful arts; an unprincipled and factious mob orator or political leader.

Power-hungry political leaders

Fiery orators

Demeanour

MODULATE to {regulate=v}

Demount

Demulcent

Reserved quality

Modesty to take exception over European head

Freighters' delays

English word

Rendering undrinkable, as alcohol

final part (of play, etc)

Final resolution (of play, film, etc)

Final part (of film, play)

Denouncer

Denounce

Denturist

Denudate

""The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare.""

Noun (-ment)

They can be found on an airport monitor

Airport listings

Readers put off by coy title for obituaries

Force migration from an area

Clear of inhabitants

Get the people out of crumbling Aleppo with duet in a mess

Depurate

A representative body

Deputize

Bicycle gear-changing mechanism

BICYCLE PART

Remove restrictions from

Remove controls from

Remove restrictions to put off endlessly holding a gun up

With desire; eagerly.

Full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate; malicious.

Feeling or showing despite; malicious; angry to excess; cruel; contemptuous.

Scale, as fish.

Destruct

Desuetude

Desugar

Desulfur

DEUTERATE

Deuterate

Deuterium

""The lifeless food matter in the cytoplasm of an ovum or a cell, as distinguished from the active or true protoplasm; yolk substance; yolk.""

Lowered in worth.

Reduces the worth of

Violent duo out to get a transfer of power

In county one has nasty lout leading delegation

Duke heading off rebellion with transfer of authority

Piety

DIADROM a vibration

Dialogue

Dianthus

Diapause

Fine and translucent

Light, delicate, translucent

Clear girl's one to fancy a nosh-up

Diazonium

English word

English word

Dicumarol

Diestrus

Trouble from iffy cult I'd abandoned

Strain of pig-headed male chromosome

Struggle for fellows in charge last month engaged in do-it-yourself

Capable of being scattered

Diffusion

The quality or state of being dilute.

Letting the sound fade away (music)

Decrease in loudness

Letting sound fade away

Obscure union - it might well be weakening

Decrease

Tom, Dick or Harry (wordplay)

Tom, Dick or Harry for example

Four in cast mutinied, like Piglet

""Characterized by dimorphism; occurring under two distinct forms, not dependent on sex; dimorphic.""

Herbivorous sauropod

Lower position defining party, a dinosaur

One had a huge amount of meat after I'd served up nasty cold soup!

Dipperful

Dicky is bad, being a 4 for setting right

Like a bomb, say

Causing great damage

Highly unsuccessful

Disbud

Frees from tax in Norfolk town

Disburser

Laying out

Woman's so cruel sadly making revelation

Club certain to accommodate large outing

It can be full or partial

Itemized things on a tax return

Not full-price

Like sales day clothing

One's out to make reductions

Cause loss of enthusiasm in (someone)

Iago cursed, getting put off (wordplay)

It's round to our times to put this off

Is series of lectures spanning two days treated formally (wordplay)

One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer.

Bad-mouth the curriculum (wordplay)

Criticize college subjects (wordplay)

Conversations

Moving from subject to subject

Moving between subjects

Rambling

Person taking part in talks written off as nuts on record

They talk things over

Talking about athletics event, what's bad and good

Talk in field event is about leg

Debate is back on after athletic event

Talk of rock discos in US

Did a sinful move, showing arrogance

Superior papers rejected by lad, if Sun's out

Contemptuous

""To pour out or discharge at the mouth, as a stream; to vent; to discharge into an ocean, a lake, etc.""

In need of plastic surgery

Disfigure

""To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest.""

Upset and tired with lungs bursting

Put in bad humor

Cause displeasure when drugs let in another way

Disguiser

Concealing (an identity)

Dig us out and I squeal, being in hiding

Offensive

Loathsome detective's windy

'Gross' title for this puzzle

Much past unpalatable

Dishclout

Dismount

Full of despite; cruel; spiteful; pitiless.

Displume

Disposure

""Capable of being disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted, or contested; or doubtful certainty or propriety; controvertible; as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or questions. as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or questions.""

DISPUTE to argue about

Engagers in a logomachy

Remove from competition

Render unfit or unsuitable

Exclude underworld leader with pass

Made uneasy

""In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. as, he rested disquietly that night.""

Disrepute

Disrupter

Disrupt

Alternatively, pundits or I get upset

Tepid virus, strangely unsettling

Tending to break up.

Unruly

Capable of being dissolved; having its parts separable by heat or moisture; convertible into a fluid.

Dissuader

Dissuade

The use of deterrence

Deterrence

What deters wandering Saudis? Promised land (wordplay)

""Tending to dissuade or divert from a measure or purpose; dehortatory; as, dissuasive advice. as, dissuasive advice.""

Disposed in two vertical rows; two-ranked.

A mo. in a tizzy (wordplay)

Single good man in drink's raving

Upset drink taking one's time

Present praise, on the street

Pass out with Garda's salute

Apparently remove praise from spread

Highly suspect

Disturber

Worrying girl's finding ladder finally in hose

It could be unsettling playing tiring Dubs

Upsetting

Disulfide

""A drug used in the treatment of alcoholism that interferes with the metabolic degradation of alcohol, producing an unpleasant reaction when even a small quantity of alcohol is consumed.""

""A pale yellow, highly toxic systemic insecticide, C 8 H 19 O 2 PS 3 , used for some vegetables and flowers.""

Disunity

Disunite

UTILITY the quality of being useful

Disvalue

Noun (-ence)

A drum's coda might indicate such factions

Of official papers

Like written material, arranged in column with date

Finish with copper getting mad, giving description of written evidence

Presented evidence for

Set down in black and white by editor behind paper

'Tom ended drunk', copper intervening put down on paper

DOCUMENT to support by conclusive information

Doleful

Little girls' playthings

Good Christmas gifts.

In a sorrowful way

In a lugubrious way

In a mournful manner

Dominique

Defects in scribbled pictures (wordplay)

Mineral-finding devices

Ant lion larvae.

Doronicum

The state of being double or doubled.

Doubleton

Full of questions

DOUBTING the act of doubting

Northerners who once sympathized with the South

Doughty

Dourness

Downburst

Downspout

Playwright.

Expression of annoyance about graduate with desire to become playwright

Dramaturg

The Thespian art.

Theatrical art

Playwriting

Letting in more air

Having more wind? Hardier gut possibly wanted!

King and I separately welcomed by child needing more protection from blows

Course for artful bartenders

Drawerful

Freddy Krueger's third? All butchered in an horrific way

Origin of disaster studied completely in a dire way

DREAMFUL {dreamy=adj}

DROPPER a tube for dispensing liquid in drops

DROUGHT a dry period

Drouthy

Drudgery

In a drudging manner; laboriously.

Drugmaker

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

Druidess

Figuratively, a publicity man.

Drumfish

Pests on a rhythm instrument (wordplay)

Chicken leg portions

Beats bloodsucker's upper legs

""Producing, or pertaining to, drupes; having the form of drupes; as, drupaceous trees or fruits. as, drupaceous trees or fruits.""

Dryasdust

Act of doubting; doubt.

Gym-shower items

Shower-room items

They're used for walking over wet ground

The drake decamped!

English word

Dulcify

Dulcimore

Dullness

A real drag, man

It's boring, daddy-o

Ho-hum

Dumbfound

Dumbness

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)

Greatly surprised

Flabbergasted

Chap who won't vote for your candidate

Unconscious chap in parent, wally

Dunce had endured switches...

Dungeon

As a system of counting, doctor aided locum

Pair claimed wrongly to be like Bob of old

Base 12

Duodecimo

Duopsony

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

Duralumin

Instruments for measuring hardness

Lift prints from lids (wordplay)

Hardback protectors

Potentially shaky power structure

""An element of the rare earth-group. Symbol Dy; at. wt., 162.5.Dy; at. wt., 162.5.""

How daredevils live (wordplay)

In a perilous manner

In a risky manner