2-Letter Words Starting with D

Separately; in a divided manner.

Derived from two separately fertilised eggs

DOBSON an aquatic insect lava

Ship maintenance areas

Measures following cut in naval establishments

In court and in prisons or whatever floats your boat (wordplay)

How Robbie Savage plays for Rovers (wordplay)

DOLEFUL {mournful=adj}

DOLLISH {pretty=adj}

In a stupid way

Domesday

DONNISH scholarly

Thingamajig (#8 on the list)

What-do-you-call-it

What-you-may-call-it.

DOOMFUL {ominous=adj}

Pessimist is more so, with day going wrong

During exit, May's wrangling with European alarmist

Times to be judged

Sentencing times

Frontage plots

Dirty room (anagram)

Dirty room (wordplay)

Apt anagram of 'dirty room' (wordplay)

""Measurement of doses; specif., a system of therapeutics which uses but few remedies, mostly alkaloids, and gives them in doses fixed by certain rules.""

Tommies' WWI allies

American soldiers of WWI

Pillsbury mascots

In a doughty manner.

Doesn't make much of blue stage shows

Diminishes in importance

Makes seem less important

Puff's pants part (wordplay)

Insect trail on sole inhibits foot

Bore just netting female insect

They lead to garages

Parking places

Garage entrances

Caravansary visitor (wordplay)

Featured creature (four letters)

Lawrence's mount

DRONING drone

Extremely enthusiastically supports alcoholic in his normal manner of behaving

Like DAD's lectures (wordplay)

Parched literary friend of an antiquary

More than dull

Dryness

Drypoint

Dealer in kippered herring, etc. Eng.

Was it his business not to get soaked, but just pickled (wordplay)

With skepticism

Call promise to pay cunning, in suspicious manner

The property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments.

DULLISH somewhat dull

The two-facedness of Janus (wordplay)

Means of betrayal

Hypocritical cunning

Obediently

Duvetyne

Dyarchy

Tinters' needs

Coloring matter

Colouring substances

Forceful young fellow holding 101 lots up

Backward boy, about first century, with a lot ... with a lot of energy

Dynamism

Forceful types reject any director's first films

Believers in force using Military Intelligence to infiltrate rulers

D made tiny if blown up

Might Mandy get tied in a knot or blown up (wordplay)

My trade: in explosive

Demolition expert

Trade in my model for one of those with an explosive edge

Blows up 10 with dismay, perhaps

Levels with sticks (wordplay)

A large number gets blown up in the tides

DYNAMITE to blow up with a powerful explosive

Electrical machine with two armature windings

They have long rules

Lines for the sandy site

Ming and Hapsburg, for example

Dynatron

An ill habit or state of the constitution; formerly regarded as dependent on a morbid condition of the blood and humors.

A case of perpetual motion

One source of perpetual motion

Perpetual motion may prove fatal

Dyslexia

Ones having a rough spell (wordplay)

Ones who exchange rials for liras (wordplay)

Remedy sipped, say, for indigestion

Sipped, say, stew causing stomach upset

Stomach upset - spied a spy (anagram)

Having indigestion

Bad-tempered Syd held up savings scheme on credit nearly

Disease and Illness

Disorder marked by difficulty in expressing thoughts in words

""Impairment of speech and verbal comprehension, especially when associated with brain injury.""

""Difficulty in speaking, usually evidenced by hoarseness.""

Impatience under affliction; morbid restlessness; dissatisfaction; the fidgets.

""An emotional state characterized by anxiety, depression, or unease.""

Jockey displays a growth abnormality

Dyspnoea

Dystaxia

Dystocia

Dystonia

"Hunger Games" descriptor

Like "The Hunger Games" society

Like 'The Hunger Games' society

Nightmare worlds

Disorder involving wasting of muscle tissue etc.

Milk girls touring Madrid, I say

Mary said I'd corrupted farm-girls!

Girls who milk cows

DAMAGING damage

Damnify

Dandify

DANDYISH suggestive of a dandy

English word

DAUNTING daunt

Went off for a bit, in a way

Went away for a while, as in class

Fantasized

One wandering through school (wordplay)

Visionary, but not at night (wordplay)

Fantasizer, when the sun's up (wordplay)

Dayflower

Daylight

In a dazzling manner.

Cue heard by lunatic for wild behaviour

Excessive intemperance

Excessive indulgence in sex, alcohol, or drugs

Society girl broadcasting, extremely lovely, with style

In a luxuriously self-indulgent manner

Corruptly, debasedly

Easy way to win

In conclusive terms.

In a resolute way

Downgrade (a secret document)

Make a document no longer secret

Lift restriction on worship, accepting caste

In a proper manner

Without youthful vigor

Decrypt

Try PIN code, scrambling a spy's work

Constituting or serving as a dedication; complimental.

Damaging to good reputation

Fed up with romantic casting aspersions

Libelous, say

DEFENSE to guard against a specific attack

Lack - want

Shortcoming

Shortfall

Without a doubt

'Of course'

Unquestionably from French (in a limited way)

DEFRAY to pay or settle

Physical and moral decline

State of moral decline

DEGRADED degrade

Make more comfortable, maybe

Remove moisture from (an air or gas)

Clear the air, in a way

There, daddy! (anagram)

With water removed

Lacking water, they add red to brew

Dries and dyes thread in production

HYDRATOR one that {hydrates=v}

In downcast manner

DELECTABLE Highly pleasing; delightful.

In a dainty manner

Way to handle a hot topic

How some situations are handled

DELUSIVE tending to delude

Question when catching up with a friend

In a crazed way

Population statistics expert's field

Study of populations

Study of devils does me only good!

'Go on with melody', nuts implore (wordplay)

Scientific study of only red dog in doubt

Densify

The science relat<?/ to duty or moral obligation.

DEPEND to {rely=v}

Country controlled by another

Colony's addiction

Drug addiction in the country

(Product) for removing unwanted hair

Capable of removing hair

Wax, often

In a deplorable manner.

DEPLOY to position troops for battle

Extensive use of troops (wordplay)

Positioning of troops

Distribution of resources

Trustee.

Place for storage

Storage place

Storage site

In a depraved manner.

By way of derision or mockery.

How a turkey is greeted

Mockingly

Showing a disrespectful attitude

Edgy orator at work that's critical

Today Roger's awfully insulting

500 severely treated - about 500 - and rightly so!

""By design; purposely; intentionally; opposed to accidentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently. accidentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently.""

With desire; eagerly.

Does digress these days, sadly

Some Parisian wanting love recently, feeling loneliness

""In a despicable or mean manner; contemptibly; as, despicably stingy. as, despicably stingy.""

Tin cans, so to speak

Naval vessels for the breakers

The sea story when the deer's around

Breaking down strange store in 'One Foot in the Grave'

DETACH to unfasten and separate

DETACHED detach

DETAILED detail

A cleansing quality or power.

Abhorrently.

DEVILISH {fiendish=adj}

In a diagonal direction.

Dialysate

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

Dialyzate

Of or pertaining to diaphysis.

Pl. diaphyses (-s z ) Anatomy The shaft of a long bone.

Book that's full of meaning (wordplay)

Definitive book (wordplay)

Oxford, for one.

The Golgi apparatus in plant cells.

""One of a group of extinct reptiles having the jaws armed with a horny beak, as in turtles, and in the genus Dicynodon, supporting also a pair of powerful tusks. Their remains are found in triassic strata of South Africa and India. Dicynodon, supporting also a pair of powerful tusks. Their remains are found in triassic strata of South Africa and India.""

Didynamy

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

DIGITATE having digits

Dignify

With delay; tardily.

With meticulous care

With assiduity

Painstakingly replacing lid gradually after one

Drag one's feet

Postpone what one should be doing

Waste time by delay

Descended from two ancestral lines or individuals.

""Having two successive sets of teeth (deciduous and permanent), one succeeding the other; as, a diphyodont mammal; diphyodont dentition; opposed to monophyodont. as, a diphyodont mammal; diphyodont dentition; opposed to monophyodont.""

Possibly it is badly restricting one

Disadvantage

Untidy diary reads badly

You're closing down my speakeasy (wordplay)

Prudently involved the city elders

So as to avoid attention

Prudently involved city elders

Separately; disjunctively.

ECONOMY {thrift=n}

Garda's union produced conflict

Friction within a group

Detective's union leads to conflict

Pan a Billy Joel classic (wordplay)

Lovely concealing love-nest by deceit

Untrustworthiness, insincerity

In a disloyal manner.

Traitor's trait

To sly lady I wronged, it's unfaithful behaviour

Lady toils busily around yard changing sides (wordplay)

Recalcitrant ones.

Rebellious

Confused underground worker in hospital

Kind of conduct, in law

Lacking organisation

Hash house (wordplay)

Place where medicines are given out

Boots possibly dressy - pain when moving

The District Inspector's in the game. It all goes to show

DISPUTE to argue about

Remove from competition

Render unfit or unsuitable

Exclude underworld leader with pass

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

Fail to please

Disappoint; disgruntle

Most of the record will not frustrate or fail to gratify

Mash unit (wordplay)

A spirited enterprise

It raises the spirit

Clearly

UTILITY the quality of being useful

Detectives welcoming one black friend's return with spondee, say

A word with two syllables.

Lisping shepherd's giddy male sheep?

Impassioned acclaims

Lisping shepherd's giddy male sheep (wordplay)

""A receding from each other in moving from a common center; the state of being divergent; as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.""

""Professing, or relating to, divination.""

DIVISIVE causing disunity or dissension

DIZZYING dizzy

In a sorrowful way

In a lugubrious way

In a mournful manner

In a controlling way

For the most part

Chiefly, bread found in skip wrapped in newspaper less perfect

An asinine performance (wordplay)

Academic magnum opus nothing but a chore

Laborious part of a task

Melee for singer Osmond (wordplay)

Free-for-all (wordplay)

Free-for-all for Osmond (wordplay)

Gizmos

Gadgets

Doomsayer

One who predicts calamity at every opportunity.

DOOMSDAY judgement day

Full of questions

DOUBTING the act of doubting

Softpedaled; de-emphasized

Made light of 24 across and 8 across

Underrated director admitted penning drama

DOWNWARD from a higher to a lower place

DRAGGING drag

The Thespian art.

Theatrical art

Playwriting

DRAWLING drawl

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

Origin of disaster studied completely in a dire way

DREAMFUL {dreamy=adj}

DRIFTING drift

In a drooping manner.