2-Letter Words Starting with D

Same as Decaliter. Decaliter.

Same as Decameter. Decameter.

LEGATOR one that {legates=v}

One who gives pleasure

Tag at the beginning or end of computer data

Paperboy, for one

One with redeeming qualities (wordplay)

One with redeeming qualities?

Energy low inside gloomy carriage

Unusually enamoured by one's appearance

Manner of behaving towards others

One making a public accusation

One condemns squalid quarters used by wild cat, right (wordplay)

Saver made half the penniless sit inside

Bank account holder

One putting money into a bank account

Doctor's instrument

Muscle of a certain kind.

Instrument for the tongue

Short-barrelled American pistol

Short-barreled pistol.

Making a mistake in the German gun

Line below the main part of type.

Orpheus, in search of Eurydice

Lowercase-letter part

Writer interrupting the German reporter

Ravager

Volunteers misplace gun without retreating. One's devastated!

Hopeless one.

Sherman at Atlanta

Thief.

Thief

The Caine, for one

Noaj for one

Does Terry turn killer (wordplay)

One in three-D version: King Stephen, say

Do not tear off to get a primer!

Fuse, for example

Set off with this

Brooklyn trailer hauler (wordplay)

One who is critical

One disparages or belittles

One with lots to talk about

Photo lab chemical

Real estate speculator

WATERER one that {waters=v}

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

Said paper has to go (wordplay)

Sink from sight

Vanish from view

One who disburses money.

Bridge player, at times.

Rummy player, often

""One who, or that which, discerns, distinguishes, perceives, or judges; as, a discerner of truth, of right and wrong. as, a discerner of truth, of right and wrong.""

Breaker of secret recording failure

One who discusses; one who sifts or examines.

One who disgraces.

""One who, or that which, disguises.""

Dirty washing-up liquid (wordplay)

What might be filled with Joy (wordplay)

Weak or soiled liquid

Divide up (organisation)

Gee, Peel might make ground this way!

Tear limb from limb

Rebel

Paper-cup container for vending machines

Little girl meets poet in the chemist

It delivers if I press end roughly

Scattering agent - rips reeds (anagram)

Sorry state of ruin (wordplay)

Duke is to retire in ruin

Dilapidated state is hell to put right

Troublemaker.

Be rude about 'Arry, chap with scalpel

""SEISOR one that takes seizing, also SEIZOR""

One not agreeing

One who differs among residents

Sen. Morse's GOP status.

""One who, or that which, has power to dissolve or dissipate.""

One who seeks to deter

Complaint affecting setter (wordplay)

Confounding me, striped paint!

Fido's upset the paint!

Hiram Walker, for one

Spirited producer (wordplay)

His spirits make a woman more sedate

Twist dancer (wordplay)

Fisheye lens, for example

One who misrepresents.

""One who, or that which, disturbs of disquiets; a violator of peace; a troubler.""

Person who takes pointers from others (wordplay)

Alpha male, for example

With "the," nickname of NHL goalie Hacek

America's mightiest bomber.

DONNE a given piece of data

Pessimist is more so, with day going wrong

During exit, May's wrangling with European alarmist

Device measuring absorbed radiation

Radiation detection device

New G. I. "dog tag" warning of radiation

Doughty

Stock market irritant (wordplay)

He steers, taking hold, towards the sea

From source to mouth

Admit into golf club closer to the sea

Drizzly

Drouthy

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Dealer in kippered herring, etc. Eng.

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

""An instrument for measuring the degree of hardness; especially, an instrument for testing the relative hardness of steel rails and the like.""

Paper jacket for a book

Removable part of a book

Jacket on a book

My trade: in explosive

Demolition expert

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

Electrical machine with two armature windings

One wandering through school (wordplay)

Visionary, but not at night (wordplay)

Fantasizer, when the sun's up (wordplay)

DEADPAN to act without emotion

One who deciphers.

COMPOSER one who writes music

Embezzler.

Embezzler

See Deflourer. Deflourer.

Jungle warfare weapon

HYDRATOR one that {hydrates=v}

""One who, or that which, delineates; a sketcher.""

""One who, or that which, demolishes; as, a demolisher of towns. as, a demolisher of towns.""

One who defames

Character assassin

It gets the funk out

""That which removes oxygen; hence, a reducing agent; as, nascent hydrogen is a deoxidizer. as, nascent hydrogen is a deoxidizer.""

One who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a robber.

Bicycle gear-changing mechanism

BICYCLE PART

""Computer Science A word, phrase, or alphanumeric character used to identify an item in an information storage and retrieval system.""

One who desecrates; a profaner.

Profaner

""One who, or that which, desiccates.""

He nominates doctor, one Greats don

One who classifies or defines

One allocating tasks, for example

Something decisive to put off man in pit

Decision maker

One concluding check on underground worker

One who lays waste, for example

He lays waste

Destroyer turned back, having sunk vessel

""One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.""

Denial of responsibility

Medic rails about refusal to take responsibility

Refusal to admit detective worked miracles

One's out to make reductions

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

Talent scout, perhaps

Marie Curie, for radium and polonium

U. S. satellite.

Discreet

ENDOWER one who {endows=v}

One who dishonors or disgraces; one who treats another indignity.

Soapstone ring wearer (wordplay)

Appliance used after dinner

Menial role of aerial nut and bolt ring (wordplay)

One who disparages or dishonors; one who vilifies or disgraces.

Radio-active employee

Railroad man.

One who blames or dispraises.

Phoney heartless Blair messed about

Nothing like this

Not like Iris, dismal when drunk

Contradictory girl I had rejected - naughty liar!

Wasteful father (wordplay)

Distinct

Same as Distrainor. Distrainor.

One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Longshoreman

DOCUMENT to support by conclusive information

Tabby's friend (wordplay)

Tabby's friend?

Pound worker (wordplay)

Doggoned

One who dogmatizes; a bold asserter; a magisterial teacher.

Susan Butcher, notably

Mush! shouter

"Mush!" shouter

Doleful

DOMINICK an American breed of chickens

DOOMSDAY judgement day

Guard of sorts

Reluctant car dealer (wordplay)

One on duty at building's entrance

DOWNHILL a downward slope

DOWNSTATE

DOWNTOWN the business district of a city

Letting in more air

Having more wind? Hardier gut possibly wanted!

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

Couturier or seamstress, perhaps

Fabric-cutting job

Jenny Wren was one.

Pigskin specialist of yore

Field goal attempter, once

DROUGHT a dry period

Figuratively, a publicity man.

A little lift for Manuel, maybe

High-rise convenience, perhaps

Inept eatery server (wordplay)

Business machine.

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.

DECAPITATE To cut off the head of; to behead.

Brake

""Inflected form of COLORIZER Inflected form of COLORIZE to give color to black and white film, also COLORISE""

Cloth cap (for a hunter?)

Voice of Bambi (wordplay)

Sherlock Holmes accessory

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

""The study of the characteristics of human populations, such as size, growth, density, distribution, and vital statistics.""

MORALIZER One who moralizes.

NITRIFIER An agent employed in nitrification.

It's fractionally down

Lower half of fraction (could be common!)

Brooklyn political convention VIP (wordplay)

""A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery.""

Disparager

Salt remover

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

One who disapproves.

One with severe doubts

Punishment imposer

One who discourages.

Free from busmen drunk with cider

To fail to remember; to forget.

One who writers a dissertation; one who discourses.

Car-engine part

Supplier of goods to retailers

Where to get discounts

Worker in the trenches (wordplay)

Employee with a pick and shovel

His work may take him underground

""One who, or that which, diversifies.""

Ace in the hole business (wordplay)

Person who barks (wordplay)

Overseer of private practice

Dumbfound

Power-measuring instrument

Instrument for measuring force

Engine output measuring machine

""He who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.""

""A machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees.""

Device for reducing moisture content of the atmosphere

""MAGNETIZER One who, or that which, imparts magnetism.""

DEMOCRATIZE To render democratic.

Dealer's test drive vehicle

Car wearing dealer plates, often

Participant in a public protest

""An instrument for determining optical or photographic density. A variety capable of measuring optical density of a sample at a number of different wavelengths, is called a spectrophotometer.spectrophotometer.""

""Inflected form of PROGRAMMER Inflected form of PROGRAMME That which is written or printed as a public notice or advertisement; a scheme; a prospectus; especially, a brief outline or explanation of the order to be pursued, or the subjects embraced, in any public exercise, performance, or entertainment; a preliminary sketch.""

SENSITIZER An agent that sensitizes.

One who determines.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Phonograph Records

""One who, or that which, disenchants.""

One who dispossesses.

One who spreads (something) widely

One who dissimulates; a dissembler.

Pertaining to a diverticulum.

Ghostly double of a live person

Living person's double

Ghostly lookalike of a human

Back-to-back baseball games

July 4th tradition.

Marathon at Camden Yards

CONSTRUCTOR A constructer.

Medical device for stabilising the heart

Device applying current to the chest or heart

Electronic device for restoring normal heart rhythm

""MINERALIZER An element which is combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. Thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer. mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer.""

MULTIPLEXER multiplex

DOCTRINAIRISM (anagram)

A distinguishing characteristic

A machine for grinding or pulverizing by percussion.

Doublespeak

""Inflected form of CONTAMINATOR Inflected form of CONTAMINATE To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.""

Quick note from Edward Elgar (wordplay)

Note death, note tremble!

Brief note (wordplay)

""MYTHOLOGIZER One who, or that which, mythologizes.""

""(Physics / General Physics) Physics an instrument used in studying diffraction, as in the determination of crystal structure by diffraction of X-rays""

""(Chemistry) Chem a type of isomer that differs in the spatial arrangement of atoms in the molecule, but is not a mirror image; a stereoisomer that is not an enantiomer""