2-Letter Words Starting with D

Desideration

The quality of being desirable.

Desperation; virulence.

Despoliation

Desquamation

Inflected form of STABILIZING Inflected form of STABILIZE

""(tr) to disengage and separate or remove, as by pulling; unfasten; disconnect""

Abstract noun (-ity)

Stop one old sailor getting worse

In decline

Process of worsening

Decline to put off one formal speech

A progressive worsening

Progressively worsening

Determinacy

DETERMINANT Serving to determine or limit; determinative.

In a determinate manner; definitely; ascertainably.

24 put off people crossing motorway

Firmness of purpose

Resolution to get legal decision

Having power to determine; limiting; shaping; directing; conclusive.

Determinator

Abstract noun (-ity)

Detoxication

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

In a damaging manner

Tried out with the mind, causing loss (wordplay)

Stupidly tried using brain, in a way that's harmful

The character second in importance to the protagonist in classical Greek drama.

Adverb

Deuteranopia

Devastating

""Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ. as, the developmental power of a germ.""

Deviationism

Deviationist

DEVOLUTION The act of rolling down.

A corticosteroid drug used to treat allergies or inflammation.

Person associated with (-ist)

Doctor aiding actions abroad

Identifier of illnesses

In row, sceptic repulsed excellent health care worker

DIAGONALIZE to transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix.

In a dialectical manner.

Dialectician

Diamagnetism

How opposite can you get (wordplay)

How things at opposite extremes are positioned

Absolutely

Diaphaneity

""Pertaining to a diaphragm; as, diaphragmatic respiration; the diaphragmatic arteries and nerves. as, diaphragmatic respiration; the diaphragmatic arteries and nerves.""

Diastereomer

Diastrophism

Having the property of transmitting radiant heat; diathermal; opposed to athermanous. athermanous.

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

Dibenzofuran

Dichromatism

Dictatorial

Third Reich et al.

A genus of evergreen perennial herbs of tropical America with lush foliage and poisonous sap; often cultivated as houseplants.

DIESELIZE DIESEL to continue running after ignition is turned off

Items containing ring & pinion gears

Torque-splitting mechanisms in axles

Positraction, Sure-Grip, Detroit Locker, etc. (pl.)

Distinguish (between)

Show where things are not the same

Tell apart

Digitization

DIGRAPHIC Of or pertaining to a digraph.

""DIGRESSION The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject.""

Dilapidation

Dilatometry

Dilettantism

Taking one's sweet time

Dimensional

Dimerization

""A colorless crystalline compound, (C 6 H 5 ) 2 NH, used as a stabilizer for plastics and in the manufacture of dyes, explosives, pesticides, and pharmaceuticals.""

Of or pertaining to dipsomania.

Disaccharide

Disaccustom

In unfavourable circumstances

Put in an unfavourable position

Socially or economically deprived

Drawbacks

AFFECTIONS affection

AFFILIATED being joined in close association

Disaffiliate

The act of disaffirming; denial; negation.

Inflected form of AGGREGATED Inflected form of AGGREGATE To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. \'bdThe aggregated soil.\'b8aggregated soil.\'b8

Disaggregate

Game residents played to create quarrels

U. N. problems.

Differences of opinion

Disallowance

DISAMBIGUATE

Disambiguate

Exit (maybe into thin air)

Act of vanishing

Act of becoming invisible

Failing to satisfy

Not as good as one had hoped

Uncouple damaged air ducts and isolate, so not functional

Disassembly

Taking apart

Pulling apart jumble as I had to return flashy jewellery

Separated, disconnected

Disassociate

""CHARGEABLE That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man.""

Capable of being disciplined or improved by instruction and training.

Disclamation

Discographer

Discography

The act of changing the natural color

Discordancy

Tending to bring harm to a reputation

Shameful

CREDITABLY In a creditable manner; reputably; with credit.

Discrepancy

Left to good judgement

Not obligatory

Up to you to record conservative's current departure

Capable of being discriminated.

DISCRIMINABLE Capable of being discriminated.

Discriminant

Distinguished - treated unfairly

Candid mister, I fancy, was biased

Violates hiring laws

Rebellious minister is cad and is prejudiced

Notices the difference, certain I'd miss changes

DOCTRINAIRISM (anagram)

A distinguishing characteristic

ENCHANTERS enchanter

Disenchant

War of insults (wordplay)

Retreat gets demeaning somehow

A separating, releasing

ENTANGLING entangle

Disenthrall

EQUILIBRIA

Without a vote, is candid and fresh, unusually so

Disfranchise

Disgraceful

Unharmonious; discordant.

""Inflected form of HARMONIZED Inflected form of HARMONIZE To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize. as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize.""

Disharmonize

Causing confidence loss

Destroying confidence

Confidence-sapping

Disinfectant

Disinfestant

Disinflation

Fell to pieces

Fallen apart

Fell apart

Breaks apart

Falls apart

A machine for grinding or pulverizing by percussion.

INTOXICATE Intoxicated.

Demolition

ORGANIZING organize

Lost and perplexed

Lacking sense of direction as a setter, I did no wrong (wordplay)

Confused

Causes to lose bearings

Slight - dig at spearmen (anagram)

Slight to reputation - garden pastime (anagram)

Condemnation, scorn

In a manner to disparage or dishonor; slightingly.

Disparate

... changing pants, idea is so cool

Not affected by personal feelings

Objective is emotion filling court

Dispensation

What sets in a sad slip is the spaces they take up

Designed to be disposed of after use: disposable diapers; disposable razors.

Pertaining to disposition.

By way of dispraise.

Disqualify

Past tense or past participle

Disquantity

Not fulfilling

""Serving to diffuse, disseminate, or disperse.""

Act of spreading widely

Scattering process

Spreading, distribution

Disseminator

Disquisitions degenerate into disasters

Theses.

Disseverance

Difference

DISSIMILATE To render dissimilar.

The act of making dissimilar.

DISSIMILATE To render dissimilar.

Falsely smiling at Sid you ultimately will be pretending

Upper-class girl set about in spreading hypocrisy

Hypocrisy

Dissimulator

Dissociation

Distantness

Distasteful

Extractions of essences by evaporation and condensation

Distracting

Ditransitive

Divarication

The imposition of rigid beliefs at all times

DOCUMENTAL Of or pertaining to instruction.

One that makes documentaries or a documentary.

Paper sign to produce factual programmes

Factual programmes

What the nine theme answers are anagrams of

Documentary

DOCUMENTARISE

Concerted action mounted by the papers

Written papers

Dodecahedron

Dodecaphony

""Relating to, composed in, or consisting of twelve-tone music.""

DOGMATIZE To assert positively; to teach magisterially or with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance.

""DOMESTICATE To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self. as, to domesticate one's self.""

If it's wild, you might get to this by train round the top to begin with

DOMICILIATE To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile.

The act of domiciliating; permanent residence; inhabitancy.

Doubles

Ringers

Some baseball games

Baseball fans' delights

Baseball bargains

Doublespeak

In a dejected manner

The creation of artistic drawings.

Draftsperson

Same as dramatization.dramatization.

Screenplay, for one

This is how it might have happened (nonverbal)

DRAMATURGIC Relating to dramaturgy.

Drapability

Dreamless

Drivability

DUALISTIC Consisting of two; pertaining to dualism or duality.

Durableness

Dynamometry

Broken, soundly, in fact (wordplay)

Not operating properly

Like George or Kramer on "Seinfeld"

Dysmenorrhea

Dyspeptical

""DAGUERREOTYPE An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury.""

Daguerreotype

Damnableness

Dandification

Daredeviltry

Debonairness

Decamethonium

Decarbonation

Decarboxylase

Inflected form of CARBOXYLATED Inflected form of CARBOXYLATE to treat a chemical compound with carboxyl or carboxylic acid.

Decarboxylate