2-Letter Words Starting with D

Preparing peppers, perhaps

Cutting ham, perhaps

Cutting ham, maybe

Strictly Come - - (TV)

Martha Graham forte

Moving to music

The Ten Commandments

Famous group of ten.

Ten Commandments.

Knocking down patio feature (wordplay)

Material for timber platform

Boards around the house

Ridding plane wings of sleet, etc.

Cold weather wing maintenance

Preparing for takeoff, in a way

Evening in tennis

Disc

Cutting short (a tail)

Deducting, as from pay

Cutting short the end of the sea trip

Avoiding spitballs, say

Dodging or dunking

Channel system

Going to seed

Deteriorating

Decomposing

Like some factors

Making one's mind up

Making up one's mind.

Decode

Setting a trap for, perhaps

Condemning; criticising as worthless

Attacking and cracking: beside the point

Publicly condemning

Making use of clues

Drawing as a logical conclusion

Figuring out

Scrawling graffiti on, for example

Scrawling graffiti on, e.g

Disco

Abandoning trench construction

Truant activity

Abandoning

Douche

Young mallard, for instance

Avoid fish and fowl

Avoid fish and a little fowl

Dacker

Deacon

Splitting from French river, Napoleon perhaps bears north

Producing a downpour

Last month is dying away as one is dying away

At last the month is getting slack and dying away

Deliberately misleading

Decern

Revealing that glider can fly

Proclaiming

Making less threatening

Going downhill

Slumping, needing reinforcement at end of month

Decoct

Having things all in order

Must be done on demand

Making pronouncements

Decuple

Decurve

Deduct

Defect

Deforce

Dehisce

Deject

Depict

Seeing that this has Desmond in tears

Seeing that Desmond's in tears

Catching sight of Desmond in tears

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

Detect

Detick

Devoice

Dezinc

Dicker

Speaking to a secretary (wordplay)

Boss's timesaver

Imposing, as rules

One of Joseph Mankiewicz's talents

Making a film of it with a straight gin

Pointing the way; controlling

Discase

Divorce

Docket

Doctor

Like a downpour

Heavy, as a rain

Making thoroughly wet

Debauch

Debouch

Decentre

By getting married after the first of December one will be losing one across

After last month start confining the king and killing a lot

Getting married after the first of last month? That's your loss

Declaim

Declass

Decolor

Working on interiors

Giving a medal to.

Preparing for a party

Disconnecting two objects

Becoming smaller

Decrown

Decrypt

Died, devoting over the cat with gin

Consecrating

Defecate

Turning away and leaving the country around fifty

FOCUSING focus

Severe punishment for a priest

Depriving of priestly status

Denounce

Descant

PATRONIZING

Drawing the line on account of this

Giving an account of.

Recoiling from French writing and illustrating

Belittler's activity

Dezinc

Discant

Throwing away

In draw poker, preparing to receive replacements*

Discept

Making out with good taste

Making out, being clever

Showing good judgement

Disciple

Record missing? It's broadcasting

Publishing record being beaten

Discord

Talking about athletics event, what's bad and good

Reflecting reproach on

Being unworthy of.

Dragging through the mud

Disject

Taking the place of model splicing ad

Showing someone the door for most of the presentation by Charlie in government

Analyzer's activity

Biology-class task

Closely examining assortment of insects found in archaeological site

Distance

Domicil

Dulcify

DAMASCENE Of or relating to Damascus.

Deadlock

Decenter

Decipher

Decision

COLLATING collate

Decolour

Breaking down

DECOUPAGE

""DECUSSATE To cross at an acute angle; to cut or divide in the form of X; to intersect; said of lines in geometrical figures, rays of light, nerves, etc.""

""DEFALCATE To cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc.""

Defocus

DEMARCATE To mark by bounds; to set the limits of; to separate; to discriminate.

In a deprecating manner.

DESECRATE To divest of a sacred character or office; to divert from a sacred purpose; to violate the sanctity of; to profane; to put to an unworthy use; the opposite of consecrate. consecrate.

Deselect

""DESICCATE To dry up; to deprive or exhaust of moisture; to preserve by drying; as, to desiccate fish or fruit. as, to desiccate fish or fruit.""

Despatch

Destruct

Diffract

Clearing off grid chasing

Disclaim

Discolor

Reducing in price

COURSING the pursuit of game by hounds

Working out grids, novice exploded

Discrown

Disfrock

LOCATING locate

Dispatch

Distract

District

Document

DOWNSCALE

Crossing the stage like Chuck Berry

DUPLICATE Double; twofold.

Deacidify

ACTIVATING activate

Decalcify

DECAPITATE To cut off the head of; to behead.

Slowing down

Decertify

""DECIMALIZE To reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the currency. as, to decimalize the currency.""

COLONIZING colonize

COLORIZING colorize

Decongest

LIQUESCING liquesce

LOCALIZING localize

Losing value with time

Expressing disapproval about one losing value

DERACINATE To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate.

DETOXICATE to remove poison from.

VOCALIZING vocalize

""DIFFERENCE The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or unlike; distinction; dissimilarity; unlikeness; variation; as, a difference of quality in paper; a difference in degrees of heat, or of light; what is the difference between the innocent and the guilty? as, a difference of quality in paper; a difference in degrees of heat, or of light; what is the difference between the innocent and the guilty?""

Disaccord

Disaffect

""DISCIPLINE The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.""

Discomfit

DISCOMMODE To put inconvenience; to incommode; to trouble.

COMPOSING compose

Putting (someone) off

Dashing hopes, record the passing of our youth (wordplay)

With noisy entertainment old city getting older is off-putting

Discredit

INCLINING incline

Disinfect

""DISSOCIATE To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance. as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance.""

DIVARICATE To part into two branches; to become bifid; to fork.

""Inflected form of CARBONATING Inflected form of CARBONATE A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of lead ore, etc.""

Inflected form of CARBONIZING Inflected form of CARBONIZE To cover (an animal or vegatable substance) into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char.

Inflected form of CARBURIZING Inflected form of CARBURIZE To combine wtih carbon or a carbon compound; said esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of valatile hydrocarbons.

Inflected form of CEREBRATING Inflected form of CEREBRATE To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

Declassify

Decompress

CONTROLLING control

""DECORTICATE To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull.""

""Inflected form of CREPITATING Inflected form of CREPITATE To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap.""

DEMOCRATIZE To render democratic.

Inflected form of SACRALIZING Inflected form of SACRALIZE

DICHOTOMIZE To cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect.

Discomfort

Discommend

Causing one to feel unsettled

Such as will cause anxiety

Such as puts one off one's stride

Disconfirm

Disconnect

Discontented.

CONTINUING continue

Disenchant

Disrespect

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

DOMICILIATE To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile.

Causing a dispersion or movement away from the center; -- used especially of power or administrative functions. Opposite of centralizing.centralizing.

""Inflected form of CHLORINATING Inflected form of CHLORINATE To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.""

""Inflected form of COMPENSATING Inflected form of COMPENSATE To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompence; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses. as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.""

Decondition

Inflected form of CONSECRATING Inflected form of CONSECRATE Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred.

Deconstruct

Inflected form of NUCLEARIZING Inflected form of NUCLEARIZE

Inflected form of POLITICIZING Inflected form of POLITICIZE

Disaccustom

""Inflected form of ASSOCIATING Inflected form of ASSOCIATE To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with . as, to associate others with .""

Showing good judgement

Disencumber

Inflected form of FRANCHISING Inflected form of FRANCHISE Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

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

Decommission

""Inflected form of CONCENTRATING Inflected form of CONCENTRATE To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of light into a focus; to concentrate the attention. as, to concentrate rays of light into a focus; to concentrate the attention.""

Cleansing, in a way

Activity for the E.P.A.

Inflected form of CRIMINALIZING Inflected form of CRIMINALIZE to declare (an act) to be illegal.

Inflected form of ARTICULATING Inflected form of ARTICULATE Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.