2-Letter Words Starting with D

""NERVATION The arrangement of nerves and veins, especially those of leaves; neuration.""

Possible to contradict or declare untrue: deniable accusations.

Harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign; -- used of statements.

Calumny? Snarl and ignore it

Unfair criticism

Disparagement

DENIGRATE To blacken thoroughly; to make very black.

Denigrator

Same as denigrating.denigrating.

NITRIFIED nitrify

NITRIFIER An agent employed in nitrification.

Denitrify

NOMINATED nominate

Names

Names.

It's fractionally down

Lower half of fraction (could be common!)

Brooklyn political convention VIP (wordplay)

Denotation

DENTICULATE

Dentifrice

Dentistry

Denudation

Deodorizer

ODORIZING odorize

The act or process of reducing from the state of an oxide.

Deoxidizer

OXIDIZING oxidize

""A pentose (C5H10O4) in which one of the hydroxyl groups of ribose has been replaced by a hydrogen. In deoxyribonucleic acids, the deoxyribose is D-2-deoxyribose, in which the hydroxyl at the 2 position of ribose is the one which is replaced by hydrogen.C5H10O4) in which one of the hydroxyl groups of ribose has been replaced by a hydrogen. In deoxyribonucleic acids, the deoxyribose is D-2-deoxyribose, in which the hydroxyl at the 2 position of ribose is the one which is replaced by hydrogen.""

Depilation

In a deploring manner.

POLARIZED polarize

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

Depolarize

Depolish

The expelling of a foreigner from a country

What's patriot done wrong to become exile (wordplay)

Courtroom testimony.

Detraction; depreciation.

Depravity

In a deprecating manner.

The act of deprecating; a praying against evil; prayer that an evil may be removed or prevented; strong expression of disapprobation.

That can be depreciated in value: depreciable assets.

Lost value (over time)

Undervalues

Disparager

Preying upon

Plundering.

Despoilment

(tr) (Psychology) to lower in spirits; make gloomy; deject

Booms' opposites

Depressive

Severe lack of essentials

Deputation

DERACINATE To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate.

Deracinate

Derailleur

Derailment

Neglect before line in speech

Origins

Derivative

DERIVATIZE to alter the chemical composition

Derivatize

Derogation

Inflected form of SACRALIZE Inflected form of SACRAL a vertebra or nerve near the sacrum

""DESALINATE to remove the salt from, especially from water; as, it is necessary to desalinate sea water to make it fit to drink.as, it is necessary to desalinate sea water to make it fit to drink.""

Removes salt from

Salt remover

SALINIZED salinize

Desalinize

Admitting descent; capable of being descended.

Descension

That can be described; capable of description.

Do nice strip perhaps showing outline

Portrayal

Classifying without expressing judgement

Graphic in portrayal

Depicting verbally.

Descriptor

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.

Violently disrespectful treatment

Damage of anything sacred

The offence of considerate vandalism

Deselect

To rendered insensitive or less sensitive. Opposite of sensitize.sensitize.

To direct one's libidinous urges into another direction.

Deshabille

""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.""

""The act of desiccating, or the state of being desiccated.""

Drying; tending to dry.

Desiccator

SIDERATED siderate

Regards as essential.

Something that is needed

Something needed or wanted

Something much wanted

DESIGNATE Designated; appointed; chosen.

Official title or description

Appointment

Term Democrat used for Republican in giving up office

Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.

Namers.

Serving to designate; designative; indicating.

Designment

Desilver

""A tricyclic antidepressant, C 18 H 22 N 2 , used in the treatment of psychological depression.""

Desistance

Desolation

Desorption

Despatch

A rope ends it (wordplay)

Complete lack of hope

Rashness of Iran to speed development

A despising.

Despoliation.

Inflected form of STABILIZE Inflected form of STABILE a stationary abstract sculpture

Distant one I set out for (wordplay)

Where one is going

Place to which one is travelling

Recompense initially withheld by duke - result, penury

Poverty

Destruct

Ruin, wreckage

... R-U-I-N

Ruin

Causing ruin

Very damaging

Desulfur

Inflected form of SULFURIZE Inflected form of SULFUR a non metallic element

In a desultory manner; without method; loosely; immethodically.

Detainment

Detassel

Do retire, eat freely, and go to pot!

It has 'rot' and 'die' inside

Go downhill and stop, I pontificate

Determinateness.

Serving to determine or limit; determinative.

Fixed, as a number

A tender time (anagram) - fixed

Matter I need to get sorted, being decisive

They decide

Discourage U.M.W. work (wordplay)

What U.M.W. pickets do

Firmly deciding

End-points covered by some Parisian master's original type of philosophy

Put off skimpy attire, good person who has a resigned outlook (wordplay)

Hating to be almost put off before Crewe, perhaps

Loathing

Hatred

Detonation

Detoxicant

DETOXICATE to remove poison from.

Detoxicate

Detoxify

Calumnies

""(Transport / Railways) to leave or cause to leave a railway train, as passengers, etc. detrainment   n""

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

Harmful; admit, relent (anagram)

Tired out, unstable and causing harm

Tending to cause harm

DEUTERATE

DEUTERATE

VALUATING valuate

Diminution of worth.

Currency maneuver

Destructive - impressive

Its advantage, first off, could be most effective

Destruction of old Chester depot

Great damage or grief

Ruin, destruction

DEVASTATE To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.

""Formed from a verb, such as the noun worker derived from the verb work.""

Devilfish

Scheming nature

VITALIZED vitalize

Devitalize

VITRIFIED vitrify

Devitrify

VOCALIZED vocalize

Devocalize

Devolution

Devotional

Dexterity

DIABOLIZE To render diabolical.

Diachrony

""That separates or distinguishes; -- applied to points or marks used to distinguish letters of similar form, or different sounds of the same letter, as, \'be, <acr/, \'84, <omac/, <ocr/, etc.""

Of or pertaining to the class Diadelphia; having the stamens united into two bodies by their filaments (said of a plant or flower); grouped into two bundles or sets by coalescence of the filaments (said of stamens).

DIAGNOSE to identify a disease by symptoms

Medical study of unbeliever in Hades ...

Techniques for identifying illness

Branch of medicine indentifying illnesses

To transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix.

Diagram

Logically peculiar manner of speaking to supporter

Pertaining to dialectics; logical; argumental.

DIALOGIST A speaker in a dialogue.

""Pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, diamagnetism; taking, or being of a nature to take, a position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force. See Paramagnetic. Paramagnetic.""

Girl returned damaged article, opposed like 5 across and 25, 6 and 24 etc

See title (wordplay)

... for a herpetologist (wordplay)

Type of terrapin

The quality of being diaphanous; transparency; pellucidness.

Diaphorase

Plural or third person singular

""Perspiration, or an increase of perspiration.""

A medicine or agent which promotes perspiration.

Colour slide

""Pl. diarthroses (-s z) Any of several types of bone articulation permitting free motion in a joint, as that of the shoulder or hip.""

A form of articulation which admits of considerable motion; a complete joint; abarticulation. See Articulation. Articulation.

""Geology the process of movement that causes the earth&#x2019;s crust to form continents, mountains, oceans, etc. ; diastrophe , n . ; diastrophic , adj . Earth""

The interval of a fourth.

Diathermy

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

Dichogamy

Manifesting dichogamy.

Dichotomy

One who dichotomizes.

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

""Regularly dividing by pairs from bottom to top; as, a dichotomous stem. as, a dichotomous stem.""

Dichromate

Having or exhibiting two colors.

An instrument for examining the dichroism of crystals.

Dickcissel

""A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating.""

Dicoumarin

Dicoumarol

Given to telling others what to do

Riot Act laid out getting autocratic

Autocratic

Dictional

Dictyosome

English word

Dicynodont

Pedantic teaching

Native Australian winds

Didjeridoo

Dielectric

English word

DIESELIZE

""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?""

End of the observation

Moot points

Arguments from females in residence out of control

Distinguishing mark

Distinguishing property or mark, in logic.

In a different manner; variously.

With difficulty.