2-Letter Words Starting with D

Desilver

Despatch

Destruct

Desulfur

Detassel

Discourage U.M.W. work (wordplay)

What U.M.W. pickets do

Firmly deciding

Detoxify

DEUTERATE

VALUATING valuate

Destructive - impressive

Its advantage, first off, could be most effective

DIABOLIZE To render diabolical.

Diagram

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

DIESELIZE

Diffract

Kind of returns

Growing smaller

Dingdong

Disagree

Ruling out

Treating as invalid approve keeping, having unhealthy complexion, at home

Disarray

Disbosom

Disbowel

Clearing off grid chasing

Disclaim

Discolor

Reducing in price

COURSING the pursuit of game by hounds

Working out grids, novice exploded

Discrown

Disendow

Releasing, as meshed gears

Releasing

Disfavor

Spoiling the appearance of

Disfrock

Disherit

DISHEVEL to make {messy=adj}

Dishonor

INVITING an invitation

Disjoint

LOCATING locate

MANTLING an ornamental cloth

Dismount

""Not obliging; not disposed to do a favor; unaccommodating; as, a disobliging person or act. as, a disobliging person or act.""

Disorder

Policemen, as expected, withering and scornful

Girl's father venting his spleen, being abusive

Derogatory

Dispatch

PEOPLING people

Causing loss of hope

Causing a loss of hope

Displant

Causing displeasure or dissatisfaction; offensive; disagreeable.

PRAISING the act of praising

Dispread

Making anxious

Bothersome

Worrying

That dissembles; hypocritical; false.

Dissever

Breaking up and scattering

Distract

Distrain

Causing great anxiety

Deplorable grids in sets to be reworked

Very upsetting

District

Distrust

Divebomb

Document

Engaging in aerial combat

Displaying a closed mind

Dogsled

Dogtrot

Like a tyrant

Overbearing

Bossy

Fitting together perfectly

Fitting together logically.

Coming together

Rating lower

Data transfer

Downplay

DOWNSCALE

DRAMATISE

""DRAMATIZE To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode. as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode.""

Fashioning clothes

DRUMBEAT the sound of a drum

Crossing the stage like Chuck Berry

Dumfound

DUPLICATE Double; twofold.

Deacidify

ACTIVATING activate

Causing weakness

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

FEMINIZING feminize

DEFINITIZE

""DEFLAGRATE To burn with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; also, to snap and crackle with slight explosions when heated, as salt.""

Deteriorating

HUMANIZING humanize

LAMINATING laminate

Considering adding carpeting to foodstore

PANNING THE COLD CUTS SHOP

LIQUESCING liquesce

LOCALIZING localize

MOBILIZING mobilize

MODULATING modulate

MONETIZING monetize

Discouraging. Opposite of encouraging.encouraging.

Demystify

Denitrify

NOMINATING nominate

POLARIZING polarize

POPULATING populate

Losing value with time

Expressing disapproval about one losing value

Deprogram

DERACINATE To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate.

REGULATING regulate

Derepress

DERIVATIZE to alter the chemical composition

""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.""

SALINIZING salinize

SIDERATING siderate

""DESQUAMATE To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases.""

Detassel

DETOXICATE to remove poison from.

VITALIZING vitalize

Devitrify

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?""

""DIGITALIZE to record digitally, e. g. on digital tape or compact disks.e. g. on digital tape or compact disks.""

""DILAPIDATE To bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and good condition of; said of a building.""

Dimension

Disaccord

Disaffect

Disaffirm

Disannul

*Part of many a magic act

Fading rum dip gains when fruit is added

Doctor finally is paged and pain unexpectedly is vanishing

Builder providing spa is critical

Critical of detective's program going out of range

ARRANGING arrange

BELIEVING believe

Disbowel

Disburden

""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

Bad-mouth travel (wordplay)

Disembody

EMBOGUING embogue

Disentail

ENTITLING entitle

Disesteem

GRUNTLING gruntle

Dishevel

INCLINING incline

Disinfect

Disinfest

Disinter

Disinvest

Taking (body) apart

Disorient

Ignoring dangers, rigid surprisingly

Disrelish

DISSERTATE To deal in dissertation; to write dissertations; to discourse.

""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.""

Distemper

Handing out

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

I had turned up poet's work showing more variety

DOLOMITIZE

Downshift

Dumbfound

""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.""

""DEFIBRINATE To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.""

""Inflected form of FORMALIZING Inflected form of FORMALIZE To give form, or a certain form, to; to model.""

Inflected form of GLAMORIZING Inflected form of GLAMORIZE

Dehumidify

""Inflected form of MAGNETIZING Inflected form of MAGNETIZE To communicate magnetic properties to; as, to magnetize a needle. as, to magnetize a needle.""

DEMOCRATIZE To render democratic.

Proving that Germany has strong team in match

Fiendish sailor crosses the street protesting

DEMYELINATE

""Inflected form of OXYGENATING Inflected form of OXYGENATE To unite, or cause to combine, with oxygen; to treat with oxygen; to oxidize; as, oxygenated water (hydrogen dioxide). as, oxygenated water (hydrogen dioxide).""

PROGRAMMING program

Inflected form of SACRALIZING Inflected form of SACRALIZE

Inflected form of SEGREGATING Inflected form of SEGREGATE Separate; select.

Making less susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli. Opposite of sensitizing.sensitizing.

Inflected form of SEXUALIZING Inflected form of SEXUALIZE To attribute sex to.

Inflected form of STABILIZING Inflected form of STABILIZE

Inflected form of SULFURIZING Inflected form of SULFURIZE

Stop one old sailor getting worse

In decline

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

DIAGONALIZE to transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix.

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

Taking one's sweet time