2-Letter Words Starting with D

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

Decarboxylate

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.""

""CHLORINATION The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.""

Decidability

""The act of changing to a decimal system; as, the decimalization of the British currency.as, the decimalization of the British currency.""

The action of changing from colonial to independent status.

COLORIZATION

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

Decriminalize

FIBRILLATING fibrillate

FIBRILLATION The state of being reduced to fibers.

They shock and bestir frail old rebels

Degranulation

LEGITIMATION The act of making legitimate.

The quality of being deliberate; calm consideration; circumspection.

In a deliberative manner; circumspectly; considerately.

Delightful

Deliquescence

""(mainly tr) to carry (goods, etc.) to a destination, esp to carry and distribute (goods, mail, etc.) to several places to deliver letters our local butcher delivers""

""LOCALIZATION Act of localizing, or state of being localized.""

Delusiveness

""Inflected form of MATERIALIZED Inflected form of MATERIALIZE To invest wich material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.""

Dematerialize

Setting up buffer zones

Demineralizer

Inflected form of MINERALIZING Inflected form of MINERALIZE To transform into a mineral.

Post-war problem for Uncle Sam

The way our country is run

By popular vote

Demolitionist

""The act of corrupting or subverting morals. Especially: The act of corrupting or subverting discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in discipline, courage, etc.; as, the demoralization of an army or navy. as, the demoralization of an army or navy.""

Demoralizing

Demultiplexer

Demyelination

Having mythical elements removed.

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

Demythologize

""Inflected form of NATIONALIZED Inflected form of NATIONALIZE To make national; to make a nation of; to endow with the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a nation.""

Denationalize

""Inflected form of NATURALIZING Inflected form of NATURALIZE To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. as, custom naturalizes labor or study.""

""Pertaining to a denomination, especially to a sect or society.""

Denticulation

Inflected form of NUCLEARIZING Inflected form of NUCLEARIZE

NUMERABILITY

Daydream (wordplay)

Describing how France is divided, become absent-minded (wordplay)

Leave old boys before match, as college's organised, perhaps

Dependable

Inflected form of PERSONALIZED Inflected form of PERSONALIZE To make personal.

Depersonalize

State of being deplorable.

""The act of depriving of polarity, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarized condition.""

Inflected form of POLITICIZING Inflected form of POLITICIZE

""Inflected form of POLYMERIZING Inflected form of POLYMERIZE To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde. polymerize aldehyde.""

Depreciating

Derealization

Adjective (-ic)

I got collar made out of skin

Their "skin game" is legitimate

The removal of salt (especially from sea water); the act or process of desalinating.

Desirability

Desolateness

The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.

""SPIRITUALIZE To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul. as, to spiritualize soul.""

Despiteful

Detailedness

The quality or state of being detestable.

Detonability

Devilishness

Devolutionist

Diabetologist

Diabolical

DIACHRONIC

DIAGENETIC

Diagnostical

Able to be diagonalized; -- of a matrix.

""DIAGRAMMATIC Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a diagram; showing by diagram.""

Dialectology

The study of dialects.

English word

""Having two cotyledons or seed lobes; as, a dicotyledonous plant. as, a dicotyledonous plant.""

Dieselization

Possessing a differential coefficient or derivative; -- of a mathematical expression.

In the way of differentiation.

The administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders.

Dilatability

Dilatoriness

DIMENSIONAL Pertaining to dimension.

Dinitrophenol

""A member of the Dinoflagellata, chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella. The dinoflagellates form a chief constituent of plankton.Dinoflagellata, chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella. The dinoflagellates form a chief constituent of plankton.""

Diphenylamine

Tactful friend in a fray (wordplay)

The property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive to signal arriving from one direction than from another.

""Inflected form of AFFILIATING Inflected form of AFFILIATE To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.""

AFFILIATION Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.

""DISAPPOINTED Defeated of expectation or hope; balked; as, a disappointed person or hope. as, a disappointed person or hope.""

In a disapproving manner.

""ARTICULATED United by, or provided with, articulations; jointed; as, an articulated skeleton. as, an articulated skeleton.""

Disarticulate

One keeping strict control

One who exercises firm control

Martinet

Disciplinary

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

DISCOGRAPHIC

Stains

Cause confusion in performing acid blues to mob

Bale out distraught after dance with doctor, upset

Rebuilding a bomb site could be confusing

Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad.

CONNECTEDLY In a connected manner.

Very sadly put record on so recently

Dejection; grief.

CONTENTEDLY contented

Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.

Discouraging

Discourteous

Disdainful

EMBOWELLING embowel

""The act of disemboweling, or state of being disemboweled; evisceration.""

Disenthrall

""EQUILIBRATE To balance two scales, sides, or ends; to keep even with equal weight on each side; to keep in equipoise.""

EQUILIBRIUM Equality of weight or force; an equipoise or a state of rest produced by the mutual counteraction of two or more forces.

Disestablish

Disestablish

Dissatisfied anger

Disillusion

Reluctance (to do something)

Hell at home: Eastwood embracing a cowgirl showing new reluctance

Disingenuous

Dismantlement

Chaos caused by woman's dictates about poetry

Confusion may be brought about by one's riddles, sir

Not essential; unimportant: dispensable items of personal property.

""DISPENSATION The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration.""

Disputatious

Not respectable; disreputable.

Relating to written work, American cutting production of Tristan and Isolde

Calculated to do disservice or harm; not serviceable; injurious; harmful; unserviceable.

Dissimilation

Dissimilitude

Dissimulation

Want of sociability; unsociableness.

The quality or capacity of being distensible.

Of or pertaining to distribution.

By distribution; singly; not collectively; in a distributive manner.

Plural or third person singular

""Inflammation of a diverticulum or of diverticula in the intestinal tract, causing fecal stagnation and pain.""

Plural or third person singular

A condition characterized by the presence of numerous diverticula in the colon.

Divisibility

Documentalist

The quality of being dogmatical; positiveness.

DOLICHOCEPHAL

DOLOMITIZE DOLOMITE a mineral

Dolorousness

Domiciliation

Dorsiventral

Dorsoventral

DOUBLESPEAKER doublespeak

Doubtfulness

Drapeability

Dreadfulness

Dreamfulness

Drillability

Drinkability

Driveability

Damageability

Dastardliness

DAUNTLESSNESS dauntless

DEATHLESSNESS deathless

The removal of calcareous matter.

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

CARBOXYLATION

CASUALIZATION

""DECEITFULNESS The disposition to deceive; as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual. as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual.""

Dechlorination

Decimalization

Decolonization

Decolorization

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) to break down (organic matter) or (of organic matter) to be broken down physically and chemically by bacterial or fungal action; rot

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

Deductibility

Defeasibility

Military foible

Extreme exposure

Defensibility

Defibrillation

GLAMORIZATION

""INDUSTRIALIZE To make industrial; to develop so that most of the working population is engaged in non-agricultural labor; to develop economically; -- of nations or geographical areas; as, to industrialize underdeveloped nations.as, to industrialize underdeveloped nations.""

Delectability

Delegitimation

Deleterious

""DELICIOUSNESS The quality of being delicious; as, the deliciousness of a repast. as, the deliciousness of a repast.""

DELIGHTEDNESS delighted

DELIRIOUSNESS delirious

Delocalization

""Inflected form of MATERIALIZING Inflected form of MATERIALIZE To invest wich material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.""

Demobilization

Demographical

The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrableness.

""DEMONSTRATION The act of demonstrating; an exhibition; proof; especially, proof beyond the possibility of doubt; indubitable evidence, to the senses or reason.""

With exuberance

Without reticence

Demoralization

Demythologizer

""Inflected form of MYTHOLOGIZING Inflected form of MYTHOLOGIZE To relate, classify, and explain, or attempt to explain, myths; to write upon myths.""

""Inflected form of NATIONALIZING Inflected form of NATIONALIZE To make national; to make a nation of; to endow with the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a nation.""

Create a bureaucracy

Divide into branches of instruction