2-Letter Words Starting with D

Dressmaking

Dentists (wordplay)

Dentists?

Drumbeating

DUMBFOUNDER dumbfound

Dumbfound

""A glassy pink, green, violet, or blue aluminum borosilicate mineral, Al 8 BSi 3 O 19 OH, used in spark-plug ceramics and as imitation lapis lazuli.""

Dynamometer

Any of several instruments used to measure mechanical power.

Difficult and painful menstruation.

Adjective (-ic)

Dysrhythmia

""Harm or injury to property or a person, resulting in loss of value or the impairment of usefulness.""

Decalcomania

English word

Decipherment

Decommission

COMPENSATED receiving or eligible for compensation.

Decompensate

Process of decay

Collapse of French work of art

Putrefaction

Decompress

Cause of sickness if sudden

Reduction in air pressure

Remove the bad meat contained in a stew

Rid of a dangerous substance

Remove pollution from

CRIMINALIZE to declare (an act) to be illegal.

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

Of or pertaining to deformation (in all senses).

Inflected form of GLAMORIZING Inflected form of GLAMORIZE

Dehumidifier

Dehumidify

Delamination

Borderlines

Demagnetizer

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

Demagogical

Demagoguery

Demanding

To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics.

Unearthly beings lifted in possessed dog I medicated

""MILITARIZED Equipped with eapons; armed; -- used of persons, regions, or the military. Contrasted to unarmed and demilitarized.unarmed and demilitarized.""

Demilitarize

Loose women said to mingle with monied men

""MINERALIZED containing or impregnated with minerals; as, mineralized water; red stains that signify mineralized land.as, mineralized water; red stains that signify mineralized land.""

""MINERALIZER An element which is combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. Thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer. mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer.""

Demineralize

Democratizer

DEMOCRATIZE To render democratic.

Demodulation

""DEMOGRAPHIC of or pertaining to demography; as, demographic surveys.as, demographic surveys.""

Demolishment

One razing buildings

Demonization

Of or pertaining to demonology.

Demonologist

Proving that Germany has strong team in match

Fiendish sailor crosses the street protesting

Upset, stand it no more - protest!

How-to event

Picket villain's timeshare

Movie star tend to turn out effusive

Given to expressing one's feelings

Not hiding one's feelings

Demonstrator

MULTIPLEXER multiplex

DEMYELINATE

DEMYELINATE

""To remove the mythical elements from; -- of writings, such as the Bible.""

Joe Pesci's only Oscars gripe (wordplay)

Bills or church groups

Joe Pesci's only Oscars complaint (wordplay)

Denominative

Denouncement

Densitometer

""An apparatus for measuring the optical density of a material, such as a photographic negative.""

""Inflected form of POLYMERIZED 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.""

Depolymerize

Deprogrammer

PROGRAMMING program

Dermabrasion

Dermatology

Skin disease expert

Skin disorder expert

Doctor specialising in skin disorders

Dermatophyte

Desquamation

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

Following on from causes

Having all events springing from causes

Controlled by external causes and not free will

Dethronement

In a damaging manner

Tried out with the mind, causing loss (wordplay)

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

Detumescence

Adverb

Deuterostome

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

Deviationism

A corticosteroid drug used to treat allergies or inflammation.

Diamagnetism

How opposite can you get (wordplay)

How things at opposite extremes are positioned

Absolutely

""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.

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

Dichotomous

Dichromatism

Diffusionism

Dilatometry

Dilettantism

Dimensional

Without dimensions; having no appreciable or noteworthy extent.

Dimerization

Diminishment

""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.

Disaccustom

The act of disaffirming; denial; negation.

Game residents played to create quarrels

U. N. problems.

Differences of opinion

DISAMBIGUATE

Disambiguate

Disassembly

Taking apart

Pulling apart jumble as I had to return flashy jewellery

To remove a load from (a person or animal)

Expenses for constructing emu's bird's-nest

Disclamation

Discomfiture

Discomfort

Discommend

Discomposure

Disconfirm

Want of conformity or correspondence; inconsistency; disagreement.

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

Disembowel

Gutted

I'd seem troubled with burden, beginning to crave to be this (wordplay)

Disendowment

War of insults (wordplay)

Retreat gets demeaning somehow

A separating, releasing

The spoiling of an appearance

Defacement

Disguisement

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

Disinterment

Withdrawal from stocks, shares, etc

Reduction of assets

Withdrawal of, failure to replace, capital

Dislodgement

Demolition

Being cut to pieces

The cutting off of limbs

Separation of limbs

Slight - dig at spearmen (anagram)

Slight to reputation - garden pastime (anagram)

Condemnation, scorn

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

Disremember

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

Act of spreading widely

Scattering process

Spreading, distribution

Disseminator

Disseverment

Difference

DISSIMILATE To render dissimilar.

The act of making dissimilar.

DISSIMILATE To render dissimilar.

A point of difference

Falsely smiling at Sid you ultimately will be pretending

Upper-class girl set about in spreading hypocrisy

Hypocrisy

Dissimulator

Dissymmetry

Divertimento

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

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

Domesticity

DOMICILIATE To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile.

The act of domiciliating; permanent residence; inhabitancy.

Domineering

The creation of artistic drawings.

Same as dramatization.dramatization.

Screenplay, for one

This is how it might have happened (nonverbal)

DRAMATURGIC Relating to dramaturgy.

Dreamless

DUMBFOUNDER dumbfound

Dumortierite

Dynamometry

Dysmenorrhea

Painful menstruation.

Damnableness

Decamethonium

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

(Of ship) taken out of service

""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.""

COMPENSATION The act or principle of compensating.

Decomposition

COMPRESSIONS compression

Reconstructed mine, and acted to clear of pollution

Tainted comedian reformed, one coming out cleaned up

Removed corruption from type of art by crazy tainted man

Decontaminate

""Inflected form of CONTAMINATOR Inflected form of CONTAMINATE To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.""

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

Decriminalize

""FEMINIZATION The act of feminizing, or the state of being feminized.""

HUMANIZATION The act of humanizing.