2-Letter Words Starting with D

Disulfoton

""An advocate of disunion, specifically, of disunion of the United States.""

Divagation

Divebomb

Divergence

Divergent

The quality of being diverse.

Divestment

DIVIDED divide

Divination

DIVISION the act of dividing

DIVISION the act of dividing

Dissolution of the marriage tie; divorce; separation.

Divulgence

Dizziness

Dobsonfly

Trying to impose beliefs

Inflexible in applying theory

Seeking to impose a view

In a doctrinal manner or for; by way of teaching or positive direction.

Factual programme or film

Factual TV programme

Ken Burns-style program

Documenter

Document

""Relating to, composed in, or consisting of twelve-tone music.""

Dodginess

Engaging in aerial combat

DOGGISH {doglike=adj}

Doggoned

Displaying a closed mind

Dogsled

Dogtrot

DOLEFUL {mournful=adj}

DOLLISH {pretty=adj}

""Either of two large slender food and game fish (Coryphaena equisetis or Coryphaena hippurus) of warm waters. They are highly esteemed as food fish, especially in Hawaii, where they are usually referred to as mahimahi. See also dolphin{2}.Coryphaena equisetis or Coryphaena hippurus) of warm waters. They are highly esteemed as food fish, especially in Hawaii, where they are usually referred to as mahimahi. See also dolphin{2}.""

DOLTISH {dull=adj}

Domination

Like a tyrant

Overbearing

Bossy

Dominicker

Donkeywork

DONNISH scholarly

Osmond brawls (wordplay)

Wild fights

Brawls

Doomsaying

Dottiness

Belief in incompatible ideas (Orwell)

Acceptance of opposite opinions (Orwell)

Relative of "disinformation"

The quality of being doughty; valor; bravery.

Fitting together perfectly

Fitting together logically.

Coming together

Dowdiness

Rating lower

Dejected (Are we? No!)

Chicken inside (wordplay)

Low in spirit

Downhiller

Data transfer

Downplay

Downright

DOWNSCALE

Went from second to first, say

Worked a manual transmission

Downstater

Lines drawn from higher to lower positions

Downtowner

Oppressed, being under 11 (wordplay)

Oppressed, badly treated

Oppressed by those in power

""An antibiotic obtained from the bacterium Streptomyces peuceticus, used as an anticancer drug.""

""A broad-spectrum antibiotic, C 22 H 24 N 2 O 8 , derived from tetracycline.""

Four-winged fliers

Part three of the quip

So-called devil's darning needles [2000]

Dragonhead

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.""

One skilled at drawing

Technical plan maker

Chap who makes plans as potential king

Drawers needed for board-games

Those on the board who make plans

Board gamer's fasteners (wordplay)

Cords used to close bags

Assignment for a guitar magazine illustrator (wordplay)

Red and tough (anagram); battleship

Aden drought affected battleship

Famous British battleship.

Fashioning clothes

Metal pin stuck in parts of sinks

Transmission connections

Drizzling

Drollness

DRUMBEAT the sound of a drum

It'll be illegal on the Internet (PC Computing, 1994)

Inebriation

State of being dubious.

Dubitation

Crossing the stage like Chuck Berry

Duennaship

Gobsmacked

Shocked

Dumbfound

Dumfound

Dumpiness

They're dense

Huns - dreaded maybe, though really quite stupid people

Plural or third person singular

DUPLICATE Double; twofold.

Copy of linocut - paid out

Copy of linocut – paid out

Doubling up

""Power of lasting, enduring, or resisting; durability.""

Duskiness

Dustiness

DUTIFUL {obedient=adj}

Dwarfness

In accordance with the principles of dynamics or moving forces.

Power-measuring instrument

Instrument for measuring force

Engine output measuring machine

The art or process of measuring forces doing work.

Dysentery

Abnormal operation

Dyskinesia

Daintiness

The state or quality of deserving damnation; execrableness.

Dapperness

Daringness

English word

Daylighting

Deacidify

ACTIVATING activate

Process of stopping something working

DEADLINESS The quality of being deadly.

Deamination

Debarkation

Causing weakness

""The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness.""

The quality of being debonair; good humor; gentleness; courtesy.

Debouchment

Debridement

Decalcify

The process of transferring pictures or designs printed on specially prepared paper to materials such as glass or metal.

Decantation

DECAPITATE To cut off the head of; to behead.

Strange patina to iced topping

An action that leaves the head isolated

Fate of Anne Boleyn

CARBONATED Combined or impregnated with carbonic acid.

Decarbonate

Inflected form of CARBONIZED 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.

""He who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.""

Decarbonize

Slowing down

A slowing down

Reduction in the going rate

Slowing of velocity

""To prevent from centralizing; to cause to withdraw from the center or place of concentration; to divide and distribute (what has been united or concentrated); esp. said of authority, or the administration of public affairs.""

Decertify

""CHLORINATE To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.""

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

The act of deciphering.

Ability to settle issues

Ability to quickly settle issues

Declamation

Assertions from Aldi: 'Tesco ran badly'

Announcements made when there are enough on the board

Belonging to declension.

Declination

Decollation

COLONIZING colonize

COLORIZING colorize

Body that busted a Brooklyn gangster

Take (eg, a warship) out of operation

Promise not to fire editor coming back to ask journalist to say something

""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

Medicine to unblock the nose

Medicine clearing airways

Catarrh reliever

Decongest

Decongest

Decongest

A cut in churchman's city rank gives cause to become secular

Deconstruct

CONTROLLED control

DECOROUS {proper=adj}

Decreasing

Decrescendo

Decussation

Defalcation

FEMINIZING feminize

Throw someone out of a window

Throw from a window

Throw out of a window

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

Defibrinate

Deficiency

The state of being definite; determinateness; precision; certainty.

Like this crossword

In a definitive manner.

DEFINITIZE

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

Burning away of a substance

Tending to reduce prices in the economy

Defloration

Defoliation

Deforcement

Deformation

Degeneracy

In a degenerate manner; unworthily.

Deteriorating

Worsening state of French breeding

Decline of French production

Decline of French age group

Welsh setback in case of wasting

GLACIATION Act of freezing.

Deglutition

Degradation

English word

Uncommon tastings pre-pared, got us instead

HUMANIZING humanize

Dehydration

Deification

The act or process of removing ions.

Lowness of spirits

LAMINATING laminate

Formation and separation of lamin\'91 or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentiated.

Delectation

Considering adding carpeting to foodstore

PANNING THE COLD CUTS SHOP

Considering rearrest (wordplay)

Long and careful consideration

Thought on the continent of freedom

Not 1 across (as in selected outlets)

Mayo clinic (wordplay)

Tender foreign money around second shop

The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation.

Delineation

So as to fail in duty.

Becoming liquid

LIQUESCING liquesce

Deliverance

LOCALIZING localize

DELUSIVE tending to delude

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

""MAGNETIZER One who, or that which, imparts magnetism.""