2-Letter Words Starting with D

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.""

Decorative

Decorousness

Decortication

Decrepitation

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.""

DEFENESTRATE to throw (something or someone) out of a window.

Act of ejecting someone through a window

Act of throwing out of a window

Ejection from a window

Defervescence

FIBRILLATING fibrillate

FIBRILLATION The state of being reduced to fibers.

Defibrination

Definiteness

The quality of being definitive.

Deforestation

Degeneracy.

Degranulation

HUMANIZATION The act of humanizing.

Dehydrogenase

Inflected form of HYDROGENATED Inflected form of HYDROGENATE To hydrogenize.

Dehydrogenate

Dejectedness

LEGITIMATION The act of making legitimate.

The quality of being deliberate; calm consideration; circumspection.

Delightful

Deliquescence

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

Delusiveness

Dementedness

Setting up buffer zones

Demineralizer

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

Post-war problem for Uncle Sam

Demolitionist

""The act of demonetizing, or the condition of being demonetized.""

Shows how modern stations can be designed

Demonstrative

""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

Demyelination

""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.""

NAZIFICATION

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

Densification

Densitometry

Denticulation

Inflected form of NUCLEARIZING Inflected form of NUCLEARIZE

NUMERABILITY

Deodorization

Deoxygenation

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

""PIGMENTATION A deposition, esp. an excessive deposition, of coloring matter; as, pigmentation of the liver. as, pigmentation of the liver.""

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.""

Depravedness

Depreciating

Inflected form of PRESSURIZING Inflected form of PRESSURIZE

Derealization

Derisiveness

Derivative

DERIVATIZE to alter the chemical composition

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

Desegregation

Deservedness

Desirousness

Desolateness

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

Despiteful

One who delights in destroying that which is valuable; one whose principles and influence tend to destroy existing institutions; a destructive.

Detachedness

Detailedness

Deterioration

Determination

Determinative

Determined

The quality or state of being detestable.

Detonability

Process of removing poisons

Deuteragonist

Devilishness

Devolutionist

Dexamethasone

Diabolical

DIACHRONIC

DIAGENETIC

Diagnostical

Diagnostician

Able to be diagonalized; -- of a matrix.

Bearing or yielding diamonds.

Diaphanous

Diazotization

English word

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

Dieffenbachia

Dieselization

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

In the way of differentiation.

Distinguished

Differentiate

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

Digitoxigenin

Digressive

Dilatoriness

Motion-sickness preventive

DIMENSIONAL Pertaining to dimension.

The quality of being diminutive; smallness; littleness; minuteness.

""Any of three isomeric compounds, C 6 H 4 (NO 2 ) 2 , made from a mixture of nitric acid, sulfuric acid, and heated benzene and used in celluloid manufacture, in dyes, and in organic synthesis.""

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

""DIPHTHONGIZE To change into a diphthong, as by affixing another vowel to a simple vowel.""

Directedness

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

Disaccustom

""Inflected form of ADVANTAGING Inflected form of ADVANTAGE Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.""

""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.

Disaffirmance

Inflected form of AGGREGATING Inflected form of AGGREGATE To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. \'bdThe aggregated soil.\'b8aggregated soil.\'b8

The separation of an aggregate body into its component parts.

DISAMBIGUATE

Removal of uncertainty of meaning

Extinctions

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

CID officer's job leads to frustration

Day one's date is a letdown

Letdown (skin)

Intense moral disapproval

In a disapproving manner.

I rang tradesmen after confusion and disorder

""Inflected form of ASSOCIATING Inflected form of ASSOCIATE To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with . as, to associate others with .""

Separation from princess's union

Disconnection, separation

Separation

Disburdenment

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.""

Stains

Noun (-ment)

CONNECTEDLY In a connected manner.

CONNECTIONS connection

Very sadly put record on so recently

Dejection; grief.

CONTENTEDLY contented

Sadness is something inside people stopping extremes of delight

Diction's modified by subtle difference in end

Hold suggestion after party receives cash

Incandescent with rage? That hides most of our shame

Persuasion (against an action)

That which disheartens

Come in, Ted: 3 will destroy inhibition

Discouraging

Discreetness

Discreteness

Showing good judgement

Target of satire in Dr. Seuss's "The Sneetches"

Target of satire in Dr. Seuss's 'The Sneetches'

With record margin, one people showing good judgment

Marking a difference; distinguishing; distinctive; characteristic.

Discriminator

Like Jim Crow laws

Showing prejudice

Edge in a politician with record showing bias

Discursive

Disdainful

The act of disembarking.

EMBOWELLING embowel

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

Process of becoming disillusioned

Lack of faith

End tennis match broken showing loss of enthusiasm

Disencumber

Prevent one from making their mark in the election

(v.) to revoke the license of a business operator

Shires financed unfairly, put beyond the possibility of democratic participation

Disengagement

Disenthrall

Evidence of harm dubious if string used to bind me

Inflected form of FRANCHISING Inflected form of FRANCHISE Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

""The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished.""

Dissatisfied anger

""Inflected form of HARMONIZING 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.""

Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.

Disillusion

Reluctance (to do something)

Hell at home: Eastwood embracing a cowgirl showing new reluctance

INFESTATION The act of infesting or state of being infested; molestation; vexation; annoyance.

Girl's part of a dancing set-up? That's a lie

Disingenuous

Inner cities had become disorderly, getting cut off

INHIBITIONS inhibition

INTEGRATING the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community.

Process of breaking up

Breaking up rioting detains reprobate

INTEGRATIVE tending to combine and coordinate diverse elements into a whole.

Disintegrator

Uninteresting.

Inflected form of INTOXICATED Inflected form of INTOXICATE Intoxicated.

Disintoxicate

Disinvestment

Disjointed

Dismantlement

Dismemberment

Disordered

Chaos caused by woman's dictates about poetry

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

Confusing