2-Letter Words Starting with D

Disapprover

Builder providing spa is critical

Critical of detective's program going out of range

Cut off from detective's sidekick

Sever ties, as with a group

Disconnect, separate

Disastrous

Disbowel

A disavowing or disowning.

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Phonograph Records

Discomfit

Uneasy or embarrassed state

Embarrassment

Embarrassment.

Made uneasy

Discommend

DISCOMMODE To put inconvenience; to incommode; to trouble.

COMPOSING compose

The state of being discomposed; disturbance; disorder; agitation; perturbation.

Germany is united - and worried!

Second credit (anagram) - thrown

Disturbed the composure of

Disconfirm

Lacking a logical sequence

(Of speech) lacking a logical sequence

Underworld had contacts, or perhaps it didn't

Record terribly neat solo, getting down!

Merges into a big company

Sad; beyond comfort

Experiencing dissatisfaction

Unhappy woman's against temporary home provided by man

Party with any number under canvas makes one unhappy

No longer produced

Can no longer order detectives to press on with head of department

Stops selling record, not in use after remix

Discordance

Discordant

Where go-go crowds go.

Girl's payments, of a kind, covering old-time musical entertainment

""Capable of being, or suitable to be, discounted; as, certain forms are necessary to render notes discountable at a bank. as, certain forms are necessary to render notes discountable at a bank.""

Discourager

Putting (someone) off

Dashing hopes, record the passing of our youth (wordplay)

With noisy entertainment old city getting older is off-putting

Rude detective imprisons one polite type

Rude, inconsiderate

Ill-mannered

""Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry. as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.""

Diseconomy

Disembody

EMBOGUING embogue

Disembowel

The taking away of funds and property (from an established church)

Disfunction

Disharmony

""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.""

Dishonesty

Base (for an American)

Shameful way to leave the service

Disillusion

Medical safeguard against underworld disease

A reduction in the rate of price increases; a lessening of inflationary pressure.

Not straightforward or candid

Not sincere

Disguise noun out of hand? That's not fair!

Disjointed

Disjunction

Dislocation

Removal from a fixed position

Dislodgment

Disloyalty

Bad-mouth good behavior (wordplay)

The failure to comply

Failure to do as one's told

Disordered

ORGANIZED organize

Disorganize

Is East in time for puzzle (wordplay)

Cause to lose bearings

Cause (someone) to lose their bearings

Disorient

Exemption (from a rule)

Exemption (from the usual requirements)

Exemption (from usual requirement)

Girl with something to tell? Writes article in that medical book

Disportment

Disposition

Deprived of land/property

Bereft by Berryman

Deprived of property or land

Dispossess

One who dispossesses.

Debates ain't so stupid if appropriately organised

Sidney comes back to position nations to release new arguments

""Inclined to dispute; apt to civil or controvert; characterized by dispute; as, a disputatious person or temper. as, a disputatious person or temper.""

""A formal or systematic inquiry into, or discussion of, any subject; a full examination or investigation of a matter, with the arguments and facts bearing upon it; elaborate essay; dissertation.""

Disrelation

One who spreads (something) widely

Essay may be seen as sanitised rot

Essay for a degree or diploma

To a degree you have to defend it

Dissertator

One who dissimulates; a dissembler.

Dissipation

""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.""

Action of separating

Tending or leading to dissociation.

Dissolution

Process producing spirits

Process for producing spirits

Whisky-making process

Distinction

""DISTORTION The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or body. as, the distortions of the face or body.""

Distraction

Most of the issue is charged and leads to handouts

Apportionment

Give out to missing Egyptian leader on charge of supplying demand

Distributor

Disunionist

A separation into two parts or branches; a forking; a divergence.

Intended to distract attention

Programme in radio's very distracting

Like some tactics journal containing one account

""DIVERSION The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business. as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business.""

Light musical piece

Light orchestral work

Piece of music Verdi arranged, with tempo not changed

Divisionism

Divisionist

Divorcement

Doctrinaire

DOCUMENT to support by conclusive information

""Pertaining to, or like, a dodecahedion; consisting of twelve equal sides.""

Twelve-faced solid

Any polyhedron having 12 plane faces

Hooded dancer in motion revealing solid figure

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

Doggedness

In an arrogant way.

DOLOMITIZE

DOLOROUS {mournful=adj}

In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs.

Eddie's tomcat might well be!

Tamed like a pet

Accustomed to home life

Domesticate

DOMICILIATE To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile.

Domiciliate

DOMINATE to {control=v}

DOPAMINE a form of dopa used to stimulate the heart

Ghostly double of a live person

Living person's double

Ghostly lookalike of a human

""Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral. dorsiventral.""

Of or involving both the back and the side.

""From the dorsal to the ventral side of an animal; as, the dorsoventral axis. as, the dorsoventral axis.""

Back-to-back baseball games

July 4th tradition.

Marathon at Camden Yards

Doubleness

Doublespeak

Doublethink

Lose funds but shift suspicion

Suspicion this is open to debate on four points, one of them repeated

Adjective meaning resembling

Douroucouli

Dovishness

Is not up to getting delivery from talented type that's accessible from the net

Downshift

DOWNWARD from a higher to a lower place

Doxorubicin

Doxycycline

A skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines.

Turreted battleships

A state of dryness of the weather; want of rain.

Drowsiness

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.""

The cardinal number equal to 10 39 .

Duplication

Dynamometer

Any of several instruments used to measure mechanical power.

Dysfunction

Difficult and painful menstruation.

Dactylology

Early form of photograph

Early photograph

Photo of partygoer dancing with due energy

The art or process of producing pictures by method of Daguerre.

""-fies , -fying , -fied (tr) to dress like or cause to resemble a dandy dandification   n""

Dangerous

Daunorubicin

Bomb-squad feats

Debilitation

Decalcomania

English word

One could say they headed off last month, so I paint at random

""Inflected form of CARBONATING Inflected form of CARBONATE A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of lead ore, etc.""

CARBONATION

Decarbonizer

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.

CARBOXYLASE

CARBOXYLATE to treat a chemical compound with carboxyl or carboxylic acid.

Deceleration

""CEREBRATION Action of the brain, whether conscious or unconscious.""

""Inflected form of CHLORINATED Inflected form of CHLORINATE To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.""

Dechlorinate

The quality or state of being deciduous.

""DECLINATION The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. as, declination of the head.""

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

To withdraw from concentration; to decentralize.

Decondition

They may help folk get things off their chest

CONGESTIONS congestion

Like many a former church, sort succumbing with decadence

Deconsecrate

'97 Bush remix album

CONSTRUCTOR A constructer.

Remove the bad meat contained in a stew

Rid of a dangerous substance

Remove pollution from

CONTROLLING control

""DECORTICATE To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull.""

""The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat.""

Decorticator

""The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting.""

Medical device for stabilising the heart

Device applying current to the chest or heart

Electronic device for restoring normal heart rhythm

The act or process of depriving of fibrin.

Deflagration

Asteroid often crashed clearing a lot of trees

Change of trees into a wasteland, ultimately (wordplay)

Author filing first of reports on rank destruction of natural resources

""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).

Degeneration

Deglaciation

Inflected form of GLAMORIZING Inflected form of GLAMORIZE

""GRANULATION The act or process of forming or crystallizing into grains; as, the granulation of powder and sugar. as, the granulation of powder and sugar.""

Degringolade

HYDROGENASE

""To deprive of, or free from, hydrogen.""

Deinonychus

Deionization

Delamination

Deleterious

Discussions about imprisonments (wordplay)

Formal discussions

Juries' responsibilities

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

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