2-Letter Words Starting with D

Distemper

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

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

Doublespeak

A skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines.

Abstract noun (-ity)

Duplication

Adjective (-ic)

Early form of photograph

Early photograph

Photo of partygoer dancing with due energy

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

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

Misleading quality

Decipherment

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

""Inflected form of CREPITATING Inflected form of CREPITATE To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap.""

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

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

MULTIPLEXER multiplex

Trustworthiness

PERSONALIZE To make personal.

Inflected form of POLITICIZED Inflected form of POLITICIZE

Depoliticize

""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

Depopulation

Deprecating

Deprecatory

Depreciation

Inflected form of PRESSURIZED Inflected form of PRESSURIZE

Depressurize

Deprogrammer

PROGRAMMING program

Deputization

REPRESSIONS repression

Dermatophyte

Descriptive

Desperation; virulence.

Despoliation

Despondency

Dessertspoon

Deuteranopia

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

Diaphaneity

""Pertaining to a diaphragm; as, diaphragmatic respiration; the diaphragmatic arteries and nerves. as, diaphragmatic respiration; the diaphragmatic arteries and nerves.""

Diastrophism

Third Reich et al.

DIGRAPHIC Of or pertaining to a digraph.

Dilapidation

English word

""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.""

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

Diphthongize

Of or pertaining to dipsomania.

Directorship

Exit (maybe into thin air)

Act of vanishing

Act of becoming invisible

Failing to satisfy

Not as good as one had hoped

Discipleship

Capable of being disciplined or improved by instruction and training.

Discographer

Discography

Discomposure

Discrepancy

Slight - dig at spearmen (anagram)

Slight to reputation - garden pastime (anagram)

Condemnation, scorn

In a manner to disparage or dishonor; slightingly.

Disparate

... changing pants, idea is so cool

Not affected by personal feelings

Objective is emotion filling court

Dispensation

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

Designed to be disposed of after use: disposable diapers; disposable razors.

Pertaining to disposition.

Dispossess

What the devil has got hold of the inspector with all this eviction (wordplay)

Dispossessor

By way of dispraise.

Lack of pleasing relation between parts of a whole

Lacking in courtesy

Lacking courtesy

Impolite

Disrespect

Dodecaphony

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

Dolphinfish

Doubles

Ringers

Doublespeak

The creation of artistic drawings.

Draftsperson

Drapability

Of or belonging to the genus Dryopithecus.

Duplicitous

Dyspeptical

""DAGUERREOTYPE An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury.""

Daguerreotype

""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

Decrepitation

Demultiplexer

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

Adjective (-ic)

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

Diaphanous

Dinitrophenol

Diphenylamine

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

Tactful friend in a fray (wordplay)

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.

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

Disparagement

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.""

Dispensatory

Dispersive

Dispirited

POSSESSIONS possession

Disproportion

Disputatious

Not respectable; disreputable.

Disruptive

Dissipated

""Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air. as, the distemperature of the air.""

Dodecaphonist

DOLICHOCEPHAL

DOUBLESPEAKER doublespeak

Draftsmanship

Drapeability

Dryopithecine

Daguerreotypy

Reproducing photos by a former method, on a silver plate

One who takes daguerreotypes.

DECEPTIVENESS The power or habit of deceiving; tendency or aptness to deceive.

Decompensation

(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

Demographical

Create a bureaucracy

Divide into branches of instruction

Dependability

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

""Inflected form of PHOSPHORYLATE Inflected form of PHOSPHORYL The radical PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds. PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds.""

Depigmentation

Depolarization

Science of fingerprints

Study of fingerprints no repeated letters (nonverbal)

Descriptive

DESPERATENESS Desperation; virulence.

""Inflected form of SPIRITUALIZED Inflected form of 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.""

Despiritualize

Tense about wild fun in baths with little liquid

As much as can be eaten in one go during the final course of a meal (wordplay)

Rene's old fusspot, pouring out measure of liquid in kitchen

Developmental

DIASTROPHIC

English word

DISAPPOINTING disappoint

Diana's schedule leads to setbacks

They don't meet expectations

Frustrations

Disapprobation

They demand exact conformity to rules

Are they responsible for enforcement orders (wordplay)

Martinets

DISPARATENESS disparate

Calmly and coolly.

With calm

Unfeeling

Disposability

I'd poor part - lion's share when 29

Lacking size relationship

Disproportion

The state of being disreputable.

Scruples I deftly dealt with, showing no consideration for another

Distemperature

DOLICHOCEPHAL