2-Letter Words Starting with D

""Denoting desire; as, desiderative verbs. as, desiderative verbs.""

Desipramine

Attractiveness

The state of being desirous.

Despairing

Desperation

It makes a fool disappear

Sweet to make love with one from the canteen

It's sweet to make love together, lying perhaps on the table

Able to be demolished

Easily destroyed

Is capable of being spoiled in the little pig's house of straw presumably

Destruction

Inflected form of SULFURIZED Inflected form of SULFURIZE

Desulfurize

Detergency

Went from bad to worse

Worsens

Capable of being decided upon

Capable of being fixed to put off a nimble arrangement

TERMINABLY

Determinant

One who determines.

In a determined manner; with determination.

Determinism

Determinist

Toppling of a king

Removal from power

Removal of bishop from the highest seat in the land (wordplay)

Detractive

Detrainment

DETRIBALIZE to cause (members of a tribe) to lose their cultural identity and adopt other customs.

Detribalize

Detrimental

Deuteranope

A form of colorblindness characterized by insensitivity to green.

DEUTERANOPE

Deuteration

English word

Deverbative

Devitrify

See Dextrotatory. Dextrotatory.

""Relating to, or exhibiting, diageotropism.""

""A plan, sketch, drawing, or outline designed to demonstrate or explain how something works or to clarify the relationship between the parts of a whole.""

In the form of a simplified drawing

Graphic figure has many a convulsion

Diaphoretic

Comparative adjective or agent noun

""Geology the process of movement that causes the earth’s crust to form continents, mountains, oceans, etc. ; diastrophe , n . ; diastrophic , adj . Earth""

Diatessaron

English word

Containing two carboxyl groups per molecule.

Dichlorvos

The state of being dichromatic.

Dichroscope

It's not popular, as a rule

Form of rule

Stalin's fashionable way of governing

Books for every term

Sign on delivery for reference books

Students may use them for every term

""DIFFERENCE The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or unlike; distinction; dissimilarity; unlikeness; variation; as, a difference of quality in paper; a difference in degrees of heat, or of light; what is the difference between the innocent and the guilty? as, a difference of quality in paper; a difference in degrees of heat, or of light; what is the difference between the innocent and the guilty?""

Plural of differentia .

Sort of gear - sort of equation

Distinguishing; type of gear, calculus

Gear found on the rear axle of cars

Diffraction

Diglyceride

""Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.""

By way of digression.

Dilatometer

An instrument used to measure thermal expansion and dilation in solids and liquids.

Procrastinator's fault

Sort ladies in ground being slow

Oldster is in a muddle, not knowing which course to take (wordplay)

Dimercaprol

""DIMERIZE to make into a dimer, also DIMERISE""

""Pertaining to, or connected with, diphtheria.""

Diphtheroid

Dipterocarp

DIRECTED direct

Directness

Directorate

The condition or office of a director; directorate.

Directress

Double sugar / Travel freely? merger (nonverbal)

Disaccord

Disaffirm

Separate into component parts

With beagles, a ride turned out nasty

Like some weather.

End of the quote

In a disagreeable manner; unsuitably; offensively.

Demagnetiser smashed in quarrel

Row of detectives with squad in a salute

Quarrel leading to underworld contract

*Part of many a magic act

Fading rum dip gains when fruit is added

Doctor finally is paged and pain unexpectedly is vanishing

Disapproval

Disapprover

Builder providing spa is critical

Critical of detective's program going out of range

Disarmament

ARRANGING arrange

Disastrous

Disbeliever

Disburden

Payment of money from a fund

Partner having left, really in debt, sums wasted, money spent!

In a discerning manner; with judgment; judiciously; acutely.

Discernment

Relating to rules of conduct

Revulsive love photos in journal about correction

Discipliner

Phonograph Records

Phonograph Records

Uneasy or embarrassed state

Embarrassment

Embarrassment.

Made uneasy

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

Germany is united - and worried!

Second credit (anagram) - thrown

Disturbed the composure of

Disconfirm

Discordance

Discordant

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.""

Discredit

DISCREET {tactful=adj}

Discrepant

DISCRETE separate

The eliminant of the n partial differentials of any homogenous function of n variables. See Eliminant. n partial differentials of any homogenous function of n variables. See Eliminant.

Use taste and judgment (or prejudice)

Understand the difference (between)

Perceive a difference (between)

Discursive

Bad-mouth travel (wordplay)

""To free from embarrassment, or perplexity; to clear; to extricate.""

""One who, or that which, disenchants.""

Disencumber

Disenthrall

""To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular privilege, as of voting, holding office, etc.""

Disfurnish

Disfurnish

GRUNTLING gruntle

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.""

Down - becoming dn (wordplay)

Having lost determination or confidence

Upset, she denied art was constructive

Base (for an American)

Shameful way to leave the service

Not allowed to succeed (wordplay)

The victims of 9 (wordplay)

Written out of a will

Fall apart - it isn't agreed (anagram)

Agreed it isn't about to fall apart!

Setter aiding anagram break up

Disinterest

Digging up (of a body)

The digging up of a body

Exhumation

Disinter

Disjuncture

Taking (body) apart

Disordered

ORGANIZED organize

Disorganize

Is East in time for puzzle (wordplay)

Cause to lose bearings

Cause (someone) to lose their bearings

Disorient

Dispensary

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

Dispersive

Dispirited

Displeasure

Disportment

One who dispossesses.

Neglect; negligent; heedless; regardless.

Ignoring dangers, rigid surprisingly

Disrelation

Disrelish

Disremember

Lacking public estimation

Not of decent character

Superb detail (anagram) -shady

In a disreputable manner.

Disrespect

Disruptive

One who spreads (something) widely

DISSERTATE To deal in dissertation; to write dissertations; to discourse.

Essay may be seen as sanitised rot

Essay for a degree or diploma

To a degree you have to defend it

Dissertator

The act of disserving; separation.

Disseverance.

In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style.

One who dissimulates; a dissembler.

SYMMETRIC Symmetrical.

Immoderate.

Distemper

Laphroaig, Glenfiddich and Macallan

Places with plenty of alcohol

They raise the spirits

""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.""

""TRACTABLE Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner. as, tractable children; a tractable learner.""

Disjointedly; madly.

Capable of being drawn aside or distracted.

Distraction

""Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained.""

Distraught

Tending to distribute or be distributed; that distributes; distributive.

Distributee

Handing out

Most of the issue is charged and leads to handouts

Apportionment

Give out to missing Egyptian leader on charge of supplying demand

Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper share.

Distributor

Gambles crossing street of city in riots

Riots

Disturbing

Ditchdigger

""Of or relating to a verb that takes or can take two objects, as begrudge in I don't begrudge you your good luck, or find in She found him a job.""

DIURETIC a drug which increases urinary discharge

DIVARICATE To part into two branches; to become bifid; to fork.

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

Divergency

Diversifier

I had turned up poet's work showing more variety

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.""

Pertaining to a diverticulum.

A blind tube branching out of a longer one.

Pl. divertimentos or divertimenti (-t ) A chiefly 18th-century form of instrumental chamber music having several short movements. Also called divertissement .

Light musical piece

Light orchestral work

Piece of music Verdi arranged, with tempo not changed

Divestiture

Divorcement

Doctrinaire

""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

DOLOROUS {mournful=adj}

DOMINATE to {control=v}