2-Letter Words Starting with D

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

Douroucouli

DOWNWARD from a higher to a lower place

Doxorubicin

Draftiness

A skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines.

Excitingly, it's a play with jerk close to friend

Scene from Rising? It is caught by friend theatrically!

Silly Tracy, maid hugging everyone in exaggerated fashion

Capable of being dramatized.

Dramaturgy

Abstract noun (-ity)

The quality of being dreadful.

Turreted battleships

DREAMFUL {dreamy=adj}

Dreaminess

Dreariness

Dressiness

Dressmaking

Abstract noun (-ity)

Dentists (wordplay)

Dentists?

Suitable or fit for drinking; potable: drinkable water.

The act of driving.

Drivenness

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

Drowsiness

Drumbeating

Drysaltery

DUMBFOUNDER 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.""

Thickheaded; stupid.

Durability

DWARFISH resembling a {dwarf=n}

Dynamometer

Any of several instruments used to measure mechanical power.

Difficult and painful menstruation.

Dysrhythmia

Early form of photograph

Early photograph

Photo of partygoer dancing with due energy

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

Dangerous

Daredevilry

Darlingness

Wickedness, cruelness

Daunorubicin

""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.

Inflected form of CARBURIZING Inflected form of CARBURIZE To combine wtih carbon or a carbon compound; said esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of valatile hydrocarbons.

Deceleration

Dispersed authority

Decentralize

Inflected form of CEREBRATING Inflected form of CEREBRATE To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

""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

Decipherment

By distinct assertion; not impliedly; in the form of a declaration.

Decompress

Cause of sickness if sudden

Reduction in air pressure

To withdraw from concentration; to decentralize.

Like many a former church, sort succumbing with decadence

Deconsecrate

'97 Bush remix album

CONSTRUCTOR A constructer.

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

""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.""

CRIMINALIZE to declare (an act) to be illegal.

FENESTRATED Having windows; characterized by windows.

Throws (someone) from a window

In a servile manner

The abatement of a fever.

FIBRILLATED Furnished with fibrils; fringed.

Defibrillate

Medical device for stabilising the heart

Device applying current to the chest or heart

Electronic device for restoring normal heart rhythm

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

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

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

Dehumidifier

HYDROGENASE

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

Deleterious

Discussions about imprisonments (wordplay)

Formal discussions

Juries' responsibilities

Delirious

Demagnetizer

Demagoguery

To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics.

""MILITARIZED Equipped with eapons; armed; -- used of persons, regions, or the military. Contrasted to unarmed and demilitarized.unarmed and demilitarized.""

Demilitarize

""MINERALIZED containing or impregnated with minerals; as, mineralized water; red stains that signify mineralized land.as, mineralized water; red stains that signify mineralized land.""

""MINERALIZER An element which is combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. Thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer. mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer.""

Demineralize

Democratizer

DEMOCRATIZE To render democratic.

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

Proving that Germany has strong team in match

Fiendish sailor crosses the street protesting

Upset, stand it no more - protest!

How-to event

Picket villain's timeshare

Movie star tend to turn out effusive

Given to expressing one's feelings

Not hiding one's feelings

Demonstrator

MULTIPLEXER multiplex

NATURALIZED Acclimated to a new environment; introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation; -- of plants or animals not native to a location.

Denaturalize

Denaturation

DENDROLOGIC

Dendrologist

Densitometer

""An apparatus for measuring the optical density of a material, such as a photographic negative.""

Inflected form of NUCLEARIZED Inflected form of NUCLEARIZE

Denuclearize

""The act of depriving of odor, especially of offensive odors resulting from impurities.""

PERSONALIZE To make personal.

""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

Deprecating

Deprecatory

Depreciation

Inflected form of PRESSURIZED Inflected form of PRESSURIZE

Depressurize

Deprogrammer

PROGRAMMING program

Deracination

""REALIZATION The act of realizing, or the state of being realized.""

Deregulation

REPRESSIONS repression

Dermabrasion

Dermatology

Skin disease expert

Skin disorder expert

Doctor specialising in skin disorders

Dermatophyte

Inflected form of SACRALIZING Inflected form of SACRALIZE

Descriptive

Inflected form of SEGREGATING Inflected form of SEGREGATE Separate; select.

The ending of racial separation

Desensitizer

Desideration

The quality of being desirable.

Desperation; virulence.

Dessertspoon

In a ruinous manner

""DESTRUCTIVE Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth. of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth.""

Inflected form of SULFURIZING Inflected form of SULFURIZE

The quality of being desultory or without order or method; unconnectedness.

Stop one old sailor getting worse

In decline

Process of worsening

Decline to put off one formal speech

A progressive worsening

Progressively worsening

Determinacy

DETERMINANT Serving to determine or limit; determinative.

In a determinate manner; definitely; ascertainably.

24 put off people crossing motorway

Firmness of purpose

Resolution to get legal decision

Having power to determine; limiting; shaping; directing; conclusive.

Determinator

Following on from causes

Having all events springing from causes

Controlled by external causes and not free will

Abstract noun (-ity)

Dethronement

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

In a damaging manner

Tried out with the mind, causing loss (wordplay)

Stupidly tried using brain, in a way that's harmful

The character second in importance to the protagonist in classical Greek drama.

Adverb

Deuteranopia

Deuterostome

DEVOLUTION The act of rolling down.

The quality of being dexterous; dexterity.

How opposite can you get (wordplay)

How things at opposite extremes are positioned

Absolutely

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

Diastereomer

Diastrophism

Having the property of transmitting radiant heat; diathermal; opposed to athermanous. athermanous.

Dibenzofuran

Dichromatism

Dictatorial

Third Reich et al.

Items containing ring & pinion gears

Torque-splitting mechanisms in axles

Positraction, Sure-Grip, Detroit Locker, etc. (pl.)

Distinguish (between)

Show where things are not the same

Tell apart

Different

DIGRAPHIC Of or pertaining to a digraph.

""DIGRESSION The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject.""

Dilatometry

Dimerization

Dingleberry

English word

Direction

Directivity

Directorship

Disaccharide

The act of disaffirming; denial; negation.