2-Letter Words Starting with D

Bearing or yielding diamonds.

DIASTEREOMER

English word

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

In the way of differentiation.

Distinguished

Differentiate

""(Physics / General Physics) Physics an instrument used in studying diffraction, as in the determination of crystal structure by diffraction of X-rays""

Measurement related

Digressive

Dilatoriness

Motion-sickness preventive

""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

Directedness

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

""An enzyme, such as invertase or lactase, that catalyzes the hydrolysis of disaccharides to monosaccharides.""

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.

AGGREGATIVE Taken together; collective.

Extinctions

Intense moral disapproval

In a disapproving manner.

I rang tradesmen after confusion and disorder

""ARTICULATED United by, or provided with, articulations; jointed; as, an articulated skeleton. as, an articulated skeleton.""

Disarticulate

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.""

DISCOGRAPHIC

Stains

Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad.

Noun (-ment)

Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.

Persuasion (against an action)

That which disheartens

Come in, Ted: 3 will destroy inhibition

Discouraging

Discourteous

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

The act of disembarking.

Disembarrass

Disembarrass

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

Disenthrall

""EQUILIBRATE To balance two scales, sides, or ends; to keep even with equal weight on each side; to keep in equipoise.""

EQUILIBRIUM Equality of weight or force; an equipoise or a state of rest produced by the mutual counteraction of two or more forces.

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.

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

Inner cities had become disorderly, getting cut off

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.

Dismemberment

Disordered

Chaos caused by woman's dictates about poetry

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

Confusing

Sense of confusion

Disparagement

Dispensatory

Dispersive

Dispirited

Disproportion

Disremember

Not respectable; disreputable.

Disruptive

Relating to written work, American cutting production of Tristan and Isolde

Calculated to do disservice or harm; not serviceable; injurious; harmful; unserviceable.

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

Distributary

Of or pertaining to distribution.

By distribution; singly; not collectively; in a distributive manner.

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

Plural or third person singular

""Inflammation of a diverticulum or of diverticula in the intestinal tract, causing fecal stagnation and pain.""

Plural or third person singular

A condition characterized by the presence of numerous diverticula in the colon.

Fun and games

Minor entertainment

Doctrinairism

Documentarian

Documentarist

Dolorousness

Dorsiventral

Dorsoventral

DOUBLESPEAKER doublespeak

Downwardness

Draftsmanship

Dramatisation

Dramatization

Drapeability

Dreadfulness

Dreamfulness

Drillability

Drinkability

Driveability

Droughtiness

Dryopithecine

DUMBFOUNDER dumbfound

Dwarfishness

Daguerreotypy

Reproducing photos by a former method, on a silver plate

One who takes daguerreotypes.

DANGEROUSNESS dangerous

Dastardliness

Inflected form of CARBOXYLATING Inflected form of CARBOXYLATE to treat a chemical compound with carboxyl or carboxylic acid.

CARBOXYLATION

""The act, process, or result of decarburizing.""

CERTIFICATION The act of certifying.

Dechlorination

Decolorization

""Inflected form of CONCENTRATING Inflected form of CONCENTRATE To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of light into a focus; to concentrate the attention. as, to concentrate rays of light into a focus; to concentrate the attention.""

Act of deconcentrating.

Deconsecration

Inflected form of CONSTRUCTIONS Inflected form of CONSTRUCTION The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.

Decontaminator

Inflected form of CRIMINALIZING Inflected form of CRIMINALIZE to declare (an act) to be illegal.

""DIFFERENTIATE To distinguish or mark by a specific difference; to effect a difference in, as regards classification; to develop differential characteristics in; to specialize; to desynonymize.""

Defenestration

Defibrillation

GLAMORIZATION

Inflected form of HYDROGENATING Inflected form of HYDROGENATE To hydrogenize.

""The act or process or freeing from hydrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of hydrogen.""

""INDUSTRIALIZE To make industrial; to develop so that most of the working population is engaged in non-agricultural labor; to develop economically; -- of nations or geographical areas; as, to industrialize underdeveloped nations.as, to industrialize underdeveloped nations.""

Deleterious

DELIRIOUSNESS delirious

""Inflected form of MATERIALIZING Inflected form of MATERIALIZE To invest wich material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.""

Demisemiquaver

DEMOCRATIZE To render democratic.

Demographical

The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrableness.

""DEMONSTRATION The act of demonstrating; an exhibition; proof; especially, proof beyond the possibility of doubt; indubitable evidence, to the senses or reason.""

With exuberance

Without reticence

Demoralization

Demythologizer

""The act or process of freeing from nitrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of nitrogen.""

Create a bureaucracy

Divide into branches of instruction

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.""

Depolarization

Derivatization

Science of fingerprints

Study of fingerprints no repeated letters (nonverbal)

SACRALIZATION

Descriptive

Dust-bowl action

DESIRABLENESS The quality of being desirable.

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

The quality of being capable of destruction; destructibleness.

Destructionist

Vandal's trait

Malevolent nature

Ruinous quality

Destructivity

DESULFURIZE SULFURIZE SULFUR a non metallic element

Desultoriness

Rolling die near men tests predictability

Deterrability

The act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living.

Deuteranomaly

Adjective (-ous)

""The act or process of devitrifying, or the state of being devitrified. Specifically, the conversion of molten glassy matter into a stony mass by slow cooling, the result being the formation of crystallites, microbites, etc., in the glassy base, which are then called devitrification products. devitrification products.""

DEXTEROUSNESS The quality of being dexterous; dexterity.

""(Chemistry) Chem a type of isomer that differs in the spatial arrangement of atoms in the molecule, but is not a mirror image; a stereoisomer that is not an enantiomer""

DIASTROPHIC

English word

Dichloroethane

Imperious quality

Differentiate

Distinction between multiple things

Mathematical process

Something A-level maths student does to achieve distinction

DIFFERENTNESS different

Diffractometer

Adjective (-ic)

Dimenhydrinate

Dinitrobenzene

English word

Disaccharidase

Disaggregation

Disapprobation

Disarrangement

Inflected form of ARTICULATING Inflected form of ARTICULATE Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

ARTICULATION A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton.

They demand exact conformity to rules

Are they responsible for enforcement orders (wordplay)

Martinets

So as to ruffle some feathers

Girl alone embracing musical performance in an embarrassing way

Disconcertment

Disconformity