2-Letter Words Starting with D

Dislocation

Removal from a fixed position

Dislodgment

Disloyalty

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

Dispirited

Shift hell's location (wordplay)

Amount of movement

Measure of ship's size

Disportment

Disposition

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.""

Disquietude

""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

Lacking public estimation

Not of decent character

Superb detail (anagram) -shady

In a disreputable manner.

Disrespect

Disruptive

Not content, unhappy

Not pleased lady's paid in full

Not contented

Dissatisfy

Occurring in small portions scattered through some other substance.

Disseminate

One who spreads (something) widely

Dissentient

Dissepiment

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

Disseverance.

DISSIMILATE To render dissimilar.

Dissimilate

SIMULATED simulate

Dissimulate

One who dissimulates; a dissembler.

Dissipated

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

SYMMETRIC Symmetrical.

Immoderate.

Distemper

Process producing spirits

Process for producing spirits

Whisky-making process

Laphroaig, Glenfiddich and Macallan

Places with plenty of alcohol

They raise the spirits

Distinction

The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things.

""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

Disunionist

Disutility

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.

""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

The quality of being divisible; the property of bodies by which their parts are capable of separation.

Divisionist

Divorcement

Doctrinaire

DOCUMENT to support by conclusive information

In an arrogant way.

DOLOMITIZE

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}

""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.""

Doublethink

Lose funds but shift suspicion

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

Adjective meaning resembling

Downshift

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)

Turreted battleships

Abstract noun (-ity)

Dentists (wordplay)

Dentists?

Suitable or fit for drinking; potable: drinkable water.

The act of driving.

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

Drumbeating

Drysaltery

""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.""

Duplication

Durability

Dyeability

Dynamometer

Any of several instruments used to measure mechanical power.

Dynastical

Dysfunction

Adjective (-ic)

Dysrhythmia

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.

""Harm or injury to property or a person, resulting in loss of value or the impairment of usefulness.""

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

Wickedness, cruelness

Dauntless

Bomb-squad feats

Deathless

Debilitation

As is a less stimulating cup defeat, faced in a bad way

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

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

Dishonesty

Deceleration

Dispersed authority

Decentralize

Misleading quality

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.

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

COMPENSATED receiving or eligible for compensation.

Decompensate

Process of decay

Collapse of French work of art

Putrefaction

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

""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.""

""That can be deducted, especially with respect to income taxes: deductible expenses.""

""FEASIBILITY The quality of being feasible; practicability; also, that which is feasible; as, before we adopt a plan, let us consider its feasibility. as, before we adopt a plan, let us consider its feasibility.""

Defective

FENESTRATED Having windows; characterized by windows.

Throws (someone) from a window

Capability of being defended.

In a servile manner

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

Of or pertaining to deformation (in all senses).

Degeneration

Deglaciation

""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.""

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

Deionization

Delamination

Greatly pleasing; delightful.

Deleterious

Discussions about imprisonments (wordplay)

Formal discussions

Juries' responsibilities

Delicatessen

Delighted

Borderlines

Demagnetizer

""Inflected form of MAGNETIZING Inflected form of MAGNETIZE To communicate magnetic properties to; as, to magnetize a needle. as, to magnetize a needle.""

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