2-Letter Words Starting with D

Diagnostician

""DIAGRAMMATIC Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a diagram; showing by diagram.""

Dialectology

The study of dialects.

DIASTEREOMER

Diazotization

English word

""Having two cotyledons or seed lobes; as, a dicotyledonous plant. as, a dicotyledonous plant.""

Dieselization

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

The administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders.

Digitoxigenin

Dilatability

Dilatoriness

Motion-sickness preventive

DIMENSIONAL Pertaining to dimension.

The quality of being diminutive; smallness; littleness; minuteness.

""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

""A member of the Dinoflagellata, chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella. The dinoflagellates form a chief constituent of plankton.Dinoflagellata, chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella. The dinoflagellates form a chief constituent of plankton.""

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

Tactful friend in a fray (wordplay)

Directedness

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

Disaccustom

""Inflected form of ADVANTAGING Inflected form of ADVANTAGE Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.""

""Inflected form of AFFILIATING Inflected form of AFFILIATE To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.""

AFFILIATION Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.

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.

DISAMBIGUATE

Removal of uncertainty of meaning

""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

I rang tradesmen after confusion and disorder

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

Disarticulate

""Inflected form of ASSOCIATING Inflected form of ASSOCIATE To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with . as, to associate others with .""

Separation from princess's union

Disconnection, separation

Separation

Disburdenment

""DISCIPLINE The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.""

Stains

Cause confusion in performing acid blues to mob

Bale out distraught after dance with doctor, upset

Rebuilding a bomb site could be confusing

Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad.

Noun (-ment)

CONNECTEDLY In a connected manner.

CONNECTIONS connection

Very sadly put record on so recently

Dejection; grief.

CONTENTEDLY contented

Sadness is something inside people stopping extremes of delight

Diction's modified by subtle difference in end

Hold suggestion after party receives cash

Incandescent with rage? That hides most of our shame

Persuasion (against an action)

That which disheartens

Come in, Ted: 3 will destroy inhibition

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

The act of disembarking.

""The act of disemboweling, or state of being disemboweled; evisceration.""

Process of becoming disillusioned

Lack of faith

End tennis match broken showing loss of enthusiasm

Disengagement

Disenthrall

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

Disestablish

Disestablish

Evidence of harm dubious if string used to bind me

""The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished.""

Dissatisfied anger

Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.

Reluctance (to do something)

Hell at home: Eastwood embracing a cowgirl showing new reluctance

INFESTATION The act of infesting or state of being infested; molestation; vexation; annoyance.

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

Inner cities had become disorderly, getting cut off

INHIBITIONS inhibition

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.

Inflected form of INTOXICATED Inflected form of INTOXICATE Intoxicated.

Disintoxicate

Disinvestment

Disjointed

Dismantlement

Dismemberment

Confusing

Sense of confusion

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

Dispirited

Disproportion

Disputatious

Disquantity

Not respectable; disreputable.

Disruptive

Dissemination

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

Dissimilation

Dissimilitude

Dissimulation

Dissipated

Want of sociability; unsociableness.

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

The quality or capacity of being distensible.

Distinctness

Recognising as different

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

Divisibility

Doctrinairism

Documentalist

Documentarian

Documentarist

Documentation

Dodecaphonist

The quality of being dogmatical; positiveness.

Dogmatization

DOLOMITIZE DOLOMITE a mineral

Domestication

Domiciliation

Dorsiventral

Dorsoventral

Doubtfulness

Draftsmanship

Dramatisation

Dramatization

Drapeability

Drillability

Drinkability

Driveability

Droughtiness

Dryopithecine

Daguerreotypy

Reproducing photos by a former method, on a silver plate

One who takes daguerreotypes.

Damageability

Dastardliness

DAUNTLESSNESS dauntless

""ACIDIFICATION The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid.""

DEATHLESSNESS deathless

The removal of calcareous matter.

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.""

CASUALIZATION

""DECEITFULNESS The disposition to deceive; as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual. as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual.""

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

CERTIFICATION The act of certifying.

Dechlorination

Decimalization

Decolonization

Decolorization

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

""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.

Cleansing, in a way

Activity for the E.P.A.

Removal of harmful substances

One goal of the E.P.A.

The removal of dangerous substances

Decontaminator

""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.""

Deductibility

Defeasibility

DEFECTIVENESS defective

Defeminization

Defenestration

Defensibility

Defibrillation

GLAMORIZATION

Dehumanization

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.""

Delectability

Delegitimation

Deleterious

DELIGHTEDNESS delighted

Delocalization