2-Letter Words Starting with D

Magazine diet not working, an unattractive process (wordplay)

""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.""

Demobilization

DEMOCRATIZE To render democratic.

Demonetization

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

""MYSTIFICATION The act of mystifying, or the state of being mystied; also, something designed to, or that does, mystify.""

Demythologizer

""Inflected form of MYTHOLOGIZING Inflected form of MYTHOLOGIZE To relate, classify, and explain, or attempt to explain, myths; to write upon myths.""

""Inflected form of NATIONALIZING Inflected form of NATIONALIZE To make national; to make a nation of; to endow with the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a nation.""

Denazification

""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

Dependability

""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.""

Depigmentation

Depolarization

Derivatization

Science of fingerprints

Study of fingerprints no repeated letters (nonverbal)

SACRALIZATION

Desalinization

Descriptive

Loss of feeling

Dust-bowl action

SEXUALIZATION

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

STABILIZATION

DESTITUTENESS Destitution.

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

Detachability

Detectability

Rolling die near men tests predictability

Deterrability

Detoxification

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

Deuteranomaly

Adjective (-ous)

Developmental

""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.

DIAGONALIZE to transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix.

The study of dialects.

Dialectologist

""(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

Dichloroethane

DICHOTOMIZE To cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect.

Dichotomous

Imperious quality

Differentiate

Distinction between multiple things

Mathematical process

Something A-level maths student does to achieve distinction

DIFFERENTNESS different

Diffractometer

Adjective (-ic)

Digestibility

Digitalization

Dimenhydrinate

Dinitrobenzene

Dinoflagellate

Unfavorable

Unfavourable

Disaffiliation

Disaggregation

Disambiguation

DISAPPOINTING disappoint

Diana's schedule leads to setbacks

They don't meet expectations

Frustrations

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.

Withdrawals

Rotten bad time? Could sob - so upset!

All there, but not altogether

All shook up

Throws into confusion

Upsets in party - then see a mob bustle about

Confuses though most basic, double confused

So as to ruffle some feathers

Girl alone embracing musical performance in an embarrassing way

Disconcertment

Disconformity

Disconsolation

Unhappy states

Discontinuance

Bad-mouth longevity (wordplay)

Interruption, as of a subscription

Breach

Discontinuity

With interruptions.

Took a dim view of

Wicked conduct, as in Eden, not approved of

Shows disapproval of

Abashes

Discouragement

Discrimination

Landings.

Disembowelment

ENCHANTINGLY enchanting

Disenchantment

Removal of twists and knots

Unravelling; process of setting free

Extrication

EQUILIBRATED

Disequilibrate

Withdrawing support, as from a church

Disfurnishment

Disgruntlement

HEARTENINGLY heartening

Disheartenment

Learning that there's no Santa Claus

State of disenchantment

Result of shattered ideals

Disinclination

Disinfestation

""Inflected form of INFLATIONARY Inflected form of INFLATION The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement.""

Disinformation

Acts against heirs

Acts of deteriorating

In a disinterested manner; without bias or prejudice.

""INTOXICATING Producing intoxication; as, intoxicating liquors. as, intoxicating liquors.""

""INTOXICATION A poisoning, as by a spirituous or a narcotic substance.""

Lack of systematic arrangement.

Confusion

Disorientation

DISPARATENESS disparate

Calmly and coolly.

With calm

Unfeeling

Disposability

I'd poor part - lion's share when 29

Lacking size relationship

Disproportion

The state of being disreputable.

Scruples I deftly dealt with, showing no consideration for another

Rap a Rolling Stones classic (wordplay)

Anger over Sidney getting compensation

Discontent; uneasiness

Causing dissatisfaction; unable to give content; unsatisfactory; displeasing.

Differences in appearance.

Contrasts left one girl upset in diaries about sex

DISSOLUTENESS State or quality of being dissolute; looseness of morals and manners; addictedness to sinful pleasures; debauchery; dissipation.

The quality of being offensive

Distemperature

State of being distinctive.

""Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub.""

So as to be distinguished.

(tr) (often passive) to draw the attention of (a person) away from something

Distressful

Distrustful

DITHIOCARBAMATE

""DITHYRAMBIC Pertaining to, or resembling, a dithyramb; wild and boisterous.""

One objective of fund management

Business practice stressing variety

Portfolio manager's quest

Divertissement

DOCUMENTATION

Dolomitization

""DORSIVENTRAL Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral. dorsiventral.""

""DORSOVENTRAL From the dorsal to the ventral side of an animal; as, the dorsoventral axis. as, the dorsoventral axis.""

DOUBTLESSNESS doubtless

Feeling of low spirits and sadness

Blue state

Dejection

DOWNRIGHTNESS downright

Dramaturgical

DYSLOGISTIC Unfavorable; not commendatory; opposed to eulogistic. eulogistic.

Process of downgrading secret documents