2-Letter Words Starting with D

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

""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.""

Upset, stand it no more - protest!

How-to event

Picket villain's timeshare

DEMYELINATE

An increase in the density of something.

The state of being set with small notches or teeth.

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

The act or operation of depriving of oxygen.

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

The ending of racial separation

Process of worsening

Decline to put off one formal speech

A progressive worsening

24 put off people crossing motorway

Firmness of purpose

Resolution to get legal decision

Doctor aiding actions abroad

Identifier of illnesses

In row, sceptic repulsed excellent health care worker

""DIAZOTIZE To subject to such reactions or processes that diazo compounds, or their derivatives, shall be produced by chemical exchange or substitution.""

DIESELIZE DIESEL to continue running after ignition is turned off

English word

The act of changing the natural color

Removal of electricity supply

Act of breaking a link

Complete break - relative can go to the devil!

Disinhibit

What the devil has got hold of the inspector with all this eviction (wordplay)

Lack of pleasing relation between parts of a whole

Act of spreading widely

Scattering process

Spreading, distribution

The act of making dissimilar.

Upper-class girl set about in spreading hypocrisy

Hypocrisy

One that makes documentaries or a documentary.

Concerted action mounted by the papers

Written papers

DOGMATIZE To assert positively; to teach magisterially or with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance.

If it's wild, you might get to this by train round the top to begin with

The act of domiciliating; permanent residence; inhabitancy.

Same as dramatization.dramatization.

Screenplay, for one

This is how it might have happened (nonverbal)

""CHLORINATION The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.""

""The act of changing to a decimal system; as, the decimalization of the British currency.as, the decimalization of the British currency.""

The action of changing from colonial to independent status.

COLORIZATION

COMPENSATION The act or principle of compensating.

CONSECRATION The act or ceremony of consecrating; the state of being consecrated; dedication.

Method of critical analysis of literary texts

Label that released hits by M-People, Kylie Minogue etc.

""FEMINIZATION The act of feminizing, or the state of being feminized.""

Act of ejecting someone through a window

Act of throwing out of a window

Ejection from a window

FIBRILLATION The state of being reduced to fibers.

HUMANIZATION The act of humanizing.

LEGITIMATION The act of making legitimate.

""LOCALIZATION Act of localizing, or state of being localized.""

Post-war problem for Uncle Sam

""The act of demonetizing, or the condition of being demonetized.""

""The act of corrupting or subverting morals. Especially: The act of corrupting or subverting discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in discipline, courage, etc.; as, the demoralization of an army or navy. as, the demoralization of an army or navy.""

NAZIFICATION

""PIGMENTATION A deposition, esp. an excessive deposition, of coloring matter; as, pigmentation of the liver. as, pigmentation of the liver.""

""The act of depriving of polarity, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarized condition.""

DERIVATIZE to alter the chemical composition

The removal of salt (especially from sea water); the act or process of desalinating.

Process of removing poisons

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

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

The separation of an aggregate body into its component parts.

Removal of uncertainty of meaning

Intense moral disapproval

Separation from princess's union

Disconnection, separation

Separation

One keeping strict control

One who exercises firm control

Martinet

Dejection; grief.

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

The act of disembarking.

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

Process of breaking up

Breaking up rioting detains reprobate

Sense of confusion

DOLOMITIZE DOLOMITE a mineral

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

The removal of calcareous matter.

CARBOXYLATION

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

CASUALIZATION

CERTIFICATION The act of certifying.

Act of deconcentrating.

Removal of harmful substances

One goal of the E.P.A.

The removal of dangerous substances

GLAMORIZATION

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

Magazine diet not working, an unattractive process (wordplay)

DEMOCRATIZE To render democratic.

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

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

SACRALIZATION

Loss of feeling

Dust-bowl action

SEXUALIZATION

STABILIZATION

DESULFURIZE SULFURIZE SULFUR a non metallic element

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

""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.""

DIAGONALIZE to transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix.

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

Distinction between multiple things

Mathematical process

Something A-level maths student does to achieve distinction

ARTICULATION A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton.

Bad-mouth longevity (wordplay)

Interruption, as of a subscription

Breach

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

Lack of systematic arrangement.

Confusion

Rap a Rolling Stones classic (wordplay)

Anger over Sidney getting compensation

Discontent; uneasiness

One objective of fund management

Business practice stressing variety

Portfolio manager's quest

Process of downgrading secret documents

Act of making ineligible

State of being declared unsuitable