2-Letter Words Starting with P

AMIDE a type of chemical compound

AMINE a type of chemical compound

""Having or producing two or more phases; multiphase; as, a polyphase machine, a machine producing two or more pressure waves of electro-motive force, differing in phase; a polyphase current.as, a polyphase machine, a machine producing two or more pressure waves of electro-motive force, differing in phase; a polyphase current.""

Pressure or hound a shark

Voracious shark splintered bargepole

Shark traps Rex Black in river with bird

Portable.

Work of the carriers on safari

Drink time - get the carriage

Carrying charge.

Postcava

He stops at break promptly!

He stops at break very speedily!

Quick to pass the buck (wordplay)

Assume as axiom

Let sap out in order to claim something

Lay down rough pale stout

Monarch or dictator

Ruler had meal behind shelter by river

Head accepts old, big top chief

BATTLE to {fight=v}

CREASE to make a wrinkle in

Part of a sentence.

Imply or connote

Part of the sentence given to a subject

""Capable of being entered, taken, or captured; expugnable; as, a pregnable fort. as, a pregnable fort.""

Group of clergymen

Before the normal time

Born too soon

Born before full term

VIABLE capable of living

Fit to be published

In good taste

O.K. for publication.

Dispossess the people of power? Current duty is to enter revolt

Causing privation; depriving.

Sell state businesses

With a take-charge attitude

On the offensive

Looking ahead

Exploratory

Form a group, you might say

Do it, Biblical-style

Produce young ape 20 trained

Schedule for unit

Radio or television show

Favouring lightweight in list of bouts

""Any of a class of simple proteins soluble in alcohol and usually having a high proline and glutamine content, found in the grains of cereal crops such as wheat, rye, barley, corn, and rice.""

Seaside walk (wordplay)

Nice walk (wordplay)

Square-dance figure

Grow (plants) or spread (ideas)

Spread, as ideas

Right entrance, we hear, for produce

""Any of various usually vegetative portions of a plant, such as a bud or other offshoot, that aid in dispersal of the species and from which a new individual may develop.""

To prorogue.

Driver brought before judge is lying

Face down platforms in private

Prone to lying

Soluble protein.

PROTON a subatomic particle

Nearby bishop accepts bull

First-class county perhaps against China next

Very near

Power of car, not new, in red

Rough seas in cup competition with jumps

Power: Poetic.

Send forth sprouts

Multiply like this and it may drag you till you are dead

Swarm

Having breathing organs that act as lungs.

""Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument. as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument.""

Insert full stops, commas, etc in (text)

Pointedly edit written work (wordplay)

Add marks to text

State of student turning up sack

Being at school and turning up to plunder

Musical combo disheartened over producing a washout (wordplay)

If you're bound to be in purgatory, this should give you a moving experience

The carrying out (of something)

Carrying out (of policy)

In this of it's carrying out

Capable of being appeased

Beast's burden, sometimes

Beast of burden's burden

Holder of loads for horses or donkeys

English word

To palatize.

Native of old German Empire

German region.

Historical region spread, preserving a language

Tuna roll or a nut, perhaps (wordplay)

E.g. mum, dad

Friend on the airstrip, madam (wordplay)

Pain-relieving - a vital pile (anagram)

Providing relief, but not a cure

Aimed at relief of suffering

PANICULATE

An alkaloid found in opium. It has a weaker therapeutic action than morphine.

Drum roll, as soldier meets con

Syncopated drumbeats

Basic drumming sequence - dip a ladder (anagram)

Say a new way

Put in other words

A rash paper upset state, in other words

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Capable of being forgiven

Cat on island about to be excused

Minor enough to excuse

Non-finite form of a verb

Form of a verb used as a modifier

Adjectival form of verb

Public mockery

Lampoon

Lampoon.

Hot as Jerusalem, head bandages!

Fiery spirit is swallowed

Eager to hand one over with a note

To be on the safe side, make the land revert to grass, by the sound of it

Too quick to see (wordplay)

Too quick to see?

Remove germs from, in a way

Dish and item of furniture that may be put on list of inventions

Susceptible to certain intellectual property protection

Are its pies cooked well (wordplay)

Are its pies fresh (wordplay)

Are its pies 'fantastique' (wordplay)

Aristocracy

Aristocracy.

Lousy, literally

A disparaging word, such as poetaster.

Politically incorrect, in a way

Expressing contempt or disapproval

Understandable in a way

Accessible.

Clear goal apart from, on review, being bitten by footballer

""The frequency, under given environmental conditions, with which a specific phenotype is expressed by those individuals with a specific genotype.""

Proportion stated in hundredth parts

Proportion in each 100

Agent's take, typically

Eternal, lasting

Having the basal part produced around the stem; said of leaves which the stem apparently passes directory through.

Destroy a rebel ship - it could go off!

Herbal pies (anagram)

(Of food) likely to rot

Quality we seek in peace.

Stickiness, perhaps

Indefinite existence

PERMEATE to spread through

Noun (-age)

Changeable

Any of a group of enzymes that occur especially in plant cells and catalyze the oxidation of a substance by a peroxide.

How much a cat, say, is to do

Commit (a bad action)

Deviant tart, peeper commit crime

Cause to continue indefinitely

Preserve from extinction.

Cause to be remembered

Light-hearted banter

Pale griefs (anagram) - flippancy

Chaff by itself to ingest if idle

Newborn asleep, so appealing

Pleasant to be with

Nice short hairdo available in black

Very convincing, as an argument

Providing sound reasoning

Supervise a review that is influential

""A white crystalline compound, C 18 H 22 N 2 O 2 , used in the form of its hydrochloride as a local anesthetic in ophthalmology.""

English word

Harpsichord's kin

A grand may be a profit one makes

For this Chopin wrote two volumes

Rascally nurses in a state of vexation

Like tales of rogues

Like Don Quixote

PILFER to {steal=v}

One more tragedy, say, from Shakespeare

Trip from drug - mostly horrid time

Religious traveller's journey

Divorce lawyer's suit (wordplay)

Divorce lawyer's suit?

Holding down its job

""A colorless crystalline compound, C 4 H 10 N 2 , used as a hardener for epoxy resins, an antihistamine, and an anthelmintic.""

Having a pistil or pistils; usually said of flowers having pistils but no stamens.

Cheat by copying; agile pairs (anagram)

Copy for piano: after lapse of time I get up

Appropriate force restraining prisoner, immediately aggro starts

Make an unauthorized copy (wordplay)

Appropriate words

Take a page from someone's book (wordplay)

Writing device used in seances

Seance prop

Mysteriously cheap model lent to mysterious board

Adjective meaning resembling

All around the world

All over the world

""A self-replicating hereditary structure thought to exist in cytoplasm and function in a manner analogous to, but independent of, chromosomal genes.""

English word

English word

Material for play school artists

Modelling clay

Would it take its place in modelling (wordplay)

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

POCKET to place in a pouch sewed into a garment

""Any of various annelid worms of the class Polychaeta, including mostly marine worms such as the lugworm, and characterized by fleshy paired appendages tipped with bristles on each body segment.""

To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.

""Any of various enzymes, such as DNA polymerase, RNA polymerase, or reverse transcriptase, that catalyze the formation of polynucleotides of DNA or RNA using an existing strand of DNA or RNA as a template.""

Having appreciable significance

Having weight

POPULAR something pleasing

Promote in a way

POSTDEBATE

Make powerful

""The offense under English law of appealing to or obeying a foreign court or authority, thus challenging the supremacy of the Crown.""

Bird painter circling round pass

APPROVE to regard favourably

Plan in advance

Determine in advance.

Agree upon something in advance

Go before (wordplay)

Pass away before this and stop at last

Die before

It was bound to happen in designing replica bed

Detective rings the German back on line - is that only to be expected (wordplay)

May be confirmed by investigator hiding revolutionary with lead

A better choice

More desirable

Better

FINANCE to supply the money for

MEASURE to compare with a standard

PACKAGE to put into a container or wrapping

A critic might listen to one

STORAGE a place for storing

Such as may be presumed or supposed to be true; that seems entitled to belief without direct evidence.

New place never achieves popularity

Superiority, of a sort

New place never offers currency

Birth

Variant of prokaryote .

One paid, possibly responsive to treatment on offer (wordplay)

Lucrative for female, I suggest

Cost-effective

Academic, one sitting on the board making money

Losing grip of late, being extravagant

Tip a golfer gave to prodigal

Extravagant tip a golfer developed

""An organism of the kingdom Monera (or Prokaryotae), comprising the bacteria and cyanobacteria, characterized by the absence of a distinct, membrane-bound nucleus or membrane-bound organelles, and by DNA that is not organized into chromosomes. Also called moneran .""

PROMOTE to help forward

Make known officially.

Broadcast of pet glamour model

Announce Portugal's heaving with 'em

""Capable of being propagated, or of being continued or multiplied by natural generation or production.""

A salt of propionic acid.

Appease, as a god

Marketing drug, maintaining it will induce goodwill

Pacify.

""An endopeptidase, such as pepsin, trypsin, or papain.""

Roots of a new start in part of France

Source of article dividing French region

Source of year abroad in French region

""Relating to, resembling, or characteristic of parrots.""

Capable of being reduced to fine powder; pulverizable.

Likely to incur fines, say

Time-honored, in a way (wordplay)

""That which pertains or belongs to something; esp., the heard, liver, and lungs of an animal.""

The act or process of providing or procuring; providence; foresight; preparation; management.

English word

""PYROLYSE to decompose by heating, also PYROLIZE, PYROLISE, PYROLYZE""

""PYROLYZE to decompose by heating, also PYROLISE, PYROLIZE, PYROLYSE""

A polymeric modification of aldehyde obtained as a white crystalline substance.

PARAMETRIZE

PARFOCAL having lenses that correspond

Take part (in activity)

Be involved (in)

Be involved

President - coherent in speech or bitty (wordplay)

Having a pedicel; supported by a pedicel.

PEDUNCULATE

""Tending to penetrate; of a penetrating quality; piercing; as, the penetrative sun. as, the penetrative sun.""

""Having the form of a pencil; furnished with a pencil of fine hairs; ending in a tuft of hairs like a camel'shair brush, as the stigmas of some grasses.""

""Entitled to receive a pension; as, a pensionable employee.as, a pensionable employee.""

""(Medicine / Pharmacology) a drug used to treat protozoal infections, esp pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis carinii in patients with AIDS""

Competitor in five-sport event

One practicing both running and swimming, maybe

Versatile sportsman leapt the net amazingly

""A synthetic narcotic drug, C 19 H 27 NO, used as an analgesic, often in place of morphine.""

A yellowish-brown nickel iron sulfide that is the principal ore of nickel.

Like the letter Y

Next-to-last

Nearly last, team let up in scrummaging

It has 'amble' and 'ramble' inside

It has "amble" and "ramble" within

It has "amble" and "ramble" inside

Capable of being perceived; perceptible.

Rod deceased, having swallowed yellow chemical

Sit down with expression of surprise having consumed salt

Before smile, spread out and wander

Wander around

Voyage here and there as green pirate at sea

""Admitting of being performed, done, or executed; practicable.""

Creep on farm (anagram)

(Actor's) rendering of a role

The giving of a play or concert

Continue action after stimulus ceases (psychology)

Keep on

Make one's own series on lap dancing

Make specific to an individual

Individually tailor

Monogram, maybe

PERSONATE To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

That may be persuaded.

Capable of being persuaded; persuadable.

Liable to be perturbed or agitated; liable to be disturbed or disquieted.

""PHAGOCYTE A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.""

English word

Adjective meaning resembling

""Any of numerous enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of esters of phosphoric acid and are important in the absorption and metabolism of carbohydrates, nucleotides, and phospholipids and in the calcification of bone.""

See phospholipid .

PHOSPHATE A salt of phosphoric acid.

""A flattened, photosynthetic branch or stem that resembles or performs the function of a leaf, as in certain cacti.""

An alkaloid extracted from jaborandi (Pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system. Pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system.

A general term used of any triclinic feldspar. See the Note under Feldspar. Feldspar.

""The representation of the circles of the sphere upon a plane; especially, a representation of the celestial sphere upon a plane with adjustable circles, or other appendages, for showing the position of the heavens, the time of rising and setting of stars, etc., for any given date or hour.""

Animal that walks on the soles of its feet

Resembling silver plate; said of certain architectural ornaments.

""Of or designating the New World monkeys, distinguished from the Old World monkeys by widely separated nostrils that generally open to the side.""

A blur, a sleep, awfully nice

Such as gives enjoyment

Delightful

Indifferent, Italian-style

Final word of 2003: "an indifferent person"

Final word of 2003: 'an indifferent person'

""An instrument consisting essentially of a polarizer and an analyzer, used for polarizing light, and analyzing its properties.""

Susceptible of polarization.

SORBATE a sorbed substance

""VALENCE a chemical bond, also VALENCY""

Fruit (literally, seeded apple)

Large globular fruit

Fruit whose name means "seedy apple"

Speak pompously in an office in Rome

Express one's opinions pompously

Express opinions pompously

Producing pictures of people

You may sit for it

Gilbert Stuart specialty

POSTPONE to put off to a future time

Feasible

Realistic

ADAPTIVE able to be adapted

To announce beforehand.

Reckless fling (wordplay)

Cause (an event to happen)

Headlong plunge (wordplay)