2-Letter Words Starting with P

Adjective in a linguistics class

Hardly full of surprises

Only to be expected

Unlike the distant future

Hold the advantage

Be the strongest element

Exert the strongest power

HEADACHE a pain inside the head

Lacking written records

MARRIAGE the legal union of a man and woman

MAXILLAE maxilla

Peter made it work to plan

Think out in advance

Plot

Forenamed; named beforehand.

Like something that will get you ready

Preliminary

PURCHASE to {buy=v}

Give a porter tips? Right!

Exclusive right/privilege

Right, privilege

How every Santa should look?

How every Santa should look (wordplay)

Ready for show

Capable of being preserved; admitting of preservation.

Offer an untruth

Beat about the bush

Speak or act evasively

Avertible (A, not I)

Like some diseases

That could be stopped

PROCESS to treat or prepare by a special method

Having the power to beget; generative.

PROJECT to extend outward

Reproduce a lot

Grow rapidly in number

Breed for long stretch with speed

""Producing by propagation, or by a process of growth.""

""Capable of being protracted, or protruded; protrusile.""

Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying.

Deliberately causing annoyance

Tending to excite expert on case

Designed to cause anger or arousal

PRUSSIANISE

PRUSSIANIZE

Capable of being published; suitable for publication.

On the market

""Ruby silver; dark red silver ore. It is a sulphide of antimony and silver, occurring in rhombohedral crystals or massive, and is of a dark red or black color with a metallic adamantine luster.""

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

""A place where foodstuffs are processed and packed; as, they came from an apple packinghouse.as, they came from an apple packinghouse.""

PANTOTHENATE

""The set of nonphonemic properties of speech, such as speaking tempo, vocal pitch, and intonational contours, that can be used to communicate attitudes or other shades of meaning.""

""PARAMETER A term applied to some characteristic magnitude whose value, invariable as long as one and the same function, curve, surface, etc., is considered, serves to distinguish that function, curve, surface, etc., from others of the same kind or family.""

Anything used to destroy parasites.

English word

To make a parenthesis of; to include within parenthetical marks.

""The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch.""

Having a pearly luster or gloss.

A polypeptide composed of five amino acids.

Excitement must follow for each, maybe

Maybe gained through hazardous activity

Maybe, old style.

""Relating to or being an utterance that peforms an act or creates a state of affairs by the fact of its being uttered under appropriate or conventional circumstances, as a justice of the peace uttering I now pronounce you husband and wife at a wedding ceremony, thus creating a legal union, or as one uttering I promise, thus performing the act of promising.""

A salt of permanganic acid.

""A crystalline compound, C 21 H 26 ClN 3 OS, used as a tranquilizer especially in the treatment of psychosis and to prevent or alleviate nausea and vomiting.""

A divorce application

It may get you through a divorce

Tenacity, doggedness

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a tree or shrub that bears its perennating buds more than 25 cm above the level of the soil [from Greek phanero- visible + -phyte ]

""A complex hydrocarbon, C14H10, found in coal tar, and obtained as a white crystalline substance with a bluish fluorescence. C14H10, found in coal tar, and obtained as a white crystalline substance with a bluish fluorescence.""

""An adrenergic blocking agent, C 17 H 19 N 3 O, used especially in the diagnosis and treatment of pheochromocytoma.""

(Chemistry) a cathode that undergoes or is used for photoemission

One way to reproduce a picture

""A photoengraving; also, the process by which such a picture is produced.""

PHOTOLYZE

Composite picture

A deep-rooted plant that obtains water from a permanent ground supply or from the water table.

""PICTORIAL Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination.""

""POLITICAL Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration.""

Word of more than three sounds

Word with several linguistic units

Word, possibly Excel or PowerPoint, for certain applications

Your elephant (anag-) synthetic resin

PORCELAIN Purslain.

Adjective meaning resembling

English word

Noun (-ure)

Candidate for a Ph.D., say

Person studying after obtaining a degree

Continuing student

POSTLITERATE

""Capable of being precipitated, or cast to the bottom, as a substance in solution. See Precipitate, n. (Chem.) Precipitate, n. (Chem.)""

The quality of being precipitant.

""CLEARANCE The act of clearing; as, to make a through clearance. as, to make a through clearance.""

DEPARTURE Division; separation; putting away.

Specify in advance

Foreordain.

""DISCHARGE To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. as, to discharge a vessel.""

Worried Cameron pined for mastery

Superior influence

Ascendancy

Create a perfect bra with current design

Build in sections and lay a fibre carpet

Manufacture sections to be easily transported

""FORMULATE To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.""

Before going to theatre and before dramatic work, takes half of sedative

Eton prepared to change rule

New order required, prepare to end rule

""A presbytery; also, presbytership.""

""Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative. as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative.""

Something preventing decay

It delays or prevents deterioration

Additive prolonging food life

That which prevents; incorrectly used instead of preventive. preventive.

""A potent antineoplastic drug, C 12 H 19 N 3 O, used primarily to treat advanced Hodgkin's disease.""

""The office jurisdiction of a proconsul, or the term of his office.""

""PROFESSOR One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church.""

Like computers, robots, etc

Able to be put into computer language

Capable of being instructed in advance to perform task

PROPAGANDIZE

Capable of being prosecuted; liable to prosecution.

State controlled by another

State looked after by another

Commonwealth period

Outward bulge - not cupbearer (anagram)

Something sticking out

Bump or lump

English word

Affecting the mind or mental processes. Used of a drug.

Shrink rap (wordplay)

Some self-help spoutings, say

BS from Alfred Hitchcock (wordplay)

Admitting of being pulverized; pulverable.

""Of or pertaining to putrefaction; as, the putrefactive smell or process. as, the putrefactive smell or process.""

""A crystalline amine, C 8 H 12 N 2 O 2 , one of several active forms of pyridoxine, important in protein metabolism.""

""PARAPHRASE A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering; opposed to metaphrase. metaphrase.""

Taking part

Particular

""To give as a particular, or as the particulars; to mention particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail.""

Trimming

A substance (C5H11NO2S) which is a degradation product of the penicillins. Chemically it is 3-mercapto-D-valine. It has chelating properties and is used in medicine as an antirheumatic and to chelate copper in cases of hepatolenticular degeneration (Wilson's disease).C5H11NO2S) which is a degradation product of the penicillins. Chemically it is 3-mercapto-D-valine. It has chelating properties and is used in medicine as an antirheumatic and to chelate copper in cases of hepatolenticular degeneration (Wilson's disease).

""An enzyme which destroys the antibacterial activity of penicillin by hydrolyzing the amide bond in the beta-lactam ring. Many penicillinases are known, and are produced by a wide variety of bacteria. The production of penicillinase is one of the mechanisms by which bacteria may become resistant to penicillins. Penicillinase production in various bacterial species may be induced, i.e., it may occur only when stimulated by the presence of penicillin in the culture medium, or it may be constitutive, i.e., it may occur whenever the cells are producing protein. Molecular weights of the various penicillinases tend to cluster near 50,000.""

English word

Drug used as a strong tranquilliser and in the treatment of schizophrenia

""An essential amino acid, C 9 H 11 NO 2 , that occurs as a constituent of many proteins and is normally converted to tyrosine in the human body. It is necessary for growth in infants and for nitrogen equilibrium in adults.""

English word

Any of several enzymes that hydrolyze specific ester bonds in phospholipids.

An enzyme that catalyzes the production of glucose phosphate from glycogen and inorganic phosphate.

""PHOSPHORYL The radical PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds. PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds.""

Biology Repelled by light; exhibiting a negative phototactic or phototropic response.

PHOTOSYNTHATE

English word

To utter platitudes or truisms.

One of the Pneumonophora.

BUTADIENE a gaseous hydrocarbon C4H6; -- it is used as a monomer unit in making synthetic rubbers.C4H6; -- it is used as a monomer unit in making synthetic rubbers.

Synthetic resin

Adjective meaning resembling

English word

POSTDOCTORATE

Worker after job following surgery

Relating to period after surgery

Spy who works for a Washington paper (wordplay)

""PRECIPITATE Overhasty; rash; as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war. as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war.""

""COLLEGIATE Of or pertaining to a college; as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society. as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society.""

Showing by prefiguration.

""MEDITATIVE Disposed to meditate, or to meditation; as, a meditative man; a meditative mood. as, a meditative man; a meditative mood.""

An excess in number or quantity

The lion's share

Quality of being greater in number

Wait until tomorrow, unnecessarily

Put off due to rain, spectator moved

Put off what should be done now

""The body of professors, or the professorial staff, in a university or college.""

Forecast disastrous operating cost

Divine erotic snap got hacked

Prophesy, foretell

""PROLIFERATE To produce or form cells; especially, to produce cells rapidly.""

Capable of being pronounced.

Corresponding in size

In scale for amount of food consumed

Corresponding in size to something else

A language that is the recorded or hypothetical ancestor of another language or group of languages. Also called Ursprache .

To render provincial.

Emulate Freud

""A drug, C 12 H 13 ClN 4 , used principally in the prophylactic treatment of malaria.""

A salt of pyrophosphoric acid.

English word

""An enzyme found in certain plants, bacteria, and fungi that catalyzes the hydrolysis of pectin to pectic acid and methanol. Also called pectase .""

See pentobarbital sodium .

Sedative for bird that's breached order to put note into singer

""A white or light yellow compound, C 19 H 20 N 2 O 2 , formerly used as an anti-inflammatory and analgesic drug in the treatment of arthritis, bursitis, and gout.""

PHOTODUPLICATE

Adjective (-ive)

""Any of several stable, light-fast, blue or green organic pigments derived from the basic compound (C 6 H 4 C 2 N) 4 N 4 and used in enamels, printing inks, linoleum, and plastics.""

PINEALECTOMIZE

A double cyanide of platinum and some other metal or radical; a salt of platinocyanic acid.

ACRYLAMIDE

Carbohydrate such as starch or insulin

Carbohydrate found in cold chips a year after cooking

POSTCOLLEGE

Some youth misbehaving peers concealed

""MANUFACTURE The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency.""

""PERFORMANCE The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty. as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty.""

Proletarian

""PROLETARIAN Of or pertaining to the proletaries; belonging to the commonalty; hence, mean; vile; vulgar.""

""Capable of being proportioned, or made proportional; also, proportional; proportionate.""

""An organic compound, C 4 H 10 N 3 O 5 P, found in muscle tissue and capable of storing and providing energy for muscular contraction. Also called creatine phosphate .""

PHOSPHORYLATE

Capable of being chemically broken down by light: photodegradable plastic.

PHOTODISSOCIATE

PHYTOFLAGELLATE

""CRYSTALLINE Consisting, or made, of crystal.""

""PROFESSIONAL Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct. as, professional knowledge; professional conduct.""

Expert and lay climber's link keeping pet Number 4 in prophetic style

PSEUDOCOELOMATE