2-Letter Words Starting with P

Take part in discussion of government with police? Is it in order (wordplay)

Turn red or blue, say (wordplay)

Make an issue of

""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.""

Multicolored

Bird painter circling round pass

The order to be observed by protocol

Pecking-order right

Superiority in rank.

""Containing or giving precepts; of the nature of precepts; didactic; as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures. as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures.""

Eliminating beforehand

COLLEGE a school of higher learning

COMPUTE to calculate

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

Like signs

Made to appear naff when using it (wordplay)

and 9: Suggestive input that might make a molecule out of a molehill (wordplay)

District in Japan

Office of Paris police chief.

District under a governor

Liking for one thing over another

Choice (of A rather than B)

Liking for one thing more than another

FINANCE to supply the money for

PACKAGE to put into a container or wrapping

Antedating physics (wordplay)

Sibyl's forte

Seer's gift

SERVICE to {repair=v}

New place never achieves popularity

Superiority, of a sort

New place never offers currency

Variant of prokaryote .

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

""Capable of being produced, brought forward, brought forth, generated, made, or extended.""

Fertile for channel four ending live

Yielding results

Tailed setter carrying gun (model 4E) - it's efficient

Boulder, for a catapult

Spitball, for example

Bullet, shell or rocket.

PROJECT to extend outward

Precipice or peak

Highly visibility or importance

Something that sticks out

Defensive vet to price order

Designating a type of tariff.

Kind of custody

Roots of a new start in part of France

Source of article dividing French region

Source of year abroad in French region

Supply niece that is missing fortune

Roger Williams founded it: 1636

Start of a quip

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

Teenage years

""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.

""A colorless, foul-smelling ptomaine, NH 2 (CH 2 ) 4 NH 2 , produced in decaying animal tissue by the decarboxylation of ornithine.""

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

""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.""

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

Capable of being perceived; perceptible.

Heartless Blue Peter clip playing on YouTube perhaps

Tangible

Rod deceased, having swallowed yellow chemical

Sit down with expression of surprise having consumed salt

Acute insight

""Capable of becoming, or being made, perfect.""

Creep on farm (anagram)

(Actor's) rendering of a role

The giving of a play or concert

""PERSECUTE To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular religious creed or mode of worship.""

Resist changes in coinage with tenacity

Refusal to accept refusal

Doggedness is derived from its presence

Frame of mind

View; technique for drawing 3-D objects

Point of view

""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

English word

""Any of various fungi that resemble algae, including certain molds and mildews.""

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

""A cytoplasmic pigment of green plants that absorbs light and regulates dormancy, seed germination, and flowering.""

Strikingly beautiful (view)

Imagines Spanish that becomes attractive

Paintings that in Paris are pretty

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.

Major ore of uranium

Brown or black mineral containing radium

Ore of uranium

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

Tool for Penrod

Camper's handy tool

Handy gadget for campers

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.""

""VALENCE a chemical bond, also VALENCY""

Speak pompously in an office in Rome

Express one's opinions pompously

Express opinions pompously

English word

English word

Feasible

Realistic

To announce beforehand.

Reckless fling (wordplay)

Cause (an event to happen)

Headlong plunge (wordplay)

""To conceive, or form an opinion of, beforehand; to form a previous notion or idea of.""

Adjective in a linguistics class

Hardly full of surprises

Only to be expected

Unlike the distant future

State of supremity

Position above all others

Superiority.

HEADACHE a pain inside the head

PURCHASE to {buy=v}

""SCHEDULE to plan, also SCEDULE""

SENTENCE to declare judicially the punishment

Offer an untruth

Beat about the bush

Speak or act evasively

PROCESS to treat or prepare by a special method

Adjective (-ible)

Having the power to beget; generative.

PROJECT to extend outward

Likely to happen in the future

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

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

""Origin; source; place where found or produced; provenance; -- used esp. in the fine arts and in arch\'91ology; as, the provenience of a patera.as, the provenience of a patera.""

Deliberately causing annoyance

Tending to excite expert on case

Designed to cause anger or arousal

A term meaning physical beauty

Physical beauty

Comeliness

On the market

Decay, rottenness

Decay

""Capable of putrefaction; liable to become putrid; as, putrescible substances. as, putrescible substances.""

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

Anything used to destroy parasites.

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

Having a pearly luster or gloss.

A divorce application

It may get you through a divorce

Tenacity, doggedness

To shine as phosphorus; to be phosphorescent; to emit a phosphoric light.

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

""(Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) (tr) to set (type matter) by photocomposition photocomposer   n""

""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.""

Video communication device

Fish culture. See under Fish. Fish.

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

PORCELAIN Purslain.

Adjective meaning resembling

POSTEXERCISE

Noun (-ure)

""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.""

""COGNITIVE Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power. as, cognitive power.""

""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

""EMERGENCE The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprisal or appearance.""

In earlier life, former partner one's caught in act

Create a perfect bra with current design

Build in sections and lay a fibre carpet

Manufacture sections to be easily transported

Relating to the imposition of a rule or method

STRUCTURE The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

""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.""

Forbidding; condemnatory

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

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

Shrink rap (wordplay)

Some self-help spoutings, say

BS from Alfred Hitchcock (wordplay)

PSYCHOLOGISE

PSYCHOLOGIZE

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

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.""

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.""

""A drug, C 17 H 25 N, used in veterinary medicine as an anesthetic and illegally as a hallucinogen; PCP.""

Synthetic resin

Adjective meaning resembling

POSTDOCTORATE

Noun (-ence)

""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.""

An excess in number or quantity

The lion's share

Quality of being greater in number

""PUBESCENCE The quality or state of being pubescent, or of having arrived at puberty.""

Wait until tomorrow, unnecessarily

Put off due to rain, spectator moved

Put off what should be done now

Forecast disastrous operating cost

Divine erotic snap got hacked

Prophesy, foretell

Capable of being pronounced.

To render provincial.

""A theory, methodology, or practice that is considered to be without scientific foundation.""

Emulate Freud

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

PHOTODUPLICATE

Adjective (-ive)

""A nerve ending, cell, or group of cells specialized to sense or receive light.""

""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

NUCLEOTIDE a phosphate ester of a nucleoside; one of the monomeric components of DNA or RNA.DNA or RNA.

Carbohydrate such as starch or insulin

Carbohydrate found in cold chips a year after cooking

POSTCOLLEGE

Noun (-ence)

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.""

""A sensory receptor, found chiefly in muscles, tendons, joints, and the inner ear, that detects the motion or position of the body or a limb by responding to stimuli arising within the organism.""

""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 .""

Ignis fatuus, for example

Cold emitted light

Light emitted without burning or heat

Pl. photoconductivities Electrical conductivity affected by exposure to light.

PHOTODISSOCIATE

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

""ELECTROLYTE A compound decomposable, or subjected to decomposition, by an electric current.""

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

PSEUDOCOELOMATE