2-Letter Words Starting with P

Ice cream nut (wordplay)

It's some kind of a nut!

What nut's from Tippecanoe (wordplay)

The stomach

Scorpion's comblike appendage

A bivalve mollusk; scallop

Scallop

Jam-setting agent

Fruit-jelly substance

Smucker's ingredient

Hounds are set on fellow, a pedlar

Peddlars.

Peddlers

To {agree=v}

Louisiana (with "state")

Nice pal (anagram)

Bird crossing the road (wordplay)

Indian food similar to K-rations

Write about mineral in food

Training note: 'Preserve emergency rations!'

""A chemical compound, also PICOLINE""

""An upland swamp, also POCOSEN, POCOSON""

Movie extra (wordplay)

Film fare (wordplay)

Viewing food (wordplay)

Another name for bloodroot - it's a pun about coco-nuts

Having remedial properties.

Be critical about an expert able to solve everything

Jerky cousin (wordplay)

Native American dried-meat concoction

Staple of old Arctic explorers

Alternative to "rapscallion!"

Pirate ship

Pirate perhaps still gets broken oar working

Certain major leaguer in ads (wordplay)

Jim Palmer in TV ads (wordplay)

Billy Mays, notably

Pitchman

Priest to thrash male civil servant

British spoils-system beneficiaries

""A small pointed object for plucking guitar strings, also PLECTRUM, PLECTRE""

Tidy up ahead of time

Tidy up for the maid

Next (French)

""Nearest in time, relation or degree, also PROCHAIN""

A hallucination

Mushroom drug

One who'd give you wallop (wordplay)

Man behind bars (wordplay)

British tavern keeper

Drink a very long time - one has several gallons

Might C. ask for boxing, by the sound of it (wordplay)

Change starter in midday meal for quite a few gallons

Of Sajak's hosting (wordplay)

Lady has name of aristocrat

Aristocratic Irishman cut by Scot

Licensed medical practitioner

Patience (wordplay)

Lifeguard (wordplay)

A variant spelling of picaroon PILFERAGE 1. the act or practice of stealing small quantities or articles

Appeasement

Act of making cool programme about jazz player I love

Fold.

Member of the Garda, say

Male cop in bust (wordplay)

One keeping the beat (wordplay)

Force units (wordplay)

Officers of the law

Guard them all by force

Aware of 8 down (wordplay)

Golden church in flatlands of China

Fine white ceramic

""One who limits, or restrains.""

Digest is charged with accuracy

Summary I get on accuracy

Exactness on price is variable

SCREEN to provide with a concealing partition

Platonic relationship initially producing this hormone

""An antibiotic, C 22 H 29 N 7 O 5 , obtained from the soil bacterium Streptomyces alboniger, that is used experimentally as an inhibitor of protein synthesis.""

""One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion.""

Common inside crime.

Conjecture becomes embezzlement

Anagram for unpoetical

Sir Alexander Fleming discovery of 1928

Fleming's discovery

Sir Alexander Fleming's antibiotic

Vegetable + vegetable = spice

(Of rent) notional

Spray painful area, which is hot

Understanding 'the knowledge'

Softly creep into dances for view

It's said to be reality

Striking group of musicians (wordplay)

Instruments played by striking

Striking supersonic travelling

For each infection, dropping in is ideal

What "none must hope to find": Pope

High price often reveals excellence

See acetophenetidin .

""A bitter white crystalline substance found in the cocculus indicus. It is a peculiar poisonous neurotic and intoxicant, and consists of a mixture of several neutral substances.""

Bowler's margin of comfort (wordplay)

Etui's cousin (wordplay)

Backup digits for the ATM (wordplay)

English word

English word

Pork source (wordplay)

Wooer of voters

Butler or Hall.

Safeguard cast on a picture

Run a poetic struggle for The Backstop (wordplay)

Sensible step

Regular change in direction of an axis

An antibody that reacts with a specific soluble antigen to produce a precipitate.

""The act of precluding, or the state of being precluded; a shutting out.""

Weatherman's job.

*'Here's what I think'll happen...'

*"Here's what I think'll happen..."

A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company.

It's just one thing after the other!

March parade (wordplay)

March in support of home rule

Stage play, for one

Making exotic crouton dip

... making boozy crouton dip

Bump kin (wordplay)

Estimate of future possibilities

Certain linear transformation

Body guard, for example

Bribe Johnny Cash

Rotten cop I fancy extorting money

Active hallucinogen in funny mushrooms

Drug cultivated in cow poop

Hallucinogenic drug, obtained from the Mexican mushroom

PUNCTATE covered with dots

The state of being pectinated; that which is pectinated.

Gradual filtration

Oppression involves putting tube into each part

Ill-treatment on for example religious grounds

One versed in phonetics; a phonetist.

A blue phycobilin occurring especially in the cells of cyanobacteria.

See stonefly .

She's got the beat

Member of the force

Officer with scattered money from a shark (wordplay)

We compile no rubbish for coppers

They patrol with uneven paces

Grammatical construction that could make editor panic

ELECTION the act of {electing=v}

LUNCHEON a midday meal

Masterwork (wordplay)

Enforcing conformity to a standard

(adj.) having a predilection for French bread

Enforcing conformity regardless of individuality; scent uproar (anagram)

The act of procuring; procurement.

Legal proceedings against a person

Accusation of guilt in court

Action in open court is disturbed

Favouring attempt to cut short hostilities going on and on

Cause of expert calling

Apt title for this puzzle

Spin doctor calling for incitement

""The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts. as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts.""

English class topic

Marks in writing

One concern of a proofreader

""The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation.""

See cholecystokinin .

British warehouse or van

Removal van

Furniture van

A physician who specializes in pediatrics.

""The process of petrifying, or changing into stone; conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a substance of stony hardness.""

""The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals. as, the placentation of mammals.""

English word

""(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) happening or existing after an election""

Relative of ESP

Foreknowledge

Requirement

Prerequisite

Preference (for something)

Special liking or preference

Penchant of the French in anticipation

INDUCTION The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement.

""RECESSION The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand.""

What a doctor may write

Something with which to obtain drugs

Medicine authorised by doctor

Preselect

Proboscidian.

Pertaining to the Proboscidea.

Announcement from the Roman Capitol

Signal event of Jan. 1, 1863.

Official public declaration

""The act of proscribing; a dooming to death or exile; outlawry; specifically, among the ancient Romans, the public offer of a reward for the head of a political enemy; as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription. as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription.""

A prostaglandin produced in the walls of blood vessels that acts as a vasodilator and inhibits platelet aggregation.

English word

Removal of contaminants

Process of cleansing

Ritual cleansing

Process of rotting

Junior doctor (wordplay)

Child's doctor

Specialist in treating children

Profit sharing.

Involvement

""A polymer found in the cell walls of prokaryotes that consists of polysaccharide and peptide chains in a strong molecular network. Also called mucopeptide , murein .""

See Petrifaction. Petrifaction.

Subatomic particle - let hencoop rot (anagram)

A photochemical reaction.

A red phycobilin occurring especially in the cells of red algae.

PICTURIZE To picture.

""PONTIFICATE The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope.""

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-sion)

Rain, snow, hail? Hurry!

Undue rushing from rain, perhaps

Hurry in rain, perhaps

COMBUSTION The state of burning.

Opinion formed beforehand

Bias

CONVENTION The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.

""CONVICTION The act of convicting; the act of proving, finding, or adjudging, guilty of an offense.""

Something totally dominating the mind

Concentration before calling

Absorption, engrossment

""PRODUCTION The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness. as, the production of commodities, of a witness.""

Evasive speech or deeds

Evasive behaviour

Adjusted pro rata invoice knocking off one zero causes quibbling

The way to say 'delivery'

Delivery panic to ruin mobile working

Way a word is sounded

""Pl. psychosurgeries Brain surgery used to treat severe, intractable mental or behavioral disorders.""

Noun (-tion)

""The detection, absorption, and use of light, as for vision in animals or phototropism and photosynthesis in plants.""

Photoreducte

PLASTICIZE PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

POLITICIZE POLITIC {shrewd=adj}

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

Work done on film after recording has finished

PRECIPITIN

""FABRICATION The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government. as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government.""

""PUBLICATION The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts. as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts.""

""-fies , -fying , -fied (tr) to make pretty, esp in a trivial fashion; embellish prettification   n""

""UNIFICATION The act of unifying, or the state of being unified.""

The unconscious perception of movement and spatial orientation arising from stimuli within the body itself.

""The anterior segment of the brain, including the cerebrum and olfactory lobes; the forebrain""

English word

How gracious, how benign, is Solitude.

"How gracious, how benign, is Solitude."

Bringing to life

Noun (-tion)

Photoproduct

One with a limited wardrobe (wordplay)

Police-squad member

Member of the force.

Investigators of a kind.

Undercover detectives

Detectives

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

""CANCELLATION The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself. as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.""

""MODIFICATION The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light. as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light.""

""NOTIFICATION The act of notifying, or giving notice; the act of making known; especially, the act of giving official notice or information to the public or to individuals, corporations, companies, or societies, by words, by writing, or by other means.""

Theme of this puzzle, finally

Thief of time.

Start of a slacker's quip

Seer's forte

Weatherman's job

Seer's utterance

Pl. psychohistories A psychological or psychoanalytic interpretation or study of historical events or persons: the psychohistory of the Nazi era.

Psychology