2-Letter Words Starting with P

Polyhedron

HYDROXY containing hydroxyl

POLYMERISE

""POLYMERIZE To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde. polymerize aldehyde.""

""PEPTIDE a combination of amino acids, also PEPTID""

""SULFIDE a sulfur compound, also SULFID, SULPHID, SULPHIDE""

Pompadour

In a ponderous manner.

POPULARISE

Made likeable to the general public

Possessed

English word

Present participle or gerund

POSTHOLE a hole dug to hold a fence post

Present participle or gerund

POTENTIATE To render active or potent.

Praesidium

""-fies , -fying , -fied (intr) Informal to preach or moralize in a tedious manner preachifying   n""

Preadapt

ADAPTIVE able to be adapted

Preadmit

Preadopt

Saved for future use

APPROVED approve

ARRANGED arrange

Preassign

Precancel

Precedence

Precensor

COMPUTED compute

Predacity

DECEASED decease

Predecease

Person in post before the current holder

One there before

Jobholder before the present one

DEFINING define

DELIVERY the act of {delivering=v}

Like Oedipus' marriage

Foreordained.

Foreordained

Fates

DIABETES a metabolic disorder

DIABETIC one who has diabetes

Predicable

Fine how-do-you-do

Spot decrepit man wandering about

Last word forecast about scrape

""PREDICATE To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow. as, to predicate whiteness of snow.""

Grammatical construction that could make editor panic

Adjective in a linguistics class

Affirmative; positive.

Hardly full of surprises

Only to be expected

Unlike the distant future

PREDICT to {foretell=v}

Statements about the future

Predigest

Made susceptible to.

Despise drop, roughly inclined

Favourably inclined before Di's modelled

Predispose

Prednisone

DOCTORAL pertaining to a doctor

Rescue (ship) from loss

Providing the main element

Before celebration Amin changed new parliament's last ruling

Hold the advantage

Be the strongest element

Exert the strongest power

Predrill

DYNASTIC pertaining to a {dynasty=n}

FINANCED finance

Prefocus

HEADACHE a pain inside the head

Prehominid

Decision made before hearing evidence

Harmful, detrimental

Detrimental

Biasing

MEASURED measure

MEDIEVAL a person belonging to he Middle Ages

Peter made it work to plan

Think out in advance

Plot

MODIFIED modify

Premodify

Premonish

NOTIFIED notify

Prenumber

Totally engrossed (by an idea)

Produce epic novel, when lost in thought

Totally engrossed

Fated to happen

Unhappy acceptance of original order, as decided in advance

Preorder

PACKAGED package

Taken before dinner

Before dinner

Quiet agent managed to phone up once before meal

PREPARED prepare

Prerecord

REQUIRED require

""SCHEDULE to plan, also SCEDULE""

Prescind

Prescreen

Chosen beforehand

Pressboard

Like an airliner's cabin

Forced to eat apple, not entirely taken aback, as coerced

Like airplane cabins

Prestress

Before alleged, that's taken for granted

Pretended

Prevision

Priesthood

PRIORITIZE

Prismatoid

Marauded, in a way.

Probenecid

""Pl. proboscises or proboscides (-b s -d z ) A long flexible snout or trunk, as of an elephant.""

Procedural

Crooked cop resigned in legal action

Action

Affairs.

Procercoid

Pl. proctodea (-d ) or proctodeums also proctodaea (-d ) or proctodaeums An inward fold on the surface of the embryonic ectoderm that develops into part of the anal passage.

Spendthrift's problem

Toy girl paid wildly for - such extravagance!

Generosity - wastefulness

Production

By profession.

Made a killing, say

Made money, in a way.

Profound

Proglottid

PROLOGUIZE

Standing concert audience

Drapers work to cover sign for concert goers

""PROMENADE A walk for pleasure, display, or exercise.""

Quickness of action; readiness

Detroit pump (anagram) - readiness to act

Made known

Bottle examiner (wordplay)

He shouldn't leave any wrong impressions

One looking for trouble, in a way

Propaganda

A person who speaks by divine inspiration or as the interpreter through whom the will of a god is expressed.

Made peace with

Proplastid

Those who put forward paid pugilists (wordplay)

Setting forth (an idea)

English word

""PROSTITUTE To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire.""

Protocol

Providence

In a provident manner.

Supplied with food.

Elsie Dinsmore's forte.

Easily offended nature

Pseudocoel

""Any of various gram-negative, rod-shaped, mostly aerobic flagellated bacteria of the phylum Pseudomonad, commonly found in soil, water, and decaying matter and including some plant and animal pathogens.""

Pl. pseudomonades (-m n -d z ) See pseudomonad .

An irregular or deceptive form.

""PSEUDOPOD Any protoplasmic filament or irregular process projecting from any unicellular organism, or from any animal or plant call.""

Cell projections whose name literally means "false feet"

Pervasive in the '60s

New word in hip talk.

With exotic colour pattern, (drug-induced, maybe)

Vividly colourful

Spellbound genre

Entertainment affecting the mind and emotions

Theater class taught by Alfred Hitchcock (wordplay)

Pteranodon

That department of botany which treats of ferns.

Late Jurassic flyer

Extinct flying reptile

Flier of long ago

Pudginess

A term meaning physical beauty

Physical beauty

Comeliness

Throwaway from a Halloween carving

Small sunfish

Halloween morsel

Gambling devices

Purported

Moved with stealth: Slang.

Moved with stealth Slang.

Moved warily around, or a punny description of this puzzle's theme

Putridity

Pycnogonid

Like a pyramid.

Of or pertaining to a pyramid; having the form of a pyramid; pyramidal.

Pyranoside

Pyrethroid

Pyridoxine

Pyrimidine

Pyroxenoid

Pachysandra

Paddleboard

Paddlefish

Plural or third person singular

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) sexual reproduction in an animal that retains its larval features See also neoteny paedogenetic   [ˌpiːdəʊdʒəˈnɛtɪk] , paedogenic adj PAEDOMORPHIC (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) the resemblance of adult animals to the young of their ancestors: seen in the evolution of modern man, who shows resemblances to the young stages of australopithecines""

Adjective (-ic)

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) the resemblance of adult animals to the young of their ancestors: seen in the evolution of modern man, who shows resemblances to the young stages of australopithecines""

A writer of palindromes.

Pallidness

Pandemonium

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a paraboloid.""

""A writer of memoirs of religious persona, as examples of Christian excellence.""

""Of or pertaining to, or resembling, paradise; paradisiacal; as, paradisaical innocence; an age of paradisaical happiness.as, paradisaical innocence; an age of paradisaical happiness.""

""Of or pertaining to paradise; suitable to, or like, paradise; paradisaic.""

Paradrop

Paraldehyde

Paramedical

PARAMETRIZE

Anything used to destroy parasites.

Parathyroid

Paratyphoid

PARFOCALIZE

Joined in quietly and looked forward to knight becoming king

PASQUINADE A lampoon or satirical writing.

Regions suitable for grazing

Pathfinding

Peakedness

Trivial offenses

Minor indiscretions

Half-heartedly called police about son's minor indiscretions

In a pedantic manner.

Pedestal

A physician who specializes in pediatrics.

""Having a peduncle; growing on a peduncle; as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.""

Five-faced figures

Pentamidine

A polypeptide composed of five amino acids.

Pentlandite

Excitement must follow for each, maybe

Maybe gained through hazardous activity

Maybe, old style.

""PERAMBULATE To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.""

""PEREGRINATE To travel from place to place, or from one country to another; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.""

In a perfidious manner.

Inflammation of the pericardium.

Adjective (-al)

Pl. perichondria (-dr - ) The fibrous membrane of connective tissue covering the surface of cartilage except at the endings of joints.

From time to time.

Study of punctuation marks (wordplay)

Field of study for a bridge maker (wordplay)

Opted to work with incisor, as part of dentistry