2-Letter Words Starting with P

Hoe: Scot

Junipero Serra for one

Missionary's title, maybe

Man with a mission (wordplay)

rainbow flag emoji (nonverbal)

Deadly sin (of lions?)

Poacher gutted fish for cats (wordplay)

One unwilling to go to bed, say

One who stops at first base say

One who stops at first base, say

Club for wayward youths (wordplay)

Canoe propeller (wordplay)

Propel (a canoe)

March event? Yep!

On with this - that's the drill!

Macy's event, for one

""Used as a mild oath, also PARDI, PARDIE, PARDY, PERDIE, PERDY""

""Used as a mild oath, also PARDI, PARDEE, PARDY, PERDIE, PERDY""

Some gaped at earthlings with feet

Games on a particular day could be footy

Having feet

Sell (drugs or something hot?)

Sell (illegal drugs)

Dispose of one's wares by bike, perhaps

""Used as a mild oath, also PARDI, PARDEE, PARDIE, PARDY, PERDY""

Man with a poultry income (wordplay)

Chicken maven Frank

P as in poultry

Rearing of a trained horse

The rearing of a horse

Horse's rearing motion.

Fritter (away)

Dawdle

A promise to pawn (wordplay)

Promise to uncle, perhaps

Promise (to abstain?)

""A limb segment of an arthropod, also PODOMERE""

Greasy kid stuff (wordplay)

Lock oil (wordplay)

Crazy about writer's hairdressing

Winston Churchill's Rufus, for one

Dog (seen in a parlour?)

Toy in a purse, perhaps

Pool of water

Small pool of rain

Rainy day creation

Immigrant laborers' boss

Innkeeper inclined to take advantage

Father rounding on innkeeper

""Ancient musical instrument, also BANDORA, BANDORE, PANDORA, PANDURA""

Spotted as a leopard.

Maneuver in a horse show

Short-lived love affair

Pivot, in horsemanship.

Stalk-like connecting structure

Stalk Spanish hero, returning after exercises

Stalk

Vacuum tube

Tube amplifier with five electrodes, appropriately

Endorphin, for example

Go with the flow and find compound

Kind of bond, chemically

Continue to exist

Be everywhere in

Deprave (anagram)

Spread right through

One who holds property for collateral.

One given a promise

Person to whom a promise is made

Resembling a seed covering

What age will do to beauty (wordplay)

Go before (someone)

Come before (something)

Like some edgy old movies

Be earlier than, historically

Mark the day in advance.

Embracing the red-head, be older than

Preceding a dive

To fade beforehand

Wordsworth autobiography (with 'The')

Introductory part, say of poem

Score in the early going (wordplay)

Be in authority (over)

Chair (with "over")

Act as chairperson (over)

Yield for Mussolini (wordplay)

Food for Mussolini (wordplay)

Create old Fascist slogan (wordplay)

PR video (anagram)

Prove about what I would set before you

Supply writer had absorbed in test

Python poem a recantation (wordplay)

Sort of poem laid open to interpretation

Recantation by friend in poem

Defence of royal adviser, you might say

Stakes out (wordplay)

A side lap (anagram)

Two-spot and six-spot (wordplay)

Naked geisha seen in show? Heaven!

Shangri-La (wordplay)

""A soft meal of oatmeal, also PORRIDGE, PARRITCH""

Military monetary scale

Union-contract stat

Military salary determiner

Treat for the feet

Beauty treatment for feet

It might help with a foot ailment

Perhaps that's just for bears

Line of cats or dogs (wordplay)

A good line in stock (wordplay)

Stalk of a solitary flower

Plant stalk

The stalk of a plant bearing an inflorescence or solitary flower

Bleach (for hair)

Blonde aid (wordplay)

Blonde maker, maybe

Convince by arm-twisting, maybe

Convince or induce, maybe coax

Convince (by argument)

A flattened petiole that serves as a leaf

Recess appointment (wordplay)

Very early appointment (wordplay)

Tot's appointment

""A limb segment of an arthropod, also PODITE""

""An animal with many tentacles, also POLYP, POLYPE""

Relaxing in a cabana chair, maybe

Lifeguard's hangout, perhaps

On a lounge chair, maybe

Something for breakfast time (wordplay)

Cereal offender often does it!

For breakfast in prison (wordplay)

Eg, E ninety eight one TT

Letters and digits to aid sorting mail

Indication of area in address

As potted (anagram)

Put 12/31/2020 on checks, say

Be subsequent to

Following a dive

Closing musical selection

Closing piece of music

Closing organ music.

""A spayed hen, also POULARD""

The weight of sterling silver (eastern)

Body weight up and ego shattered!

Tax by weight - due on gap (anagram)

In the overture, a note and bar

Rule out in advance

Rule out C found in musical work

Go by appearances, perhaps

Jump to conclusions

Pass an opinion beforehand.

""A foreboding sign of disease, also PRODROMUS""

To accumulate sediment and hence advance seaward

""A nitrogenous organic compound, also PROTEIN, PROTEID""

Stick out, project from surface

Old maid carrying rhubarb stick out

Stick out, project from a surface

Brown property of redness in copper

Shrewdness in planning ahead

Care and thought for the future

An agent used for destroying fleas

A flammable liquid

State tree of Ariz.

Seek change (wordplay)

Region of small change (wordplay)

Northern region of Texas

Oedipus, by chance

A murderer in the family.

The killing of one's own parent

1 fictional TV and radio presenter? Aha!

Game bird (in a pear tree?)

Say obscene words about substandard game

Case of murder.

Crime of killing one's own father

The crime of the Playboy

Ichabod Crane's calling.

Dogmatic teacher

Teacher gaped, disturbed by a topless rogue!

A person who has pedophilia.

""An oxide containing five atoms of oxygen in each molecule; as, phosphorus pentoxide, P2O5. as, phosphorus pentoxide, P2O5.""

An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of peptides into amino acids.

It kills harmful creatures

Debugger (wordplay)

Raid, for example

See phenolate .

A binary compound of phosphorus.

PIDGIN a mixed language

Saying softly, "Freedom of choice"

'Time heals all wounds,' for example

Commonplace remark, banal or trite

Like some court cases

Eden lit up (anagram)

More-than-adequate supply

Literary sort of abundance or fullness

""PODZOL an infertile soil, also PODSOL""

AMIDE a type of chemical compound

To define beforehand.

Part of a sentence.

Imply or connote

Part of the sentence given to a subject

Disadvantage recorded with pride

Influence (someone's) opinion in advance

Jane Austen wrote 'Pride and . . . .'

Criminal or civil study, in law

Established way of working

Reproduce new way to get things done

Seaside walk (wordplay)

Nice walk (wordplay)

Square-dance figure

English word

Beast's burden, sometimes

Beast of burden's burden

Holder of loads for horses or donkeys

Tuna roll or a nut, perhaps (wordplay)

E.g. mum, dad

Friend on the airstrip, madam (wordplay)

Drum roll, as soldier meets con

Syncopated drumbeats

Basic drumming sequence - dip a ladder (anagram)

Capable of being forgiven

Cat on island about to be excused

Minor enough to excuse

Public mockery

Lampoon

Lampoon.

Lousy, literally

The portion of a vault by means of which the square space in the middle of a building is brought to an octagon or circle to receive a cupola.

Eternal, lasting

Rock containing olivine

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

Sensor in a CD player

""An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine. C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine.""

All around the world

All over the world

English word

Having appreciable significance

Having weight

POSTDEBATE

Adjective meaning resembling

The order to be observed by protocol

Pecking-order right

Superiority in rank.

Go before (wordplay)

Pass away before this and stop at last

Die before

Fate of perhaps 3 estimated in hunger

Foreordain

Foreordain

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)

Render susceptible

Make susceptible

Incline? Correct prop round south-east side

""A synthetic steroid, C 21 H 26 O 5 , similar to cortisone that is used as an antiallergic and immunosuppressive drug and as an anti-inflammatory agent in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.""

""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

Supply niece that is missing fortune

Roger Williams founded it: 1636

Start of a quip

English word

""A pyridine derivative, C 18 H 11 NO 3 , occurring especially in cereals, yeast, liver, and fish and serving as a coenzyme in amino acid synthesis. Also called vitamin B 6 .""

""A single-ringed, crystalline organic base, C 4 H 4 N 2 , that forms uracil, cytosine, or thymine and is the parent compound of many drugs, including the barbiturates.""

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

Having a pedicel; supported by a pedicel.

PEDUNCULATE

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

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

That may be persuaded.

See phospholipid .

English word

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

Major ore of uranium

Brown or black mineral containing radium

Ore of uranium

Animal that walks on the soles of its feet

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

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

English word

ADAPTIVE able to be adapted

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

Peter made it work to plan

Think out in advance

Plot

""SCHEDULE to plan, also SCEDULE""

Quickness of action; readiness

Detroit pump (anagram) - readiness to act

A term meaning physical beauty

Physical beauty

Comeliness

Anything used to destroy parasites.

A polypeptide composed of five amino acids.

Excitement must follow for each, maybe

Maybe gained through hazardous activity

Maybe, old style.

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

PHOTOOXIDIZE

DISPERSE to {scatter=v}

Adjective meaning resembling

English word

Candidate for a Ph.D., say

Person studying after obtaining a degree

Continuing student

DEPARTURE Division; separation; putting away.

Specify in advance

Foreordain.

'Fix' cat maybe owning ginger and white fur

Decide in advance colour in favourite kind of fur

Peter swallows type of wine that's the pits - he should work it out in advance!

""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.""

""A synthetic steroid, C 21 H 28 O 5 , similar to hydrocortisone and used in various compounds as an anti-inflammatory, immunosuppressive, and antiallergic drug.""

Worried Cameron pined for mastery

Superior influence

Ascendancy

Eton prepared to change rule

New order required, prepare to end rule

PROPAGANDIZE

English word

""Any of various vascular plants that reproduce by means of spores rather than by seeds, including the ferns and related plants, such as club mosses and horsetails.""

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

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

To utter platitudes or truisms.

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.

English word

POSTDOCTORATE

""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

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

PHOTODUPLICATE

Adjective (-ive)

Adjective (-ive)

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

Some youth misbehaving peers concealed

Pl. photoconductivities Electrical conductivity affected by exposure to light.

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

PHOTODISSOCIATE

Noun (-ure)

PSEUDOCOELOMATE