2-Letter Words Starting with P

Old reptile flying near to pond

Winged crested dinosaur; pardon note (anagram)

The state of being pectinated; that which is pectinated.

""The act or process of penetrating, piercing, or entering; also, the act of mentally penetrating into, or comprehending, anything difficult.""

Five-sided solid figure

Solid figure with five plane faces

Five-faced solid figure - near the pond (anagram)

Gradual filtration

PERENNATE

Ace in the hole (wordplay)

It's useful to those in a tearing hurry

Holes picked in closing remarks about French leader

Possible ordering (of a number of items)

From importunate version of variation

Change of order

Oppression involves putting tube into each part

Ill-treatment on for example religious grounds

Act of mimicry

One versed in phonetics; a phonetist.

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany any of a group of substances produced by plants that inhibit the growth of pathogenic fungi that infect them [from phyto- + Greek alexein to ward off]

Candid in flyer (wordplay)

Easy to understand

Blunt and candid

PLASMIN an {enzyme=n}

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

Noun (-sion)

Grammatical construction that could make editor panic

ELECTION the act of {electing=v}

FRESHMAN a first-year student

Word with prefix pre-

Ignition in an internal-combustion engine while the inlet valve is open or before compression is completed.

INVASION the act of {invading=v}

""A. tasting beforehand, or by anticipation; a foretaste; as, a prelibation of heavenly bliss. as, a prelibation of heavenly bliss.""

LUNCHEON a midday meal

Feeling something is about to happen

Sandra Bullock film

Presentiment, forewarning

The act of fortifying or guarding against objections.

Iron parapet (anagram)

Specially made up medicine

Preliminary measure

Word like after or for (grammar)

'Before' or 'after', say

One could be across or down

SHRUNKEN shrink

Possibly uppermost in arrogance

Strong probability.

Supposition - impertinence

Masterwork (wordplay)

Enforcing conformity to a standard

(adj.) having a predilection for French bread

Enforcing conformity regardless of individuality; scent uproar (anagram)

Steroid hormone used in oral contraceptives

Forward motion seeing prisoners go free

Advance of prisoners go amok

Poser so moved with Ring Cycle

Ordinary worker (Marxism)

Relating to the workers

Frisky pair, later on common

Legal proceedings against a person

Accusation of guilt in court

Action in open court is disturbed

See cholecystokinin .

British warehouse or van

Removal van

Furniture van

A physician who specializes in pediatrics.

The act of punishing.

Commission for distribution of dog food

Perhaps how vets are paid out in a settlement shows endurance

Exotic Persia trip? No sweat

Broken tip? Repair's no sweat

Exercise and sport in air, running around causing this (wordplay)

Disquiet

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

Your florist (wordplay)

Popular houseplant

London pride variety including first house plant

Mate pointing out blemish (wordplay)

Natural colouring

Sow farmers get on at it in end for colour tissue

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

""A figure by which the conjunction is often repeated, as in the sentence, "We have ships and men and money and stores." Opposed to asyndeton. asyndeton.""

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

Physiological effect in nerve impulses; in-patient, too (anagram)

""Lit., previous admission;""

Relative of ESP

Foreknowledge

Requirement

Prerequisite

Digestion too soon performed; hasty digestion.

Preference (for something)

Special liking or preference

Penchant of the French in anticipation

An old theory of the pre\'89xistence of germs. Cf. Embo&icir;tement. Embo&icir;tement.

HISTORIAN A writer of history; a chronicler; an annalist.

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

Of or relating to the period before the fall of Adam and Eve.

MIGRATION The act of migrating.

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

Denomination that is best in prayer?

Priest nearby prepared member of church

Priest nearby built church

What a doctor may write

Something with which to obtain drugs

Medicine authorised by doctor

Preselect

Nearest point at sea for the launch

Illustrated formal talk

Formal act of giving

Keeping quiet, with some little doubt

Keeping quiet when having doubt

Proboscidian.

Introduction of expert cricket side's to sign on

Introduction from The Go-Between (worker and diplomat)

Introduction in favour of educational toy followed by fellows accepting negative

English word

Toper sloshed, post complaint

Emphatic declaration

Complaint in favour of Victoria perhaps taking note

Process of rotting

Junior doctor (wordplay)

Child's doctor

Specialist in treating children

PALLETIZE PALLET a bed or mattress or straw

""PELLETIZE PELLET to hit with small, rounded masses""

""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 .""

Action of walking around

Process of walking

Walking tour, with pain and blame bandied about

Travelling with Pierre in Tonga, maybe

Wandering about in art opening I fancy

Long meandering journey

(Historical Terms) the act or process of dividing history into periods

""PERSEVERATE PERSEVERE To persist in any business or enterprise undertaken; to pursue steadily any project or course begun; to maintain a purpose in spite of counter influences, opposition, or discouragement; not to give or abandon what is undertaken.""

See Petrifaction. Petrifaction.

Subatomic particle - let hencoop rot (anagram)

""Emission of photoelectrons, especially from metallic surfaces.""

A photochemical reaction.

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

An organism that is pathogenic to a plant.

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-sion)

""ADAPTATION The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness.""

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.""

The act or state of predominating; ascendency; predominance.

""The act of prefiguring, or the state of being prefigured.""

Prelude to murder, often

Forethought

Almost cure it in paved area with some necessary forethought

The act of prenominating; privilege of being named first.

Something totally dominating the mind

Concentration before calling

Absorption, engrossment

The act of foreordaining: previous determination.

Preoccupation; prior possession.

""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.""

""REVOLUTION The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc. as, the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc.""

TELEVISION

The act of passing by or omitting; omission.

Evasive speech or deeds

Evasive behaviour

Adjusted pro rata invoice knocking off one zero causes quibbling

Increase (of nuclear weapons)

Increase in numbers opposing euthanasia quotient

Anti-abortion or anti-reproduction is spreading

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

The action of reducing to dust or powder.

""A process devised by Pasteur for preventing or checking fermentation in fluids, such as wines, milk, etc., by exposure to a temperature of 140° F., thus destroying the vitality of the contained germs or ferments.""

""Any of a group of proteins, such as casein, containing chemically bound phosphoric acid.""

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

Photoreducte

POLYMERISE POLYMER a complex chemical compound

The act or process of changing to a polymeric form; the condition resulting from such change.

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-sion)

Noun (-tion)

PRECIPITIN

""Of or pertaining to predestination; as, the predestinarian controversy. as, the predestinarian controversy.""

Fixed fate

Doctrine that God has ordained future events

Perdition's neat solution for those so chosen (wordplay)

DEVALUATION

Inclination (to behave in certain ways)

Prior inclination (towards something)

A tendency (to do something)

""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.""

""MILLENARIAN Consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the Millenarians.""

""The act or state of preponderating; preponderance; as, a preponderation of reasons. as, a preponderation of reasons.""

""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.""

PRESSURIZE PRESSURE to apply force to

Before job accepting drink - that's an assumption!

It's assumed before, for example, consuming drink

""TERMINATION The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities. as, a voluntary termination of hostilities.""

""-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

PARAMETRIZE

Ruler like Robert (wordplay)

Roundhead, in British history

Sam Rayburn, for example

PERSONALIZE To make personal.

How gracious, how benign, is Solitude.

"How gracious, how benign, is Solitude."

Bringing to life

Lab acidity indicator

C20H14O4 (and a key substance in this puzzle's theme)

Noun (-tion)

One with a limited wardrobe (wordplay)

Police-squad member

Member of the force.

Investigators of a kind.

Undercover detectives

Detectives

Noun (-tion)

Of or relating to postmillennialism.

""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.""

IMPLANTATION The act or process of implantating.

Educational foundation (wordplay)

""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.""

Conference requirement, often

Act of converting

English word

Psychology

The deciding of something in advance

Entertaining conjuring tricks

His feat