2-Letter Words Starting with P

Soluble protein.

""A sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful cochinealred color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive; ruby silver.""

Nearby bishop accepts bull

First-class county perhaps against China next

Very near

Lewdness - epic rerun (anagram)

Unhealthy interest in sexual matters

Morbid interest in sex etc

English word

Plug I use with clip, desperate to cover opening in bath

PUBLIC people as a whole

Power of car, not new, in red

Rough seas in cup competition with jumps

Power: Poetic.

""Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument. as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument.""

Reduce to dust (S, not Z)

Grind to powder

Thoroughly beat repulsive cavalier

Grind into dust

Demolish

State of student turning up sack

Being at school and turning up to plunder

Adjective meaning resembling

Musical combo disheartened over producing a washout (wordplay)

If you're bound to be in purgatory, this should give you a moving experience

Having or indicating purpose or design.

""A woman's bag for carrying keys, a wallet, and other personal items; a handbag.""

Adjective meaning resembling

Capable of being appeased

To palatize.

Native of old German Empire

German region.

Historical region spread, preserving a language

Tuna roll or a nut, perhaps (wordplay)

E.g. mum, dad

Friend on the airstrip, madam (wordplay)

Pain-relieving - a vital pile (anagram)

Providing relief, but not a cure

Aimed at relief of suffering

PANICULATE

An alkaloid found in opium. It has a weaker therapeutic action than morphine.

Drum roll, as soldier meets con

Syncopated drumbeats

Basic drumming sequence - dip a ladder (anagram)

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Non-finite form of a verb

Form of a verb used as a modifier

Adjectival form of verb

Public mockery

Lampoon

Lampoon.

Hot as Jerusalem, head bandages!

Fiery spirit is swallowed

Eager to hand one over with a note

To be on the safe side, make the land revert to grass, by the sound of it

Too quick to see (wordplay)

Too quick to see?

Remove germs from, in a way

Are its pies cooked well (wordplay)

Are its pies fresh (wordplay)

Are its pies 'fantastique' (wordplay)

Aristocracy

Aristocracy.

Lousy, literally

A disparaging word, such as poetaster.

Politically incorrect, in a way

Expressing contempt or disapproval

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.

99th, for example

Any of the 99 numbered points that divide a set into 100 equal parts

Observant look about Catholic woman virtually in retreat

Operated by striking

Of significant impact

""Tending or conducing to make perfect, or to bring to perfection; usually followed by of. of.""

Having the basal part produced around the stem; said of leaves which the stem apparently passes directory through.

Rock containing olivine

Destroy a rebel ship - it could go off!

Herbal pies (anagram)

(Of food) likely to rot

Tiny seafood item - purplish-blue shade

Plant with five-petalled flowers

*Edible sea snail

PERMEATE to spread through

Noun (-age)

Liberal by letter (wordplay)

A girl I have that's free with favours

Not doing much disciplining

""(Earth Sciences / Minerals) a yellow, brown, or greyish-black mineral form of calcium titanate with some rare-earth elements, which is used in certain high-temperature ceramic superconductors [named after Count Lev Alekseevich Perovski (1792-1856), Russian statesman]""

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

""A cell organelle containing enzymes, such as catalase and oxidase, that catalyze the production and breakdown of hydrogen peroxide.""

Bonus for each is accepted by all

Bonus or fringe benefit

Incidental or casual benefit

Light-hearted banter

Pale griefs (anagram) - flippancy

Chaff by itself to ingest if idle

Very convincing, as an argument

Providing sound reasoning

Supervise a review that is influential

What a non sequitur lacks

Relevance

Aptness

Tending to pervert.

Plague - lent pieces (anagram)

Deadly epidemic disease

Fatal epidemic disease

""A white crystalline compound, C 18 H 22 N 2 O 2 , used in the form of its hydrochloride as a local anesthetic in ophthalmology.""

Goliath, for example

Opponent of progress.

Person indifferent or hostile to culture

A philosophaster; a philosopher.

""A kind of mica having generally a peculiar bronzered or copperlike color and a pearly luster. It is a silicate of aluminia, with magnesia, potash, and some fluorine. It is characteristic of crystalline limestone or dolomite and serpentine. See Mica. Mica.""

Sensor in a CD player

Harpsichord's kin

A grand may be a profit one makes

For this Chopin wrote two volumes

Rascally nurses in a state of vexation

Like tales of rogues

Like Don Quixote

Avian compartment (wordplay)

Lay aside indefinitely.

Shelve, as legislation.

PILFER to {steal=v}

One more tragedy, say, from Shakespeare

Trip from drug - mostly horrid time

Religious traveller's journey

Divorce lawyer's suit (wordplay)

Divorce lawyer's suit?

Holding down its job

Navigator's place

Very good having miss to entertain you in ship's compartment

Unwilling to intervene in very good English ship's structure

*Tricked-out car

Spot, carrying gangsters, one flashy vehicle

Adjective meaning resembling

""A colorless crystalline compound, C 4 H 10 N 2 , used as a hardener for epoxy resins, an antihistamine, and an anthelmintic.""

""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.""

Having a pistil or pistils; usually said of flowers having pistils but no stamens.

Cheat by copying; agile pairs (anagram)

Copy for piano: after lapse of time I get up

Appropriate force restraining prisoner, immediately aggro starts

Make an unauthorized copy (wordplay)

Appropriate words

Take a page from someone's book (wordplay)

Adjective meaning resembling

All around the world

All over the world

English word

Material for play school artists

Modelling clay

Would it take its place in modelling (wordplay)

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

Vote to lead the French into new cities

Commoner is to call for vote

Important vote.

English word

Engage in controversy

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

Turn red or blue, say (wordplay)

Make an issue of

To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.

LYSINE an amino acid

POLYMER a complex chemical compound

""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.""

POPULAR something pleasing

Promote in a way

Unwilling to share

Case in grammar.

Desiring to retain what one owns

English word

Make powerful

Adjective meaning resembling

""The offense under English law of appealing to or obeying a foreign court or authority, thus challenging the supremacy of the Crown.""

Bird painter circling round pass

""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

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.""

Of a certain bridge bid.

Getting in first, angry peer with aim to get power for old

FINANCE to supply the money for

Able to grasp - her in sleep (anagram)

Adjective for a kinkajou's tail.

Adapted for grasping

To require beforehand.

Antedating physics (wordplay)

Sibyl's forte

Seer's gift

SERVICE to {repair=v}

Attempt to coerce (into doing something)

Coerce journalists to rebel, supporting United

Prepare, as an aircraft cabin

Prepare, as a bottle launcher

Dental floss, for one

Like a checkup

Type of medicine

Birth

PRIORITIZE

""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

Lucrative for female, I suggest

Cost-effective

Academic, one sitting on the board making money

PROFIT to gain an advantage or benefit

Losing grip of late, being extravagant

Tip a golfer gave to prodigal

Extravagant tip a golfer developed

Boulder, for a catapult

Spitball, for example

Bullet, shell or rocket.

PROJECT to extend outward

""PROLOGUE to preface, also PROLOG""

Precipice or peak

Highly visibility or importance

Something that sticks out

A salt of propionic acid.

Appease, as a god

Marketing drug, maintaining it will induce goodwill

Pacify.

""Tending, or having power, to propel; driving on; urging.""

Somebody who gets screwed at work (wordplay)

Defensive vet to price order

Designating a type of tariff.

Kind of custody

""An endopeptidase, such as pepsin, trypsin, or papain.""

Drawn out; extended.

""Thrusting or impelling forward; as, protrusive motion. as, protrusive motion.""

Supply niece that is missing fortune

Roger Williams founded it: 1636

Start of a quip

English word

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

Likely to incur fines, say

Time-honored, in a way (wordplay)

Adjective meaning resembling

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

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.""

""Manganese dioxide, a mineral of an ironblack or dark steelgray color and metallic luster, usually soft. Pyrolusite parts with its oxygen at a red heat, and is extensively used in discharging the brown and green tints of glass (whence its name).""

A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene.

""A bronze-colored mineral, of metallic luster. It is a sulphide of iron, and is remarkable for being attracted by the magnet. Called also magnetic pyrites.magnetic pyrites.""

PARAMETRIZE

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.

""Tending to penetrate; of a penetrating quality; piercing; as, the penetrative sun. as, the penetrative sun.""

""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.""

""Entitled to receive a pension; as, a pensionable employee.as, a pensionable employee.""

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

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

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

Like the letter Y

Next-to-last

Nearly last, team let up in scrummaging

Capable of being perceived; perceptible.

Heartless Blue Peter clip playing on YouTube perhaps

Tangible

Acute insight

Before smile, spread out and wander

Wander around

Voyage here and there as green pirate at sea

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

Allowable

Allowed

""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

Make one's own series on lap dancing

Make specific to an individual

Individually tailor

Monogram, maybe

PERSONATE To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

Frame of mind

View; technique for drawing 3-D objects

Point of view

Capable of being persuaded; persuadable.

""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.""

Adjective meaning resembling

""A friend of Greece, or of the Greeks; a philhellenist.""

Adjective meaning resembling

See phospholipid .

PHOSPHATE A salt of phosphoric acid.

(min.) A massive variety of apatite.

PHOTOIONIZE

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.

""The representation of the circles of the sphere upon a plane; especially, a representation of the celestial sphere upon a plane with adjustable circles, or other appendages, for showing the position of the heavens, the time of rising and setting of stars, etc., for any given date or hour.""

Animal that walks on the soles of its feet

""Of or designating the New World monkeys, distinguished from the Old World monkeys by widely separated nostrils that generally open to the side.""

Tool for Penrod

Camper's handy tool

Handy gadget for campers

""An instrument consisting essentially of a polarizer and an analyzer, used for polarizing light, and analyzing its properties.""

Susceptible of polarization.

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

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

Speak pompously in an office in Rome

Express one's opinions pompously

Express opinions pompously

Producing pictures of people

You may sit for it

Gilbert Stuart specialty

English word

Feasible

Realistic

ADAPTIVE able to be adapted

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

Hold the advantage

Be the strongest element

Exert the strongest power