2-Letter Words Starting with P

State of supremity

Position above all others

Superiority.

Lacking written records

MARRIAGE the legal union of a man and woman

MAXILLAE maxilla

Peter made it work to plan

Think out in advance

Plot

Forenamed; named beforehand.

Like something that will get you ready

Preliminary

""Put before; prefixed; as, a prepositive particle. as, a prepositive particle.""

Give a porter tips? Right!

Exclusive right/privilege

Right, privilege

Based on probability (but not apparent)

US rep met VIP abroad, as expected

Offer an untruth

Beat about the bush

Speak or act evasively

""(tr) to keep from happening, esp by taking precautionary action""

Adjective (-ible)

Having the power to beget; generative.

Cream-filled pastry ball

Filled pastry ball

Cream-filled, chocolate-covered pastry

Insurance seller (Cleveland Indians)

Teddy Roosevelt's party in 1912

Forward-looking or -moving

(Of a price) excessively high

(Of price) excessively high

I have bar first excessively high

Reproduce a lot

Grow rapidly in number

Breed for long stretch with speed

Quickness of action; readiness

Detroit pump (anagram) - readiness to act

""Producing by propagation, or by a process of growth.""

""PROSELYTE A new convert especially a convert to some religion or religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte. proselyte.""

""To convert to some religion, system, opinion, or the like; to bring, or cause to come, over; to proselyte.""

Likely to happen in the future

""Capable of being protracted, or protruded; protrusile.""

Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying.

""Capable of being thrust outward, as the proboscis of many insects.""

""Origin; source; place where found or produced; provenance; -- used esp. in the fine arts and in arch\'91ology; as, the provenience of a patera.as, the provenience of a patera.""

Deliberately causing annoyance

Tending to excite expert on case

Designed to cause anger or arousal

PRUSSIANISE

PRUSSIANIZE

Capable of being published; suitable for publication.

A term meaning physical beauty

Physical beauty

Comeliness

""Capable of putrefaction; liable to become putrid; as, putrescible substances. as, putrescible substances.""

""Ruby silver; dark red silver ore. It is a sulphide of antimony and silver, occurring in rhombohedral crystals or massive, and is of a dark red or black color with a metallic adamantine luster.""

""A place where foodstuffs are processed and packed; as, they came from an apple packinghouse.as, they came from an apple packinghouse.""

""PARAMETER A term applied to some characteristic magnitude whose value, invariable as long as one and the same function, curve, surface, etc., is considered, serves to distinguish that function, curve, surface, etc., from others of the same kind or family.""

Anything used to destroy parasites.

To make a parenthesis of; to include within parenthetical marks.

""The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch.""

Least expensive music-maker (wordplay)

Small fipple flute

Simple wind instrument

A polypeptide composed of five amino acids.

""Relating to or being an utterance that peforms an act or creates a state of affairs by the fact of its being uttered under appropriate or conventional circumstances, as a justice of the peace uttering I now pronounce you husband and wife at a wedding ceremony, thus creating a legal union, or as one uttering I promise, thus performing the act of promising.""

""A crystalline compound, C 21 H 26 ClN 3 OS, used as a tranquilizer especially in the treatment of psychosis and to prevent or alleviate nausea and vomiting.""

""An adrenergic blocking agent, C 17 H 19 N 3 O, used especially in the diagnosis and treatment of pheochromocytoma.""

Reason about deep and fundamental issues

Speculate superficially

PHOTOOXIDIZE

""PICTORIAL Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination.""

Video communication device

Fish culture. See under Fish. Fish.

""POLITICAL Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration.""

DISPERSE to {scatter=v}

RIBOSOME a particle composed of protein and RNA

PORCELAIN Purslain.

Adjective meaning resembling

English word

Adjective (-ive)

POSTEXERCISE

POSTLITERATE

""Placed after another word; as, a postpositive conjunction; a postpositive letter. as, a postpositive conjunction; a postpositive letter.""

""Capable of being precipitated, or cast to the bottom, as a substance in solution. See Precipitate, n. (Chem.) Precipitate, n. (Chem.)""

The quality of being precipitant.

""COGNITIVE Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power. as, cognitive power.""

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

In earlier life, former partner one's caught in act

Create a perfect bra with current design

Build in sections and lay a fibre carpet

Manufacture sections to be easily transported

Before going to theatre and before dramatic work, takes half of sedative

Something that is required in advance

Student's concern.

Something required as a prior condition

Relating to the imposition of a rule or method

""Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative. as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative.""

Something preventing decay

It delays or prevents deterioration

Additive prolonging food life

""STERILIZE To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.""

That which prevents; incorrectly used instead of preventive. preventive.

""A potent antineoplastic drug, C 12 H 19 N 3 O, used primarily to treat advanced Hodgkin's disease.""

PROPAGANDIZE

Forbidding; condemnatory

Affecting the mind or mental processes. Used of a drug.

PSYCHOLOGISE

PSYCHOLOGIZE

""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.""

Admitting of being pulverized; pulverable.

""Of or pertaining to putrefaction; as, the putrefactive smell or process. as, the putrefactive smell or process.""

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

""Native lead phosphate with lead chloride, occurring in bright green and brown hexagonal crystals and also massive; so called because a fused globule crystallizes in cooling.""

""A mineral, usually of a white or greenish color and pearly luster, consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of alumina.""

Taking part

Particular

""To give as a particular, or as the particulars; to mention particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail.""

Trimming

A substance (C5H11NO2S) which is a degradation product of the penicillins. Chemically it is 3-mercapto-D-valine. It has chelating properties and is used in medicine as an antirheumatic and to chelate copper in cases of hepatolenticular degeneration (Wilson's disease).C5H11NO2S) which is a degradation product of the penicillins. Chemically it is 3-mercapto-D-valine. It has chelating properties and is used in medicine as an antirheumatic and to chelate copper in cases of hepatolenticular degeneration (Wilson's disease).

""An enzyme which destroys the antibacterial activity of penicillin by hydrolyzing the amide bond in the beta-lactam ring. Many penicillinases are known, and are produced by a wide variety of bacteria. The production of penicillinase is one of the mechanisms by which bacteria may become resistant to penicillins. Penicillinase production in various bacterial species may be induced, i.e., it may occur only when stimulated by the presence of penicillin in the culture medium, or it may be constitutive, i.e., it may occur whenever the cells are producing protein. Molecular weights of the various penicillinases tend to cluster near 50,000.""

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

English word

Drug used as a strong tranquilliser and in the treatment of schizophrenia

""An essential amino acid, C 9 H 11 NO 2 , that occurs as a constituent of many proteins and is normally converted to tyrosine in the human body. It is necessary for growth in infants and for nitrogen equilibrium in adults.""

""An adrenergic drug, C 9 H 13 NO 2 , that is a powerful vasoconstrictor and is used to relieve nasal congestion, dilate the pupils, and maintain blood pressure during anesthesia.""

English word

Any of several enzymes that hydrolyze specific ester bonds in phospholipids.

Adjective (-ive)

Biology Repelled by light; exhibiting a negative phototactic or phototropic response.

Biology Drawn to light; exhibiting a positive phototactic or phototropic response.

""An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean (the seed of Physostigma venenosum), and extracted as a white, tasteless, substance, amorphous or crystalline; formerly called eserine, with which it was regarded as identical. Physostigma venenosum), and extracted as a white, tasteless, substance, amorphous or crystalline; formerly called eserine, with which it was regarded as identical.""

English word

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.

Adjective meaning resembling

Worker after job following surgery

Relating to period after surgery

Spy who works for a Washington paper (wordplay)

""PRECIPITATE Overhasty; rash; as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war. as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war.""

""COLLEGIATE Of or pertaining to a college; as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society. as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society.""

Showing by prefiguration.

""MEDITATIVE Disposed to meditate, or to meditation; as, a meditative man; a meditative mood. as, a meditative man; a meditative mood.""

(Right of) being first-born

State of being the firstborn

Firstborn-inherits system

Wait until tomorrow, unnecessarily

Put off due to rain, spectator moved

Put off what should be done now

""The body of professors, or the professorial staff, in a university or college.""

Forecast disastrous operating cost

Divine erotic snap got hacked

Prophesy, foretell

""PROLIFERATE To produce or form cells; especially, to produce cells rapidly.""

Corresponding in size

In scale for amount of food consumed

Corresponding in size to something else

To render provincial.

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

""A drug, C 12 H 13 ClN 4 , used principally in the prophylactic treatment of malaria.""

English word

""An enzyme found in certain plants, bacteria, and fungi that catalyzes the hydrolysis of pectin to pectic acid and methanol. Also called pectase .""

See pentobarbital sodium .

Sedative for bird that's breached order to put note into singer

PHOTODUPLICATE

Adjective (-ive)

Adjective (-ive)

""A nerve ending, cell, or group of cells specialized to sense or receive light.""

Responding to light

PHOTOSENSITIZE

""Any of several stable, light-fast, blue or green organic pigments derived from the basic compound (C 6 H 4 C 2 N) 4 N 4 and used in enamels, printing inks, linoleum, and plastics.""

PINEALECTOMIZE

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

POSTCOLLEGE

Noun (-ence)

Proletarian

""PROLETARIAN Of or pertaining to the proletaries; belonging to the commonalty; hence, mean; vile; vulgar.""

""Capable of being proportioned, or made proportional; also, proportional; proportionate.""

""A sensory receptor, found chiefly in muscles, tendons, joints, and the inner ear, that detects the motion or position of the body or a limb by responding to stimuli arising within the organism.""

""An organic compound, C 4 H 10 N 3 O 5 P, found in muscle tissue and capable of storing and providing energy for muscular contraction. Also called creatine phosphate .""

PHOSPHORYLATE

Pl. photoconductivities Electrical conductivity affected by exposure to light.

PHOTODISSOCIATE

PHOTOSYNTHESIZE

""CRYSTALLINE Consisting, or made, of crystal.""

Noun (-ure)

""PROFESSIONAL Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct. as, professional knowledge; professional conduct.""

Expert and lay climber's link keeping pet Number 4 in prophetic style