2-Letter Words Starting with P

Polarise

Opposite conditions

Polarize

One drawn to controversy

Engage in controversy

Polemize

""A genus of gamopetalous perennial herbs, including the Jacob's ladder and the Greek valerian.""

""Pl. polioviruses An enterovirus, separable into three serotypes, that is the causative agent of poliomyelitis.""

Politburo

Good manners

Social asset

Civility

Politesse

Pork source (wordplay)

Wooer of voters

Butler or Hall.

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

Turn red or blue, say (wordplay)

Make an issue of

Endless voting one expressed approval of - and tried to secure votes (wordplay)

POLITICK to engage in {politics=n}

Politico

Pollard

POLLEN to transfer the fertilizing element in a seed plant to

POLLEN to transfer the fertilizing element in a seed plant to

POLLEN to transfer the fertilizing element in a seed plant to

Fertilized, botanically speaking.

Fertilised (flowers)

(Of flower) fertilised

Helps out at the orchard

Bee, at times

POLLINIZE

Plural or third person singular

See hay fever .

Smoke, waste chemicals, etc.

Pollution

Dances seen at carnivals

Noted Chopin compositions

Slow-tempo dances.

Polyamide

Polyamine

Polyantha

Flower youth plans to develop

College haunts put out of order: a bloomer (wordplay)

Having more than one atom in the molecule; consisting of several atoms.

""Any of various annelid worms of the class Polychaeta, including mostly marine worms such as the lugworm, and characterized by fleshy paired appendages tipped with bristles on each body segment.""

Multicolored

""The art or practice of combining different colors, especially brilliant ones, in an artistic way.""

Hospital able to treat wide variety of diseases

CLONAL pertaining to a {clon=n}

CYCLIC moving in complete circles

CYSTIC pertaining to a {cyst=n}

DACTYL a certain poetic rhythm pattern

Excessive thirst

Excessive or abnormal thirst.

Some versatile materials

Leisure suit fabrics

They don't need to be pressed to put something basic in the posters

Multiple-marriage customs

He has more than one rib

One with multiple spouses

One has an excess of trouble and strife

To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.

Over matey (wordplay)

Having more than one wife or husband

(adj.) able to play multiple opponents at the same time (said of chess)

Polygony

Polygonum

They reveal lies in old college charts

Polygyny

Having many styles; belonging to the order Polygynia.

Having many faces

With many plane faces

Plane-faced solid

Solid figure that usually has more than six faces

One versed in various learning.

LYSINE an amino acid

Pertaining to polymathy; acquainted with many branches of learning.

""Any of various enzymes, such as DNA polymerase, RNA polymerase, or reverse transcriptase, that catalyze the formation of polynucleotides of DNA or RNA using an existing strand of DNA or RNA as a template.""

POLYMER a complex chemical compound

""The state, quality, or relation of two or more polymeric substances.""

""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.""

Polymorph

Polymyxin

In math, the sum of a number of terms

Mathematical expression

One with a degree in mathematics (wordplay)

""OLEFIN an alkene, also OLEFINE""

Polypary

""Food and Nutrition Pathology. excessive appetite or excessive eating. Disease and Illness the tendency to eat a wide variety of food. ; polyphagist , ; polyphagic,""

PHASIC relating to a phase

PHENOL a caustic compound

Polyphone

Having a multiplicity of sounds.

Polyploid

PLOIDY the number of chromosomes in a cell

Polypody

Polyptych

""RHYTHM a pattern of recurrence, also RHYTHMUS""

Polysemy

POLYSEME a word with more than one meaning

Polyteny

Belief in more than one god

Worship of more than one god

Imply ethos is wrong with this sort of belief

Adherent of widespread religious belief

Polythene

Multivalent.

Polywater

Beating

Pomology

One versed in pomology; one who culticvates fruit trees.

Having appreciable significance

Having weight

Like many stump speeches

Of the Pope

Arrogant; haughty

PONYTAIL a hair-style

POPULAR something pleasing

Kind of contest.

Reason for some votes

Amount of fame

Promote in a way

Populate

Modern type of "explosion."

No pilau pot dish for all the people

We, the people

POPULIST a member of a party which represents the common people

POPULOUS containing many inhabitants

Unfortunate 24s heard predators at sea

Porcelain

Keep behind this gate (wordplay)

Defensive grating in medieval castles

Wine reduction process is grating

Cruise brochures (wordplay)

Art students' carryalls

Stock holders

The quality or state of being portly; dignity of mien or of personal appearance; stateliness.

Studies of fish caught in organised patrols

Representations

Portulaca

Relating to disposition

Like rankings

Okay by me!

"Okay by me!"

Misguided love is pity, really

Posology

Ironically, the least likely way someone would say "most likely"

Like the U.S. after 1865

After the war

Model receiving complaint to consider retiring after hostilities ended

Like someone smoking in bed, stereotypically

Subsequent to the Babylonian captivity, in Jewish history

English word

They guide the coach's team after taking number one with pride

Rider of leading horse drawing carriage

Rider on a carriage horse.

One riding coach horse

English word

A person submitting a request or application; a petitioner.

Postulant

Order to breeder coming round after time assumed

Assumed (something) as the basis for reasoning

Suggested all the letters from university disposed of by department

Assumes position tardily in America

Mathematic suppositions

""POSTULATE Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as selfevident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged, without argument or evidence.""

Fit to drink.

Describing the anatomy of a stove?

With a protruding stomach

Paunchy Petty Officer billeted out

Unwanted overhangs

Culinary pulp fiction (wordplay)

Literary quickies

Hacks products

The act of producing an artistic work of poor quality

Potential

Flower a.k.a. cinquefoil

P, as in these roses

Mighty harmful, a plant

Potlatch

Norhtwestern ceremonial festivals

Festivals of Chinook Indians.

Poulterer

Poultice

""Pl -trymen , -terers 1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) Also called chicken farmer a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat""

POULTRY farmyard fowls collectively

Informal discussion Fr.

Negotiations leading up to a treaty

Informal consultation

POWDER to reduce to fine dust-like particles

Adjective meaning resembling

My phone battery is completely dead! Tom said...

Pozzolana

POZZOLAN a finely divided material used to make cement

Hands-on tests

Praelect

""PRAETOR an ancient Roman magistrate, also PRETOR""

PRANKISH mischievous

Bird painter circling round pass

Behavior ()

Prebill

Prebless

Prebless

Preboil

CALCULI calculus

Precancel

Prechill

User policy designed in a valuable way

Dearly.

Preclean

Preclear

Counteracting in advance

""The act of precluding, or the state of being precluded; a shutting out.""

Eliminating beforehand

COLLEGE a school of higher learning

Precool

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

Predrill

Preelect

ETHICAL a drug sold by prescription only

A better choice

More desirable

Better

Rather

""Situated in front of the frontal bone, or the frontal region of the skull; ectethmoid, as a certain bone in the nasal capsule of many animals, and certain scales of reptiles and fishes.""

GENITAL pertaining to reproduction

In a meaningful or inventive way

Able to grasp - her in sleep (anagram)

Adjective for a kinkajou's tail.

Adapted for grasping

HOLIDAY to take a vacation

Prelature

Prelect

A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company.

Prelimit

LOGICAL pertaining to {logic=n}

Prelusion

Of the time before the wedding bells.

Like some relations

Prenuptial

""A bone on either side of the middle line between the nose and mouth, forming the anterior part of each half of the upper jawbone; the intermaxilla. In man the premaxill\'91 become united and form the incisor part of the maxillary bone.""

Designating a certain course of study

Type of course for aspiring doctors

Type of college course.

Premold

Before birth

Agreement before marriage

Certain agreement

Wedding agreement

PREPARED prepare

In a premeditated manner.

Preplace

Intentional

PUBERAL pertaining to {puberty=n}

QUALIFY to be eligible after having the necessary requirements

A critic might listen to one

Full of presages; ominous.

Preschool

Chooses beforehand

Presell

Preslice

How ER doctors give orders

In persistent, demanding fashion

Such as may be presumed or supposed to be true; that seems entitled to belief without direct evidence.