2-Letter Words Starting with P

Major ore of uranium

Brown or black mineral containing radium

Ore of uranium

Pitcherful

PITCHPOLE

Pitiful

""PITIFUL arousing pity, also PITEOUS""

Pixilation

The quality or state of being placable or appeasable; placable disposition.

Placating

Symbol for something missing

Bookmark, essentially

Temporary wording in a document awaiting final text

Placekick

Upright man (wordplay)

Any top-25 NFL career scoring leader

He knows how to score extra points

Placeless

Placidity

A prig ladies foolishly copied in a bad way

Plagiarise

Plagiarism

Cheating types can crush a gal's spirit

PLAGIARIZE To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).

Prose appropriator

Plagiarize

A general term used of any triclinic feldspar. See the Note under Feldspar. Feldspar.

Plainchant

Plainness

Candid in flyer (wordplay)

Easy to understand

Blunt and candid

Plaintive

Plaister

Planarity

Planchette

Space perhaps, to see stars (wordplay)

Where stars gather (wordplay)

Place known to screen stars

Pertaining to a planetoid.

Astronomy ()

Plangency

Planimeter

An instrument that measures the area of a plane figure as a mechanically coupled pointer traverses the perimeter of the figure.

""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.""

""A process for printing from a smooth surface, as lithography or offset.""

Once-common Georgia sights

Farms with banana trees

Large farms that were often established as pioneers moved farther west

Animal that walks on the soles of its feet

""Government by planters; planters, collectively.""

Plasmagene

See cell membrane .

PLASMIN an {enzyme=n}

Pl. plasmodesmata (-m -t ) or plasmodesmas also plasmodesms A strand of cytoplasm that passes through openings in cell walls and connects the protoplasts of adjacent living plant cells.

Plasmolyse

Plasmolysie

""Pl. plasmolyses (-s z ) Shrinkage or contraction of the protoplasm away from the wall of a living plant or bacterial cell, caused by loss of water through osmosis.""

PLASMOLYZE

Plasmolyze

Plastering

Decorative interior mouldings

In a plastic manner.

Plasticene

Plasticine

PLASTICIZE

PLASTICIZE

Plasticize

Platemaker

Present participle or gerund

Resembling silver plate; said of certain architectural ornaments.

PLATINIZE To cover or combine with platinum.

Platterful

Platyfish

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

A. A literary work written for performance on the stage; a drama.

Playacting

Dad (about 50) shows signs of age, circumventing loud mates

Liking for games and amusement

Amusing light-hearted quality

Playground

Playmaking

Theater notables

Dramatists

The writing of plays.

Pleasant

A blur, a sleep, awfully nice

Such as gives enjoyment

Delightful

""PLEASURE to give enjoyment or satisfaction to, also PLEASE""

The quality or state of being plebeian.

Direct votes

Postwar expedients.

Perhaps primarily it is celebs changing events of political nature (wordplay)

See stonefly .

Noun denoting doctrine or practice

Person associated with (-ist)

The control by a single gene of several distinct and seemingly unrelated phenotypic effects.

Having full power

Plenteous

In quantity

Plentitude

""The property possessed by some crystals, of showing different colors when viewed in the direction of different axes.""

""Pertaining to pleomorphism; as, the pleomorphic character of bacteria. as, the pleomorphic character of bacteria.""

Plesiosaur

PLIABLE easily bent

Plumpness

Pluperfect

PLURALIST A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice.

Plurality

PLURALIZE To make plural by using the plural termination; to attribute plurality to; to express in the plural form.

English word

Plushness

Deriving power from wealth

Rich and strong

Powerful and wealthy

A brown bitter gum extracted from the rootstalk of the May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). It is a complex mixture of several substances. Podophyllum peltatum). It is a complex mixture of several substances.

""A genus of herbs of the Barberry family, having large palmately lobed peltate leaves and solitary flower. There are two species, the American Podohyllum peltatum, or May apple, the Himalayan P. Emodi. Podohyllum peltatum, or May apple, the Himalayan P. Emodi.""

PODZOLIZE

Neo-impressionist painting style

Neo-Impressionist technique

Technique employed in the painting hidden in this puzzle

Artist using dots of color.

Artist using tiny dots

Without point.

Poisonous

""An instrument for determining the amount of polarization of light, or the proportion of polarized light, in a partially polarized ray.""

The art or process of measuring the polarization of light.

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

Susceptible of polarization.

Polemical

*Skilled debaters

Delivered strong opinions

Polemicize

Polemonium

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

With reference to government.

Careful not to cause offence to the disadvantaged

In old college, use of computers one term, as parties are organised

More of a quote by William E. Simon

People in smoke-filled rooms

Ins and outs

Made to take sides in government affairs

Made to favour one party or another

Politicise

POLITICIZE

Politicize

Politicker

Politick

Pollenizer

POLLINATE Pollinose.

Country where flowers are fertilized (wordplay)

Flower fertilisation

What bees help to accomplish by flying from flower to flower

Bees are these, for instance, when they travel from plant to plant

Pollinizer

1982 film with a clown doll attack (#4)

Evidence of a reviving spirit (wordplay)

They're here!

Cowardice; want of spirit; pusillanimity.

ALCOHOL a flammable liquid

Polyandry

Poor lady, sun-tanned, with several husbands

Having several husbands or male mates at a time

CENTRIC situated at the center

Polychaete

English word

CHROMED chrome

Polychrome

Polyclinic

CRYSTAL a transparent mineral

POLYDACTYL

Polydipsia

""ESTROUS pertaining to estrus, also ESTRAL, OESTRAL, OESTROUS, ESTRUAL""

Polygamist

POLYGAMIZE To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.

Polygamize

Polygenes

GENESIS an {origin=n}

Having many distinct sources; originating at various places or times.

POLYGLOT one who speaks or writes several languages

Polygonal

Polygraph

""GRAPHIC a painting, print, illustration or diagram""

Polyhedron

Polyhistor

HYDROXY containing hydroxyl

Polylysine

Polymathy

Polymerase

POLYMERISE

Polymerise

Polymerism

""POLYMERIZE 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.""

Polymerize

Polymorphous.

Polynomial

Containing many nuclei.

Polyolefin

Polyonomous.

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

Polyphagia

Polyphagy

Potentially happy soul about to become open-mouthed

Polyphenol

Polyphony

Same as Polyphonic. Polyphonic.

Polyrhythm

SORBATE a sorbed substance

Light synthetic resin

Synthetic resin used in packing

Moulded synthetic material

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

Help cynic to set off for college

Embracing many arts.

Former type of college

Polytheism

Polytheist

Polytonal

""VALENCE a chemical bond, also VALENCY""

Of or pertaining to pomology.

Pomologist

In a ponderous manner.

Pontifical

POPULARISE

Popularise

Made likeable to the general public

One making a subject accessible*

Popularize

Population

Easily carried quality

Nonsharing

Possessed

Future prospect

Contingency

Likelihood

Adjective (-ic)

English word