2-Letter Words Starting with P

Marshall, for one

Scheme for lopping a tree (wordplay)

Marshall for one

Hairless Spanish style

Hairless, Spanish style.

Hairless

Like a nothing bagel (wordplay)

Simple partner (wordplay)

Left in agony? That's evident!

Tower in a power grid

End-zone marker

Air-race marker

A sheet of waterproof material

Tribe, in biology.

Plane-tree

Roller on a typewriter

Writer's roller

Roller for the Underwood

Igneous rock beneath the earth's surface

Underground mass of igneous rock

Mass of crystallized magma

A protective piece of leather for the knee

Sneezing powder (wordplay)

Something to sneeze at (wordplay)

Sneezin' reason, perhaps

Type of fabric

Strong plain-woven fabric

Finely corded shirt fabric

A sex hormone

One stitch in one beam

Sounds as if an oyster has one with a beam

Heroic knight - aid plan (anagram)

Is the boy in pain? That's champion!

"Have Gun Will Travel" hero

Louisiana (with "state")

Nice pal (anagram)

Bird crossing the road (wordplay)

""A chemical compound, also PICOLINE""

Where one holds the driver!

Cushion behind a saddle.

Tablet, one on seat behind driver

Blood enzyme

A determinant of inheritance in cells

Best Picture of 1986 (Charlie Sheen)

Best Picture of 1986

Oscar-winner of 1986

Infant's enclosure

Tot's enclosure

Baby's enclosure

A part of a thoracic segment of an insect

Articulation of a speech sound, k, p or t.

Farmer, at times

Farmer with oxen

Agricultural figure in "The Canterbury Tales"

Fellows tilling soil

Oxen followers

Field laborers

""To plump, to make well rounded and full in form""

Rainy.

A type of {electron=n}

Rhombus, for one

Closed plane figure

Many-sided plane figure

Leave little to chance, perhaps

In advance devise homework on network

Make advance arrangements

Salivary enzyme

Salivary enzyme

Large suitcase, perhaps

Kind of kitchen or car

Luxury railway carriage

Propulsion

Take the wrong way (wordplay)

Make off with

Nick largely untouched cut of meat

A chemical compound

Scaly anteater - a long pin (anagram)

Pain long-suffering creature has

Long-tailed scaly anteater.

Charriere's dog (wordplay)

1973 McQueen/Hoffman film

Devil's Island escapee

An oily liquid obtained from fish

""A shoulder plate for armour, also PULDRON""

Cricket ground clubhouse

Park picnic place

Players can pop in here for a change

The bell of a wind instrument

Pertaining to a {peloria=n}

A chemical compound

Priest to thrash male civil servant

British spoils-system beneficiaries

Food for whales (wordplay)

Board not up for school food (wordplay)

Board weight (wordplay)

Pal at inn (anagram)

A hollow nut found in ordinary fruit

Firmly fix one in fruit

Turtle's bottom shell.

Torso-protecting armor

Doctor patrols with new pad to protect chest

Minimise the importance of (something)

Make light of drama not working

Make light of

Non-U (wordplay)

Of the common people

Vulgar 'bleep' in a broadcast

""A small pointed object for plucking guitar strings, also PLECTRUM, PLECTRE""

Aquatic vegetation

A type of vacuum tube

Having cut back course, one's afraid

No, L Troop does not want such a coward

Utter coward

Old place to learn, with Australian, about an aquatic invertebrate

A finely divided material used to make cement

Tidy up ahead of time

Tidy up for the maid

A simple protein

Structure forming the entrance to a temple

A hallucination

Mushroom drug

Substance used in treating acne

One who'd give you wallop (wordplay)

Man behind bars (wordplay)

British tavern keeper

Shoulder-borne litter for one person

Box carried on poles

Scheme to kidnap adult one of five in litter

""PALMATE resembling an open hand, also PALMATED""

'Feeling' in a laptop programme

Stock comic character

Man's sixth age

On to a plan about Columbine's father

One of Jilly Cooper's amendments (wordplay)

One keeping a beat (wordplay)

One who keeps a beat (wordplay)

Chap on the beat is an American cop

Parking upset Montreal traffic police

Beat keepers

One who is afficted with pellagra.

Small enclosure on rough Alpine land surface that's denuded

The tissue of young cells which produces cork cells.

Greek vestment to help out with tear-jerker

Appeasement

Act of making cool programme about jazz player I love

Flat dweller (wordplay)

Jimmy Carter, say, as a fellow on the level

Western ranger

Nickname of Auburn's eleven

Conestoga wagon users.

Blackfoot or Arapaho tribes, for example

Scheme laid down by heretic, a sort of worm

Geologic process of erosion

""One, such as a horticulturist, who collects or grows plants.""

PLANTS plant

Fold.

Plutonic.

Member of the Garda, say

Male cop in bust (wordplay)

One keeping the beat (wordplay)

Force units (wordplay)

Officers of the law

Guard them all by force

Smog, for example

12 across would have none of it

The 9 across of 25 down

Any of various mainly toxic antibiotics derived from strains of the soil bacterium Bacillus polymyxa and used to treat various infections with gram-negative bacteria.

Aware of 8 down (wordplay)

Golden church in flatlands of China

Fine white ceramic

Guide who rides a coach horse.

Rider of near-side coach horse

After one beast goes rider when there is no coachman

A prelude or introduction.

Platonic relationship initially producing this hormone

""A trial before the principal performance; a prelude; hence, an introductory essay or exercise.""

How a lion puts a throb like this

Regular throbbing

A throbbing

""A substance resembling gun cotton in composition and properties, but distinct in that it is more highly nitrified and is soluble in alcohol, ether, etc.; called also pyroxyle. pyroxyle.""

Alleviation (of a disease's symptoms)

Common inside crime.

Conjecture becomes embezzlement

Anagram for unpoetical

Sir Alexander Fleming discovery of 1928

Fleming's discovery

Sir Alexander Fleming's antibiotic

Contest that involves epees and pistols

Its events include fencing and shooting

Five-part athletic event

Orbital position nearest the sun

Orbit point closest to the sun

Old MacDonald had an orbit's closest point...

Substance once believed to be released in combustion

Mechanical ram restricts hot billet of proposed element

Technique for making people appear as animations

Tara, for one.

Growing business (wordplay)

Twelve Oaks, for example

Pork source (wordplay)

Wooer of voters

Butler or Hall.

Plane-faced solid

Solid figure that usually has more than six faces

""OLEFIN an alkene, also OLEFINE""

Modern type of "explosion."

No pilau pot dish for all the people

We, the people

Rider of leading horse drawing carriage

Rider on a carriage horse.

One riding coach horse

""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

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

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

""A single-chain polypeptide that is the precursor of insulin, converted into insulin by enzymatic action.""

Force of a rocket.

Forward drive of the jet.

Push blend of US pop and Lion King (short version)

Active hallucinogen in funny mushrooms

Drug cultivated in cow poop

Hallucinogenic drug, obtained from the Mexican mushroom

Rapid irregular heartbeat

Irregular heartbeat

Fluttering.

Gradual filtration

(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 .

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.

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

Country where flowers are fertilized (wordplay)

Flower fertilisation

What bees help to accomplish by flying from flower to flower

""The act of postulating, or that which is postulated; assumption; solicitation; suit; cause.""

ELECTION the act of {electing=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

Ordinary worker (Marxism)

Relating to the workers

Frisky pair, later on common

""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.""

""A germinating, or budding.""

The act of producing pustules; the state of being pustulated.

""The act or process of paralyzing, or the state of being paralyzed.""

The act of punishing.

Your florist (wordplay)

Popular houseplant

London pride variety including first house plant

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

English word

""The act of polarizing; the state of being polarized, or of having polarity.""

""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.""

One who lived after the flood.

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

Preference (for something)

Special liking or preference

Penchant of the French in anticipation

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

Preselect

Announcement from the Roman Capitol

Signal event of Jan. 1, 1863.

Official public declaration

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

Process of lengthening

Extension in duration

""The act of promulgating; publication; open declaration; as, the promulgation of the gospel. as, the promulgation of the gospel.""

A prostaglandin produced in the walls of blood vessels that acts as a vasodilator and inhibits platelet aggregation.

English word

Badly harm optional poem before marriage

Possibly no marital hop would be complete without it (wordplay)

Possibly no marital hop would be complete without it

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

Subatomic particle - let hencoop rot (anagram)

""Minute, free-floating aquatic plants.""

The act of pluralizing.

""PODSOLIZE PODSOL an infertile soil, also PODZOL""

""PODZOLIZE PODZOL an infertile soil, also PODSOL""

Noun (-tion)

English word

""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

Increase (of nuclear weapons)

Increase in numbers opposing euthanasia quotient

Anti-abortion or anti-reproduction is spreading

""Any of a group of potent hormonelike substances that are produced in various mammalian tissues, are derived from arachidonic acid, and mediate a wide range of physiological functions, such as control of blood pressure, contraction of smooth muscle, and modulation of inflammation.""

The action of reducing to dust or powder.

PALATALIZE To palatize.

PLASTICIZE PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

POLITICIZE POLITIC {shrewd=adj}

POLYMERISE POLYMER a complex chemical compound

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

""The act of making popular, or of introducing among the people.""

Noun (-tion)

DEVALUATION

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

""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.""

""The anterior segment of the brain, including the cerebrum and olfactory lobes; the forebrain""

Ruler like Robert (wordplay)

Roundhead, in British history

Sam Rayburn, for example

PERSONALIZE To make personal.

Lab acidity indicator

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

""PHOSPHORYLATE PHOSPHORYL The radical PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds. PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds.""

One with a limited wardrobe (wordplay)

Police-squad member

Member of the force.

Investigators of a kind.

Undercover detectives

Detectives

Lover of the 1 put initial A and R in the wrong place

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

Of or relating to postmillennialism.

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

""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.

Act of converting