2-Letter Words Starting with P

Permit

Changeable

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

Yellow-orange Japanese fruits

How mattress salespeople are paid (wordplay)

Pessimism

French "existentialist" types

Glass-half-empty types

Films by spies worried prophets of doom

Torero's skin softener (wordplay)

Vaseline makeup

They may be refined

See Phallism. Phallism.

A plant that produces seeds.

Illusory

Spectral tailless rodents seen by parking area in southern county

Eerie

""The notions, doctrines, and conduct of the Pharisees, as a sect.""

Pharmacy

Help with the harvest (wordplay)

Person filling prescriptions

Dispenser of drugs

A layer of green parenchimatous cells formed on the inner side of the phellogen.

Extraordinary - help one man (anagram)

Out of this world

Exceptionally good

Phenomena

It's directly perceivable

Men on phone about an amazing spectacle

Exceptional person

PHEROMONE

Substances used by entomologists in special traps

Substances released by animals that influence other members of the same species

""A tracing (with the sphygmograph) of the movements of a vein, or of the venous pulse.""

Employ both midwives taking blood

Being thus makes the GP calm, I fancy

Precarious plight came without emotion

Calm on pitch with game left in the air

Phlegmy

PHONEME a unit of speech

Phonogram

Photogram

Photomask

""An instrument for measuring the intensity of light, or, more especially, for comparing the relative intensities of different lights, or their relative illuminating power.""

That branch of science which treats of the measurement of the intensity of light.

A greatly enlarged photograph or series of photographs placed on a wall especially as decoration.

""A petiole dilated into the form of a blade, and usually with vertical edges, as in the Australian acacias.""

Pl. pianissimos A part of a composition played very softly or quietly.

Very soft (music)

Yapper keeps so very quiet!

Very quiet shopping centre (wordplay)

Pictogram

An instrument for measuring the compressibility of liquids.

Having color

Pigment

One more tragedy, say, from Shakespeare

Trip from drug - mostly horrid time

Religious traveller's journey

Purple-tinged flowers

*Tricked-out car

Spot, carrying gangsters, one flashy vehicle

English word

Piroplasm

English word

English word

Wimbledon aces

Spot workers and a fair amount of drunks with temporary jobs

Copying top lass reflected in refractor

Stealing someone else's work

Bad copying

""An instrument for measuring the area of any plane figure, however irregular, by passing a tracer around the bounding line; a platometer.""

Plasmagel

""A self-replicating hereditary structure thought to exist in cytoplasm and function in a manner analogous to, but independent of, chromosomal genes.""

Plasmasol

Thread of protoplasm connecting cells

""A jellylike mass of free protoplasm, without any union of am\'d2boid cells, and endowed with life and power of motion.""

""Fusion of two or more cells or protoplasts without fusion of the nuclei, as occurs in higher terrestrial fungi.""

English word

Print-shop employee

Key men, in basketball.

QB's talent

Plumbery

Falling straight down

Dropping abruptly.

Plumpen

Pluralism

Plutonium

Pneumonia

Like the surface of the moon

Poeticism

Pogromist

One drawn to controversy

Engage in controversy

Polemize

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

Polyamide

Polyamine

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

Multicolored

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

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)

Polygonum

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)

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

Polysemy

POLYSEME a word with more than one meaning

Belief in more than one god

Worship of more than one god

Imply ethos is wrong with this sort of belief

Beating

Pomology

One versed in pomology; one who culticvates fruit trees.

Hair styles worn since Louis XV.

High styles

Hairdos

""Pl. portamenti (-t ) or portamentos A smooth uninterrupted glide in passing from one tone to another, especially with the voice or a bowed stringed instrument.""

Glide through the air

Sliding sound

In music, a slide from one note to another

It's a sure thing

Philosophy recognising only the logically provable

Adjective (-ic)

Like the U.S. after 1865

After the war

Model receiving complaint to consider retiring after hostilities ended

Postform

Like new work from writer, now late

English word

Cancelled in a way

Official in charge of sorts (wordplay)

Kind of general (wordplay)

Man of letters (wordplay)

Present participle or gerund

In a late 20th-century style

Like some criticism

Of late twentieth century arts style

Obit for a Washington paper (wordplay)

One's passed in this exam

After passing examination

After an important delivery

Afterbirth? You need support - mat, possibly

Potassium

Potometer

""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

Practicum

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

Praenomen

""Pl. praenomens or praenomina (-n m -n , -n m -) A first or given name.""

""(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a variant spelling of presidium PRESSWOMAN (esp Brit: = reporter ) → Zeitungsfrau f , → Pressefrau f (Typ) → Druckerin f PRESSWOMEN (esp Brit: = reporter ) → Zeitungsfrau f , → Pressefrau f (Typ) → Druckerin f PRIMAQUINE (Medicine / Pharmacology) a synthetic drug used in the treatment of malaria. Formula: C 15 H 21 N 3 O [from prima-, from Latin prīmus first + quin ( olin ) e ]""

Pragmatic

William James' philosophy.

Whatever gets the job done philosophy

Practical approach

One with realistic approach

A doer, not a dreamer

Practical type

Chapter men adapted for sermon

COMPUTE to calculate

EMBARGO to prohibit trade by a governmental order

Surpassing all others

Outstanding intern MEP trained while touring Spain

Peter with men in resort, having no match

Supplanting

EMPTION the act of {buying=v}

Of a certain bridge bid.

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

Preemptor

Promotion before commotion

Promotion to higher office

Preliminary excitement at promotion (wordplay)

Preformat

Preform

Early primate

Prelimit

Of the time before the wedding bells.

Like some relations

Prenuptial

Shells that explode too soon

""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.""

MEASURE to compare with a standard

Designating a certain course of study

Type of course for aspiring doctors

Type of college course.

MEIOTIC pertaining to {meiosis=n}

Viewed first

MOISTEN to make {moist=adj}

Premold

MYCOTIC pertaining to {mycosis=n}

Prenumber

An early settlement

PRIMARY a preliminary election

Code in advance

PRESENT to introduce

Presidium

Pressmark

Printing-plant areas

Parts of newspaper plants.

Where compositors gather

Imprinted beforehand.

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

Players bum around, I'd say

In all probability

A plumber's at work above yard doubtless

By presumption.

Pretermit

Pretrim

Prewarm

In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally.

Birth

Primipara

Moses, Rousseau et al.

Painters like Grandma Moses.

Primness

Proper men ring first

Existing from the start of time

From the beginning of time

Pl. primordia (-d - ) An organ or a part in its most rudimentary form or stage of development.

Territories for royal heirs

""Pl. principia (- - ) A principle, especially a basic one.""

Currier or Ives

A polyhedron all of whose vertices lie in one of two parallel planes.

""Having the form of a prismoid; as, prismoidal solids. as, prismoidal solids.""

Privatism

PROCAMBIA

The young tissue of a fibrovascular bundle before its component cells have begun to be differentiated.

Announced more placid rambling

Declared publicly

Heralded

One who proclaims.

""Lying down, or on the face; prone.""

Disease and Illness ()

Proenzyme

Programer

PROGRAM to arrange in a plan of proceedings

Fed the computer.

Writer of computer code

Scott Adams job before "Dilbert"

Computer coder

Lists of bouts favouring lightweights

Presumably wanting pounds set aside for schemes

Supporting metric units for series of measures

Prolamine

Took a leisurely walk

Strolled on the boardwalk

Royal Albert Hall regular

Walker - concert goer

Square dancer, at times

Walks made person fit

Square dance maneuvers.

Ballroom marches

Radioactive lanthanide element, atomic no 61

Element supporting me, I'm thus not entirely unfortunate

Precipice or peak

Highly visibility or importance

Something that sticks out

Like an IOU

IOU "note"

and 13: Written undertaking to pay a sum of money

Historic Utah rail site

Bluff new Conservative after hype

Head aware of blocking party line

PROMOTE to help forward

Actions taken to increase sales

Production script of a play

Stage manager's script

Direct programme that's read on stage but not to the audience

Punctuality

After school dance, PTA detailed head's punctuality

Make known officially.

Broadcast of pet glamour model

Announce Portugal's heaving with 'em