2-Letter Words Starting with P

Type of ship for writers (wordplay)

Kind of ship (wordplay)

Type of ship (wordplay)

Guys who write

Sportswriters, scribes, authors, etc.

Dickens, Eliot et al.

Collier's shorthand

Inventor of phonetic shorthand system.

Miner's shorthand

Members of U. M. W.

Coal extractors

Coal miners

Cheerleader's accessory (var.)

High school cheerleader's gear

Woolen ball on a hat

A snooker player at the bar (wordplay)

Does he, perhaps, work at the wheel or at the Bar (wordplay)

'Not quite empty!': no work for them

Ancestor of human race

Being preceding man.

Preman

Hounds are set on fellow, a pedlar

Peddlars.

Peddlers

Woman with fur in South American region

Of the grassy plains of South America

Indian food similar to K-rations

Write about mineral in food

Training note: 'Preserve emergency rations!'

Old-time soldier.

Old infantry soldier

Infantry soldier of old

Soldiers of old

Old type of soldiers.

Long ago soldiers

Blood enzyme

A determinant of inheritance in cells

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""

No stamp irritated this worker!

One pushing the envelope (wordplay)

U.S. male (wordplay)

Ones who are lettered (wordplay)

G. P. O. carriers

Important civil service employes.

Spear-carrier at the Met (wordplay)

He helps Annie get her gun

Stage manager's aide

Stage employees

Some stagehands

A group of micro-organisms living in waterlogged sands

Disease (var)

Class of organic alkaloids.

Poisonous alkaloid.

Large suitcase, perhaps

Kind of kitchen or car

Luxury railway carriage

Peter, Peter's diet

Large type of gourd

Large orange fruit of the squash family

""The hard covering of the kernel of certain fruits, also PYRENE""

Dwarfish

A chemical compound

Pertaining to all humanity

Worcester Conference chief (wordplay)

Fruit of the sea (wordplay)

Fruit that's most important: apple

Jerky cousin (wordplay)

Native American dried-meat concoction

Staple of old Arctic explorers

Certain major leaguer in ads (wordplay)

Jim Palmer in TV ads (wordplay)

Billy Mays, notably

Pitchman

Basketball center, for example

Basketball center, at times

One playing under the hoop, often

Pivotman

Priest to thrash male civil servant

British spoils-system beneficiaries

Soldier at the head of a patrol

Go-to person

Forefront figure

Pointman

From a time before man evolved

Before mankind's time

Earlier than the appearance of man

The first name of an ancient Roman

Certain newspaper employee

Urge fellow to become reporter

Correspondent put squeeze on husband

Galley slaves (wordplay)

Workers in paper hats

Urge fellows to become journalists

A simple protein

A simple protein

Like a pygmy

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

English word

PANTRY a small storage room

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

Step on men, strangely, to get to the flower

Small orange fruit

Ebony family fruit

Fruit of the ebony family

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

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

PLANTS plant

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

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.

Roman citizen's first name

Roman first name.

Occurring before the Renaissance, for example

Up with professional speed!

Up for a marketing campaign (wordplay)

Advertising in advance

""Of or belonging to the Prosimii, a suborder of primates that includes the lemurs, lorises, and tarsiers.""

Grouse - giant pram (anagram)

Canadian game bird

Grouse family bird

""An antibiotic, C 22 H 29 N 7 O 5 , obtained from the soil bacterium Streptomyces alboniger, that is used experimentally as an inhibitor of protein synthesis.""

Shut up and check on this bloomer!

A mere point about saturation

""A topical insecticide, C 21 H 20 CL 2 O 3 , used to treat head lice and nits, scabies, and various species of ticks.""

Wrong "impression" (wordplay)

How astronauts are paid (wordplay)

Wrong 'impression' (wordplay)

It's directly perceivable

Men on phone about an amazing spectacle

Exceptional person

English word

English word

In a late 20th-century style

Like some criticism

Of late twentieth century arts style

""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

EMPTION the act of {buying=v}

MOISTEN to make {moist=adj}

Early ancestor (wordplay)

Beta carotene, since it can become A

Possible ordering (of a number of items)

From importunate version of variation

Change of order

PLASMIN an {enzyme=n}

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

FRESHMAN a first-year student

Word with prefix pre-

Feeling something is about to happen

Sandra Bullock film

Presentiment, forewarning

The act of fortifying or guarding against objections.

Possibly uppermost in arrogance

Strong probability.

Supposition - impertinence

A plasma protein that is converted into thrombin during blood clotting.

See cholecystokinin .

Mate pointing out blemish (wordplay)

Natural colouring

Sow farmers get on at it in end for colour tissue

""Lit., previous admission;""

An old theory of the pre\'89xistence of germs. Cf. Embo&icir;tement. Embo&icir;tement.

MIGRATION The act of migrating.

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

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

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

Action of walking around

Process of walking

Walking tour, with pain and blame bandied about

""Emission of photoelectrons, especially from metallic surfaces.""

COMBUSTION The state of burning.

The act or state of predominating; ascendency; predominance.

Prelude to murder, often

Forethought

Almost cure it in paved area with some necessary forethought

The act of prenominating; privilege of being named first.

The act of passing by or omitting; omission.

POLYMERISE POLYMER a complex chemical compound

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

Noun (-tion)

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

""TERMINATION The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities. as, a voluntary termination of hostilities.""

PARAMETRIZE

Ruler like Robert (wordplay)

Roundhead, in British history

Sam Rayburn, for example

One with a limited wardrobe (wordplay)

Police-squad member

Member of the force.

Investigators of a kind.

Undercover detectives

Detectives

Of or relating to postmillennialism.

Noun (-tion)

IMPLANTATION The act or process of implantating.

""MODIFICATION The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light. as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light.""

Psychology

The deciding of something in advance