2-Letter Words Starting with P

""An oxide containing five atoms of oxygen in each molecule; as, phosphorus pentoxide, P2O5. as, phosphorus pentoxide, P2O5.""

Shadows created during an eclipse

Shadowy places

""A fine kind of French cotton goods, usually of one color.""

Fish develop acne, maybe once!

Maybe (to dream? - Hamlet)

Maybe roosting for fowl, perhaps

Smollett's Mr. Pickle

Kind of falcon

Ripe green bananas doing for bird

PERENNATE

Celebrity being mature!

Celebrity calls for each lad to get on

Man of distinction.

Play a part on stage

Use another's vote in Esperanto

Pretend to be someone else in Esperanto

Bad temper, sulkiness

Sulky bad behaviour

Stroke uncle with a ruptured spleen

""A glassy colorless mineral occurring in rhombohedral crystals, sometimes used as a gem. It is a silicate of glucina, and receives its name from its deceptive similarity to quartz.""

""A natural beryllium silicate, Be 2 SiO 4 , occurring as vitreous crystals sometimes used as gems.""

""A yellow crystalline compound, C 6 H 4 N 2 C 6 H 4 , used in the manufacture of dyes.""

Salt of carbolic acid

Total physical appearance of an organism

See phenolate .

Attractive secretion (wordplay)

Chemical signal between organisms

Chemical affecting behaviour

""A compact, feldspathic, igneous rock containing nephelite, ha\'81ynite, etc. Thin slabs give a ringing sound when struck; called also clinkstone. clinkstone.""

""A luminous impression produced through excitation of the retina by some cause other than the impingement upon it of rays of light, as by pressure upon the eyeball when the lids are closed. Cf. Afterimage. Afterimage.""

""A colorless gas, PH3, analogous to ammonia, and having a disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic. Called also hydrogen phosphide, and formerly, phosphureted hydrogen. PH3, analogous to ammonia, and having a disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic. Called also hydrogen phosphide, and formerly, phosphureted hydrogen.""

PIDGIN a mixed language

English word

Fruit that might go off (wordplay)

Fruit that may go off (wordplay)

Fruit (tree and fruit!)

Clothes line (wordplay)

Line of suits (wordplay)

Fabric - insert pip (anagram)

""A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite. Catlinite.""

""Pl. placentas or placentae (-t ) a. A membranous vascular organ that develops in female mammals during pregnancy, lining the uterine wall and partially enveloping the fetus, to which it is attached by the umbilical cord. Following birth, the placenta is expelled.""

A pint vile, disgusting? That's sad

Sounding sad and mournful

Some complain Tiverton's miserable

Capable of being planted; fit to be planted.

Perhaps bushy Scotsman's gear turns up when shaver comes round

Protect from tarnish, in a way

Coat with a valuable metal

Sane place (anagram)

Nice bit of a garden

Garden in an estate

Eden lit up (anagram)

More-than-adequate supply

Literary sort of abundance or fullness

Keen emotion

English word

What bees do

Fertilize, in a way

Be work for the busy bee

Chop in for this for a pole (wordplay)

Chopin piece of sole piano variation

Leo, 15, played dance piece

AMINE a type of chemical compound

""A character or vocal sign representing more than one sound, as read, which is pronounced r\'c7d or r\'cbd. read, which is pronounced r\'c7d or r\'cbd.""

Packaging material - telephony (anagram)

Plastic switch needed for telephony

A lightweight thermoplastic

A real sharpie (wordplay)

Featured creature (five letters)

Rodent in yellow vessel hidden in wood

Monarch or dictator

Ruler had meal behind shelter by river

Head accepts old, big top chief

To define beforehand.

""Capable of being entered, taken, or captured; expugnable; as, a pregnable fort. as, a pregnable fort.""

Receiver now at ease, they say

Recipient at a fete

Oscar winner, for example

Designating a type of close-fitting beltless dress

As a rule it has the main sound

Rule the head of the school declared

Fundamental truth - moral rule

Fit to be published

In good taste

O.K. for publication.

""Any one of a class of proteins that are converted, in the normal course of cellular metabolism, into one or more active enzymes; also called zymogen. The conversion usually is due to a specific cleavage of a peptide bond by another enzyme, or may be due to acid.zymogen. The conversion usually is due to a specific cleavage of a peptide bond by another enzyme, or may be due to acid.""

""Any of a class of simple proteins soluble in alcohol and usually having a high proline and glutamine content, found in the grains of cereal crops such as wheat, rye, barley, corn, and rice.""

Seaside walk (wordplay)

Nice walk (wordplay)

Square-dance figure

Part of speech given to church, say

They say Anglicans are articulate

Make the sound of (a word)

Alkene used for fuel or plastic production

Soluble protein.

PROTON a subatomic particle

Like a certain wolf (Utah)

Cheese for a hero (wordplay)

Deli sandwich filler

Lewdness - epic rerun (anagram)

Unhealthy interest in sexual matters

Morbid interest in sex etc

English word

Power of car, not new, in red

Rough seas in cup competition with jumps

Power: Poetic.

Having breathing organs that act as lungs.

Insert full stops, commas, etc in (text)

Pointedly edit written work (wordplay)

Add marks to text

The carrying out (of something)

Carrying out (of policy)

In this of it's carrying out

Bodily Functions

Native of old German Empire

German region.

Historical region spread, preserving a language

Tuna roll or a nut, perhaps (wordplay)

E.g. mum, dad

Friend on the airstrip, madam (wordplay)

PANICULATE

An alkaloid found in opium. It has a weaker therapeutic action than morphine.

Capable of being forgiven

Cat on island about to be excused

Minor enough to excuse

Public mockery

Lampoon

Lampoon.

Hot as Jerusalem, head bandages!

Fiery spirit is swallowed

Eager to hand one over with a note

Dish and item of furniture that may be put on list of inventions

Susceptible to certain intellectual property protection

The portion of a vault by means of which the square space in the middle of a building is brought to an octagon or circle to receive a cupola.

Understandable in a way

Accessible.

Clear goal apart from, on review, being bitten by footballer

""The frequency, under given environmental conditions, with which a specific phenotype is expressed by those individuals with a specific genotype.""

Proportion stated in hundredth parts

Proportion in each 100

Agent's take, typically

99th, for example

Any of the 99 numbered points that divide a set into 100 equal parts

Tiny seafood item - purplish-blue shade

Plant with five-petalled flowers

*Edible sea snail

Quality we seek in peace.

Stickiness, perhaps

Indefinite existence

Newborn asleep, so appealing

Pleasant to be with

Nice short hairdo available in black

What a non sequitur lacks

Relevance

Aptness

Plague - lent pieces (anagram)

Deadly epidemic disease

Fatal epidemic disease

""A white crystalline compound, C 18 H 22 N 2 O 2 , used in the form of its hydrochloride as a local anesthetic in ophthalmology.""

Goliath, for example

Opponent of progress.

Person indifferent or hostile to culture

Harpsichord's kin

A grand may be a profit one makes

For this Chopin wrote two volumes

Avian compartment (wordplay)

Lay aside indefinitely.

Shelve, as legislation.

Adjective meaning resembling

""A colorless crystalline compound, C 4 H 10 N 2 , used as a hardener for epoxy resins, an antihistamine, and an anthelmintic.""

""An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine. C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine.""

Writing device used in seances

Seance prop

Mysteriously cheap model lent to mysterious board

Adjective meaning resembling

All around the world

All over the world

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

English word

Material for play school artists

Modelling clay

Would it take its place in modelling (wordplay)

English word

LYSINE an amino acid

Having appreciable significance

Having weight

Make powerful

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

Bird painter circling round pass

Plan in advance

Determine in advance.

Agree upon something in advance

The order to be observed by protocol

Pecking-order right

Superiority in rank.

Fate of perhaps 3 estimated in hunger

Foreordain

Foreordain

""A synthetic steroid, C 21 H 26 O 5 , similar to cortisone that is used as an antiallergic and immunosuppressive drug and as an anti-inflammatory agent in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.""

Liking for one thing over another

Choice (of A rather than B)

Liking for one thing more than another

FINANCE to supply the money for

Able to grasp - her in sleep (anagram)

Adjective for a kinkajou's tail.

Adapted for grasping

Antedating physics (wordplay)

Sibyl's forte

Seer's gift

New place never achieves popularity

Superiority, of a sort

New place never offers currency

Dental floss, for one

Like a checkup

Type of medicine

Precipice or peak

Highly visibility or importance

Something that sticks out

A salt of propionic acid.

""An endopeptidase, such as pepsin, trypsin, or papain.""

Drawn out; extended.

Roots of a new start in part of France

Source of article dividing French region

Source of year abroad in French region

Supply niece that is missing fortune

Roger Williams founded it: 1636

Start of a quip

""Relating to, resembling, or characteristic of parrots.""

Teenage years

Likely to incur fines, say

Time-honored, in a way (wordplay)

""That which pertains or belongs to something; esp., the heard, liver, and lungs of an animal.""

The act or process of providing or procuring; providence; foresight; preparation; management.

""A colorless, foul-smelling ptomaine, NH 2 (CH 2 ) 4 NH 2 , produced in decaying animal tissue by the decarboxylation of ornithine.""

English word

""A pyridine derivative, C 18 H 11 NO 3 , occurring especially in cereals, yeast, liver, and fish and serving as a coenzyme in amino acid synthesis. Also called vitamin B 6 .""

""A single-ringed, crystalline organic base, C 4 H 4 N 2 , that forms uracil, cytosine, or thymine and is the parent compound of many drugs, including the barbiturates.""

A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene.

PEDUNCULATE

""Tending to penetrate; of a penetrating quality; piercing; as, the penetrative sun. as, the penetrative sun.""

""Having the form of a pencil; furnished with a pencil of fine hairs; ending in a tuft of hairs like a camel'shair brush, as the stigmas of some grasses.""

""Entitled to receive a pension; as, a pensionable employee.as, a pensionable employee.""

""(Medicine / Pharmacology) a drug used to treat protozoal infections, esp pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis carinii in patients with AIDS""

Competitor in five-sport event

One practicing both running and swimming, maybe

Versatile sportsman leapt the net amazingly

""A synthetic narcotic drug, C 19 H 27 NO, used as an analgesic, often in place of morphine.""

A yellowish-brown nickel iron sulfide that is the principal ore of nickel.

Like the letter Y

Next-to-last

Nearly last, team let up in scrummaging

Acute insight

Before smile, spread out and wander

Wander around

Voyage here and there as green pirate at sea

Creep on farm (anagram)

(Actor's) rendering of a role

The giving of a play or concert

Resist changes in coinage with tenacity

Refusal to accept refusal

Doggedness is derived from its presence

Make one's own series on lap dancing

Make specific to an individual

Individually tailor

Monogram, maybe

PERSONATE To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

Adjective meaning resembling

""A friend of Greece, or of the Greeks; a philhellenist.""

Adjective meaning resembling

PHOTOIONIZE

An alkaloid extracted from jaborandi (Pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system. Pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system.

Major ore of uranium

Brown or black mineral containing radium

Ore of uranium

""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.""

Animal that walks on the soles of its feet

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

Tool for Penrod

Camper's handy tool

Handy gadget for campers

Indifferent, Italian-style

Final word of 2003: "an indifferent person"

Final word of 2003: 'an indifferent person'

Light synthetic resin

Synthetic resin used in packing

Moulded synthetic material

""VALENCE a chemical bond, also VALENCY""

Fruit (literally, seeded apple)

Large globular fruit

Fruit whose name means "seedy apple"

Speak pompously in an office in Rome

Express one's opinions pompously

Express opinions pompously

POSTPONE to put off to a future time

To announce beforehand.

""To conceive, or form an opinion of, beforehand; to form a previous notion or idea of.""

Hold the advantage

Be the strongest element

Exert the strongest power

State of supremity

Position above all others

Superiority.

Forenamed; named beforehand.

How every Santa should look?

How every Santa should look (wordplay)

Ready for show

SENTENCE to declare judicially the punishment

Avertible (A, not I)

Like some diseases

That could be stopped

""(tr) to keep from happening, esp by taking precautionary action""

""Origin; source; place where found or produced; provenance; -- used esp. in the fine arts and in arch\'91ology; as, the provenience of a patera.as, the provenience of a patera.""

PRUSSIANISE

PRUSSIANIZE

Decay, rottenness

Decay

""A place where foodstuffs are processed and packed; as, they came from an apple packinghouse.as, they came from an apple packinghouse.""

PANTOTHENATE

""The set of nonphonemic properties of speech, such as speaking tempo, vocal pitch, and intonational contours, that can be used to communicate attitudes or other shades of meaning.""

English word

To make a parenthesis of; to include within parenthetical marks.

Having a pearly luster or gloss.

Least expensive music-maker (wordplay)

Small fipple flute

Simple wind instrument

A polypeptide composed of five amino acids.

Excitement must follow for each, maybe

Maybe gained through hazardous activity

Maybe, old style.

A salt of permanganic acid.

""A crystalline compound, C 21 H 26 ClN 3 OS, used as a tranquilizer especially in the treatment of psychosis and to prevent or alleviate nausea and vomiting.""

A divorce application

It may get you through a divorce

Tenacity, doggedness

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a tree or shrub that bears its perennating buds more than 25 cm above the level of the soil [from Greek phanero- visible + -phyte ]

""A complex hydrocarbon, C14H10, found in coal tar, and obtained as a white crystalline substance with a bluish fluorescence. C14H10, found in coal tar, and obtained as a white crystalline substance with a bluish fluorescence.""

""An adrenergic blocking agent, C 17 H 19 N 3 O, used especially in the diagnosis and treatment of pheochromocytoma.""

One way to reproduce a picture

Composite picture

See plant hormone .

Video communication device

""ETHYLENE a flammable gas, also ETHENE""

Your elephant (anag-) synthetic resin

PORCELAIN Purslain.

English word

The quality of being precipitant.

""CLEARANCE The act of clearing; as, to make a through clearance. as, to make a through clearance.""

""COGNITIVE Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power. as, cognitive power.""

Specify in advance

Foreordain.

'Fix' cat maybe owning ginger and white fur

Decide in advance colour in favourite kind of fur

Peter swallows type of wine that's the pits - he should work it out in advance!

""A synthetic steroid, C 21 H 28 O 5 , similar to hydrocortisone and used in various compounds as an anti-inflammatory, immunosuppressive, and antiallergic drug.""

Worried Cameron pined for mastery

Superior influence

Ascendancy