2-Letter Words Starting with P

""A foreboding sign of disease, also PRODROMUS""

Forecast, medically

To accumulate sediment and hence advance seaward

Slip out of place (medical)

Slide out of place

Slip out of place Med.

Poor glue (anagram)

A novel start (wordplay)

Introductory section (of, eg, a play)

A rope used for pulling a gun carriage

Beneficiary, of sorts

Contract law figure

Party to a promissory note.

To {proclaim=v}

Tending toward

A form of virus

The first stage in mitosis

Put off supporting scoundrel

Suspend professional prankster

End a parliamentary session.

Gland inclined to Erastianism (wordplay)

Gland about the size of a walnut

Organ in favour of the government

Portico; lost pyre (anagram)

Greek portico not in amateur fashion

In favour of chic for Greek portico

Plants start to excrete enzyme

Substance in body supporting rib

Digestive enzyme

Special female ward (wordplay)

Ms Ward (wordplay)

Girl given patronage

""A nitrogenous organic compound, also PROTEIN, PROTEID""

A water-soluble protein

Stick out, project from surface

Old maid carrying rhubarb stick out

Stick out, project from a surface

Able to be demonstrated

Meriting a "Q.E.D."

Capable of being established

Ontario, for one

Backing Cable's department (wordplay)

Munster or Leinster, say

Covered with whitish dust, as a plant

Pain to me (anagram)

Food poisoning from a pimento (wordplay)

Food poisoning cause

A simple sugar

""To decompose by heating, also PYROLISE, PYROLIZE, PYROLYSE""

A dye

Mineral found in igneous rocks

Lone rider's spare, perhaps

Beast of burden

Drudge turns out hack prose

State tree of Ariz.

Italian cake eaten at Christmas

Italian Christmas cake

Italian spiced cake eaten at Christmas

Commedia dell'arte character

Silent treatment (wordplay)

I'm top name in performance - Xmas one!

It goes without saying

""Covered with, or bearing, papill\'91; resembling papill\'91; papillate; papillar; papillary.""

Fish wrapper

Home enabling average lad to get on

Norm + heir + years

How old the vicar is and where he lives

Country music (wordplay)

A forerunner of opera

Piece of idyllic music.

Certain cleric's term of office

A minister's flock.

Father's office

Two men needing mature sponsorship

Favours distributed by 1 and 4 across

Given time, two boys gave one support

Talk down to

Points are worked out for champion

Frequent praise not unusual

Give one's trade to.

Talk down to

Trade regularly with

Ichabod Crane's calling.

Dogmatic teacher

Teacher gaped, disturbed by a topless rogue!

A person who has pedophilia.

Penny has to be keen about old apartment

Start to write you right on top

He puts one out flat

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

PERBORATE

Filter - to replace (anagram)

Filter, as coffee

Brew, in a way

Prepare a dotted line, perhaps

Hold forth about origin of fast puncture

Make holes in, as for ease of tearing

Pericope

Submarine's eye (wordplay)

Sub's eye (wordplay)

View provider on a U-boat

""The fringe of teeth around the orifice of the capsule of mosses. It consists of 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 teeth, and may be either single or double.""

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

A house or hospital for persons who are infected with any pestilential disease.

PETIOLE the stalk of a leaf

""A small petiole, or the petiole of a leaflet.""

""A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.""

Small shore bird

Part of a Paton title.

Bird in Alan Paton title.

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.""

Soda jerk's offering

Hope paths lead to artificial fertiliser

Acid salt used, eg, as a fertiliser

""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 binary compound of phosphorus.

""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.""

A salt of phosphorous acid.

Morning star

English word

An electron tube with a photosensitive cathode.

English word

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

Revolutionary dance move (wordplay)

Dancer's twirl

Rapid spin in ballet

English word

PIVOT to turn on a shaft or rod

Where to indulge in bingo (wordplay)

Child's toy.

Backyard structure for kids

Sword in peacetime.

Cutting blade of a kind.

Biblical exchange for sword

""PODZOL an infertile soil, also PODSOL""

POETIC pertaining to {poetry=n}

Keen emotion

English word

Decorousness shown by two girls, say

Epistle so badly writen reveals courtesy

Emily Post's specialty

What bees do

Fertilize, in a way

Be work for the busy bee

POLLUTE to make unclean or impure

Chop in for this for a pole (wordplay)

Chopin piece of sole piano variation

Leo, 15, played dance piece

AMIDE a type of chemical compound

AMINE a type of chemical compound

""Having or producing two or more phases; multiphase; as, a polyphase machine, a machine producing two or more pressure waves of electro-motive force, differing in phase; a polyphase current.as, a polyphase machine, a machine producing two or more pressure waves of electro-motive force, differing in phase; a polyphase current.""

""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

Part 4 of remark

Place for the down-and-out, once

Home for the indigent

Pressure or hound a shark

Voracious shark splintered bargepole

Shark traps Rex Black in river with bird

A real sharpie (wordplay)

Featured creature (five letters)

Rodent in yellow vessel hidden in wood

Portable.

Work of the carriers on safari

Drink time - get the carriage

Carrying charge.

Postcava

He stops at break promptly!

He stops at break very speedily!

Quick to pass the buck (wordplay)

Assume as axiom

Let sap out in order to claim something

Lay down rough pale stout

Monarch or dictator

Ruler had meal behind shelter by river

Head accepts old, big top chief

Gratuity, to Gregoire

Tip at a boite

15 per cent of the check

Couple steps out with energy to perform dance figure

One who has presbyopia; a farsighted person.

With a take-charge attitude

On the offensive

Looking ahead

Exploratory

Criminal or civil study, in law

Established way of working

Reproduce new way to get things done

Form a group, you might say

Do it, Biblical-style

Produce young ape 20 trained

""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.""

Schedule for unit

Radio or television show

Favouring lightweight in list of bouts

""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.""

To deliver a Prologue.

Seaside walk (wordplay)

Nice walk (wordplay)

Square-dance figure

Tending to advance

Part of speech given to church, say

They say Anglicans are articulate

Make the sound of (a word)

Grow (plants) or spread (ideas)

Spread, as ideas

Right entrance, we hear, for produce

""Any of various usually vegetative portions of a plant, such as a bud or other offshoot, that aid in dispersal of the species and from which a new individual may develop.""

Alkene used for fuel or plastic production

To prorogue.

Ban writer earning money (wordplay)

Like Joseph Pulitzer (wordplay)

Does he write for a living? Outlaw him!

Work in court, perhaps

Subject to trial.

Bring criminal action against

Convert badly-made polyester

Convert polyester shifts

Make converts.

Driver brought before judge is lying

Face down platforms in private

Prone to lying

Soluble protein.

PROTON a subatomic particle

Patent office submission, maybe

Original model - top poetry (anagram)

Experimental working model

""A sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful cochinealred color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive; ruby silver.""

Like a certain wolf (Utah)

Cheese for a hero (wordplay)

Deli sandwich filler

Nearby bishop accepts bull

First-class county perhaps against China next

Very near

Having breathing organs that act as lungs.

Having or indicating purpose or design.

Tuna roll or a nut, perhaps (wordplay)

E.g. mum, dad

Friend on the airstrip, madam (wordplay)

Capable of being forgiven

Cat on island about to be excused

Minor enough to excuse

Hot as Jerusalem, head bandages!

Fiery spirit is swallowed

Eager to hand one over with a note

A disparaging word, such as poetaster.

Politically incorrect, in a way

Expressing contempt or disapproval

Having the basal part produced around the stem; said of leaves which the stem apparently passes directory through.

Rock containing olivine

""(Earth Sciences / Minerals) a yellow, brown, or greyish-black mineral form of calcium titanate with some rare-earth elements, which is used in certain high-temperature ceramic superconductors [named after Count Lev Alekseevich Perovski (1792-1856), Russian statesman]""

Any of a group of enzymes that occur especially in plant cells and catalyze the oxidation of a substance by a peroxide.

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

Newborn asleep, so appealing

Pleasant to be with

Nice short hairdo available in black

A philosophaster; a philosopher.

""A kind of mica having generally a peculiar bronzered or copperlike color and a pearly luster. It is a silicate of aluminia, with magnesia, potash, and some fluorine. It is characteristic of crystalline limestone or dolomite and serpentine. See Mica. Mica.""

Sensor in a CD player

English word

A form of endoscope using an electric light.

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.

Divorce lawyer's suit (wordplay)

Divorce lawyer's suit?

Holding down its job

Navigator's place

Very good having miss to entertain you in ship's compartment

Unwilling to intervene in very good English ship's structure

*Tricked-out car

Spot, carrying gangsters, one flashy vehicle

English word

POCKET to place in a pouch sewed into a garment

Engage in controversy

Take part in discussion of government with police? Is it in order (wordplay)

Turn red or blue, say (wordplay)

Make an issue of

""Any of various annelid worms of the class Polychaeta, including mostly marine worms such as the lugworm, and characterized by fleshy paired appendages tipped with bristles on each body segment.""

Multicolored

To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.

LYSINE an amino acid

""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

""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.""

Having appreciable significance

Having weight

POPULAR something pleasing

Promote in a way

Unwilling to share

Case in grammar.

Desiring to retain what one owns

POSTDEBATE

English word

English word

Make powerful

Adjective meaning resembling

Might contain live wire (wordplay)

Place for Tyrone (wordplay)

Slam hand: Colloq.

Bird painter circling round pass

APPROVE to regard favourably

COLLEGE a school of higher learning

COMPUTE to calculate

Render susceptible

Make susceptible

Incline? Correct prop round south-east side

""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.""

STORAGE a place for storing

Take for granted

With supper prepared, sit and consider ...

Assume

PRIORITIZE

Variant of prokaryote .

One paid, possibly responsive to treatment on offer (wordplay)

""Capable of being produced, brought forward, brought forth, generated, made, or extended.""

Fertile for channel four ending live

Yielding results

Tailed setter carrying gun (model 4E) - it's efficient

Lucrative for female, I suggest

Cost-effective

Academic, one sitting on the board making money

PROFIT to gain an advantage or benefit

Losing grip of late, being extravagant

Tip a golfer gave to prodigal

Extravagant tip a golfer developed

Boulder, for a catapult

Spitball, for example

Bullet, shell or rocket.

PROJECT to extend outward

""An organism of the kingdom Monera (or Prokaryotae), comprising the bacteria and cyanobacteria, characterized by the absence of a distinct, membrane-bound nucleus or membrane-bound organelles, and by DNA that is not organized into chromosomes. Also called moneran .""

""PROLOGUE to preface, also PROLOG""

Precipice or peak

Highly visibility or importance

Something that sticks out

PROMOTE to help forward

Make known officially.

Broadcast of pet glamour model

Announce Portugal's heaving with 'em

""Capable of being propagated, or of being continued or multiplied by natural generation or production.""

A salt of propionic acid.

Appease, as a god

Marketing drug, maintaining it will induce goodwill

Pacify.

""Tending, or having power, to propel; driving on; urging.""

Somebody who gets screwed at work (wordplay)

Defensive vet to price order

Designating a type of tariff.

Kind of custody