2-Letter Words Starting with P

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

Drawn out; extended.

Botany A stele that forms a solid core of xylem encased by phloem.

English word

""Thrusting or impelling forward; as, protrusive motion. as, protrusive motion.""

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

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""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 .""

""Manganese dioxide, a mineral of an ironblack or dark steelgray color and metallic luster, usually soft. Pyrolusite parts with its oxygen at a red heat, and is extensively used in discharging the brown and green tints of glass (whence its name).""

""PYROLYSE to decompose by heating, also PYROLIZE, PYROLISE, PYROLYZE""

""PYROLYZE to decompose by heating, also PYROLISE, PYROLIZE, PYROLYSE""

A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene.

""A bronze-colored mineral, of metallic luster. It is a sulphide of iron, and is remarkable for being attracted by the magnet. Called also magnetic pyrites.magnetic pyrites.""

PARFOCAL having lenses that correspond

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

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

Rod deceased, having swallowed yellow chemical

Sit down with expression of surprise having consumed salt

""Admitting of being performed, done, or executed; practicable.""

Creep on farm (anagram)

(Actor's) rendering of a role

The giving of a play or concert

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.

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

English word

Adjective meaning resembling

Adjective meaning resembling

""Any of numerous enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of esters of phosphoric acid and are important in the absorption and metabolism of carbohydrates, nucleotides, and phospholipids and in the calcification of bone.""

See phospholipid .

PHOSPHATE A salt of phosphoric acid.

(min.) A massive variety of apatite.

PHOTOIONIZE

English word

""A sphere of light; esp., the luminous envelope of the sun.""

""Any of various fungi that resemble algae, including certain molds and mildews.""

""A flattened, photosynthetic branch or stem that resembles or performs the function of a leaf, as in certain cacti.""

""A cytoplasmic pigment of green plants that absorbs light and regulates dormancy, seed germination, and flowering.""

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.

A general term used of any triclinic feldspar. See the Note under Feldspar. Feldspar.

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'

""An instrument consisting essentially of a polarizer and an analyzer, used for polarizing light, and analyzing its properties.""

Susceptible of polarization.

""PEPTIDE a combination of amino acids, also PEPTID""

SORBATE a sorbed substance

Light synthetic resin

Synthetic resin used in packing

Moulded synthetic material

""SULFIDE a sulfur compound, also SULFID, SULPHID, SULPHIDE""

""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

Meaty brewery (wordplay)

Person carrying home piece of beef

Type of steak

Producing pictures of people

You may sit for it

Gilbert Stuart specialty

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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

Forenamed; named beforehand.

""Put before; prefixed; as, a prepositive particle. as, a prepositive particle.""

Give a porter tips? Right!

Exclusive right/privilege

Right, privilege

PROCESS to treat or prepare by a special method

Adjective (-ible)

Having the power to beget; generative.

Cream-filled pastry ball

Filled pastry ball

Cream-filled, chocolate-covered pastry

Insurance seller (Cleveland Indians)

Teddy Roosevelt's party in 1912

Forward-looking or -moving

(Of a price) excessively high

(Of price) excessively high

I have bar first excessively high

PROJECT to extend outward

Reproduce a lot

Grow rapidly in number

Breed for long stretch with speed

Quickness of action; readiness

Detroit pump (anagram) - readiness to act

""Producing by propagation, or by a process of growth.""

""PROSELYTE A new convert especially a convert to some religion or religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte. proselyte.""

""To convert to some religion, system, opinion, or the like; to bring, or cause to come, over; to proselyte.""

Likely to happen in the future

""Capable of being protracted, or protruded; protrusile.""

Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying.

""Capable of being thrust outward, as the proboscis of many insects.""

""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.""

Deliberately causing annoyance

Tending to excite expert on case

Designed to cause anger or arousal

""PYROLYZE to decompose by heating, also PYROLISE, PYROLIZE, PYROLYSE""

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

PANTOTHENATE

English word

""Relating to or being an utterance that peforms an act or creates a state of affairs by the fact of its being uttered under appropriate or conventional circumstances, as a justice of the peace uttering I now pronounce you husband and wife at a wedding ceremony, thus creating a legal union, or as one uttering I promise, thus performing the act of promising.""

(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 ]

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

Reason about deep and fundamental issues

Speculate superficially

To shine as phosphorus; to be phosphorescent; to emit a phosphoric light.

(Chemistry) a cathode that undergoes or is used for photoemission

""(Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) (tr) to set (type matter) by photocomposition photocomposer   n""

One way to reproduce a picture

""A photoengraving; also, the process by which such a picture is produced.""

PHOTOLYZE

Composite picture

PHOTOOXIDIZE

A deep-rooted plant that obtains water from a permanent ground supply or from the water table.

See plant hormone .

""PICTORIAL Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination.""

Video communication device

""POLITICAL Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration.""

DISPERSE to {scatter=v}

""ETHYLENE a flammable gas, also ETHENE""

RIBOSOME a particle composed of protein and RNA

Word of more than three sounds

Word with several linguistic units

Word, possibly Excel or PowerPoint, for certain applications

Your elephant (anag-) synthetic resin

PORCELAIN Purslain.

Adjective meaning resembling

English word

Adjective (-ive)

POSTEXERCISE

Noun (-ure)

Noun (-ure)

Candidate for a Ph.D., say

Person studying after obtaining a degree

Continuing student

POSTLITERATE

""Placed after another word; as, a postpositive conjunction; a postpositive letter. as, a postpositive conjunction; a postpositive letter.""

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

""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

""FORMULATE To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.""

Word with prefix pre-

Before going to theatre and before dramatic work, takes half of sedative

Eton prepared to change rule

New order required, prepare to end rule

""A potent antineoplastic drug, C 12 H 19 N 3 O, used primarily to treat advanced Hodgkin's disease.""

""The office jurisdiction of a proconsul, or the term of his office.""

""PROFESSOR One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church.""

""A steroid hormone, C 21 H 30 O 2 , secreted by the corpus luteum of the ovary and by the placenta, that acts to prepare the uterus for implantation of the fertilized ovum, to maintain pregnancy, and to promote development of the mammary glands.""

Like computers, robots, etc

Able to be put into computer language

Capable of being instructed in advance to perform task

PROPAGANDIZE

""A nonnarcotic analgesic drug, C 22 H 29 NO 2 .""

Forbidding; condemnatory

Capable of being prosecuted; liable to prosecution.

State controlled by another

State looked after by another

Commonwealth period

Outward bulge - not cupbearer (anagram)

Something sticking out

Bump or lump

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Affecting the mind or mental processes. Used of a drug.

Shrink rap (wordplay)

Some self-help spoutings, say

BS from Alfred Hitchcock (wordplay)

PSYCHOLOGISE

PSYCHOLOGIZE

""Any of various vascular plants that reproduce by means of spores rather than by seeds, including the ferns and related plants, such as club mosses and horsetails.""

""A crystalline amine, C 8 H 12 N 2 O 2 , one of several active forms of pyridoxine, important in protein metabolism.""

""Native lead phosphate with lead chloride, occurring in bright green and brown hexagonal crystals and also massive; so called because a fused globule crystallizes in cooling.""

""A mineral, usually of a white or greenish color and pearly luster, consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of alumina.""

Drug used as a strong tranquilliser and in the treatment of schizophrenia

English word

Any of several enzymes that hydrolyze specific ester bonds in phospholipids.

An enzyme that catalyzes the production of glucose phosphate from glycogen and inorganic phosphate.

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

Adjective (-ive)

Biology Repelled by light; exhibiting a negative phototactic or phototropic response.

Biology Drawn to light; exhibiting a positive phototactic or phototropic response.

PHOTOSYNTHATE

""An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean (the seed of Physostigma venenosum), and extracted as a white, tasteless, substance, amorphous or crystalline; formerly called eserine, with which it was regarded as identical. Physostigma venenosum), and extracted as a white, tasteless, substance, amorphous or crystalline; formerly called eserine, with which it was regarded as identical.""

English word

One of the Pneumonophora.

BUTADIENE a gaseous hydrocarbon C4H6; -- it is used as a monomer unit in making synthetic rubbers.C4H6; -- it is used as a monomer unit in making synthetic rubbers.

Synthetic resin

""PROPYLENE A colorless gaseous hydrocarbon (C3H6) of the ethylene series, having a garlic odor. It occurs in coal gas, and is produced artificially in various ways. Called also propene. C3H6) of the ethylene series, having a garlic odor. It occurs in coal gas, and is produced artificially in various ways. Called also propene.""

Adjective meaning resembling

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POSTDOCTORATE

Noun (-ence)

Worker after job following surgery

Relating to period after surgery

Spy who works for a Washington paper (wordplay)

""COLLEGIATE Of or pertaining to a college; as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society. as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society.""

An excess in number or quantity

The lion's share

Quality of being greater in number

(Right of) being first-born

State of being the firstborn

Firstborn-inherits system

Wait until tomorrow, unnecessarily

Put off due to rain, spectator moved

Put off what should be done now

""The body of professors, or the professorial staff, in a university or college.""

Forecast disastrous operating cost

Divine erotic snap got hacked

Prophesy, foretell

""PROLIFERATE To produce or form cells; especially, to produce cells rapidly.""

Capable of being pronounced.

Corresponding in size

In scale for amount of food consumed

Corresponding in size to something else

A language that is the recorded or hypothetical ancestor of another language or group of languages. Also called Ursprache .

To render provincial.

""A theory, methodology, or practice that is considered to be without scientific foundation.""

Emulate Freud

A salt of pyrophosphoric acid.

English word

See pentobarbital sodium .

Sedative for bird that's breached order to put note into singer

""A white or light yellow compound, C 19 H 20 N 2 O 2 , formerly used as an anti-inflammatory and analgesic drug in the treatment of arthritis, bursitis, and gout.""

PHOTODUPLICATE

Adjective (-ive)

Adjective (-ive)

""A nerve ending, cell, or group of cells specialized to sense or receive light.""

Responding to light

PHOTOSENSITIZE

""Any of several stable, light-fast, blue or green organic pigments derived from the basic compound (C 6 H 4 C 2 N) 4 N 4 and used in enamels, printing inks, linoleum, and plastics.""

PINEALECTOMIZE

A double cyanide of platinum and some other metal or radical; a salt of platinocyanic acid.

ACRYLAMIDE

NUCLEOTIDE a phosphate ester of a nucleoside; one of the monomeric components of DNA or RNA.DNA or RNA.

Carbohydrate such as starch or insulin

Carbohydrate found in cold chips a year after cooking

POSTCOLLEGE

Noun (-ence)

Some youth misbehaving peers concealed

""PERFORMANCE The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty. as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty.""

Proletarian

""PROLETARIAN Of or pertaining to the proletaries; belonging to the commonalty; hence, mean; vile; vulgar.""