2-Letter Words Starting with P

Common inside crime.

Conjecture becomes embezzlement

Anagram for unpoetical

Contest that involves epees and pistols

Its events include fencing and shooting

Five-part athletic event

Shut up and check on this bloomer!

Vegetable + vegetable = spice

(Of rent) notional

Spray painful area, which is hot

The antecedent of the ferment pepsin. A substance contained in the form of granules in the peptic cells of the gastric glands. It is readily convertible into pepsin. Also called propepsin. propepsin.

Understanding 'the knowledge'

Softly creep into dances for view

It's said to be reality

Striking group of musicians (wordplay)

Instruments played by striking

Striking supersonic travelling

For each infection, dropping in is ideal

What "none must hope to find": Pope

High price often reveals excellence

Orbital position nearest the sun

Orbit point closest to the sun

Old MacDonald had an orbit's closest point...

""Pl. perikarya (-k r - ) The cell body of a neuron, containing the nucleus and organelles.""

""Sessile organisms, such as algae and small crustaceans, that live attached to surfaces projecting from the bottom of a freshwater aquatic environment.""

A mere point about saturation

Wrong "impression" (wordplay)

How astronauts are paid (wordplay)

Wrong 'impression' (wordplay)

An allowance of twisted rope, in a manner of speaking

School of thought

Conviction of Janeites

With which 1 convinced

Kinkiness for every type

Aberrant behavior in each account

For every translation contains something irregular

It's directly perceivable

Men on phone about an amazing spectacle

Exceptional person

Substance once believed to be released in combustion

Mechanical ram restricts hot billet of proposed element

""A bitter white crystalline substance found in the cocculus indicus. It is a peculiar poisonous neurotic and intoxicant, and consists of a mixture of several neutral substances.""

Bowler's margin of comfort (wordplay)

Etui's cousin (wordplay)

Backup digits for the ATM (wordplay)

English word

English word

Technique for making people appear as animations

Tara, for one.

Growing business (wordplay)

Twelve Oaks, for example

Pork source (wordplay)

Wooer of voters

Butler or Hall.

Plane-faced solid

Solid figure that usually has more than six faces

""OLEFIN an alkene, also OLEFINE""

Modern type of "explosion."

No pilau pot dish for all the people

We, the people

In this behaving, perhaps

Devilish control (wordplay)

Exorcist's concern

Rider of leading horse drawing carriage

Rider on a carriage horse.

One riding coach horse

In a late 20th-century style

Like some criticism

Of late twentieth century arts style

English word

So one's past playing - now (wordplay)

When sports awards are given, usually

Elway was there in '97 and '98

""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

Like a Roman emperor's bodyguard

Magistrate's to arrange reparation

Julius Caesar, once

Safeguard cast on a picture

Run a poetic struggle for The Backstop (wordplay)

Sensible step

Regular change in direction of an axis

""The act of precluding, or the state of being precluded; a shutting out.""

Weatherman's job.

*'Here's what I think'll happen...'

*"Here's what I think'll happen..."

EMPTION the act of {buying=v}

""The act of taking hold, seizing, or grasping, as with the hand or other member.""

A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company.

MOISTEN to make {moist=adj}

PORTION to divide into shares for distribution

A claim or aspiration (to something)

Show anxiety before changing places

Claim tin-openers had been damaged

It's better than cure, they say

It follows fire

Action said to be better than cure

It's just one thing after the other!

March parade (wordplay)

March in support of home rule

Stage play, for one

Making exotic crouton dip

... making boozy crouton dip

Job announcement (wordplay)

Occupation; declaration (of belief)

Religious belief in vocation

""A single-chain polypeptide that is the precursor of insulin, converted into insulin by enzymatic action.""

Bump kin (wordplay)

Estimate of future possibilities

Certain linear transformation

Part voting aye (wordplay)

Fit for serving

Supporting part share

Force of a rocket.

Forward drive of the jet.

Push blend of US pop and Lion King (short version)

Body guard, for example

Bribe Johnny Cash

Rotten cop I fancy extorting money

Early ancestor (wordplay)

""The act of protruding or thrusting forward, or beyond the usual limit.""

Beta carotene, since it can become A

Active hallucinogen in funny mushrooms

Drug cultivated in cow poop

Hallucinogenic drug, obtained from the Mexican mushroom

Old reptile flying near to pond

Winged crested dinosaur; pardon note (anagram)

PUNCTATE covered with dots

Rapid irregular heartbeat

Irregular heartbeat

Fluttering.

Birth

PASSIVATE PASSIVE a verb form

The state of being pectinated; that which is pectinated.

""The act or process of penetrating, piercing, or entering; also, the act of mentally penetrating into, or comprehending, anything difficult.""

Five-sided solid figure

Solid figure with five plane faces

Five-faced solid figure - near the pond (anagram)

Gradual filtration

PERENNATE

Ace in the hole (wordplay)

It's useful to those in a tearing hurry

Holes picked in closing remarks about French leader

Possible ordering (of a number of items)

From importunate version of variation

Change of order

Oppression involves putting tube into each part

Ill-treatment on for example religious grounds

Act of mimicry

One versed in phonetics; a phonetist.

A blue phycobilin occurring especially in the cells of cyanobacteria.

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany any of a group of substances produced by plants that inhibit the growth of pathogenic fungi that infect them [from phyto- + Greek alexein to ward off]

Candid in flyer (wordplay)

Easy to understand

Blunt and candid

PLASMIN an {enzyme=n}

See stonefly .

A brown bitter gum extracted from the rootstalk of the May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). It is a complex mixture of several substances. Podophyllum peltatum). It is a complex mixture of several substances.

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

Country where flowers are fertilized (wordplay)

Flower fertilisation

What bees help to accomplish by flying from flower to flower

Noun (-sion)

""The act of postulating, or that which is postulated; assumption; solicitation; suit; cause.""

Grammatical construction that could make editor panic

ELECTION the act of {electing=v}

Ignition in an internal-combustion engine while the inlet valve is open or before compression is completed.

INVASION the act of {invading=v}

""A. tasting beforehand, or by anticipation; a foretaste; as, a prelibation of heavenly bliss. as, a prelibation of heavenly bliss.""

LUNCHEON a midday meal

Feeling something is about to happen

Sandra Bullock film

Presentiment, forewarning

The act of fortifying or guarding against objections.

Iron parapet (anagram)

Specially made up medicine

Preliminary measure

Word like after or for (grammar)

'Before' or 'after', say

One could be across or down

Possibly uppermost in arrogance

Strong probability.

Supposition - impertinence

In favour of the medical provision of abortion

Masterwork (wordplay)

Enforcing conformity to a standard

(adj.) having a predilection for French bread

Enforcing conformity regardless of individuality; scent uproar (anagram)

The act of procuring; procurement.

'Bum', 'fart', 'poo' in an act of irreverence

Steroid hormone used in oral contraceptives

Forward motion seeing prisoners go free

Advance of prisoners go amok

Poser so moved with Ring Cycle

Ban (eg on alcohol)

Anti-Saloon League goal

The 18th Amendment, briefly

Ordinary worker (Marxism)

Relating to the workers

Frisky pair, later on common

Spread of ideas, for example

Spread of ideas, e.g

Breeding; transmission

Golfer's lie (wordplay)

Solicit a plan

Professional job in theory

The act of counting in duration; prolongation.

Legal proceedings against a person

Accusation of guilt in court

Action in open court is disturbed

""The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat; as, the prostration of the body. as, the prostration of the body.""

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

PROTONATE PROTON a subatomic particle

Favouring attempt to cut short hostilities going on and on

Cause of expert calling

Apt title for this puzzle

Spin doctor calling for incitement

""The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts. as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts.""

""A germinating, or budding.""

English class topic

Marks in writing

One concern of a proofreader

The act of producing pustules; the state of being pustulated.

""The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation.""

See cholecystokinin .

British warehouse or van

Removal van

Furniture van

""The act or process of paralyzing, or the state of being paralyzed.""

""Any of a group of nervous disorders similar to Parkinson's disease, marked by muscular rigidity, tremor, and impaired motor control and often having a specific cause, such as the use of certain drugs or frequent exposure to toxic chemicals. Also called Parkinson's syndrome .""

The act of punishing.

Commission for distribution of dog food

Perhaps how vets are paid out in a settlement shows endurance

Exotic Persia trip? No sweat

Broken tip? Repair's no sweat

Exercise and sport in air, running around causing this (wordplay)

Disquiet

""The process of petrifying, or changing into stone; conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a substance of stony hardness.""

Your florist (wordplay)

Popular houseplant

London pride variety including first house plant

Mate pointing out blemish (wordplay)

Natural colouring

Sow farmers get on at it in end for colour tissue

""The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals. as, the placentation of mammals.""

English word

""Any of various wormlike marine invertebrates of the phylum Pogonophora that grow in upright chitin tubes, usually at depths greater than 100 meters (330 feet), have tentacles attached to the head region, and lack a digestive system.""

""The act of polarizing; the state of being polarized, or of having polarity.""

""A figure by which the conjunction is often repeated, as in the sentence, "We have ships and men and money and stores." Opposed to asyndeton. asyndeton.""

""A purple pigment similar to rhodopsin, found in the rods of the retinas of freshwater fishes and certain frogs.""

Noun (-tion)

One who lived after the flood.

""(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) happening or existing after an election""

Washington newspaper editor (wordplay)

Career at a Washington newspaper (wordplay)

Physiological effect in nerve impulses; in-patient, too (anagram)

""Lit., previous admission;""

Relative of ESP

Foreknowledge

Requirement

Prerequisite

Digestion too soon performed; hasty digestion.

Preference (for something)

Special liking or preference

Penchant of the French in anticipation

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

HISTORIAN A writer of history; a chronicler; an annalist.

INDUCTION The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement.

MIGRATION The act of migrating.

""RECESSION The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand.""

What a doctor may write

Something with which to obtain drugs

Medicine authorised by doctor

Preselect

Nearest point at sea for the launch

Illustrated formal talk

Formal act of giving

Keeping quiet, with some little doubt

Keeping quiet when having doubt

Proboscidian.

Pertaining to the Proboscidea.

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

Process of lengthening

Extension in duration

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

The act of appeasing the wrath and conciliating the favor of an offended person; the act of making propitious.

""The act of proscribing; a dooming to death or exile; outlawry; specifically, among the ancient Romans, the public offer of a reward for the head of a political enemy; as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription. as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription.""

A prostaglandin produced in the walls of blood vessels that acts as a vasodilator and inhibits platelet aggregation.

The 'oldest profession'

Game Italian's behind French driver, twisting in and out

English word

Toper sloshed, post complaint

Emphatic declaration

Complaint in favour of Victoria perhaps taking note

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

Removal of contaminants

Process of cleansing

Ritual cleansing

Process of rotting

PALLETIZE PALLET a bed or mattress or straw

Profit sharing.

Involvement

The act of patronizing; patronage; support.

""PELLETIZE PELLET to hit with small, rounded masses""

""A polymer found in the cell walls of prokaryotes that consists of polysaccharide and peptide chains in a strong molecular network. Also called mucopeptide , murein .""

Action of walking around

Process of walking

Walking tour, with pain and blame bandied about

Travelling with Pierre in Tonga, maybe

Wandering about in art opening I fancy

Long meandering journey

(Historical Terms) the act or process of dividing history into periods

""PERSEVERATE PERSEVERE To persist in any business or enterprise undertaken; to pursue steadily any project or course begun; to maintain a purpose in spite of counter influences, opposition, or discouragement; not to give or abandon what is undertaken.""

See Petrifaction. Petrifaction.

Subatomic particle - let hencoop rot (anagram)

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

A photochemical reaction.

A red phycobilin occurring especially in the cells of red algae.

An organism that is pathogenic to a plant.

""Minute, free-floating aquatic plants.""

PICTURIZE To picture.

PIDGINIZE PIDGIN a mixed language

The act of pluralizing.

""PODSOLIZE PODSOL an infertile soil, also PODZOL""

""PODZOLIZE PODZOL an infertile soil, also PODSOL""

""PONTIFICATE The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope.""

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

English word

Noun (-sion)

""ADAPTATION The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness.""

Rain, snow, hail? Hurry!

Undue rushing from rain, perhaps

Hurry in rain, perhaps