2-Letter Words Starting with P

COMBUSTION The state of burning.

Opinion formed beforehand

Bias

CONVENTION The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.

""CONVICTION The act of convicting; the act of proving, finding, or adjudging, guilty of an offense.""

The act or state of predominating; ascendency; predominance.

""The act of prefiguring, or the state of being prefigured.""

Prelude to murder, often

Forethought

Almost cure it in paved area with some necessary forethought

The act of prenominating; privilege of being named first.

Something totally dominating the mind

Concentration before calling

Absorption, engrossment

The act of foreordaining: previous determination.

Preoccupation; prior possession.

""PRODUCTION The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness. as, the production of commodities, of a witness.""

""REVOLUTION The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc. as, the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc.""

TELEVISION

The act of passing by or omitting; omission.

Evasive speech or deeds

Evasive behaviour

Adjusted pro rata invoice knocking off one zero causes quibbling

PRIVATIZE PRIVATE a soldier of lower rank

Increase (of nuclear weapons)

Increase in numbers opposing euthanasia quotient

Anti-abortion or anti-reproduction is spreading

The way to say 'delivery'

Delivery panic to ruin mobile working

Way a word is sounded

""Any of a group of potent hormonelike substances that are produced in various mammalian tissues, are derived from arachidonic acid, and mediate a wide range of physiological functions, such as control of blood pressure, contraction of smooth muscle, and modulation of inflammation.""

""Pl. psychosurgeries Brain surgery used to treat severe, intractable mental or behavioral disorders.""

The action of reducing to dust or powder.

PALATALIZE To palatize.

PARASITIZE PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

""A process devised by Pasteur for preventing or checking fermentation in fluids, such as wines, milk, etc., by exposure to a temperature of 140° F., thus destroying the vitality of the contained germs or ferments.""

""Any of a group of proteins, such as casein, containing chemically bound phosphoric acid.""

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

""The detection, absorption, and use of light, as for vision in animals or phototropism and photosynthesis in plants.""

Photoreducte

PLASTICIZE PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

POLITICIZE POLITIC {shrewd=adj}

POLYMERISE POLYMER a complex chemical compound

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

""The act of making popular, or of introducing among the people.""

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-sion)

""POSTGRADUATE Of, pertaining to, or designating, the studies pursued after graduation, esp., after receiving the bachelor's degree at a college; graduate.""

Noun (-tion)

Work done on film after recording has finished

PRECIPITIN

Fixed fate

Doctrine that God has ordained future events

Perdition's neat solution for those so chosen (wordplay)

DEVALUATION

Inclination (to behave in certain ways)

Prior inclination (towards something)

A tendency (to do something)

""FABRICATION The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government. as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government.""

""The act or state of preponderating; preponderance; as, a preponderation of reasons. as, a preponderation of reasons.""

""PUBLICATION 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.""

PRESSURIZE PRESSURE to apply force to

Before job accepting drink - that's an assumption!

It's assumed before, for example, consuming drink

""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.""

""-fies , -fying , -fied (tr) to make pretty, esp in a trivial fashion; embellish prettification   n""

""UNIFICATION The act of unifying, or the state of being unified.""

PRIORITIZE

The unconscious perception of movement and spatial orientation arising from stimuli within the body itself.

""The anterior segment of the brain, including the cerebrum and olfactory lobes; the forebrain""

History

""A metal-free porphyrin, C 32 H 32 N 4 (COOH) 2 , that combines with ferrous iron to form the heme group in hemoglobin and myoglobin, and with ferric iron to form the hemin group in catalase and some cytochromes.""

English word

PARAMETRIZE

PERSONALIZE To make personal.

How gracious, how benign, is Solitude.

"How gracious, how benign, is Solitude."

Bringing to life

Lab acidity indicator

C20H14O4 (and a key substance in this puzzle's theme)

PHOSPHATIZE PHOSPHATE A salt of phosphoric acid.

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

Noun (-tion)

PHOTOIONIZE

Photoproduct

One with a limited wardrobe (wordplay)

Police-squad member

Member of the force.

Investigators of a kind.

Undercover detectives

Detectives

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

Of or relating to postmillennialism.

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

Occurring after or as a consequence of blood transfusion.

Noun (-tion)

""CANCELLATION The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself. as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.""

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.""

""NOTIFICATION The act of notifying, or giving notice; the act of making known; especially, the act of giving official notice or information to the public or to individuals, corporations, companies, or societies, by words, by writing, or by other means.""

Conference requirement, often

Theme of this puzzle, finally

Thief of time.

Start of a slacker's quip

Seer's forte

Weatherman's job

Seer's utterance

Act of converting

PRUSSIANIZE

English word

Pl. psychohistories A psychological or psychoanalytic interpretation or study of historical events or persons: the psychohistory of the Nazi era.

Psychology

The deciding of something in advance

Entertaining conjuring tricks

His feat