2-Letter Words Starting with P

An instrument for measuring the compressibility of liquids.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Great Mesozoic fossil reptile

POLITICK to engage in {politics=n}

POLLEN to transfer the fertilizing element in a seed plant to

Bee, at times

POLLINIZE

One versed in various learning.

Official in charge of sorts (wordplay)

Kind of general (wordplay)

Man of letters (wordplay)

""POSTULATE Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as selfevident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged, without argument or evidence.""

Informal discussion Fr.

Negotiations leading up to a treaty

Informal consultation

""One who prepares beforehand, as subjects for dissection, specimens for preservation in collections, etc.""

One who proclaims.

One producing young

Progenitor

Lawyer (in Scotland)

Agent for clergyman reduced men

Scottish lawyer

A paid athlete has to go down deeper

Father, for good measure, organised riot

Originator, as of a musical style

One standing in for man or father

Writer of computer code

Scott Adams job before "Dilbert"

Computer coder

One who speaks for another.

Royal Albert Hall regular

Walker - concert goer

Square dancer, at times

Spelling bee official

Pl. pronuclei (-kl - ) The haploid nucleus of a sperm or egg before fusion of the nuclei in fertilization.

Decorous reptile

Breeder supplying mock croc, auditors find? On the contrary!

Diffuser

A prophet.

One who sets forth with a quid in his pocket?

One who sets forth with a quid in his pocket (wordplay)

""An ancient Roman official, appointed to be the chief administrator of a province after serving his term of office as praetor.""

Owner (of a business)

Titleholder is Perot, prior to change

Name on the door, often

""One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits.""

Ken Starr, for one

One who conducts case against defendant

One with something to prove

""A course of study for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in a college or university, conducted in the manner of a seminar.""

He's disclaimed (wordplay)

One with a miner role (wordplay)

49er, for example

Yes to farm aid!

Like John Deere (wordplay)

Angling gear (wordplay)

""One who punctuates, as in writing; specifically, a punctator.""

A specific gravity bottle; a standard flask for measuring and comparing the densities of liquids.

""One who, or that which, pacifies; a peacemaker.""

High military figure (wordplay)

A jumper that rides up!

Jumpy guy (wordplay)

I hire parson (anagram)

Do I hire parson (wordplay)

Do I hire parson?

Partition

Portents are confounded by prayer

Prayer that may give one a lift

Bill carries a bird in a lift

Committer (of a crime)

One committing (a bad deed)

One committing (an offence)

""PERPETUATE To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize.""

One who personifies.

""(Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) money, paid in dollars, earned by a country for the exporting of petroleum""

One who quibbles over trifles

One who quibbles

Picayune lawyer.

23 with a stone (wordplay)

Eg, Kant or Plato

One as Socrates, Wittgenstein

Today's mimeograph

Piece of office gear

Office machine

PHOTOSET to prepare for printing by photographic means

Person paid per item produced

""PIGEONHOLE A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartments in a dovecote.""

Symbol for something missing

Bookmark, essentially

Temporary wording in a document awaiting final text

""An instrument for determining the amount of polarization of light, or the proportion of polarized light, in a partially polarized ray.""

Polygraph

Containing many nuclei.

One making a subject accessible*

POTENTIATE To render active or potent.

COMPUTER a machine that computes automatically

Person in post before the current holder

One there before

Jobholder before the present one

Preschool

Tester of a person's conduct

One on trial in post

Offender on conditional release

Of a Roman official

One who promulgates or publishes.

Bottle examiner (wordplay)

He shouldn't leave any wrong impressions

One looking for trouble, in a way

One who propitiates or appeases.

""One who prostitutes; one who submits himself, of or offers another, to vile purposes.""

""The first martyr; the first who suffers, or is sacrificed, in any cause; applied esp. to Stephen, the first Christian martyr.""

English word

Provision

An agent provocateur.

Of or pertaining to movement produced by action of the mind or will.

Cloth used in Holy Communion services

Cloth used in celebrating the Eucharist

Wary one

One skilled in paleography; a paleographist.

""One who participates, or shares with another; a partaker.""

Anemone with bell-shaped purple flowers

""A device for measuring the penetrating power of radiation, especially x-rays.""

Carriage for one on patrol

Baby carrier (usually abbreviated)

Baby's transport

Geology ()

One versed or skilled in phonography.

Snappy guy (wordplay)

One will put you in the picture

Job taking snaps

Of or relating to a nuclear reaction induced by photons.

""(Chemistry) a polymeric material that is sensitive to light: used in printing plates, microfilms, etc.""

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Party under cover (wordplay)

Person taking out insurance

Person with insurance

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

""Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal.""

Professional person, esp. doctor

One involved in medicine, such as a GP

Part in erotic play for skilled operator

""One who precipitates, or urges on with vehemence or rashness.""

Inflected form of MEDITATOR Inflected form of MEDITATE to consider thoughtfully

Inflected form of PROCESSOR Inflected form of PROCESS to treat or prepare by a special method

One who prevaricates.

To reign terribly following Victorian old ancestor

Victorian old chap conversely including one's forefather

One who proselytes.

""An instrument for measuring the tension of the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere, being essentially a wet and dry bulb hygrometer.""

Tropical climbing plant (granadilla)

Climbing plant, Passiflora

Wasp flies on or off climbing plant

One who philosophizes.

PHOTOCOMPOSE

Agent noun (-or)

PHOTOENGRAVE To engrave by a photomechanical process; to make a photo-engraving of.

Jockey's other job (wordplay)

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

""Geography the systematic classification and description of nature. See also geography ; geology . ; physiographer , ; physiographic, physiographical , adj . Classification""

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Sound control evident as forceful goddess ran into HM

Rheostat

""One who predestinates, or foreordains.""

PROPAGANDIZE

""A sensory receptor, found chiefly in muscles, tendons, joints, and the inner ear, that detects the motion or position of the body or a limb by responding to stimuli arising within the organism.""

PSYCHOBABBLE

An instrument for measuring the direct heating effect of the sun's rays.

Part 2 of remark

Negligent one

Artisan stupidly interrupting university official, off-putting type

One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs.

An electronic sensing device used to detect electromagnetic energy of a wide range of frequencies and intensity levels.

PHOTOSENSITIZE

PHOTOTYPESET

The study of the geographic distribution of plants. Also called geobotany .

Shell-game operator, for one

Thurston or Mulholland

Trickster realises God is tripartite