2-Letter Words Starting with P

""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

Lewdness - epic rerun (anagram)

Unhealthy interest in sexual matters

Morbid interest in sex etc

English word

Reduce to dust (S, not Z)

Grind to powder

Thoroughly beat repulsive cavalier

Grind into dust

Demolish

Musical combo disheartened over producing a washout (wordplay)

If you're bound to be in purgatory, this should give you a moving experience

Having or indicating purpose or design.

""A woman's bag for carrying keys, a wallet, and other personal items; a handbag.""

The carrying out (of something)

Carrying out (of policy)

In this of it's carrying out

Bodily Functions

English word

Tuna roll or a nut, perhaps (wordplay)

E.g. mum, dad

Friend on the airstrip, madam (wordplay)

An alkaloid found in opium. It has a weaker therapeutic action than morphine.

Drum roll, as soldier meets con

Syncopated drumbeats

Basic drumming sequence - dip a ladder (anagram)

Say a new way

Put in other words

A rash paper upset state, in other words

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Capable of being forgiven

Cat on island about to be excused

Minor enough to excuse

Non-finite form of a verb

Form of a verb used as a modifier

Adjectival form of verb

To be on the safe side, make the land revert to grass, by the sound of it

Too quick to see (wordplay)

Too quick to see?

Remove germs from, in a way

Are its pies cooked well (wordplay)

Are its pies fresh (wordplay)

Are its pies 'fantastique' (wordplay)

Aristocracy

Aristocracy.

A disparaging word, such as poetaster.

Politically incorrect, in a way

Expressing contempt or disapproval

Understandable in a way

Accessible.

Clear goal apart from, on review, being bitten by footballer

""The frequency, under given environmental conditions, with which a specific phenotype is expressed by those individuals with a specific genotype.""

Spice-yielding evergreen of Peru [1]

*Ornamental evergreen

Ornamental evergreen

Proportion stated in hundredth parts

Proportion in each 100

Agent's take, typically

99th, for example

Any of the 99 numbered points that divide a set into 100 equal parts

Observant look about Catholic woman virtually in retreat

Operated by striking

Of significant impact

Eternal, lasting

""Tending or conducing to make perfect, or to bring to perfection; usually followed by of. of.""

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

Rock containing olivine

Destroy a rebel ship - it could go off!

Herbal pies (anagram)

(Of food) likely to rot

Tiny seafood item - purplish-blue shade

Plant with five-petalled flowers

*Edible sea snail

Quality we seek in peace.

Stickiness, perhaps

Indefinite existence

PERMEATE to spread through

Noun (-age)

Liberal by letter (wordplay)

A girl I have that's free with favours

Not doing much disciplining

Changeable

""(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.""

How much a cat, say, is to do

Commit (a bad action)

Deviant tart, peeper commit crime

Cause to continue indefinitely

Preserve from extinction.

Cause to be remembered

Bonus for each is accepted by all

Bonus or fringe benefit

Incidental or casual benefit

""(tr) to oppress, harass, or maltreat, esp because of race, religion, etc.""

Light-hearted banter

Pale griefs (anagram) - flippancy

Chaff by itself to ingest if idle

Newborn asleep, so appealing

Pleasant to be with

Nice short hairdo available in black

Very convincing, as an argument

Providing sound reasoning

Supervise a review that is influential

What a non sequitur lacks

Relevance

Aptness

Tending to pervert.

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

Rascally nurses in a state of vexation

Like tales of rogues

Like Don Quixote

PILFER to {steal=v}

One more tragedy, say, from Shakespeare

Trip from drug - mostly horrid time

Religious traveller's journey

Adjective meaning resembling

""A colorless crystalline compound, C 4 H 10 N 2 , used as a hardener for epoxy resins, an antihistamine, and an anthelmintic.""

""An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine. C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine.""

Cheat by copying; agile pairs (anagram)

Copy for piano: after lapse of time I get up

Appropriate force restraining prisoner, immediately aggro starts

Make an unauthorized copy (wordplay)

Appropriate words

Take a page from someone's book (wordplay)

Multicolored

""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

English word

English word

Adjective meaning resembling

Might contain live wire (wordplay)

Place for Tyrone (wordplay)

Slam hand: Colloq.

""The offense under English law of appealing to or obeying a foreign court or authority, thus challenging the supremacy of the Crown.""

Bird painter circling round pass

APPROVE to regard favourably

Plan in advance

Determine in advance.

Agree upon something in advance

The order to be observed by protocol

Pecking-order right

Superiority in rank.

""Containing or giving precepts; of the nature of precepts; didactic; as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures. as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures.""

Eliminating beforehand

COLLEGE a school of higher learning

COMPUTE to calculate

Go before (wordplay)

Pass away before this and stop at last

Die before

Fate of perhaps 3 estimated in hunger

Foreordain

Foreordain

It was bound to happen in designing replica bed

Detective rings the German back on line - is that only to be expected (wordplay)

May be confirmed by investigator hiding revolutionary with lead

Like signs

Made to appear naff when using it (wordplay)

and 9: Suggestive input that might make a molecule out of a molehill (wordplay)

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.""

Of a certain bridge bid.

Getting in first, angry peer with aim to get power for old

District in Japan

Office of Paris police chief.

District under a governor

A better choice

More desirable

Better

Liking for one thing over another

Choice (of A rather than B)

Liking for one thing more than another

FINANCE to supply the money for

Able to grasp - her in sleep (anagram)

Adjective for a kinkajou's tail.

Adapted for grasping

MEASURE to compare with a standard

PACKAGE to put into a container or wrapping

A critic might listen to one

To require beforehand.

Antedating physics (wordplay)

Sibyl's forte

Seer's gift

SERVICE to {repair=v}

Attempt to coerce (into doing something)

Coerce journalists to rebel, supporting United

Prepare, as an aircraft cabin

Prepare, as a bottle launcher

STORAGE a place for storing

Such as may be presumed or supposed to be true; that seems entitled to belief without direct evidence.

Take for granted

With supper prepared, sit and consider ...

Assume

New place never achieves popularity

Superiority, of a sort

New place never offers currency

Dental floss, for one

Like a checkup

Type of medicine

Birth

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

""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

Capable of being reduced to fine powder; pulverizable.

""That which pertains or belongs to something; esp., the heard, liver, and lungs of an animal.""

The act or process of providing or procuring; providence; foresight; preparation; management.

""A colorless, foul-smelling ptomaine, NH 2 (CH 2 ) 4 NH 2 , produced in decaying animal tissue by the decarboxylation of ornithine.""

English word

""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 .""

""A single-ringed, crystalline organic base, C 4 H 4 N 2 , that forms uracil, cytosine, or thymine and is the parent compound of many drugs, including the barbiturates.""

""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.""

A polymeric modification of aldehyde obtained as a white crystalline substance.

PARAMETRIZE

PARFOCAL having lenses that correspond

Take part (in activity)

Be involved (in)

Be involved

President - coherent in speech or bitty (wordplay)

""Tending to penetrate; of a penetrating quality; piercing; as, the penetrative sun. as, the penetrative sun.""

It has 'amble' and 'ramble' inside

It has "amble" and "ramble" within

It has "amble" and "ramble" inside

Capable of being perceived; perceptible.

Heartless Blue Peter clip playing on YouTube perhaps

Tangible

Rod deceased, having swallowed yellow chemical

Sit down with expression of surprise having consumed salt

Acute insight

Before smile, spread out and wander

Wander around

Voyage here and there as green pirate at sea

""Capable of becoming, or being made, perfect.""

""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

Allowable

Allowed

""PERSECUTE To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular religious creed or mode of worship.""

Continue action after stimulus ceases (psychology)

Keep on

Resist changes in coinage with tenacity

Refusal to accept refusal

Doggedness is derived from its presence

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.

Frame of mind

View; technique for drawing 3-D objects

Point of view

That may be persuaded.

Capable of being persuaded; persuadable.

Liable to be perturbed or agitated; liable to be disturbed or disquieted.

(min.) A massive variety of apatite.

English word

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

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

Strikingly beautiful (view)

Imagines Spanish that becomes attractive

Paintings that in Paris are pretty

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.

""The representation of the circles of the sphere upon a plane; especially, a representation of the celestial sphere upon a plane with adjustable circles, or other appendages, for showing the position of the heavens, the time of rising and setting of stars, etc., for any given date or hour.""

Animal that walks on the soles of its feet

Resembling silver plate; said of certain architectural ornaments.

""Of or designating the New World monkeys, distinguished from the Old World monkeys by widely separated nostrils that generally open to the side.""

A blur, a sleep, awfully nice

Such as gives enjoyment

Delightful

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.

SORBATE a sorbed substance

Light synthetic resin

Synthetic resin used in packing

Moulded synthetic material

Fruit (literally, seeded apple)

Large globular fruit

Fruit whose name means "seedy apple"

Meaty brewery (wordplay)

Person carrying home piece of beef

Type of steak

Producing pictures of people

You may sit for it

Gilbert Stuart specialty

English word

Feasible

Realistic

ADAPTIVE able to be adapted