2-Letter Words Starting with P

To announce beforehand.

Reckless fling (wordplay)

Cause (an event to happen)

Headlong plunge (wordplay)

""To conceive, or form an opinion of, beforehand; to form a previous notion or idea of.""

Adjective in a linguistics class

Hardly full of surprises

Only to be expected

Unlike the distant future

Hold the advantage

Be the strongest element

Exert the strongest power

State of supremity

Position above all others

Superiority.

HEADACHE a pain inside the head

Lacking written records

MARRIAGE the legal union of a man and woman

MAXILLAE maxilla

Peter made it work to plan

Think out in advance

Plot

Forenamed; named beforehand.

Like something that will get you ready

Preliminary

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

PURCHASE to {buy=v}

Give a porter tips? Right!

Exclusive right/privilege

Right, privilege

""SCHEDULE to plan, also SCEDULE""

How every Santa should look?

How every Santa should look (wordplay)

Ready for show

SENTENCE to declare judicially the punishment

Capable of being preserved; admitting of preservation.

Based on probability (but not apparent)

US rep met VIP abroad, as expected

Offer an untruth

Beat about the bush

Speak or act evasively

Avertible (A, not I)

Like some diseases

That could be stopped

""(tr) to keep from happening, esp by taking precautionary action""

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

PRUSSIANISE

PRUSSIANIZE

A term meaning physical beauty

Physical beauty

Comeliness

On the market

Decay, rottenness

Decay

""Capable of putrefaction; liable to become putrid; as, putrescible substances. as, putrescible substances.""

""Ruby silver; dark red silver ore. It is a sulphide of antimony and silver, occurring in rhombohedral crystals or massive, and is of a dark red or black color with a metallic adamantine luster.""

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

""The set of nonphonemic properties of speech, such as speaking tempo, vocal pitch, and intonational contours, that can be used to communicate attitudes or other shades of meaning.""

""PARAMETER A term applied to some characteristic magnitude whose value, invariable as long as one and the same function, curve, surface, etc., is considered, serves to distinguish that function, curve, surface, etc., from others of the same kind or family.""

Anything used to destroy parasites.

English word

To make a parenthesis of; to include within parenthetical marks.

""The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch.""

Having a pearly luster or gloss.

Excitement must follow for each, maybe

Maybe gained through hazardous activity

Maybe, old style.

""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.""

A salt of permanganic acid.

""A crystalline compound, C 21 H 26 ClN 3 OS, used as a tranquilizer especially in the treatment of psychosis and to prevent or alleviate nausea and vomiting.""

A divorce application

It may get you through a divorce

Tenacity, doggedness

(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 ]

""A complex hydrocarbon, C14H10, found in coal tar, and obtained as a white crystalline substance with a bluish fluorescence. C14H10, found in coal tar, and obtained as a white crystalline substance with a bluish fluorescence.""

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

One way to reproduce a picture

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

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

Fish culture. See under Fish. Fish.

DISPERSE to {scatter=v}

RIBOSOME a particle composed of protein and RNA

Your elephant (anag-) synthetic resin

PORCELAIN Purslain.

Adjective meaning resembling

Adjective (-ive)

POSTEXERCISE

Noun (-ure)

Noun (-ure)

Candidate for a Ph.D., say

Person studying after obtaining a degree

Continuing student

POSTLITERATE

""Capable of being precipitated, or cast to the bottom, as a substance in solution. See Precipitate, n. (Chem.) Precipitate, n. (Chem.)""

The quality of being precipitant.

""CLEARANCE The act of clearing; as, to make a through clearance. as, to make a through clearance.""

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

DEPARTURE Division; separation; putting away.

Specify in advance

Foreordain.

'Fix' cat maybe owning ginger and white fur

Decide in advance colour in favourite kind of fur

Peter swallows type of wine that's the pits - he should work it out in advance!

""DISCHARGE To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. as, to discharge a vessel.""

""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

""EMERGENCE The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprisal or appearance.""

In earlier life, former partner one's caught in act

Create a perfect bra with current design

Build in sections and lay a fibre carpet

Manufacture sections to be easily transported

""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

Something that is required in advance

Student's concern.

Something required as a prior condition

""A presbytery; also, presbytership.""

Relating to the imposition of a rule or method

""Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative. as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative.""

Something preventing decay

It delays or prevents deterioration

Additive prolonging food life

""STERILIZE To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.""

STRUCTURE The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

That which prevents; incorrectly used instead of preventive. preventive.

""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

""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.""

Admitting of being pulverized; pulverable.

""Of or pertaining to putrefaction; as, the putrefactive smell or process. as, the putrefactive smell or process.""

""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.""

""PARAPHRASE A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering; opposed to metaphrase. metaphrase.""

Taking part

Particular

""To give as a particular, or as the particulars; to mention particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail.""

Trimming

English word

""An adrenergic drug, C 9 H 13 NO 2 , that is a powerful vasoconstrictor and is used to relieve nasal congestion, dilate the pupils, and maintain blood pressure during anesthesia.""

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.""

One of the Pneumonophora.

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

POSTDOCTORATE

Noun (-ence)

Worker after job following surgery

Relating to period after surgery

Spy who works for a Washington paper (wordplay)

""PRECIPITATE Overhasty; rash; as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war. as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war.""

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

Showing by prefiguration.

""MEDITATIVE Disposed to meditate, or to meditation; as, a meditative man; a meditative mood. as, a meditative man; a meditative mood.""

An excess in number or quantity

The lion's share

Quality of being greater in number

""PUBESCENCE The quality or state of being pubescent, or of having arrived at puberty.""

(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 drug, C 12 H 13 ClN 4 , used principally in the prophylactic treatment of malaria.""

A salt of pyrophosphoric acid.

English word

""An enzyme found in certain plants, bacteria, and fungi that catalyzes the hydrolysis of pectin to pectic acid and methanol. Also called pectase .""

See pentobarbital sodium .

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

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

ACRYLAMIDE

Carbohydrate such as starch or insulin

Carbohydrate found in cold chips a year after cooking

Noun (-ence)

Some youth misbehaving peers concealed

""MANUFACTURE The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency.""

""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.""

""Capable of being proportioned, or made proportional; also, proportional; proportionate.""

""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.""

""An organic compound, C 4 H 10 N 3 O 5 P, found in muscle tissue and capable of storing and providing energy for muscular contraction. Also called creatine phosphate .""

Ignis fatuus, for example

Cold emitted light

Light emitted without burning or heat

PHOSPHORYLATE

Capable of being chemically broken down by light: photodegradable plastic.

""CRYSTALLINE Consisting, or made, of crystal.""

""ELECTROLYTE A compound decomposable, or subjected to decomposition, by an electric current.""

Noun (-ure)

""PROFESSIONAL Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct. as, professional knowledge; professional conduct.""

Expert and lay climber's link keeping pet Number 4 in prophetic style