2-Letter Words Starting with P

""A luminous impression produced through excitation of the retina by some cause other than the impingement upon it of rays of light, as by pressure upon the eyeball when the lids are closed. Cf. Afterimage. Afterimage.""

A binary compound of phosphorus.

""A colorless gas, PH3, analogous to ammonia, and having a disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic. Called also hydrogen phosphide, and formerly, phosphureted hydrogen. PH3, analogous to ammonia, and having a disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic. Called also hydrogen phosphide, and formerly, phosphureted hydrogen.""

A salt of phosphorous acid.

Morning star

Type of mathematical function

Clothes line (wordplay)

Line of suits (wordplay)

Fabric - insert pip (anagram)

""A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite. Catlinite.""

Not too much of a stretch

Seemingly worthy of acceptance

False but sounding true

Where to indulge in bingo (wordplay)

Child's toy.

Backyard structure for kids

Sane place (anagram)

Nice bit of a garden

Garden in an estate

Sword in peacetime.

Cutting blade of a kind.

Biblical exchange for sword

Decorousness shown by two girls, say

Epistle so badly writen reveals courtesy

Emily Post's specialty

Chop in for this for a pole (wordplay)

Chopin piece of sole piano variation

Leo, 15, played dance piece

""Having or producing two or more phases; multiphase; as, a polyphase machine, a machine producing two or more pressure waves of electro-motive force, differing in phase; a polyphase current.as, a polyphase machine, a machine producing two or more pressure waves of electro-motive force, differing in phase; a polyphase current.""

Part 4 of remark

Place for the down-and-out, once

Home for the indigent

Postcava

He stops at break promptly!

He stops at break very speedily!

Quick to pass the buck (wordplay)

Assume as axiom

Let sap out in order to claim something

Lay down rough pale stout

Couple steps out with energy to perform dance figure

Word with prefix pre-

CREASE to make a wrinkle in

Of the nature of a prelude; introductory; indicating that something of a like kind is to follow.

One who has presbyopia; a farsighted person.

Advise use of (medicine)

What the 6 down may do before the writer

Recommended a course in physics

Receiver now at ease, they say

Recipient at a fete

Oscar winner, for example

STRIKE to {hit=v}

Designating a type of close-fitting beltless dress

Dispossess the people of power? Current duty is to enter revolt

Ban writer earning money (wordplay)

Like Joseph Pulitzer (wordplay)

Does he write for a living? Outlaw him!

Work in court, perhaps

Subject to trial.

Bring criminal action against

Convert badly-made polyester

Convert polyester shifts

Make converts.

Driver brought before judge is lying

Face down platforms in private

Prone to lying

""A sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful cochinealred color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive; ruby silver.""

Plug I use with clip, desperate to cover opening in bath

Power of car, not new, in red

Rough seas in cup competition with jumps

Power: Poetic.

""Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument. as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument.""

Reduce to dust (S, not Z)

Grind to powder

Thoroughly beat repulsive cavalier

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

Beast's burden, sometimes

Beast of burden's burden

Holder of loads for horses or donkeys

English word

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

Public mockery

Lampoon

Lampoon.

Hot as Jerusalem, head bandages!

Fiery spirit is swallowed

Eager to hand one over with a note

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)

Operated by striking

Of significant impact

Destroy a rebel ship - it could go off!

Herbal pies (anagram)

(Of food) likely to rot

Liberal by letter (wordplay)

A girl I have that's free with favours

Not doing much disciplining

""(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.""

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

Tending to pervert.

Plague - lent pieces (anagram)

Deadly epidemic disease

Fatal epidemic disease

Goliath, for example

Opponent of progress.

Person indifferent or hostile to culture

A philosophaster; a philosopher.

English word

Rascally nurses in a state of vexation

Like tales of rogues

Like Don Quixote

Divorce lawyer's suit (wordplay)

Divorce lawyer's suit?

Holding down its job

Navigator's place

Very good having miss to entertain you in ship's compartment

Unwilling to intervene in very good English ship's structure

Having a pistil or pistils; usually said of flowers having pistils but no stamens.

Cheat by copying; agile pairs (anagram)

Copy for piano: after lapse of time I get up

Appropriate force restraining prisoner, immediately aggro starts

""A self-replicating hereditary structure thought to exist in cytoplasm and function in a manner analogous to, but independent of, chromosomal genes.""

English word

English word

Material for play school artists

Modelling clay

Would it take its place in modelling (wordplay)

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

Vote to lead the French into new cities

Commoner is to call for vote

Important vote.

Take part in discussion of government with police? Is it in order (wordplay)

LYSINE an amino acid

""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

POPULAR something pleasing

Unwilling to share

Case in grammar.

Desiring to retain what one owns

POSTDEBATE

English word

English word

Might contain live wire (wordplay)

Place for Tyrone (wordplay)

Slam hand: Colloq.

Eliminating beforehand

Go before (wordplay)

Pass away before this and stop at last

Die before

Fate of perhaps 3 estimated in hunger

Foreordain

Foreordain

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.""

Able to grasp - her in sleep (anagram)

Adjective for a kinkajou's tail.

Adapted for grasping

MEASURE to compare with a standard

A critic might listen to one

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

PROFIT to gain an advantage or benefit

""Tending, or having power, to propel; driving on; urging.""

Somebody who gets screwed at work (wordplay)

""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.""

English word

""Relating to, resembling, or characteristic of parrots.""

Teenage years

Likely to incur fines, say

Time-honored, in a way (wordplay)

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

English word

""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""

""Entitled to receive a pension; as, a pensionable employee.as, a pensionable employee.""

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.

English word

""Any of numerous enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of esters of phosphoric acid and are important in the absorption and metabolism of carbohydrates, nucleotides, and phospholipids and in the calcification of bone.""

See phospholipid .

PHOSPHATE A salt of phosphoric acid.

(min.) A massive variety of apatite.

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

Strikingly beautiful (view)

Imagines Spanish that becomes attractive

Paintings that in Paris are pretty

A general term used of any triclinic feldspar. See the Note under Feldspar. Feldspar.

""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.""

Resembling silver plate; said of certain architectural ornaments.

A blur, a sleep, awfully nice

Such as gives enjoyment

Delightful

""An instrument consisting essentially of a polarizer and an analyzer, used for polarizing light, and analyzing its properties.""

SORBATE a sorbed substance

Light synthetic resin

Synthetic resin used in packing

Moulded synthetic material

""SULFIDE a sulfur compound, also SULFID, SULPHID, SULPHIDE""

Meaty brewery (wordplay)

Person carrying home piece of beef

Type of steak

English word

English word

POSTPONE to put off to a future time

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

PURCHASE to {buy=v}

""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

PROCESS to treat or prepare by a special method

Adjective (-ible)

Insurance seller (Cleveland Indians)

Teddy Roosevelt's party in 1912

Forward-looking or -moving

""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 thrust outward, as the proboscis of many insects.""

PRUSSIANISE

PRUSSIANIZE

Capable of being published; suitable for publication.

On the market

Decay, rottenness

Decay

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

""A place where foodstuffs are processed and packed; as, they came from an apple packinghouse.as, they came from an apple packinghouse.""

Anything used to destroy parasites.

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

Having a pearly luster or gloss.

Least expensive music-maker (wordplay)

Small fipple flute

Simple wind instrument

A divorce application

It may get you through a divorce

Tenacity, doggedness

Reason about deep and fundamental issues

Speculate superficially

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

""(Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) (tr) to set (type matter) by photocomposition photocomposer   n""

Fish culture. See under Fish. Fish.

DISPERSE to {scatter=v}

RIBOSOME a particle composed of protein and RNA

Word of more than three sounds

Word with several linguistic units

Word, possibly Excel or PowerPoint, for certain applications

Adjective meaning resembling

English word

Adjective (-ive)

POSTEXERCISE

Noun (-ure)

Noun (-ure)

Candidate for a Ph.D., say

Person studying after obtaining a degree

Continuing student

POSTLITERATE

""Placed after another word; as, a postpositive conjunction; a postpositive letter. as, a postpositive conjunction; a postpositive letter.""

Specify in advance

Foreordain.

""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.""

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

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