2-Letter Words Starting with P

""A fellow countryman, also PAESANO""

Fellow townsman: Italian.

Prize-winning Italian film.

Fellow countryperson!

Weems, for one

Minister of religion

Standard issue for a minister

Pease

Chewing-gum additive.

Enzyme used by cheesemakers

Enzyme produced in the stomach

(11) VIP, for one

V.I.P. section (wordplay)

Robot shape, maybe

Jerry Stackhouse, for one

Grant Hill, for one

Found in cylinder and brake caliper

Arsenic, for one

Damaging stuff - drink (wordplay)

One idea for one across

""An Afghan sheepskin coat, also POSTEEN, POSHTEEN""

Attica, for one

Newgate, for one

Sentence structure (wordplay)

Medicinal drink; pintas (anagram)

Medicinal drink made from barley

Barley water

Feeling strong (wordplay)

One gets the feeling there's a lot of it

That's strong, by the feel of it

'The knee of an horse' (Johnson)

Daddy's bird on the hoof (7).

Daddy's bird is on the hoof

Retiree's income, maybe

Reward when the job is done (wordplay)

Plan for retirement (wordplay)

Dr. Moreau's football (wordplay)

Boars, hogs, etc. (wordplay)

Type of leather

Blood enzyme

A determinant of inheritance in cells

Articulation of a speech sound, k, p or t.

""An upland swamp, also POCOSEN, POCOSON""

""An Afghan sheepskin coat, also POSHTEEN, POSTIN""

Advertisement on new gate

Rear door or gate.

Notice small number on the back door

No stamp irritated this worker!

One pushing the envelope (wordplay)

U.S. male (wordplay)

Ones who are lettered (wordplay)

G. P. O. carriers

Important civil service employes.

A group of micro-organisms living in waterlogged sands

Propulsion

Bulletin board item, perhaps

Item akin to a thumbtack

Bulletin board sticker

In Sparta (anagram)

Arts pain (anagram)

Prejudiced to one side

Plant substance

A poisonous gas

Turtle's bottom shell.

Torso-protecting armor

Doctor patrols with new pad to protect chest

Aquatic vegetation

It for one has a place in a broken spoon

Is it one place in the spoon (wordplay)

With it I have a place in 16 across

Sub-atomic particle

Particle one found in smashing protons

Antiparticle of the electron

Following a burn

Occurring after one's teenage years [adj] / a young adult

Preshow

Certain newspaper employee

Urge fellow to become reporter

Correspondent put squeeze on husband

Galley slaves (wordplay)

Workers in paper hats

Urge fellows to become journalists

Number of book copies made

Circulation calculation

A hallucination

Mushroom drug

Substance used in treating acne

Depress

Paper used to line a book's inside cover

Affix securely

Step on men, strangely, to get to the flower

The act of perfusing.

Small orange fruit

Ebony family fruit

Fruit of the ebony family

""The act of pervading, passing, or spreading through the whole extent of a thing.""

A gradual reduction.

Licensed medical practitioner

Patience (wordplay)

Lifeguard (wordplay)

An old Spanish silver coin of the value of about twenty cents.

Flat dweller (wordplay)

Jimmy Carter, say, as a fellow on the level

Western ranger

Nickname of Auburn's eleven

Conestoga wagon users.

Blackfoot or Arapaho tribes, for example

""One, such as a horticulturist, who collects or grows plants.""

PLANTS plant

Guide who rides a coach horse.

Rider of near-side coach horse

After one beast goes rider when there is no coachman

Designate in advance

Hand out in advance

""One who limits, or restrains.""

Digest is charged with accuracy

Summary I get on accuracy

Exactness on price is variable

A prelude or introduction.

SCREEN to provide with a concealing partition

Add salt before the game (wordplay)

Training time for ballplayers

Like some exhibition games

Glimpse of the future

Foresight shown in quiet homework

Power to see future change under leader of party

Like Edward Teller (wordplay)

Riot for integration

Riot for union

Birth control hormone

Hormone treatment for top singer

Stop finger becoming malformed with absence of female hormone

""A trial before the principal performance; a prelude; hence, an introductory essay or exercise.""

""Of or belonging to the Prosimii, a suborder of primates that includes the lemurs, lorises, and tarsiers.""

""Any of a group of eukaryotic organisms belonging to the kingdom Protista according to some widely used modern taxonomic systems. The protists include a variety of unicellular, coenocytic, colonial, and multicellular organisms, such as the protozoans, slime molds, brown algae, and red algae.""

Big leaguer's dream (wordplay)

Yes to eye exams!

NFLer's dream (wordplay)

How a lion puts a throb like this

Regular throbbing

A throbbing

Train speed pathetically slow (wordplay)

One on foot (Wordsworth)

Dull figure in subway (wordplay)

Shut up and check on this bloomer!

The antecedent of the ferment pepsin. A substance contained in the form of granules in the peptic cells of the gastric glands. It is readily convertible into pepsin. Also called propepsin. propepsin.

Striking group of musicians (wordplay)

Instruments played by striking

Striking supersonic travelling

Wrong "impression" (wordplay)

How astronauts are paid (wordplay)

Wrong 'impression' (wordplay)

School of thought

Conviction of Janeites

With which 1 convinced

Kinkiness for every type

Aberrant behavior in each account

For every translation contains something irregular

Substance once believed to be released in combustion

Mechanical ram restricts hot billet of proposed element

Bowler's margin of comfort (wordplay)

Etui's cousin (wordplay)

Backup digits for the ATM (wordplay)

In this behaving, perhaps

Devilish control (wordplay)

Exorcist's concern

Rider of leading horse drawing carriage

Rider on a carriage horse.

One riding coach horse

In a late 20th-century style

Like some criticism

Of late twentieth century arts style

English word

So one's past playing - now (wordplay)

When sports awards are given, usually

Elway was there in '97 and '98

Regular change in direction of an axis

""The act of precluding, or the state of being precluded; a shutting out.""

""The act of taking hold, seizing, or grasping, as with the hand or other member.""

MOISTEN to make {moist=adj}

SWEETEN to make {sweet=adj}

A claim or aspiration (to something)

Show anxiety before changing places

Claim tin-openers had been damaged

It's just one thing after the other!

March parade (wordplay)

March in support of home rule

Job announcement (wordplay)

Occupation; declaration (of belief)

Religious belief in vocation

""A single-chain polypeptide that is the precursor of insulin, converted into insulin by enzymatic action.""

Force of a rocket.

Forward drive of the jet.

Push blend of US pop and Lion King (short version)

""The act of protruding or thrusting forward, or beyond the usual limit.""

Active hallucinogen in funny mushrooms

Drug cultivated in cow poop

Hallucinogenic drug, obtained from the Mexican mushroom

PASSIVATE PASSIVE a verb form

Oppression involves putting tube into each part

Ill-treatment on for example religious grounds

Act of mimicry

Candid in flyer (wordplay)

Easy to understand

Blunt and candid

PLASMIN an {enzyme=n}

Noun (-sion)

""The act of postulating, or that which is postulated; assumption; solicitation; suit; cause.""

FRESHMAN a first-year student

Word with prefix pre-

INVASION the act of {invading=v}

Word like after or for (grammar)

'Before' or 'after', say

One could be across or down

SHRUNKEN shrink

Possibly uppermost in arrogance

Strong probability.

Supposition - impertinence

Enforcing conformity to a standard

(adj.) having a predilection for French bread

Enforcing conformity regardless of individuality; scent uproar (anagram)

Steroid hormone used in oral contraceptives

Forward motion seeing prisoners go free

Advance of prisoners go amok

Poser so moved with Ring Cycle

Golfer's lie (wordplay)

Solicit a plan

Professional job in theory

Legal proceedings against a person

Accusation of guilt in court

Action in open court is disturbed

""The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat; as, the prostration of the body. as, the prostration of the body.""

The act of producing pustules; the state of being pustulated.

""Any of a group of nervous disorders similar to Parkinson's disease, marked by muscular rigidity, tremor, and impaired motor control and often having a specific cause, such as the use of certain drugs or frequent exposure to toxic chemicals. Also called Parkinson's syndrome .""

Exotic Persia trip? No sweat

Broken tip? Repair's no sweat

Exercise and sport in air, running around causing this (wordplay)

English word

""A figure by which the conjunction is often repeated, as in the sentence, "We have ships and men and money and stores." Opposed to asyndeton. asyndeton.""

""A purple pigment similar to rhodopsin, found in the rods of the retinas of freshwater fishes and certain frogs.""

Noun (-tion)

One who lived after the flood.

""(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) happening or existing after an election""

Washington newspaper editor (wordplay)

Career at a Washington newspaper (wordplay)

""Lit., previous admission;""

Digestion too soon performed; hasty digestion.

HISTORIAN A writer of history; a chronicler; an annalist.

Of or relating to the period before the fall of Adam and Eve.

""RECESSION The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand.""

Denomination that is best in prayer?

Priest nearby prepared member of church

Priest nearby built church

What a doctor may write

Something with which to obtain drugs

Medicine authorised by doctor

Preselect

Nearest point at sea for the launch

Illustrated formal talk

Formal act of giving

Keeping quiet, with some little doubt

Keeping quiet when having doubt

Proboscidian.

Pertaining to the Proboscidea.

""The act of proscribing; a dooming to death or exile; outlawry; specifically, among the ancient Romans, the public offer of a reward for the head of a political enemy; as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription. as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription.""

A prostaglandin produced in the walls of blood vessels that acts as a vasodilator and inhibits platelet aggregation.

The 'oldest profession'

Game Italian's behind French driver, twisting in and out

Toper sloshed, post complaint

Emphatic declaration

Complaint in favour of Victoria perhaps taking note

""PERSEVERATE PERSEVERE To persist in any business or enterprise undertaken; to pursue steadily any project or course begun; to maintain a purpose in spite of counter influences, opposition, or discouragement; not to give or abandon what is undertaken.""

""Emission of photoelectrons, especially from metallic surfaces.""

""PODSOLIZE PODSOL an infertile soil, also PODZOL""

Noun (-tion)

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Noun (-tion)

English word

Noun (-sion)

COMBUSTION The state of burning.

Preoccupation; prior possession.

TELEVISION

The act of passing by or omitting; omission.

""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.""

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.""

PLASTICIZE PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

POLYMERISE POLYMER a complex chemical compound

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

""Of or pertaining to predestination; as, the predestinarian controversy. as, the predestinarian controversy.""

Fixed fate

Doctrine that God has ordained future events

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

Inclination (to behave in certain ways)

Prior inclination (towards something)

A tendency (to do something)

PRESSURIZE PRESSURE to apply force to

Before job accepting drink - that's an assumption!

It's assumed before, for example, consuming drink

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

History

English word

PERSONALIZE To make personal.

How gracious, how benign, is Solitude.

"How gracious, how benign, is Solitude."

Bringing to life

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.""

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)

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