2-Letter Words Starting with P

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 .""

PROMOTE to help forward

Make known officially.

Broadcast of pet glamour model

Announce Portugal's heaving with 'em

A salt of propionic acid.

Appease, as a god

Marketing drug, maintaining it will induce goodwill

Pacify.

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.""

English word

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

Adjective meaning resembling

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

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

""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.""

PARAMETRIZE

Take part (in activity)

Be involved (in)

Be involved

President - coherent in speech or bitty (wordplay)

Having a pedicel; supported by a pedicel.

PEDUNCULATE

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

""Having the form of a pencil; furnished with a pencil of fine hairs; ending in a tuft of hairs like a camel'shair brush, as the stigmas of some grasses.""

""(Medicine / Pharmacology) a drug used to treat protozoal infections, esp pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis carinii in patients with AIDS""

Competitor in five-sport event

One practicing both running and swimming, maybe

Versatile sportsman leapt the net amazingly

""A synthetic narcotic drug, C 19 H 27 NO, used as an analgesic, often in place of morphine.""

A yellowish-brown nickel iron sulfide that is the principal ore of nickel.

Like the letter Y

Next-to-last

Nearly last, team let up in scrummaging

It has 'amble' and 'ramble' inside

It has "amble" and "ramble" within

It has "amble" and "ramble" inside

Heartless Blue Peter clip playing on YouTube perhaps

Tangible

Rod deceased, having swallowed yellow chemical

Sit down with expression of surprise having consumed salt

Before smile, spread out and wander

Wander around

Voyage here and there as green pirate at sea

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

""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

PERSONATE To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

Frame of mind

View; technique for drawing 3-D objects

Point of view

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

""PHAGOCYTE A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.""

English word

Adjective meaning resembling

""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.

PHOTOIONIZE

English word

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

""Any of various fungi that resemble algae, including certain molds and mildews.""

""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

Major ore of uranium

Brown or black mineral containing radium

Ore of uranium

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.""

Tool for Penrod

Camper's handy tool

Handy gadget for campers

Indifferent, Italian-style

Final word of 2003: "an indifferent person"

Final word of 2003: 'an indifferent person'

""PEPTIDE a combination of amino acids, also PEPTID""

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"

Speak pompously in an office in Rome

Express one's opinions pompously

Express opinions pompously

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

English word

POSTPONE to put off to a future time

Feasible

Realistic

ADAPTIVE able to be adapted

Reckless fling (wordplay)

Cause (an event to happen)

Headlong plunge (wordplay)

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

Lacking written records

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.""

Give a porter tips? Right!

Exclusive right/privilege

Right, privilege

How every Santa should look?

How every Santa should look (wordplay)

Ready for show

SENTENCE to declare judicially the punishment

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""

Having the power to beget; generative.

Cream-filled pastry ball

Filled pastry ball

Cream-filled, chocolate-covered pastry

(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.""

Deliberately causing annoyance

Tending to excite expert on case

Designed to cause anger or arousal

A term meaning physical beauty

Physical beauty

Comeliness

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.""

PANTOTHENATE

""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.""

Least expensive music-maker (wordplay)

Small fipple flute

Simple wind instrument

A polypeptide composed of five amino acids.

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.

(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.""

""An adrenergic blocking agent, C 17 H 19 N 3 O, used especially in the diagnosis and treatment of pheochromocytoma.""

(Chemistry) a cathode that undergoes or is used for photoemission

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

One way to reproduce a picture

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

PHOTOLYZE

Composite picture

PHOTOOXIDIZE

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.

""POLITICAL Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration.""

""ETHYLENE a flammable gas, also ETHENE""

Your elephant (anag-) synthetic resin

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.""

""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.

""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!

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.""

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.

""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.""

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

Affecting the mind or mental processes. Used of a drug.

""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.""

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

""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.""

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

Drug used as a strong tranquilliser and in the treatment of schizophrenia

""PHOSPHORYL The radical PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds. PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds.""

Adjective (-ive)

Biology Repelled by light; exhibiting a negative phototactic or phototropic response.

Biology Drawn to light; exhibiting a positive phototactic or phototropic response.

PHOTOSYNTHATE

""An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean (the seed of Physostigma venenosum), and extracted as a white, tasteless, substance, amorphous or crystalline; formerly called eserine, with which it was regarded as identical. Physostigma venenosum), and extracted as a white, tasteless, substance, amorphous or crystalline; formerly called eserine, with which it was regarded as identical.""

English word

To utter platitudes or truisms.

One of the Pneumonophora.