2-Letter Words Starting with P

Possibly uppermost in arrogance

Strong probability.

Supposition - impertinence

In favour of the medical provision of abortion

Masterwork (wordplay)

Enforcing conformity to a standard

(adj.) having a predilection for French bread

Enforcing conformity regardless of individuality; scent uproar (anagram)

The act of procuring; procurement.

'Bum', 'fart', 'poo' in an act of irreverence

Steroid hormone used in oral contraceptives

Ban (eg on alcohol)

Anti-Saloon League goal

The 18th Amendment, briefly

Ordinary worker (Marxism)

Relating to the workers

Frisky pair, later on common

Spread of ideas, for example

Spread of ideas, e.g

Breeding; transmission

Golfer's lie (wordplay)

Solicit a plan

Professional job in theory

The act of counting in duration; prolongation.

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.""

A plasma protein that is converted into thrombin during blood clotting.

PROTONATE PROTON a subatomic particle

Favouring attempt to cut short hostilities going on and on

Cause of expert calling

Apt title for this puzzle

Spin doctor calling for incitement

""The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts. as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts.""

""A germinating, or budding.""

English class topic

Marks in writing

One concern of a proofreader

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

""The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation.""

British warehouse or van

Removal van

Furniture van

""The act or process of paralyzing, or the state of being paralyzed.""

A physician who specializes in pediatrics.

The act of punishing.

Commission for distribution of dog food

Perhaps how vets are paid out in a settlement shows endurance

Exotic Persia trip? No sweat

Broken tip? Repair's no sweat

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

Disquiet

""The process of petrifying, or changing into stone; conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a substance of stony hardness.""

Mate pointing out blemish (wordplay)

Natural colouring

Sow farmers get on at it in end for colour tissue

""The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals. as, the placentation of mammals.""

English word

""The act of polarizing; the state of being polarized, or of having polarity.""

""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.""

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)

Physiological effect in nerve impulses; in-patient, too (anagram)

Relative of ESP

Foreknowledge

Requirement

Prerequisite

Digestion too soon performed; hasty digestion.

Preference (for something)

Special liking or preference

Penchant of the French in anticipation

An old theory of the pre\'89xistence of germs. Cf. Embo&icir;tement. Embo&icir;tement.

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

INDUCTION The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement.

MIGRATION The act of migrating.

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

Announcement from the Roman Capitol

Signal event of Jan. 1, 1863.

Official public declaration

Process of lengthening

Extension in duration

""The act of promulgating; publication; open declaration; as, the promulgation of the gospel. as, the promulgation of the gospel.""

The act of appeasing the wrath and conciliating the favor of an offended person; the act of making propitious.

""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

English word

Toper sloshed, post complaint

Emphatic declaration

Complaint in favour of Victoria perhaps taking note

Badly harm optional poem before marriage

Possibly no marital hop would be complete without it (wordplay)

Possibly no marital hop would be complete without it

Removal of contaminants

Process of cleansing

Ritual cleansing

Process of rotting

Junior doctor (wordplay)

Child's doctor

Specialist in treating children

PALLETIZE PALLET a bed or mattress or straw

Profit sharing.

Involvement

The act of patronizing; patronage; support.

""PELLETIZE PELLET to hit with small, rounded masses""

""A polymer found in the cell walls of prokaryotes that consists of polysaccharide and peptide chains in a strong molecular network. Also called mucopeptide , murein .""

Action of walking around

Process of walking

Walking tour, with pain and blame bandied about

Travelling with Pierre in Tonga, maybe

Wandering about in art opening I fancy

Long meandering journey

(Historical Terms) the act or process of dividing history into periods

""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.""

See Petrifaction. Petrifaction.

Subatomic particle - let hencoop rot (anagram)

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

A photochemical reaction.

A red phycobilin occurring especially in the cells of red algae.

An organism that is pathogenic to a plant.

""Minute, free-floating aquatic plants.""

PICTURIZE To picture.

PIDGINIZE PIDGIN a mixed language

The act of pluralizing.

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

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

""PONTIFICATE The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope.""

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

English word

Noun (-sion)

""ADAPTATION The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness.""

Rain, snow, hail? Hurry!

Undue rushing from rain, perhaps

Hurry in rain, perhaps

COMBUSTION The state of burning.

Opinion formed beforehand

Bias

CONVENTION The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.

""CONVICTION The act of convicting; the act of proving, finding, or adjudging, guilty of an offense.""

The act or state of predominating; ascendency; predominance.

""The act of prefiguring, or the state of being prefigured.""

Prelude to murder, often

Forethought

Almost cure it in paved area with some necessary forethought

The act of prenominating; privilege of being named first.

Something totally dominating the mind

Concentration before calling

Absorption, engrossment

The act of foreordaining: previous determination.

""PRODUCTION The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness. as, the production of commodities, of a witness.""

""REVOLUTION The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc. as, the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc.""

TELEVISION

The act of passing by or omitting; omission.

Evasive speech or deeds

Evasive behaviour

Adjusted pro rata invoice knocking off one zero causes quibbling

PRIVATIZE PRIVATE a soldier of lower rank

Increase (of nuclear weapons)

Increase in numbers opposing euthanasia quotient

Anti-abortion or anti-reproduction is spreading

The way to say 'delivery'

Delivery panic to ruin mobile working

Way a word is sounded

""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.""

The action of reducing to dust or powder.

PALATALIZE To palatize.

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.""

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

""The detection, absorption, and use of light, as for vision in animals or phototropism and photosynthesis in plants.""

Photoreducte

PLASTICIZE PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

POLITICIZE POLITIC {shrewd=adj}

POLYMERISE POLYMER a complex chemical compound

The act or process of changing to a polymeric form; the condition resulting from such change.

""The act of making popular, or of introducing among the people.""

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

PRECIPITIN

""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)

DEVALUATION

Inclination (to behave in certain ways)

Prior inclination (towards something)

A tendency (to do something)

""FABRICATION The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government. as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government.""

""The act or state of preponderating; preponderance; as, a preponderation of reasons. as, a preponderation of reasons.""

""PUBLICATION The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts. as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts.""

PRESSURIZE PRESSURE to apply force to

Before job accepting drink - that's an assumption!

It's assumed before, for example, consuming drink

""TERMINATION The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities. as, a voluntary termination of hostilities.""

""-fies , -fying , -fied (tr) to make pretty, esp in a trivial fashion; embellish prettification   n""

""UNIFICATION The act of unifying, or the state of being unified.""

PRIORITIZE

The unconscious perception of movement and spatial orientation arising from stimuli within the body itself.

History

""A metal-free porphyrin, C 32 H 32 N 4 (COOH) 2 , that combines with ferrous iron to form the heme group in hemoglobin and myoglobin, and with ferric iron to form the hemin group in catalase and some cytochromes.""

PARAMETRIZE

Ruler like Robert (wordplay)

Roundhead, in British history

Sam Rayburn, for example

PERSONALIZE To make personal.

How gracious, how benign, is Solitude.

"How gracious, how benign, is Solitude."

Bringing to life

Lab acidity indicator

C20H14O4 (and a key substance in this puzzle's theme)

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.""

Noun (-tion)

PHOTOIONIZE

Photoproduct

One with a limited wardrobe (wordplay)

Police-squad member

Member of the force.

Investigators of a kind.

Undercover detectives

Detectives

Lover of the 1 put initial A and R in the wrong place

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)

""CANCELLATION The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself. as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.""

IMPLANTATION The act or process of implantating.

Educational foundation (wordplay)

""MODIFICATION The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light. as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light.""

""NOTIFICATION The act of notifying, or giving notice; the act of making known; especially, the act of giving official notice or information to the public or to individuals, corporations, companies, or societies, by words, by writing, or by other means.""

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

Pl. psychohistories A psychological or psychoanalytic interpretation or study of historical events or persons: the psychohistory of the Nazi era.

Psychology

The deciding of something in advance

Entertaining conjuring tricks

His feat