2-Letter Words Starting with P

Bad humor (wordplay)

Wit's end (wordplay)

'The Santa Clause,' for one

""A chemical compound, also PURINE""

Don, as apparel (2 words)

Don down? On the contrary!

Claim to have a brass magnet, say

A sheet of waterproof material

Igneous rock beneath the earth's surface

Underground mass of igneous rock

Mass of crystallized magma

Cork's place, maybe

Toy firing a cork, say

Music piece by Cork shooter (wordplay)

Little smoke maybe at home for flier

Seabird (breathin' heavily?)

Bird almost out of breath (wordplay)

A {pumpkin=n}

One stitch in one beam

Sounds as if an oyster has one with a beam

King or emperor, perhaps

King or emperor (wordplay)

1 across? That's for the birds!

A part of a thoracic segment of an insect

""To plump, to make well rounded and full in form""

Rainy.

It could be you!

I for one am part of the speech

I, for one

Another name for bloodroot - it's a pun about coco-nuts

Large suitcase, perhaps

Kind of kitchen or car

Luxury railway carriage

Propulsion

Peter, Peter's diet

Large type of gourd

Large orange fruit of the squash family

Train up (anagram)

Cromwell, for one

Increase Mather, for example

Take the wrong way (wordplay)

Make off with

Nick largely untouched cut of meat

Bulletin board item, perhaps

Item akin to a thumbtack

Bulletin board sticker

""The hard covering of the kernel of certain fruits, also PYRENE""

""A hermit crab, also PAGURID""

Pertaining to all humanity

""A shoulder plate for armour, also PULDRON""

Aquatic vegetation

Following a burn

From a time before man evolved

Before mankind's time

Earlier than the appearance of man

Number of book copies made

Circulation calculation

A union beforehand

In behalf of organized labor

Like a Teamster, presumably

One who'd give you wallop (wordplay)

Man behind bars (wordplay)

British tavern keeper

Drink a very long time - one has several gallons

Might C. ask for boxing, by the sound of it (wordplay)

Change starter in midday meal for quite a few gallons

Punishment

The act of {pupating=v}

A reddish dye

Depress

Shoulder-borne litter for one person

Box carried on poles

Scheme to kidnap adult one of five in litter

The act of perfusing.

Plutonic.

Smog, for example

12 across would have none of it

The 9 across of 25 down

A prelude or introduction.

RETURN to go back

Like Edward Teller (wordplay)

Riot for integration

Riot for union

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

How a lion puts a throb like this

Regular throbbing

A throbbing

""The act of purging; the act of clearing, cleansing, or putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels.""

""An antibiotic, C 22 H 29 N 7 O 5 , obtained from the soil bacterium Streptomyces alboniger, that is used experimentally as an inhibitor of protein synthesis.""

Common inside crime.

Conjecture becomes embezzlement

Anagram for unpoetical

Striking group of musicians (wordplay)

Instruments played by striking

Striking supersonic travelling

School of thought

Conviction of Janeites

With which 1 convinced

Bowler's margin of comfort (wordplay)

Etui's cousin (wordplay)

Backup digits for the ATM (wordplay)

Modern type of "explosion."

No pilau pot dish for all the people

We, the people

""Pl -trymen , -terers 1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) Also called chicken farmer a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat""

POULTRY farmyard fowls collectively

Safeguard cast on a picture

Run a poetic struggle for The Backstop (wordplay)

Sensible step

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

Stage play, for one

Making exotic crouton dip

... making boozy crouton dip

""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)

Early ancestor (wordplay)

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

PUNCTATE covered with dots

Birth

Possible ordering (of a number of items)

From importunate version of variation

Change of order

Oppression involves putting tube into each part

Ill-treatment on for example religious grounds

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

LUNCHEON a midday meal

The act of fortifying or guarding against objections.

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)

The act of procuring; procurement.

Legal proceedings against a person

Accusation of guilt in court

Action in open court is disturbed

""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.

Perhaps how vets are paid out in a settlement shows endurance

Disquiet

One who lived after the flood.

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

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

The 'oldest profession'

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

Removal of contaminants

Process of cleansing

Ritual cleansing

Process of rotting

Action of walking around

Process of walking

Walking tour, with pain and blame bandied about

PICTURIZE To picture.

The act of pluralizing.

COMBUSTION The state of burning.

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

Something totally dominating the mind

Concentration before calling

Absorption, engrossment

""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.""

The way to say 'delivery'

Delivery panic to ruin mobile working

Way a word is sounded

""Pl. psychosurgeries Brain surgery used to treat severe, intractable mental or behavioral disorders.""

The action of reducing to dust or powder.

""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.""

Noun (-tion)

Photoreducte

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

Noun (-tion)

""POSTGRADUATE Of, pertaining to, or designating, the studies pursued after graduation, esp., after receiving the bachelor's degree at a college; graduate.""

Work done on film after recording has finished

DEVALUATION

""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

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

English word

Photoproduct

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

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

Occurring after or as a consequence of blood transfusion.

PRUSSIANIZE

English word