2-Letter Words Starting with P

""PODZOL an infertile soil, also PODSOL""

POETIC pertaining to {poetry=n}

Keen emotion

English word

Decorousness shown by two girls, say

Epistle so badly writen reveals courtesy

Emily Post's specialty

What bees do

Fertilize, in a way

Be work for the busy bee

POLLUTE to make unclean or impure

Chop in for this for a pole (wordplay)

Chopin piece of sole piano variation

Leo, 15, played dance piece

AMIDE a type of chemical compound

AMINE a type of chemical compound

""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.""

""A character or vocal sign representing more than one sound, as read, which is pronounced r\'c7d or r\'cbd. read, which is pronounced r\'c7d or r\'cbd.""

Packaging material - telephony (anagram)

Plastic switch needed for telephony

A lightweight thermoplastic

Part 4 of remark

Place for the down-and-out, once

Home for the indigent

Pressure or hound a shark

Voracious shark splintered bargepole

Shark traps Rex Black in river with bird

A real sharpie (wordplay)

Featured creature (five letters)

Rodent in yellow vessel hidden in wood

Portable.

Work of the carriers on safari

Drink time - get the carriage

Carrying charge.

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

Monarch or dictator

Ruler had meal behind shelter by river

Head accepts old, big top chief

Gratuity, to Gregoire

Tip at a boite

15 per cent of the check

Couple steps out with energy to perform dance figure

BATTLE to {fight=v}

Word with prefix pre-

(Overhang of) steep cliff

Overhanging cliff or rock face

High vertical cliff

CREASE to make a wrinkle in

To define beforehand.

Part of a sentence.

Imply or connote

Part of the sentence given to a subject

Foreshadow publicity for Eastern number

Consider beforehand

Foreshadow

""To freeze beforehand, pa t PREFROZE, pa p PREFROZEN""

""Capable of being entered, taken, or captured; expugnable; as, a pregnable fort. as, a pregnable fort.""

Disadvantage recorded with pride

Influence (someone's) opinion in advance

Jane Austen wrote 'Pride and . . . .'

Group of clergymen

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

Before the normal time

Born too soon

Born before full term

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}

In grammar, the past tense

Tripe eater dropping a faulty 3

Expressing past time.

VIABLE capable of living

I merit VIP treatment! Simple!

Early - simple - crude

Early in development

Designating a type of close-fitting beltless dress

As a rule it has the main sound

Rule the head of the school declared

Fundamental truth - moral rule

Fit to be published

In good taste

O.K. for publication.

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

Causing privation; depriving.

Sell state businesses

Better than equal rights.

It's an honor

Right gear boxing low in exercise

With a take-charge attitude

On the offensive

Looking ahead

Exploratory

Criminal or civil study, in law

Established way of working

Reproduce new way to get things done

Form a group, you might say

Do it, Biblical-style

Produce young ape 20 trained

""Any one of a class of proteins that are converted, in the normal course of cellular metabolism, into one or more active enzymes; also called zymogen. The conversion usually is due to a specific cleavage of a peptide bond by another enzyme, or may be due to acid.zymogen. The conversion usually is due to a specific cleavage of a peptide bond by another enzyme, or may be due to acid.""

Schedule for unit

Radio or television show

Favouring lightweight in list of bouts

""Any of a class of simple proteins soluble in alcohol and usually having a high proline and glutamine content, found in the grains of cereal crops such as wheat, rye, barley, corn, and rice.""

To deliver a Prologue.

Seaside walk (wordplay)

Nice walk (wordplay)

Square-dance figure

Tending to advance

Part of speech given to church, say

They say Anglicans are articulate

Make the sound of (a word)

Grow (plants) or spread (ideas)

Spread, as ideas

Right entrance, we hear, for produce

""Any of various usually vegetative portions of a plant, such as a bud or other offshoot, that aid in dispersal of the species and from which a new individual may develop.""

Alkene used for fuel or plastic production

To prorogue.

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

Soluble protein.

PROTON a subatomic particle

Patent office submission, maybe

Original model - top poetry (anagram)

Experimental working model

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

Like a certain wolf (Utah)

Cheese for a hero (wordplay)

Deli sandwich filler

Nearby bishop accepts bull

First-class county perhaps against China next

Very near

Lewdness - epic rerun (anagram)

Unhealthy interest in sexual matters

Morbid interest in sex etc

English word

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

PUBLIC people as a whole

Power of car, not new, in red

Rough seas in cup competition with jumps

Power: Poetic.

Send forth sprouts

Multiply like this and it may drag you till you are dead

Swarm

Having breathing organs that act as lungs.

""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

Grind into dust

Demolish

Insert full stops, commas, etc in (text)

Pointedly edit written work (wordplay)

Add marks to text

State of student turning up sack

Being at school and turning up to plunder

Adjective meaning resembling

Musical combo disheartened over producing a washout (wordplay)

If you're bound to be in purgatory, this should give you a moving experience

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

Bodily Functions

Adjective meaning resembling

Capable of being appeased

Beast's burden, sometimes

Beast of burden's burden

Holder of loads for horses or donkeys

English word

To palatize.

Native of old German Empire

German region.

Historical region spread, preserving a language

Tuna roll or a nut, perhaps (wordplay)

E.g. mum, dad

Friend on the airstrip, madam (wordplay)

Pain-relieving - a vital pile (anagram)

Providing relief, but not a cure

Aimed at relief of suffering

PANICULATE

An alkaloid found in opium. It has a weaker therapeutic action than morphine.

Drum roll, as soldier meets con

Syncopated drumbeats

Basic drumming sequence - dip a ladder (anagram)

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

Capable of being forgiven

Cat on island about to be excused

Minor enough to excuse

Non-finite form of a verb

Form of a verb used as a modifier

Adjectival form of verb

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

Dish and item of furniture that may be put on list of inventions

Susceptible to certain intellectual property protection

Are its pies cooked well (wordplay)

Are its pies fresh (wordplay)

Are its pies 'fantastique' (wordplay)

Aristocracy

Aristocracy.

Lousy, literally

A disparaging word, such as poetaster.

Politically incorrect, in a way

Expressing contempt or disapproval

The portion of a vault by means of which the square space in the middle of a building is brought to an octagon or circle to receive a cupola.

Understandable in a way

Accessible.

Clear goal apart from, on review, being bitten by footballer

""The frequency, under given environmental conditions, with which a specific phenotype is expressed by those individuals with a specific genotype.""

Spice-yielding evergreen of Peru [1]

*Ornamental evergreen

Ornamental evergreen

Proportion stated in hundredth parts

Proportion in each 100

Agent's take, typically

99th, for example

Any of the 99 numbered points that divide a set into 100 equal parts

Observant look about Catholic woman virtually in retreat

Operated by striking

Of significant impact

Eternal, lasting

""Tending or conducing to make perfect, or to bring to perfection; usually followed by of. of.""

Having the basal part produced around the stem; said of leaves which the stem apparently passes directory through.

Rock containing olivine

Destroy a rebel ship - it could go off!

Herbal pies (anagram)

(Of food) likely to rot

Tiny seafood item - purplish-blue shade

Plant with five-petalled flowers

*Edible sea snail

Quality we seek in peace.

Stickiness, perhaps

Indefinite existence

PERMEATE to spread through

Noun (-age)

Liberal by letter (wordplay)

A girl I have that's free with favours

Not doing much disciplining

Changeable

""(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.""

How much a cat, say, is to do

Commit (a bad action)

Deviant tart, peeper commit crime

Cause to continue indefinitely

Preserve from extinction.

Cause to be remembered

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

What a non sequitur lacks

Relevance

Aptness

Tending to pervert.

Plague - lent pieces (anagram)

Deadly epidemic disease

Fatal epidemic disease

""A white crystalline compound, C 18 H 22 N 2 O 2 , used in the form of its hydrochloride as a local anesthetic in ophthalmology.""

Goliath, for example

Opponent of progress.

Person indifferent or hostile to culture

A philosophaster; a philosopher.

""A kind of mica having generally a peculiar bronzered or copperlike color and a pearly luster. It is a silicate of aluminia, with magnesia, potash, and some fluorine. It is characteristic of crystalline limestone or dolomite and serpentine. See Mica. Mica.""

Sensor in a CD player

English word

A form of endoscope using an electric light.

Harpsichord's kin

A grand may be a profit one makes

For this Chopin wrote two volumes

Rascally nurses in a state of vexation

Like tales of rogues

Like Don Quixote

Avian compartment (wordplay)

Lay aside indefinitely.

Shelve, as legislation.

PILFER to {steal=v}

One more tragedy, say, from Shakespeare

Trip from drug - mostly horrid time

Religious traveller's journey

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

*Tricked-out car

Spot, carrying gangsters, one flashy vehicle

Adjective meaning resembling

""A colorless crystalline compound, C 4 H 10 N 2 , used as a hardener for epoxy resins, an antihistamine, and an anthelmintic.""

""An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine. C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine.""

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

Make an unauthorized copy (wordplay)

Appropriate words

Take a page from someone's book (wordplay)

Writing device used in seances

Seance prop

Mysteriously cheap model lent to mysterious board

Adjective meaning resembling

All around the world

All over the world

""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.

English word

POCKET to place in a pouch sewed into a garment

Engage in controversy

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

Turn red or blue, say (wordplay)

Make an issue of

""Any of various annelid worms of the class Polychaeta, including mostly marine worms such as the lugworm, and characterized by fleshy paired appendages tipped with bristles on each body segment.""

Multicolored

To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.

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

""To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde. polymerize aldehyde.""

Having appreciable significance

Having weight

POPULAR something pleasing

Promote in a way

Unwilling to share

Case in grammar.

Desiring to retain what one owns

POSTDEBATE

English word

English word