2-Letter Words Starting with P

Make powerful

Adjective meaning resembling

Might contain live wire (wordplay)

Place for Tyrone (wordplay)

Slam hand: Colloq.

""The offense under English law of appealing to or obeying a foreign court or authority, thus challenging the supremacy of the Crown.""

Bird painter circling round pass

APPROVE to regard favourably

Plan in advance

Determine in advance.

Agree upon something in advance

The order to be observed by protocol

Pecking-order right

Superiority in rank.

""Containing or giving precepts; of the nature of precepts; didactic; as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures. as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures.""

Eliminating beforehand

COLLEGE a school of higher learning

COMPUTE to calculate

Go before (wordplay)

Pass away before this and stop at last

Die before

Fate of perhaps 3 estimated in hunger

Foreordain

Foreordain

It was bound to happen in designing replica bed

Detective rings the German back on line - is that only to be expected (wordplay)

May be confirmed by investigator hiding revolutionary with lead

Like signs

Made to appear naff when using it (wordplay)

and 9: Suggestive input that might make a molecule out of a molehill (wordplay)

Render susceptible

Make susceptible

Incline? Correct prop round south-east side

""A synthetic steroid, C 21 H 26 O 5 , similar to cortisone that is used as an antiallergic and immunosuppressive drug and as an anti-inflammatory agent in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.""

Of a certain bridge bid.

Getting in first, angry peer with aim to get power for old

District in Japan

Office of Paris police chief.

District under a governor

A better choice

More desirable

Better

Liking for one thing over another

Choice (of A rather than B)

Liking for one thing more than another

FINANCE to supply the money for

Able to grasp - her in sleep (anagram)

Adjective for a kinkajou's tail.

Adapted for grasping

MEASURE to compare with a standard

PACKAGE to put into a container or wrapping

A critic might listen to one

To require beforehand.

Antedating physics (wordplay)

Sibyl's forte

Seer's gift

SERVICE to {repair=v}

Attempt to coerce (into doing something)

Coerce journalists to rebel, supporting United

Prepare, as an aircraft cabin

Prepare, as a bottle launcher

STORAGE a place for storing

Such as may be presumed or supposed to be true; that seems entitled to belief without direct evidence.

Take for granted

With supper prepared, sit and consider ...

Assume

New place never achieves popularity

Superiority, of a sort

New place never offers currency

Dental floss, for one

Like a checkup

Type of medicine

Birth

PRIORITIZE

Variant of prokaryote .

One paid, possibly responsive to treatment on offer (wordplay)

""Capable of being produced, brought forward, brought forth, generated, made, or extended.""

Fertile for channel four ending live

Yielding results

Tailed setter carrying gun (model 4E) - it's efficient

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 .""

""PROLOGUE to preface, also PROLOG""

Precipice or peak

Highly visibility or importance

Something that sticks out

PROMOTE to help forward

Make known officially.

Broadcast of pet glamour model

Announce Portugal's heaving with 'em

""Capable of being propagated, or of being continued or multiplied by natural generation or production.""

A salt of propionic acid.

Appease, as a god

Marketing drug, maintaining it will induce goodwill

Pacify.

""Tending, or having power, to propel; driving on; urging.""

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.""

Roots of a new start in part of France

Source of article dividing French region

Source of year abroad in French region

Supply niece that is missing fortune

Roger Williams founded it: 1636

Start of a quip

English word

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

Teenage years

Capable of being reduced to fine powder; pulverizable.

Likely to incur fines, say

Time-honored, in a way (wordplay)

Adjective meaning resembling

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

The act or process of providing or procuring; providence; foresight; preparation; management.

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

English word

""A pyridine derivative, C 18 H 11 NO 3 , occurring especially in cereals, yeast, liver, and fish and serving as a coenzyme in amino acid synthesis. Also called vitamin B 6 .""

""A single-ringed, crystalline organic base, C 4 H 4 N 2 , that forms uracil, cytosine, or thymine and is the parent compound of many drugs, including the barbiturates.""

""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.""

A polymeric modification of aldehyde obtained as a white crystalline substance.

PARAMETRIZE

PARFOCAL having lenses that correspond

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.""

""Entitled to receive a pension; as, a pensionable employee.as, a pensionable employee.""

""(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

Capable of being perceived; perceptible.

Heartless Blue Peter clip playing on YouTube perhaps

Tangible

Rod deceased, having swallowed yellow chemical

Sit down with expression of surprise having consumed salt

Acute insight

Before smile, spread out and wander

Wander around

Voyage here and there as green pirate at sea

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

""Admitting of being performed, done, or executed; practicable.""

Creep on farm (anagram)

(Actor's) rendering of a role

The giving of a play or concert

Allowable

Allowed

""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

Make one's own series on lap dancing

Make specific to an individual

Individually tailor

Monogram, maybe

PERSONATE To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

Frame of mind

View; technique for drawing 3-D objects

Point of view

That may be persuaded.

Capable of being persuaded; persuadable.

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

""A friend of Greece, or of the Greeks; a philhellenist.""

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 flattened, photosynthetic branch or stem that resembles or performs the function of a leaf, as in certain cacti.""

""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

An alkaloid extracted from jaborandi (Pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system. Pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system.

Major ore of uranium

Brown or black mineral containing radium

Ore of uranium

A general term used of any triclinic feldspar. See the Note under Feldspar. Feldspar.

""The representation of the circles of the sphere upon a plane; especially, a representation of the celestial sphere upon a plane with adjustable circles, or other appendages, for showing the position of the heavens, the time of rising and setting of stars, etc., for any given date or hour.""

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.""

A blur, a sleep, awfully nice

Such as gives enjoyment

Delightful

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'

""An instrument consisting essentially of a polarizer and an analyzer, used for polarizing light, and analyzing its properties.""

Susceptible of polarization.

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

SORBATE a sorbed substance

Light synthetic resin

Synthetic resin used in packing

Moulded synthetic material

""SULFIDE a sulfur compound, also SULFID, SULPHID, SULPHIDE""

""VALENCE a chemical bond, also VALENCY""

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

To announce beforehand.

Reckless fling (wordplay)

Cause (an event to happen)

Headlong plunge (wordplay)

""To conceive, or form an opinion of, beforehand; to form a previous notion or idea of.""

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

State of supremity

Position above all others

Superiority.

HEADACHE a pain inside the head

Lacking written records

MARRIAGE the legal union of a man and woman

MAXILLAE maxilla

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.""

PURCHASE to {buy=v}

Give a porter tips? Right!

Exclusive right/privilege

Right, privilege

""SCHEDULE to plan, also SCEDULE""

How every Santa should look?

How every Santa should look (wordplay)

Ready for show

SENTENCE to declare judicially the punishment

Capable of being preserved; admitting of preservation.

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""

PROCESS to treat or prepare by a special method

Adjective (-ible)

Having the power to beget; generative.

Cream-filled pastry ball

Filled pastry ball

Cream-filled, chocolate-covered pastry

Insurance seller (Cleveland Indians)

Teddy Roosevelt's party in 1912

Forward-looking or -moving

(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.