2-Letter Words Starting with P

MARKET to offer for sale

Before the normal time

Born too soon

Born before full term

Premolar

Prenomen

Made dean and prior decide in advance

Decree in advance

De Niro part almost recast for 'Doom'

Most supermarket food is supplied by agent carrying a gun around

Accountants, at tax time

Tax form fillers

Accountants, at times

Setting the stage

Getting ready

1 Making ready

How some wallpaper comes

Prepaste

Prepay

Preplace

Preplace

Of or pertaining to the prepuce.

Presager

This could give an indication of the port ending

Add salt before the game (wordplay)

Training time for ballplayers

Like some exhibition games

Preshape

Preshape

SHRANK shrink

Having a garrison

Of Truman's office.

Treated a stain, in a way

Wet, before washing

Like many a stain before washing

Printer's sign.

Prestamp

Pretape

Pretaste

Pretaste

Citizen of Transvaal's capital.

Pretrain

TRAVEL to go from one place to another

Pretreat

Pretrial

Evil padre somehow came out on top

Persisted and finally succeeded

Rival with deep novel won

Frequent bar imbibing endless beer

Common pal never dances tango

Having a litre in bar is common

Pleb raver wildly preceding action

VIABLE capable of living

Prewarm

Prewarn

Like some new jeans

Prewash

Priapism

Priapus

Archbishops' jurisdictions

The quality or state of being primal.

Party times (wordplay)

Important political events.

Pre-election votes.

Chiefly, in the first place

Chiefly, for the most part

In the first place, mainly

Primatal

Primatical.

Proper pair treated a first-time mother

Pl. primordia (-d - ) An organ or a part in its most rudimentary form or stage of development.

5 across moral, say (wordplay)

Mr. Belding, for one

Class action suit (wordplay)

Three-book Newton work

Fit to be published

In good taste

O.K. for publication.

I put ink to paper - hence remove copy in the commercial

Monastic offices

Producing rainbow colors, say

Is Ma with it in a crisp, light way (wordplay)

Rainbow-hued

Pristane

Privacy

Ship quietly corroded in stream

Vessel's solitary lug pronounced

Type of armed ship.

Not in public.

Trip round museum and cathedral in secret (wordplay)

Private

A state without essentials of life

Hardship from lack of essentials

Absence of essentials

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

PRIVATE a soldier of lower rank

Causing privation; depriving.

Sell state businesses

With a take-charge attitude

On the offensive

Looking ahead

Probable

Probate

Period of trial.

Testing time pain with robot misbehaving

Test elastic bra and top on one running

Exploratory

Serving for trial; probationary.

Procaine

English word

Yes to insurance paperwork!

Declares in favour of applications

Gives out Oscar with limp shake

Cor! Parent in the making (wordplay)

Form a group, you might say

Do it, Biblical-style

Produce young ape 20 trained

Procural

Prodigal

""Of or pertaining to prodromes; as, the prodromal stage of a disease. as, the prodromal stage of a disease.""

Irreverently disrupted replay of gripping National

Sacrilegious types

Profane

Shame about being rejected for an oath

Conclusion of today's quote

Blasphemous language

Progeria

Robotic variable

PROGRAM to arrange in a plan of proceedings

Schedule for unit

Radio or television show

Favouring lightweight in list of bouts

Platonic relationship initially producing this hormone

""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.""

Prolamin

Prolapse

Prolapse

Seaside walk (wordplay)

Nice walk (wordplay)

Square-dance figure

Pronate

Faulty foot posture

Pronator

Check for character flaws (wordplay)

Work on a galley

Do galley labor

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.""

Prophage

First stages in mitosis.

PROPHASE the first stage in mitosis

Offers of marriage

Season-ending events on "The Bachelor"

They're made for girls

Temple entrances

Dividing fairly, say

Dividing proportionally.

Determining what to pay for only half a month, perhaps

PRORATE to divide proportionately

To prorogue.

Prosaism

Fielding, Dickens, etc

English word

""Of or belonging to the Prosimii, a suborder of primates that includes the lemurs, lorises, and tarsiers.""

Prostate

Of or pertaining to the prostate gland.

Pl. prostomia (-m - ) The portion of the head in earthworms and other annelids that is situated anterior to the mouth.

Driver brought before judge is lying

Face down platforms in private

Prone to lying

Soluble protein.

Protamin

Protease

""Pl. prothalli (-th l ) or prothallia (-th l - ) A small, flat, delicate structure produced by a germinating spore and bearing sex organs. It is the gametophyte of ferns and some other plants.""

The first or anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera. Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera.

""Any of a group of eukaryotic organisms belonging to the kingdom Protista according to some widely used modern taxonomic systems. The protists include a variety of unicellular, coenocytic, colonial, and multicellular organisms, such as the protozoans, slime molds, brown algae, and red algae.""

PROTON a subatomic particle

""The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.""

Concept in cosmology

PROTOZOA the lowest and simplest of animals

Amoeba, for one

Single-celled organism

Minute life form.

Draws out professional pamphlets

Draws out, extends in duration

Keeps going for brochures

Nearby bishop accepts bull

First-class county perhaps against China next

Very near

Prunella

Sunday text

King David and others

David and Asaph.

David and others

Lower class compartments with first-class return taking drunken pals back

Psaltry

Psammite

Psoralea

Psoralen

Plural or third person singular

Cause of scaling

Target of some shampoos

Dermarest target

A noncontagious inflammatory skin disease characterized by recurring reddish patches covered with silvery scales.

Having a sixth sense

Grouse - giant pram (anagram)

Canadian game bird

Grouse family bird

Extinct winged "lizard"

Ground or pasture for old beast

Ancient flier on quiet Eurostar train

Ptomaine

Ptyalism

They make pins into pints, given time

They have bars

""Of or pertaining to childbirth; as, a puerperal fever. as, a puerperal fever.""

Birth

Garden insect

Dandelion tufts.

If it comes to blows, they get round to having fun with Gus, perhaps

Puggaree

Aggressiveness, eagerness to fight

Eagerness to fight

Combativeness

Power of car, not new, in red

Rough seas in cup competition with jumps

Power: Poetic.

Troop withdrawals

Retreats

Send forth sprouts

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

Swarm

To do with lungs

(adj.) pertaining to sleeping cars

Of or affecting the lungs

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.""

Athrob

Vibrant.

How a lion puts a throb like this

Regular throbbing

A throbbing

Washing machine components

Just the thing for the pugilists' dance!

Kids' outdoor game played with fists

Urban kids' sport

Insert full stops, commas, etc in (text)

Pointedly edit written work (wordplay)

Add marks to text

Pupation

Pupilage

State of student turning up sack

Being at school and turning up to plunder

Of or pertaining to a pupil or ward.

Legally acquired

Bought

Patron has ship's officer storing tea

Tea break for cashier and buyer

One who buys something

Shopping, including tea bags

Buys tea in bags

Acquires and takes round the tea bags

""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.""

Musical combo disheartened over producing a washout (wordplay)

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

Hell on earth

Middle ground

Mental anguish

Salad plants

The carrying out (of something)

Carrying out (of policy)

In this of it's carrying out

Pushball

Certain places of business.

Street vendors' setups

Vendors' settings

Promote president to pram

Reportedly pedal president's buggy

Baby transport

Shipmates of owls.

They won't give you a hard time

They're not so tough

Gone to the bad

PYCNIDIA pycnidium

Pyoderma

Pyorrhea

Like a Ponzi scheme

Pointed down to square

From three sides, pointed at monument to Albert

Pyramid

Pyranose

""An aldehyde, C 8 H 9 NO 3 , one of several active forms of pyridoxine, important in amino acid synthesis.""

Divination by fire.

Year sitting in weird company making study of fire signs (wordplay)

A burning passion (wordplay)

Lighting problem (wordplay)

Burning desire (wordplay)

Pyrostat

Pyruvate

Implants for Gerry's 24

Certain runners.

Heart helpers

Some race action

Conductor on the run (wordplay)

One leading during a race

Horse that shows the way

Elephants and rhinos

Camp's in trouble with herd, ending with frisky elephants (wordplay)

Large animals whose taxonomic order is obsolete

Pachytene

Capable of being appeased

PACIFIC {peaceful=adj}

A pacifist.pacifist.

PACIFIST an advocate of {pacifism=n}

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