2-Letter Words Starting with P

He has more than one rib

One with multiple spouses

One has an excess of trouble and strife

To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.

Over matey (wordplay)

Having more than one wife or husband

(adj.) able to play multiple opponents at the same time (said of chess)

They reveal lies in old college charts

Having many faces

With many plane faces

Pertaining to polymathy; acquainted with many branches of learning.

""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.""

In math, the sum of a number of terms

Mathematical expression

One with a degree in mathematics (wordplay)

Polypary

""Food and Nutrition Pathology. excessive appetite or excessive eating. Disease and Illness the tendency to eat a wide variety of food. ; polyphagist , ; polyphagic,""

PHASIC relating to a phase

Multivalent.

Polywater

Hair styles worn since Louis XV.

High styles

Hairdos

Having appreciable significance

Having weight

Ponderosa

Poniard

Like many stump speeches

Of the Pope

Arrogant; haughty

PONYTAIL a hair-style

Poppyhead

POPULAR something pleasing

Kind of contest.

Reason for some votes

Amount of fame

Promote in a way

Populate

Modern type of "explosion."

No pilau pot dish for all the people

We, the people

Unfortunate 24s heard predators at sea

Porcelain

Porphyria

""Pl. portamenti (-t ) or portamentos A smooth uninterrupted glide in passing from one tone to another, especially with the voice or a bowed stringed instrument.""

Glide through the air

Sliding sound

In music, a slide from one note to another

Portapack

Service charges

Studies of fish caught in organised patrols

Representations

Portrayer

Showing church activity - nothing right in it

Reading with difficulty about Foster's old dog showing

Portulaca

Relating to disposition

Like rankings

Superlative adjective

Adjective (-ic)

English word

Like someone smoking in bed, stereotypically

Social activity on a military base (wordplay)

POSTDEBATE

Posthaste

English word

English word

Cancelled in a way

Official in charge of sorts (wordplay)

Kind of general (wordplay)

Man of letters (wordplay)

Present participle or gerund

After an important delivery

Afterbirth? You need support - mat, possibly

So one's past playing - now (wordplay)

When sports awards are given, usually

Elway was there in '97 and '98

A person submitting a request or application; a petitioner.

Postulant

Order to breeder coming round after time assumed

Assumed (something) as the basis for reasoning

Suggested all the letters from university disposed of by department

Assumes position tardily in America

Mathematic suppositions

""POSTULATE Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as selfevident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged, without argument or evidence.""

Fit to drink.

Potassium

Emperors and such

V. I. P.'s in London.

High-muck-a-mucks

Potential

Make powerful

Flower a.k.a. cinquefoil

P, as in these roses

Mighty harmful, a plant

Potlatch

Norhtwestern ceremonial festivals

Festivals of Chinook Indians.

""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""

Informal discussion Fr.

Negotiations leading up to a treaty

Informal consultation

Powerboat

Pozzolana

POZZOLAN a finely divided material used to make cement

Hands-on tests

Practicer

Acting the doctor or lawyer

Practicum

Engaged in (a profession)

Currently engaged in training

Hopelessly aspiring to be seen around court, working as a lawyer (wordplay)

Praelect

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

Praenomen

""Pl. praenomens or praenomina (-n m -n , -n m -) A first or given name.""

""(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a variant spelling of presidium PRESSWOMAN (esp Brit: = reporter ) → Zeitungsfrau f , → Pressefrau f (Typ) → Druckerin f PRESSWOMEN (esp Brit: = reporter ) → Zeitungsfrau f , → Pressefrau f (Typ) → Druckerin f PRIMAQUINE (Medicine / Pharmacology) a synthetic drug used in the treatment of malaria. Formula: C 15 H 21 N 3 O [from prima-, from Latin prīmus first + quin ( olin ) e ]""

""PRAETOR an ancient Roman magistrate, also PRETOR""

Like a Roman emperor's bodyguard

Magistrate's to arrange reparation

Julius Caesar, once

Pragmatic

William James' philosophy.

Whatever gets the job done philosophy

Practical approach

One with realistic approach

A doer, not a dreamer

Practical type

PRANKISH mischievous

Mischievous ones

Bird painter circling round pass

Behavior ()

Most condescending, in a way

Maximally moralizing

Most moralistic member of clergy interrupted by a head

Chapter men adapted for sermon

Preadapt

Preadopt

APPROVE to regard favourably

Plan in advance

Determine in advance.

Agree upon something in advance

Preassign

Preaver

Canon's turn to enter form of prayer

Brandy peer is offering drunken clergyman

Clergyman with prayer designed to catch crook

CALCULI calculus

Precancel

Not yet decayed? It's uncertain

Dodgy poseur with car, I fancy

Insecure favourite embraces a king

Precast

Safeguard cast on a picture

Run a poetic struggle for The Backstop (wordplay)

Sensible step

Precisian

Preclean

Preclear

CONTACT to communicate with

CREASED crease

Precrease

Like the lion variable

Living on prey.

Like lions, affected outside protected area, finally

Predation

Go before (wordplay)

Pass away before this and stop at last

Die before

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

Affirmed the qualities of

Foretold about one that made affirmation

Declared that one preyed around, I see

Affirms what may be said of subjects

They're grammatically red, I see, in the heads

before one can place a lot of detectives back here,they become verbal

EMBARGO to prohibit trade by a governmental order

Preenact

ETHICAL a drug sold by prescription only

Prefab

""FASCIST a supporter of fascism, also FASCISTA""

A better choice

More desirable

Better

Rather

FINANCE to supply the money for

Preformat

Prefrank

""Situated in front of the frontal bone, or the frontal region of the skull; ectethmoid, as a certain bone in the nasal capsule of many animals, and certain scales of reptiles and fishes.""

GENITAL pertaining to reproduction

In a meaningful or inventive way

""HARVEST to gather in a crop, also HAIRST""

Preheater

Oven-ready act

Warming up

HOLIDAY to take a vacation

Prelature

LOGICAL pertaining to {logic=n}

Of the time before the wedding bells.

Like some relations

Prenuptial

Shells that explode too soon

""A bone on either side of the middle line between the nose and mouth, forming the anterior part of each half of the upper jawbone; the intermaxilla. In man the premaxill\'91 become united and form the incisor part of the maxillary bone.""

MEASURE to compare with a standard

Designating a certain course of study

Type of course for aspiring doctors

Type of college course.

Before birth

Agreement before marriage

Certain agreement

Wedding agreement

Determines in advance

Drunk, orders a nip and decides things irrevocably

Destines

PACKAGE to put into a container or wrapping

Prepack

""One who prepares beforehand, as subjects for dissection, specimens for preservation in collections, etc.""

PREPARED prepare

Prepaste

An early settlement

Preplace

Intentional

PRIMARY a preliminary election

Code in advance

PUBERAL pertaining to {puberty=n}

QUALIFY to be eligible after having the necessary requirements

A critic might listen to one

Full of presages; ominous.

Form of long-sightedness

Preshape

Of or pertaining to a garrison; having a garrison.

Presoak

""A kind of highly sized rag paper or board, sometimes containing a small admixture of wood pulp; -- so called because used originally, as now, in presses for pressing and finishing knit underwear.""

Pressmark

Imprinted beforehand.

STORAGE a place for storing

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

Players bum around, I'd say

In all probability

A plumber's at work above yard doubtless

Pretaste

""THEATER a building for dramatic presentations, also THEATRE""

Pretorian

Pretrain

Pretreat

Like some winds and opinions

Two priests sick, but gaining strength

Most general.

New place never achieves popularity

Superiority, of a sort

New place never offers currency

Prevalent

VOCALIC a vowel sound

Prewarm

Prewarn

Prewash

WEANING an act of weaning

Prewrap

In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally.

Birth

Primipara

Proper men ring first

Existing from the start of time

From the beginning of time

State's sense of duty to school teachers

Leading figures.

Printhead

Currier or Ives

A polyhedron all of whose vertices lie in one of two parallel planes.

""Having the form of a prismoid; as, prismoidal solids. as, prismoidal solids.""

Navy patrol planes.

Result of solitary sorrow

Maritime harassers

Conditions of indigence

PRIVATISE

Privatise

Privatism

Privative

PRIVATIZE

Privatize

Probation

PROCAMBIA

The young tissue of a fibrovascular bundle before its component cells have begun to be differentiated.