2-Letter Words Starting with P

Variant of prokaryote .

Of the rules

Following the rules

Record Paul removed of method of conducting business

Announced more placid rambling

Declared publicly

Heralded

One who proclaims.

Brought forth

Begat

SIREd

Brings into being

One producing young

Progenitor

Pl. proctodea (-d ) or proctodeums also proctodaea (-d ) or proctodaeums An inward fold on the surface of the embryonic ectoderm that develops into part of the anal passage.

Of a student official

Of a professor's procurator

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

Lawyer (in Scotland)

Agent for clergyman reduced men

Scottish lawyer

Irresponsibly makes professional sneer against friend

Lavishly.

Disease and Illness ()

Lucrative for female, I suggest

Cost-effective

Academic, one sitting on the board making money

PROFIT to gain an advantage or benefit

Reckless extravagance

Losing grip of late, being extravagant

Tip a golfer gave to prodigal

Extravagant tip a golfer developed

Programer

PROGRAM to arrange in a plan of proceedings

Fed the computer.

Writer of computer code

Scott Adams job before "Dilbert"

Computer coder

Lists of bouts favouring lightweights

Presumably wanting pounds set aside for schemes

Supporting metric units for series of measures

""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 .""

Prolactin

Prolamine

Prolapse

Took a leisurely walk

Strolled on the boardwalk

Royal Albert Hall regular

Walker - concert goer

Square dancer, at times

Walks made person fit

Square dance maneuvers.

Ballroom marches

PROMOTE to help forward

Make known officially.

Broadcast of pet glamour model

Announce Portugal's heaving with 'em

Pronation

PRONATOR a forearm or forelimb muscle

Resembling a part of speech

Containing he, she or it, for example

Containing he, she or it, e.g

Pl. pronuclei (-kl - ) The haploid nucleus of a sperm or egg before fusion of the nuclei in fertilization.

Scans for errors

Looks over the galleys

Looks for trouble, in a way

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

A socially correct goose (wordplay)

Artificial intelligence (wordplay)

A socially correct goose?

Broadcast supporting the old man not allowed out

Multiplied.

Spreads, as ideas

Increases number of articles on stage, including gemstone

Decorous reptile

Breeder supplying mock croc, auditors find? On the contrary!

Diffuser

Propagule

Agent that sets off a rocket.

Launching-pad fuel

Fuel Rover's last foreign car in factory

A salt of propionic acid.

Appease, as a god

Marketing drug, maintaining it will induce goodwill

Pacify.

A cytoplasmic organelle from which a plastid develops.

""An ancient Roman official, appointed to be the chief administrator of a province after serving his term of office as praetor.""

Pl. propylaea (-l ) An entrance or vestibule to a temple or group of buildings. Also called propylon .

Proportionate divisions

PROROGATE To prorogue.

Prorogate

Prosateur

""A course of study for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in a college or university, conducted in the manner of a seminar.""

Prosimian

Of or pertaining to prosody; according to the rules of prosody.

PROSTATE a gland in male mammals

PROSTOMIA

French author not superior, chided and laid low

Shows subservience

Protamine

One that protects: applied a protectant to the raw wood.

""An endopeptidase, such as pepsin, trypsin, or papain.""

Calvinist, for one

Lutheran, for example

Lutheran, e.g

""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 minute primary growth from the spore of ferns and other Pteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs; the o\'94phoric generation of ferns, etc. Pteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs; the o\'94phoric generation of ferns, etc.""

Protistan

Early ancestor (wordplay)

PROTONATE

Protonate

""PROTONEMA 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.""

Living part of a cell

First psalm, translated, provides the basis for life

Basis of life found in most of apple roots scattered on motorway

The thing first formed; that of which there are subsequent copies or reproductions; the original.

Protostar

Constituting a pattern.

Protozoan

Lengthened out

Dragged out

Lengthened

Yes to farm aid!

Like John Deere (wordplay)

Angling gear (wordplay)

Roots of a new start in part of France

Source of article dividing French region

Source of year abroad in French region

Well-known document Blair modified

Commonly spoken of

Notorious document Blair modified

Lacking a big city outlook

Unsophisticated, narrow-minded; regional

Hardly cosmopolitan

Beta carotene, since it can become A

On or toward a proximal part; proximad.

Fortune 500 financial organization

Name on a Boston landmark

Cautious, self-righteous type, oddly not likable

Psalmbook

Psalmody

Ancient stringed instruments

Ancient instruments.

Let's aspire to play historical instruments

Third division of a ruminant's stomach

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

Psoriatic

Trick cyclist's profession (wordplay)

Disordered study, maybe

Frasier's field

Norman Bates' way home (wordplay)

Way to Bellevue (wordplay)

Way to Bellevue?

Birds mating rasp bizarrely

So Messrs Grouse wound Mr Stag with pain

Birds of northern regions.

Old reptile flying near to pond

Winged crested dinosaur; pardon note (anagram)

Pterosaur

PUBLIC people as a whole

Aggressive US cop with a gun, I suspect

*Looking for a fight

Hostile coup is unlikely without a gun being fired

Puissance

PULLULATE To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.

Pullulate

Pulmonate

Heartbeats

Beats.

Capable of being reduced to fine powder; pulverizable.

Punchball

Boxing commission (wordplay)

Magazine's policy makers (wordplay)

Gaming device of yore

PUNCTATE covered with dots

(Arriving) on time

In a timely manner

Joke act, duet being funny, given marks

Punctuate

""One who punctuates, as in writing; specifically, a punctator.""

Likely to incur fines, say

Time-honored, in a way (wordplay)

Pupillage

Sounds of contentment about course for consumers

'R up up before going after after for the byre, by the sound of it (10)'

Purgation

Purgative

Aunt is prim as a result of this

Strict outlook

Rigid austerity

Pursuance

""A functionary of lower rank than a herald, but discharging similar duties; called also pursuivant at arms; an attendant of the heralds. Also used figuratively. pursuivant at arms; an attendant of the heralds. Also used figuratively.""

""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.

Carriers available for small charges

Carriers taking issue with egg on one sent into cleaners

Pustulant

""Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustular; pustulous; as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral.as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral.""

PUTATIVE supposed or reputed

Thorny plant with small fruit clusters

Thorny evergreen shrub related to the hawthorn

Thorny evergreen shrub with white flowers and bright red or yellow berries

Pyramid

English word

Pyridoxal

""A phenol metameric with phloroglucin, obtained by the distillation of gallic acid as a poisonous white crystalline substance having acid properties, and hence called also pyrogallic acid. It is a strong reducer, and is used as a developer in photography and in the production of certain dyes. pyrogallic acid. It is a strong reducer, and is used as a developer in photography and in the production of certain dyes.""

""PYROLYSE to decompose by heating, also PYROLIZE, PYROLISE, PYROLYZE""

""PYROLYZE to decompose by heating, also PYROLISE, PYROLIZE, PYROLYSE""

One who loves lighting (wordplay)

One who goes up on flames (wordplay)

He's a flaming nutter!

Pyromania

Pacemaking

Leaders in their fields

Cutting-edge people

Leaders of the pack

Sports See pacemaker .

Evergreen ground cover

Pacifical

""One who, or that which, pacifies; a peacemaker.""

Pacificism

Pacificist

A. A collection of items tied up or wrapped; a bundle.

Burdens for Grand Canyon mules

Packthread

Paddleball

One hanging around a lifeguard tower

Dog... / Star...

Dog ... / Star ...

Some are shaped like swans

Treatment of children's diseases

Treatment possibly practised involving origins of infant ailments (wordplay)

Spectacular displays

Pagination

Painful

Emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid.

Aids for the injured

Some prescriptions

""An agent, such as an analgesic drug, that relieves pain.""

Sorely taking care (wordplay)

Careful old man at home with betting

Done with great care

Produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate as "y"; or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate as "ch" in "chin" or "j" in "gin".

Palatalize

Natives of Germany.

That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.

""An ancient manner of writing; ancient writings, collectively; as, Punic paleography. as, Punic paleography.""

Palimpsest

Abba solos wow Anna (wordplay)

Subject of Jon Agee's "So Many Dynamos!"

eg Pop, DVD and Abba

As is Cain, a maniac (wordplay)

Like mum and dad (wordplay)

Like 'dad' or 'mum' (wordplay)

'The Walking Dead' (wordplay)

The Walking Dead (wordplay)

Some funeral attendees

PALLETISE

Palletizer

PALLETIZE

Palliation

Palliative

Palmerworm

Palmistry

""The quality of being palpable, or perceptible by the touch.""

Beating with excessive rapidity

Rapid irregular heartbeat

Irregular heartbeat

Fluttering.

Biology ()

Thomas Paine was voted Most Valuable ..

Thomas Paine was voted Most Valuable ...

Publicity agent of yore

One way to cook meat

Pancratium

Pancreatin

Flower that's a riot of color (wordplay)

Hell with a devil inside (wordplay)

Chaos and confusion

Containing praise or eulogy; encomiastic; laudatory.

Eulogists

They can beg

They ask for handouts.

They hold tin cups

PANHANDLE The handle of a pan;

Panjandrum

PANTALET long underpants trimmed with ruffles

Pantdress

Worshipping many gods

Pantograph

""PANTOMIME A universal mimic; an actor who assumes many parts; also, any actor.""

Marcel Marceau, for one

Marcel Marceau, famously

Marcel Marceau was voted Most Valuable ..

PANTROPIC

Milquetoasts

Papaverine

Like dime novels

Paperboard

Paperbound

Interior decorator, for one.

Interior decorator's hiree

Person who decorates as a profession

Papermaker

The process or craft of making paper.