2-Letter Words Starting with P

""One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts.""

Practical joker Colloq.

Practical joker: Colloq.

Person playing tricks on people

More tediously moralising

More self-righteous support stifles influence

HEATER an apparatus for heating

Ship quietly corroded in stream

Vessel's solitary lug pronounced

Type of armed ship.

PROGRAM to arrange in a plan of proceedings

English word

Concept in cosmology

Extinct winged "lizard"

Ground or pasture for old beast

Ancient flier on quiet Eurostar train

Patron has ship's officer storing tea

Tea break for cashier and buyer

One who buys something

Promote president to pram

Reportedly pedal president's buggy

Baby transport

Conductor on the run (wordplay)

One leading during a race

Horse that shows the way

Painful

Morphine, for example

One shouldn't feel hurt when it's used

Aspirin, for instance

One carrying a coffin

One approaching a hearse

Principal lamenter may be seen as such

PALLETIZE

Freestone ring wearer (wordplay)

Chef, at times (wordplay)

Help ran, and upset cook (wordplay)

The process or craft of making paper.

End of the comment

Special piano at a joint

Definite pressure at or near a joint

(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a person who creates or performs pastiches

One who shows the way forward

Guide through unexplored territory

Subject of a novel by Cooper.

Seller of small chess pieces (wordplay)

He sells chess pieces (wordplay)

Steiger film (with "The")

Indian pipe smoker (wordplay)

Indian pipe smoker?

Keep camera rolling for arbitrator

Peacocky

Tube to get the pulse going (wordplay)

Prankster's weapon

Boy's weapon

Of the stalk of a solitary flower

A large primitive reptile having a tall spinal sail; of the Permian or late Paleozoic in Europe and North America.

Insure plan (anagram)

Writer, inward-looking, from Iberia

Sticking out, in a way

Verse line of 20 ac feet

Line of verse with five metrical feet

Typical Shakespearean line

Where one may find grounds for removal

Coffee-making machine

Coffee machine

A fine speaker? One may be boring

One who personates.

Immature component of wing

Young plume

""An instrument for measuring the area of any plane figure, however irregular, by passing a tracer around the bounding line; a platometer.""

Print-shop employee

Pleasant

Great Mesozoic fossil reptile

Bee, at times

Official in charge of sorts (wordplay)

Kind of general (wordplay)

Man of letters (wordplay)

""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.""

Informal discussion Fr.

Negotiations leading up to a treaty

Informal consultation

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

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

Currier or Ives

One who proclaims.

One producing young

Progenitor

Lawyer (in Scotland)

Agent for clergyman reduced men

Scottish lawyer

Writer of computer code

Scott Adams job before "Dilbert"

Computer coder

Royal Albert Hall regular

Walker - concert goer

Square dancer, at times

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

Decorous reptile

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

Diffuser

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

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

Yes to farm aid!

Like John Deere (wordplay)

Angling gear (wordplay)

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

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

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Thomas Paine was voted Most Valuable ...

Publicity agent of yore

Interior decorator, for one.

Interior decorator's hiree

Person who decorates as a profession

Writer of news items for newspapers

One who paraphrases.

High military figure (wordplay)

A jumper that rides up!

Jumpy guy (wordplay)

I hire parson (anagram)

Do I hire parson (wordplay)

Do I hire parson?

Partition

Dairy apparatus.

Portents are confounded by prayer

Prayer that may give one a lift

Bill carries a bird in a lift

Peaceful

Friction-reducing agent

One enforcing a truce

*One placed between warring parties

Committer (of a crime)

One committing (a bad deed)

One committing (an offence)

""PERPETUATE To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize.""

""(Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) money, paid in dollars, earned by a country for the exporting of petroleum""

Womaniser turning her plain red!

Man of affairs (wordplay)

Source of the quote, with "The"

""One, such as a speechwriter, who composes memorable or effective phrases.""

Symbol for something missing

Bookmark, essentially

Temporary wording in a document awaiting final text

Upright man (wordplay)

Any top-25 NFL career scoring leader

He knows how to score extra points

Prose appropriator

PLASTICIZE

""An instrument for determining the amount of polarization of light, or the proportion of polarized light, in a partially polarized ray.""

Polygraph

Containing many nuclei.

One making a subject accessible*

POTENTIATE To render active or potent.

Tester of a person's conduct

One on trial in post

Offender on conditional release

Of a Roman official

One who promulgates or publishes.

Bottle examiner (wordplay)

He shouldn't leave any wrong impressions

One looking for trouble, in a way

One who propitiates or appeases.

""The first martyr; the first who suffers, or is sacrificed, in any cause; applied esp. to Stephen, the first Christian martyr.""

English word

An agent provocateur.

Cloth used in Holy Communion services

Cloth used in celebrating the Eucharist

One skilled in paleography; a paleographist.

""One who participates, or shares with another; a partaker.""

Anemone with bell-shaped purple flowers

Carriage for one on patrol

Baby carrier (usually abbreviated)

Baby's transport

Geology ()

One versed or skilled in phonography.

Snappy guy (wordplay)

One will put you in the picture

Job taking snaps

Of or relating to a nuclear reaction induced by photons.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

""PONTIFICATE The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope.""

""Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal.""

Professional person, esp. doctor

One involved in medicine, such as a GP

Part in erotic play for skilled operator

""A melodic embellishment consisting of the quick alternation of a principal tone with an auxiliary tone above it, usually the next of the scale; -- called also the inverted mordente.inverted mordente.""

AMPLIFIER One who or that which amplifies.

""One who precipitates, or urges on with vehemence or rashness.""

Inflected form of MEDITATOR Inflected form of MEDITATE to consider thoughtfully

SLAUGHTER The act of killing.

One who prevaricates.

Tropical climbing plant (granadilla)

Climbing plant, Passiflora

Wasp flies on or off climbing plant

At right angles

Apple incurred difficulties? Straight up

Style of English architecture

PHOTOENGRAVE To engrave by a photomechanical process; to make a photo-engraving of.

""Geography the systematic classification and description of nature. See also geography ; geology . ; physiographer , ; physiographic, physiographical , adj . Classification""

Comparative adjective or agent noun

""One who predestinates, or foreordains.""

PROPAGANDIZE

PSYCHOBABBLE

Part 2 of remark

Negligent one

Artisan stupidly interrupting university official, off-putting type

One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs.

The study of the geographic distribution of plants. Also called geobotany .

Shell-game operator, for one

Thurston or Mulholland

Trickster realises God is tripartite