2-Letter Words Starting with P

COLLEGE a school of higher learning

COMPUTE to calculate

To concert or arrange beforehand; to settle by previous agreement.

CONTACT to communicate with

Parboiling

Precool

CREASED crease

Precrease

Forerunners

Indicative of something to follow.

Victim stabbed by the blinking thing earlier

Precut

Like the lion variable

Living on prey.

Like lions, affected outside protected area, finally

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

Predict

Weatherman's job.

*'Here's what I think'll happen...'

*"Here's what I think'll happen..."

Like signs

Made to appear naff when using it (wordplay)

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

Afterthought about new director they declare in advance!

Preelect

Preenact

Preerect

ETHICAL a drug sold by prescription only

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

District in Japan

Office of Paris police chief.

District under a governor

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

Prefocus

Prefocus

Before month half over, Democrat killed racist (wordplay)

Before getting squeezed round back of cupboard, leaning to one side

Biased

Jury selection issues

Prelect

A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company.

LOGICAL pertaining to {logic=n}

Designating a certain course of study

Type of course for aspiring doctors

Type of college course.

MEIOTIC pertaining to {meiosis=n}

MYCOTIC pertaining to {mycosis=n}

Prentice

PACKAGE to put into a container or wrapping

Prepack

Preplace

The quality or condition of being prepotent; predominance.

Preprice

PROCESS to treat or prepare by a special method

Prepunch

Prepunch

""Affected by presbyopia; also, remedying presbyopia; farsighted.""

Preschool

Antedating physics (wordplay)

Sibyl's forte

Seer's gift

Prescind

Prescore

Prescreen

Wrote an Rx for

Dictated before writer died

One who prescribes.

Prescribe

Prescript

Chooses beforehand

SERVICE to {repair=v}

Top position

Pressure leading to post in hospital in top office

Preslice

SPECIFY to state in detail

New place never achieves popularity

Superiority, of a sort

New place never offers currency

VOCALIC a vowel sound

Model prices kilt - that's the most irritating thing!

Territories for royal heirs

Princelet

Princely

Minor male royalty

Young royal broke pincer taking fish

Pair in church : Heather and a young royal

""A male member of a royal family other than the monarch, especially a son of the monarch.""

Di and Margaret

Elizabeth and Margaret Rose.

Royal daughters incorporated into crowds

State's sense of duty to school teachers

Leading figures.

""Pl. principia (- - ) A principle, especially a basic one.""

Upright in the school office (wordplay)

Honorable

Rules of personal conduct

Yin and Yang, for example

Ethical standards

""A uricosuric drug, C 13 H 19 NO 4 S, derived from benzoic acid and used chiefly in the treatment of gout.""

PROCAMBIA

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

Variant of prokaryote .

Of the rules

Following the rules

Record Paul removed of method of conducting business

Reproduces new ways to get things done

Courses of action

Parliamentary methods.

On-going course of action

A larval stage of certain tapeworms that typically develops in the body cavity of a copepod.

Part of C.P.U.

For a change for the better, advancing in formation

It's just one thing after the other!

March parade (wordplay)

March in support of home rule

Chip ingredients (wordplay)

Canneries, for example

Announced more placid rambling

Declared publicly

Heralded

One who proclaims.

Proclitic

Tendency for Gap to stock large one for adult

Predilection

Proconsul

Brought forth

Begat

SIREd

Brings into being

One producing young

Progenitor

Zoology Having a pattern or coloration adapted for natural camouflage.

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.

Rear area (wordplay)

Looking up passages in love diary, month before: snoop around

Of a student official

Of a professor's procurator

Proctor

""Lying down, or on the face; prone.""

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

Lawyer (in Scotland)

Agent for clergyman reduced men

Scottish lawyer

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

Stage play, for one

Making exotic crouton dip

... making boozy crouton dip

Fertile for channel four ending live

Yielding results

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

Able to make money on nice make-up

Do well without turning nice and skilful

Competent, thoroughly qualified

Reckless extravagance

Favoring Simon Magus's sect (wordplay)

Looking ahead

Omen.

Boulder, for a catapult

Spitball, for example

Bullet, shell or rocket.

Project

Bump kin (wordplay)

Estimate of future possibilities

Certain linear transformation

PROJECT to extend outward

Projector

Prolactin

One who speaks for another.

Precipice or peak

Highly visibility or importance

Something that sticks out

Of or pertaining to the pronephros.

Said to be plainly evident

It's said to be obvious

Strong spoke

Spelling bee official

Articulates

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

One of the two bodies or nuclei (called male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum. male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum.

Prophecy

Mourns epic broadcast in part of theatre

Front part of stage

Theater arch

""Pl. prosciutti (-t ) or prosciuttos An aged, dry-cured, spiced Italian ham that is usually sliced thin and served without cooking.""

Ham in cooking pot? Scour it!

Raw cured Italian ham

Ham actor, losing lead, is put off love

Abridged Plain Words copy editor outlawed

Forbidden

""One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits.""

Bans kid in tricky process

Outlaws supporting teachers of traditional law

Forbids

Prosect

Prosector

Tried to find passage of writing on charming daughter

Does D. A. duty

Somehow secures top wages

Practises and secures top spin

Ken Starr, for one

One who conducts case against defendant

One with something to prove

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

Looked for something to claim

He's disclaimed (wordplay)

One with a miner role (wordplay)

49er, for example

Security account (wordplay)

Outline the view taken over America

Outline plan for approval

Like artificial body parts

Peg cheers German man with facial twitch

Like Captain Hook's hook

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

Guardian's job

Body guard, for example

Bribe Johnny Cash

Rotten cop I fancy extorting money

Defensive vet to price order

Designating a type of tariff.

Kind of custody

Bodyguards

Shields.

""PROTECTOR One who, or that which, defends or shields from injury, evil, oppression, etc.; a defender; a guardian; a patron.""

Protocol

""PROTOTYPE An original or model after which anything is copied; the pattern of anything to be engraved, or otherwise copied, cast, or the like; a primary form; exemplar; archetype.""

Lengthened out

Dragged out

Lengthened

Yes to farm aid!

Like John Deere (wordplay)

Angling gear (wordplay)

Adjective (-ic)

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

Lacking a big city outlook

Unsophisticated, narrow-minded; regional

Hardly cosmopolitan

Prurience

""An internal body cavity of some primitive invertebrates, similar to a coelom but lacking a mesodermal lining.""

Active hallucinogen in funny mushrooms

Drug cultivated in cow poop

Hallucinogenic drug, obtained from the Mexican mushroom

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

Psoriatic

Trick cyclist's profession (wordplay)

Disordered study, maybe

Frasier's field

Malraux explained that of art

Study of human and animal behaviour

Jung's field

Norman Bates' way home (wordplay)

Way to Bellevue (wordplay)

Way to Bellevue?

Psychotic

Teenage years

PUBLIC people as a whole

PUBLICISE

Publicise

Publicist

PUBLICIZE

Publicize

""The quality or state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety; as, the publicness of a sale. as, the publicness of a sale.""

Puckery

Indulging in fighting

Of prize-fighting

Aggressive US cop with a gun, I suspect

*Looking for a fight

Hostile coup is unlikely without a gun being fired

Puissance

Punchball

Boxing commission (wordplay)

Magazine's policy makers (wordplay)

Gaming device of yore

PUNCTATE covered with dots

Punctilio

(Arriving) on time

In a timely manner

Joke act, duet being funny, given marks

Punctuate

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

Puncture

Pungency

Sounds of contentment about course for consumers

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

Puromycin

Pursuance

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

Purulence

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

Decaying, rotting

Rotting

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

Putschist

One of the Pycnogonida.

A specific gravity bottle; a standard flask for measuring and comparing the densities of liquids.

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

One who loves lighting (wordplay)

One who goes up on flames (wordplay)

He's a flaming nutter!