2-Letter Words Starting with P

Injured climber, a top becoming tricky

Uncertain or questionable

Raising a lot of doubt

""Pl. proboscises or proboscides (-b s -d z ) A long flexible snout or trunk, as of an elephant.""

Proboscis

Procambium

Procaryote

Procedural

Crooked cop resigned in legal action

Action

Affairs.

""Pertaining to, or forming, the front of the head.""

Procercoid

PROCESS to treat or prepare by a special method

Adjective (-ible)

Meetings of McEnroe and Borg

Formal marches

Continuous courses.

I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) duo

"I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" duo

Twins Craig and Charlie Reid, with "The"

Proclaim

Of a Roman official

PROCREATE To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.

Masterwork (wordplay)

Having the power to beget; generative.

Adam and Eve, for example

Enforcing conformity to a standard

(adj.) having a predilection for French bread

Enforcing conformity regardless of individuality; scent uproar (anagram)

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.

Medical Specialties

""The office or dignity of a proctor; also, the term of his office.""

The act of procuring; procurement.

Procurator

Purchasing agent's job

Buying of materials and equipment

Acquisition process

Production

Competence, skill

Competence

Proficient

Prognostic

PROJECT to extend outward

Scheme with lies when playing darts, say

Projection

PROKARYOTE

Prolificness.

PROLIFIC {abundant=adj}

Prolocutor

Prominence

Promiscuousness; confusion.

Indiscriminate, unselective

Loose - wanton

Dissolute

Pronouncer

""Pertaining to, or indicating, pronunciation; as, a pronouncing dictionary. as, a pronouncing dictionary.""

""Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling events; as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold.as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold.""

Prosaical

Proscenium

Prosciutto

Proscriber

Prohibiting professional writing

""PROSECUTE To follow or pursue with a view to reach, execute, or accomplish; to endeavor to obtain or complete; to carry on; to continue; as, to prosecute a scheme, hope, or claim. as, to prosecute a scheme, hope, or claim.""

Legal proceedings against a person

Accusation of guilt in court

Action in open court is disturbed

District attorneys

COURT POSERS

One of the Prosobranchiata.

Looking for gold

Likely to happen in the future

Searchers whose views include people from the ranks

Artificial body parts

(Branch of surgery concerned with) artificial body parts

Protectant

Protection

""Of or pertaining to a protector; protectorial; as, protectoral power. as, protectoral power.""

""PROTECT to shield from harm, attack or injury""

""Converting proteid or albuminous matter into soluble and diffusible products, as peptones.""

""Pl. prothoraxes or prothoraces (-thôr -s z , -th r -) The anterior division of the thorax of an insect, bearing the first pair of legs.""

Of or pertaining to the prothorax.

PROTOCOL to form a draft treaty

Protocol

""Sensing pain, pressure, heat, or cold in a nonspecific manner, usually without localizing the stimulus. Used especially of certain sensory nerves.""

PROTOSTELE

""Capable of being protracted, or protruded; protrusile.""

Protract

Favouring attempt to cut short hostilities going on and on

Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying.

Mechanized farmer's stance (wordplay)

In favor of John Deere (wordplay)

Gizmos used in geometry class

Protreptic

English word

Ownership histories

""Origin; source; place where found or produced; provenance; -- used esp. in the fine arts and in arch\'91ology; as, the provenience of a patera.as, the provenience of a patera.""

Providence

Unsophisticated ones

An agent provocateur.

Cause of expert calling

Apt title for this puzzle

Spin doctor calling for incitement

Deliberately causing annoyance

Tending to excite expert on case

Designed to cause anger or arousal

Pruriency

Pseudocoel

Psilocybin

PSILOPHYTE

Psittacine

Plural or third person singular

Disease of birds (especially parrots)

Contagious disease of birds

Disease of birds

Birds

Pervasive in the '60s

New word in hip talk.

With exotic colour pattern, (drug-induced, maybe)

Vividly colourful

Concerned with treatment of the mind

Chirpy cat is mad about mental health

Concerned with the treatment of mental illness

Psychical

Spellbound genre

Entertainment affecting the mind and emotions

Theater class taught by Alfred Hitchcock (wordplay)

Originating in the mind or in mental or emotional processes; having a psychological rather than a physiological origin. Used of certain disorders.

Instrument for spirit writing.

Thought-related

""The art of measuring the duration of mental processes, or of determining the time relations of mental phenomena.""

Of or pertaining to movement produced by action of the mind or will.

'Mad Men' (wordplay)

Mad Men (wordplay)

Serial killers, for example

""Mental disease. See Psychosis, 2. Psychosis, 2.""

Late Jurassic flyer

Extinct flying reptile

Flier of long ago

Pubescence

""The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts. as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts.""

PUBLICISE

Publicity

PUBLICIZE

PUCKISH {impish=adj}

Pugnacity

A term meaning physical beauty

Physical beauty

Comeliness

Gambling devices

Boxin' 'owdydo has a pantomime character

Absurd character

Buffoon with hook nose could be swimming up Loch Linnhe

Punctation

Attentive to detail

Showing great attention to detail

Precise in formalities of etiquette

Exact time keeping

Good time-keeping

""PUNCTUATE To mark with points; to separate into sentences, clauses, etc., by points or stops which mark the proper pauses in expressing the meaning.""

English class topic

Marks in writing

One concern of a proofreader

Punctuator

On the market

Cloth used in Holy Communion services

Cloth used in celebrating the Eucharist

Marked by stern morality

Very strict or censorious

Strictly moral in conduct

Purtenance

Purveyance

Decay, rottenness

Decay

""Capable of putrefaction; liable to become putrid; as, putrescible substances. as, putrescible substances.""

Putrescine

Pycnogonid

Pycnometer

Pyracantha

Of or pertaining to a pyramid; having the form of a pyramid; pyramidal.

One type of flow from a volcano

Pyromancy

Lighting enthusiasts (wordplay)

Compulsive fire starters

Related to fireworks

Holiday display adjective

Relating to fireworks

PYROXENITE A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene.

Pachysandra

""The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation.""

Pacificator

""A place where foodstuffs are processed and packed; as, they came from an apple packinghouse.as, they came from an apple packinghouse.""

Adjective (-ic)

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) the resemblance of adult animals to the young of their ancestors: seen in the evolution of modern man, who shows resemblances to the young stages of australopithecines""

Fossils

The branch of ecology that deals with the interaction between ancient organisms and their environment.

""The study and scholarly interpretation of earlier, especially ancient, writing and forms of writing.""

""Of or pertaining to palingenesis: as, a palingenetic process. as, a palingenetic process.""

Kind of film that gets romantic chap excited

Inflammation of the pancreas.

See cholecystokinin .

See aplastic anemia .

British warehouse or van

Removal van

Furniture van

""A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days.""

""PANTOGRAPH An instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale.""

Fall Guys

""A writer of memoirs of religious persona, as examples of Christian excellence.""

""Of or pertaining to, or resembling, paradise; paradisiacal; as, paradisaical innocence; an age of paradisaical happiness.as, paradisaical innocence; an age of paradisaical happiness.""

""Of or pertaining to paradise; suitable to, or like, paradise; paradisaic.""

Weakly attracted by poles

Paramedical

""PARANOIC one affected with paranoia, also PARANOID""

PARAPHRAST A paraphraser.

Anything used to destroy parasites.

""PARATACTIC Of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis.""

PARFOCALIZE

Parfocalize

Small-mindedness

Lamia's Orphic new version betrays narrow outlook

Word play; punning.

Sharers.

Joined in quietly and looked forward to knight becoming king

Takes part (in)

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

(In)temperate advice, part 3

Very careful with clay, oddly

In a marked way

Smoke, essentially

Passacaglia

Patchiness

Pathetical

Pathogenic.

Relating to or exhibiting disease

(adj.) adept at doing mazes

Relating to a disease

""The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch.""

Patriarchy

Peaceful

Tranquillity

It's calm at most ends of the pitch, as they separate those causing trouble

Those calming things down in 21 across working in the zoo

United Nations speciality

Security Council function

The Blue Berets' remit

Peacemaking

Having a pearly luster or gloss.

Trivial offenses

Minor indiscretions

Half-heartedly called police about son's minor indiscretions

Adjective (-ous)

Pectination

In a pedantic manner.

A physician who specializes in pediatrics.

""Having a peduncle; growing on a peduncle; as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.""

Pennycress

Pentazocine

""PERCEPTION The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition.""

Perceptive

The quality or state of being perceptive; power of perception.

Perceptual

Perchlorate

Percipience

Percipient