2-Letter Words Starting with P

Precedency

Precensor

PRECENTOR A leader of a choir; a directing singer.

Of or pertaining to a preceptor.

Preceptory

""Of or pertaining to pression; as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes. as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes.""

Preciosity

The quality or state of being precious; costliness; dearness.

""Capable of being precipitated, or cast to the bottom, as a substance in solution. See Precipitate, n. (Chem.) Precipitate, n. (Chem.)""

The quality of being precipitant.

""The quality or state of being precipitant, or precipitate; headlong hurry; excessive or rash haste in resolving, forming an opinion, or executing a purpose; precipitation; as, the precipitancy of youth.as, the precipitancy of youth.""

Precipitant

Brought about

Precipitate

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

PRECISION The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness.

""CLEARANCE The act of clearing; as, to make a through clearance. as, to make a through clearance.""

Preclusive

In a precocious manner.

Relative of ESP

Foreknowledge

""COGNITIVE Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power. as, cognitive power.""

Plural agent noun

COMPUTING compute

CONCEIVED conceive

Preconceive

Previously arranged; agreed upon beforehand.

Requirement

Prerequisite

Of or pertaining to a state before consciousness.

Elaborate garden pieces going first (wordplay)

Predecessor

Prediabetic

Looks forward to having the last word in

The last word in forecasts from tight spots

Looks forward to having the last word in pickles

Predication

Predictive

Preference (for something)

Special liking or preference

Penchant of the French in anticipation

""DISCHARGE To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. as, to discharge a vessel.""

A previous discovery.

Worried Cameron pined for mastery

Superior influence

Ascendancy

Predominance.

Toxic condition that can occur in late pregnancy

ECLAMPTIC

Plural noun (-tions)

""EMERGENCE The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprisal or appearance.""

Preeminence

In earlier life, former partner one's caught in act

Create a perfect bra with current design

Build in sections and lay a fibre carpet

Manufacture sections to be easily transported

FINANCING finance

Prefocus

INDUCTION The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement.

""The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the preoccupancy of wild land. as, the preoccupancy of wild land.""

Preoccupy

PACKAGING package

Prepotency

Preprocess

Preprocess

Inflected form of PROCESSOR Inflected form of PROCESS to treat or prepare by a special method

Parking on local trail around Everest's starting point is not fully developed

PURCHASED purchase

Prepurchase

""RECESSION The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand.""

SCHEDULED schedule

Preschedule

PRESCHOOLER preschool

Prescreen

What a doctor may write

Something with which to obtain drugs

Medicine authorised by doctor

Relating to the imposition of a rule or method

Preselect

Preselect

SENTENCED sentence

Presentence

Presidency

SPECIFIED specify

Prespecify

STRUCTURE The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

Avoided coming to the point

Prevaricate

One who prevaricates.

""The quality of being princely; the state, manner, or dignity of a prince.""

CEO from City loses head in Monaco

State such as Wales

Liechtenstein or Monacompany

""In the universities of Germany and some other European countries, a licensed teacher or lecturer having no share in the university government and dependent upon fees for remuneration.""

Problematic

Proboscidian.

Pertaining to the Proboscidea.

""A potent antineoplastic drug, C 12 H 19 N 3 O, used primarily to treat advanced Hodgkin's disease.""

(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) a church serving as a cathedral

Procedural

Hymn with a line that comes after parade

Hymn used during entry or exit in church

Paid arranger perhaps to accept key change to create moving hymn

Procession

Announcement from the Roman Capitol

Signal event of Jan. 1, 1863.

Official public declaration

Proclivity

""The office jurisdiction of a proconsul, or the term of his office.""

Procreation

Proctodaeum

Proctology

Profession of "Assman," in a "Seinfeld" episode

Proctorship

Procuration

Acquisitions

""PRODUCTION The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness. as, the production of commodities, of a witness.""

Productive

Lower work-rate perhaps as a consequence of dropping routine from activity

It's a measure of how hard people are working to tidy up Victor Rock

In a proficient manner.

Profligacy

Like music which depicts something

PROJECTION The act of throwing or shooting forward.

Projective

In plentiful fashion

The quality or state of being prolific; fruitfulness; prolificacy.

Pronounced

Pronucleus

Providing introductory instruction.

A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.

""The act of proscribing; a dooming to death or exile; outlawry; specifically, among the ancient Romans, the public offer of a reward for the head of a political enemy; as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription. as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription.""

Forbidding; condemnatory

Capable of being prosecuted; liable to prosecution.

Prosecution

Prosobranch

Prosodical

To look for gold entails outline plans

Manifestos showing promises about employment

A prostaglandin produced in the walls of blood vessels that acts as a vasodilator and inhibits platelet aggregation.

""Symbol Pa A rare, extremely toxic, radioactive element chemically similar to uranium, having 13 known isotopes, the most common of which is protactinium 231 with a half-life of 32,480 years. Atomic number 91; melting point 1,230°C; specific gravity 15.37; valence 4, 5. See Table at element .""

Protective

State controlled by another

State looked after by another

Commonwealth period

Protectory

English word

Protocol

Of or pertaining to the first formation of living bodies.

PROTOTROPH

*Like Disneyland, vis-a-vis theme parks

Protraction

Outward bulge - not cupbearer (anagram)

Something sticking out

Bump or lump

Provenience

In a provincial manner.

Provocateur

Provocation

Provocative

See false pregnancy .

See false pregnancy .

Psychedelia

Psychedelic

Psychiatry

Breakdown expert (wordplay)

Carl Jung, perhaps

Treater of mental disorders

Affecting the mind or mental processes. Used of a drug.

Shrink rap (wordplay)

Some self-help spoutings, say

BS from Alfred Hitchcock (wordplay)

Psychodrama

Psychograph

Madman ogles head of institution oddly, displaying mental attitudes

PSYCHOLOGISE

PSYCHOLOGISE

Freud, for one

Scoop slightly (anagram) - Freud, say

Jung, for instance.

PSYCHOLOGIZE

Measuring mental processes

Pathologically violent and antisocial

Like some Freudian stages

Party at the Bates Motel (wordplay)

Type of drug affecting mental state

""An instrument for measuring the tension of the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere, being essentially a wet and dry bulb hygrometer.""

Hygrometry.

Lady protects terrible old creatures

In replay, clatters dopy old wingers

Lady Prescott transported some flying reptiles!

Publication

Publicness

Pugnacious

Pulchritude

Coarse dark ryebread

German coarse rye bread

Coarse dark rye bread

Punchinello

Punctuation

Removal of contaminants

Process of cleansing

Ritual cleansing

Purificator

Serving or tending to purify; purificative.

Puristical

Process of rotting

""Of or pertaining to putrefaction; as, the putrefactive smell or process. as, the putrefactive smell or process.""

Putrescence

(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) another name for catechol QUARTERLIGHT (Engineering / Automotive Engineering) Brit a small pivoted window in the door of a car for ventilation

""Pertaining to, or dependent on, pyroelectricity; receiving electric polarity when heated.""

""PYROGENIC Producing heat; said of substances, as septic poisons, which elevate the temperature of the body and cause fever.""

Causing criminal damage, a rail company at fault

Things that flare

Make light of playing with fire

Firework display

Fireworks expert

Pacification

Packability

Packinghouse

Junior doctor (wordplay)

Child's doctor

Specialist in treating children

Fossils

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

""(Earth Sciences / Geological Science) the study of the fossil magnetism in rocks, used to determine the past configurations of the continents and to investigate the past shape and magnitude of the earth's magnetic field palaeomagnetic   adj""

Fossils

PALYNOLOGIC

Pancreozymin

Pancytopenia

Panegyrical

PANORAMIC

Large vans

""Of or pertaining to pantheism; founded in, or leading to, pantheism.""

Of or pertaining to a pantisocracy.

By way of parable; in a parabolic manner.

In a way that's contrary to what's expected

Ambiguously

PARALYTIC Of or pertaining to paralysis; resembling paralysis.

Paramountcy