2-Letter Words Starting with P

""Maintained by a pension; receiving a pension; as, pensionary spies. as, pensionary spies.""

PERDURE to continue to exist

Brusque, imperious

Dogmatic traveller rising or appearing in hollow

Unable to be challenged, like some commands

PERILOUS dangerous

""The quality or state of being permanent; continuance in the same state or place; duration; fixedness; as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature.as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature.""

Over-particular

Fussily pedantic

Finical

In this is forever

Time without end

In(de)finite duration

Bewilderment

Complication.

Bewilderment.

Speaking for oneself

For one's own part

Being a friend, in a very private way

The state of being a person; personality.

Relevance

Missing ace, player with serve moves awkwardly

Work steadily without reserve, possibly in a pig-headed way

Wilfully contrary nature

Priest very disposed to obstinacy

Querulously

A branch of anatomy which treats of the veins.

Employ both midwives taking blood

That branch of science which treats of the measurement of the intensity of light.

Study of skull bumps.

Skull-centered pseudoscience

Would-be science of mental faculties

Small leather box containing Hebrew texts on vellum

Amulet

Unpleasant clyping about that is reported at first as like a knife going in

Having color

Silas Marner, say

Miserly one, or reversed, what he does

A miserly person, or when reversed, what he does

Without mercy

Cruelly

PLANGENT resounding loudly

PLANLESS without a plan

Work steadily, with inner guidance, making earnest entreaty

Appeal to holy one missing nicely

In a warm, friendly manner

In an enjoyable manner

Comment on a nice case of rivalry

Nearly past appalling joke

That dress suits you, for example

Agreeably making a request one at a time

""PLEBEIAN a commoner, also PLEB""

The control by a single gene of several distinct and seemingly unrelated phenotypic effects.

In a poetic manner.

Okay by me!

"Okay by me!"

Misguided love is pity, really

""Of or pertaining to possession, either as a fact or a right; of the nature of possession; as, a possessory interest; a possessory lord. as, a possessory interest; a possessory lord.""

My phone battery is completely dead! Tom said...

Behavior ()

Canon's turn to enter form of prayer

Brandy peer is offering drunken clergyman

Clergyman with prayer designed to catch crook

""The act or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another.as, one event has precedence of another.""

Preceptive.

Fastidious attitude of one city poser

Over-refinement in words generating icy riposte

Fastidious over-refinement affecting one epic story

User policy designed in a valuable way

Dearly.

Indicative of something to follow.

Victim stabbed by the blinking thing earlier

Rather

In a meaningful or inventive way

Study of early man

Very old times seeing unfortunate Troy perish

Early age

HOLIDAY to take a vacation

Before birth

PREPARED prepare

In a premeditated manner.

The quality or condition of being prepotent; predominance.

PRIMARY a preliminary election

Childhood stage

QUALIFY to be eligible after having the necessary requirements

For Church living

Clergy house

Try, by peers, errant body of Church elders

Top position

Pressure leading to post in hospital in top office

Of or pertaining to a garrison; having a garrison.

Indicate future setting of gins, if in quarry

SPECIFY to state in detail

How ER doctors give orders

In persistent, demanding fashion

Players bum around, I'd say

In all probability

A plumber's at work above yard doubtless

By presumption.

SURGERY the treatment of medical problems by operation

In days gone by cleric would enter in holy manner

Before your lips curled masking suspicions of extortion and vice

Hitherto

PRIDEFUL full of pride

In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally.

PRISTINE {unspoilt=adj}

Inclination; tendency

Inclination

Proclivity

Part 3 of our quotation

In a way, property is wealth

M.'s word for future generations

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

PRURIENT having lustful thoughts or desires

Field for Gallup or Roper

Study how to elect good holy popes (wordplay)

Making cross a subject in this study (wordplay)

PUNITIVE inflicting punishment

PUTATIVE supposed or reputed

That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.

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

In a partitive manner.

Unusual feature or habit

Unusual characteristic

Idiosyncrasy

In a pecuniary manner; as regards money.

PENTAPLOID

Penurious

""PEPPERMINT An aromatic and pungent plant of the genus Mentha (M. piperita), much used in medicine and confectionery. Mentha (M. piperita), much used in medicine and confectionery.""

PERCEIVE to become aware of through the senses

PERCEPT something that is perceived

In a perennial manner.

Careless or cursory

Just going through the motions

Done as a formality only

Perinatal

""The quality or state of being periodical, or regularly recurrent; as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants. as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants.""

So as to last forever

For good

For good royal chap, hospital department induced good condition

PERMISSIBLE That may be permitted; allowable; admissible.

All the time

Give a treat to Fido and Fluffy

For a change, play lute all the time

Perplexed

""PERSECUTOR One who persecutes, or harasses.""

""The quality or state of being persistent; staying or continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense, doggedness; obstinacy.""

Antonym for "unconcerned"

Somebody from Interpol, say (wordplay)

Somebody from Interpol, say

Factor in chemistry

The quality or state of being transparent or translucent.

Stubbornness

Pertinent

Pervasive

Perverted

In a pestilent manner; mischievously; destructively.

Supplicatory; making a petition.

The art of writing on stone.

An association or community organized on the plan of Fourier. See Fourierism. Fourierism.

Choice of words

Manner in which words are used

Her apology's clumsy, in a manner of speaking

Pigheaded

Placeless

Plaintive

Astronomy ()

""PLEASURE to give enjoyment or satisfaction to, also PLEASE""

Plenteous

In quantity

Without point.

The art or process of measuring the polarization of light.

Polemical

Cowardice; want of spirit; pusillanimity.

In a ponderous manner.

Possessed

""Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.""

English word

Mightily

Latently.

Pottering

Powerless

How some handle tough situations

How some approach big decisions

Preaching

DELIVERY the act of {delivering=v}

Affirmative; positive.

PREDICT to {foretell=v}

Introductory (measure or statement)

Initial - action before the main event

Minor match before the main event

LITERARY pertaining to books and writings

Prelusive

Before the due time

Before time

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""The quality or state of being premature; early, or untimely, ripeness; as, the prematurity of genius. as, the prematurity of genius.""

""Giving previous warning or notice; as, premonitory symptoms of disease. Pre*mon"i*to*ri*ly (#), adv. as, premonitory symptoms of disease. Pre*mon"i*to*ri*ly (#), adv.""

Antecedent - type of school

Draft list to knock up in hunting target

Serving to make ready

Prepotent

With presciense or foresight.

PRESENT to introduce

Confidently; arrogantly.

Pretended

In a prevalent manner.

Priceless

Originally; at first.

In a privative manner; by the absence of something; negatively.

By profession.

Competence, skill

Competence

In a distinguished manner

Relating to ownership

Privately owned; trade-mark protected

Sold under a trade name

In a provident manner.

""In a proximate manner, position, or degree; immediately.""

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

That department of botany which treats of ferns.

Purported

Purposive

Fossils

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

One of Thomas Jefferson's pursuits

Earth science that studies fossils

Fossils

Palliative

PANSEXUAL

Parenteral

With great ardour

With great emotion

Pathetical

In a pedantic manner.

Pejorative

An American can!

Intern a type I fancy, here (wordplay)

Correctional institution for criminals

In the form of a pentagon; with five angles.

Perceptive

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

Perceptual

Percipient

Percussive

In a peremptory manner; absolutely; positively.

In a perfective manner.

""PERFECTIVE Tending or conducing to make perfect, or to bring to perfection; usually followed by of. of.""

In a perfidious manner.

English word

From time to time.

Peripheral

Peritoneal

Perjurious

The quality or state of being permeable.

In a permissive manner.

Pl. permittivities A measure of the ability of a material to resist the formation of an electric field within it.

Pernicious

With great tenacity.

In a tenacious manner

Incessantly; resolutely

Insight into and understanding of things

Astute intelligence

Shrewdness

""Of, pertaining to, or producing, perspiration; as, the perspiratory ducts. as, the perspiratory ducts.""

Convincingly repulsive, say, after makeover

Chicanery

Male - no, males - with exterior that's friendly to a remarkable extent

Blood and Blood Vessels ()

PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

In a phonetic manner.

(Earth Sciences / Geological Science) the study and identification of geological phenomena using aerial photographs

PHYLETIC pertaining to {phylesis=n}

English word

Of or pertaining to plebiscite.

""The state of being pneumatic, or of having a cavity or cavities filled with air; as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds. as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds.""

""The doctrine of, or a treatise on, air and other elastic fluids. See Pneumatics, 1. Pneumatics, 1.""