2-Letter Words Starting with P

DEFINED define

Predefine

Prefab

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

District in Japan

Office of Paris police chief.

District under a governor

A better choice

More desirable

Better

Rather

Liking for one thing over another

Choice (of A rather than B)

Liking for one thing more than another

Promotion before commotion

Promotion to higher office

Preliminary excitement at promotion (wordplay)

Preferrer

Liking (something) better

Before number 500 had been foreshadowed

Prefigure

FINANCE to supply the money for

Prefocus

Prefocus

Preformat

Preform

Prefrank

Prefreeze

""Situated in front of the frontal bone, or the frontal region of the skull; ectethmoid, as a certain bone in the nasal capsule of many animals, and certain scales of reptiles and fishes.""

QUALIFY to be eligible after having the necessary requirements

Full of presages; ominous.

Presift

Indicate future setting of gins, if in quarry

SPECIFY to state in detail

Having excess embellishment in various colours holds installer up

""-fies , -fying , -fied (tr) to make pretty, esp in a trivial fashion; embellish prettification   n""

Prettify

PRIDEFUL full of pride

A bout to remember (wordplay)

Boxing match (2 words)

Pro boxing match

What the don does be doing in the way of declaration (wordplay)

Job announcement (wordplay)

Occupation; declaration (of belief)

Religious belief in vocation

Top-ranking teachers

So, press for change in the universities

Campus group

Tendering for public relations, initially

Able to make money on nice make-up

Do well without turning nice and skilful

Competent, thoroughly qualified

Lucrative for female, I suggest

Cost-effective

Academic, one sitting on the board making money

PROFIT to gain an advantage or benefit

Ones jacking up prices, maybe

Overcharges during a crisis

Parasites of a sort.

Without gain.

PROFIT to gain an advantage or benefit

Reckless extravagance

Losing grip of late, being extravagant

Tip a golfer gave to prodigal

Extravagant tip a golfer developed

A paid athlete has to go down deeper

In a profound manner.

Don't purify murky depth

For amusement, take time in amateur handicraft in depth

Profusion

Scans for errors

Looks over the galleys

Looks for trouble, in a way

Proofroom

Not to be denied

Determined to achieve a goal

Intentional

Straddles the fence, on issues.

Hedges Slang.

Moves cautiously

Putrefy

Pacifical

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

Pacificism

Pacificist

Painful

Emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid.

Paraffin

PARFOCAL having lenses that correspond

PARFOCAL having lenses that correspond

Having the form of a patella.

Nissan S.U.V.s... or, diverged: Emotional appeal

Allied air raiders' guides to accurate bombing.

Nissan S.U.V.s ... or, diverged: Emotional appeal

""One that discovers a new course or way, especially through or into unexplored regions.""

Peaceful

""Capable of becoming, or being made, perfect.""

Perfection

Perfective

The quality or state of being perfect; perfection.

PERFORATE To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surface of.

Ace in the hole (wordplay)

It's useful to those in a tearing hurry

Holes picked in closing remarks about French leader

Perforator

""Admitting of being performed, done, or executed; practicable.""

Creep on farm (anagram)

(Actor's) rendering of a role

The giving of a play or concert

Perfumery

Careless or cursory

Just going through the motions

Done as a formality only

Permafrost

Persiflage

Stood for

Embodied

One who personifies.

Personify

""Pestbearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies. as, pestiferous bodies.""

Pettifog

One who quibbles over trifles

One who quibbles

Picayune lawyer.

Photoflood

Tap for noise playing these

Keyboard instruments

English word

Chef's concern re chicken dishes

Pitcherful

Pitchfork

Pitiful

""PITIFUL arousing pity, also PITEOUS""

Platterful

Platyfish

Dad (about 50) shows signs of age, circumventing loud mates

Liking for games and amusement

Amusing light-hearted quality

In quantity

Pluperfect

Tool for Penrod

Camper's handy tool

Handy gadget for campers

Polyolefin

""SULFIDE a sulfur compound, also SULFID, SULPHID, SULPHIDE""

Pontifical

Speak pompously in an office in Rome

Express one's opinions pompously

Express opinions pompously

Postform

How some handle tough situations

How some approach big decisions

""-fies , -fying , -fied (intr) Informal to preach or moralize in a tedious manner preachifying   n""

Preachify

DEFINING define

Plural (-ists)

""PREFECTURE The office, position, or jurisdiction of a prefect; also, his official residence.""

Offices of French administrators

Political districts.

Kinks perhaps, pop's first characters

First choices.

First choices

Preferment

FIGURING figure

FINANCED finance

Prefinance

FOCUSING focus

Prefocus

Prefocus

Prefrank

Prefreeze

FRESHMAN a first-year student

Word with prefix pre-

Prefrontal

MODIFIED modify

Premodify

NOTIFIED notify

Prenotify

""PRESTIGE charm, magic or glamour in the eyes of other people""

Prettifier

Prettify

Some scenes in "Raging Bull"

Boxing matches

'Bum', 'fart', 'poo' in an act of irreverence

PROFANE to treat with irreverence or insult

""The quality or state of being profane; especially, the use of profane language.""

Profanity

By profession.

Medicine, law et al.

Careers

Competence, skill

Competence

Proficient

Made a killing, say

Made money, in a way.

Cream-filled pastry ball

Filled pastry ball

Cream-filled, chocolate-covered pastry

Profligate

Profound

Extravagance; profusion.

Reproduce a lot

Grow rapidly in number

Breed for long stretch with speed

Prolificness.

PROLIFIC {abundant=adj}

Bottle examiner (wordplay)

He shouldn't leave any wrong impressions

One looking for trouble, in a way

Puffiness

Cloth used in Holy Communion services

Cloth used in celebrating the Eucharist

PUSHFUL {pushy=adj}

Moved with stealth: Slang.

Moved with stealth Slang.

Moved warily around, or a punny description of this puzzle's theme

Wary one

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

Pacificator

Paddlefish

PARFOCALIZE

Parfocalize

Anemone with bell-shaped purple flowers

Pathfinding

Peaceful

Tranquillity

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.

They help when one is in a tearing hurry

Operations that mean forceps are designed to clamp top of retina

""Relating to or being an utterance that peforms an act or creates a state of affairs by the fact of its being uttered under appropriate or conventional circumstances, as a justice of the peace uttering I now pronounce you husband and wife at a wedding ceremony, thus creating a legal union, or as one uttering I promise, thus performing the act of promising.""

English word

PERFUSION The act of perfusing.

Personifier

Representing in human form

""The process of petrifying, or changing into stone; conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a substance of stony hardness.""

Pettifogger

Chicanery

Quibbling

Photoflash

Some fieldwork producing monarchist spiel (wordplay)

Persuasive speech of royalist working on a farm (wordplay)

Polysulfide

In a pontifical manner.

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

Pontificate

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

(Sociology) a person who believes in or advocates any of the ideas that have developed from the feminist movement

Noun (-ure)

Preachify

AMPLIFIER One who or that which amplifies.

""BREAKFAST The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal.""

Create a perfect bra with current design

Build in sections and lay a fibre carpet

Manufacture sections to be easily transported

Privileged parking requiring references

Discriminating in favour of one side

Alpine ferret running better

FINANCING finance

Prefocus

An old theory of the pre\'89xistence of germs. Cf. Embo&icir;tement. Embo&icir;tement.

FORMATTED format

""FORMULATE To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.""

Premodify

Prenotify

QUALIFIED qualify

Prequalify